“I’ll have the ground beef burrito with queso sauce”, I said mid-bite of a tortilla chip, with a little salsa still hanging on for dear life at the corner of my 13-year old mouth.

I always ordered the same thing. No vegetables. No Pico de Gallo with those aggressive chunks of tomatoes & onion. None of those weird-tasting foods that my Mom was always eating like sour cream. Even the name of that food was telling us to stay away!

I played it safe & it worked for me.

Then a friend & her family invited me to go to a different Mexican restaurant. I ordered my usual, but this one came with something called enchilada sauce.

Not being a Spanish speaker, I assumed it meant cheese-adjacent.

It did not.

When the plate arrived, I sat in stunned silence at the sight. I had zero kitchen skills beyond boiling a hot dog but even I knew that the dark brownish-red sauce covering the ENTIRE PLATE was not going to be cheesy.

Under normal circumstances, I would have negotiated a trade. This time, I knew I had made my bed & was about to lie in it.

I prepared myself to go hungry.

Ladies & gentleman, I would have licked that plate clean. (Seriously, I’m not above it & may done it more recently than I care to admit.)

That sauce changed my favorite burrito into this rich, savory experience way better than anything I would have ordered on my own.

And my play-it-safe approach would have kept me from ever becoming the person I am today.

The person who makes enchiladas…IN HER OWN HOME!

How often are we doing the same thing in other areas of our lives?

Sticking it out with your lukewarm feelings about your career?

Counting the years you have left until retirement instead of actually enjoying your work now?

What if you’ve got a red enchilada sauce version of you career out there just waiting for you to place the order?

Don’t you owe it to yourself to at least explore the possibility?

If this post made you hungry for Mexican food…me too. And if it peaked your interest in what figuring out your red enchilada sauce career could entail, click the button at the top of the screen to schedule your free consult.