You order a quarter chicken (mixed light and dark meat) with honey sauce and salt and pepper. It arrives in a paper bag with deep-fried potato wedges, two pieces of thick-cut sourdough sandwich bread, and a generous side of coleslaw in a paper cup.

You can also use the bread as napkins.

Sounds like something for your free meal, as a reward for a week of mindful eating.

But this faux fried chicken is just as tasty and you can rotate it into your weekly meal-prep schedule.

Almond Flax Chicken Recipe

What do you call a bird that's afraid to fly?

Chicken.

INGREDIENTS:

👉4- 5 oz. chicken breasts

👉3 TBSP ground flax

👉1/2 cup almond meal

👉1 TBSP avocado oil

👉1 TBSP almond butter

👉1 tsp. lemon juice

👉1 tsp. sea salt

👉Pinch cayenne pepper

👉1 tsp. parsley, fresh

👉1/4 tsp. paprika

👉1 tsp. thyme, fresh

👉1 TBSP onion finely chopped

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Take the chicken pieces and pound them evenly flat across the breast using a kitchen mallet or other heavy kitchen utensil.

Pour almond meal and flax into a small bowl and stir to mix evenly. In another small bowl combine the avocado oil, almond butter, lemon juice, and all spices and herbs.

Mix in a small food processor or by hand. Once combined add the chicken breasts to this mixture.

Allow the chicken to marinate with the mixture for 10-15 minutes to further enhance the flavor but the taste will still be great if you don't have an extra 10-15 minutes.

Remove chicken breasts from marinade bowl and place on baking tray.

Sprinkle half of the almond/flax mixture evenly across one side of all 4 chicken breasts.

Pat each chicken piece with hand to better adhere the "crust" to the chicken.

Carefully turn over each chicken piece and repeat the process using the remaining half of the almond-flax mixture on the other side of the four chicken breasts.

Place tray with crusted chicken in center of the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes or until an instant thermometer reaches 168 degrees on the thickest part of the chicken.

Savor the crispy crunchy tenderness. 

"How to Get Leaner, Stronger, and Happier, In As Little As 90 Days… Even If You Can't Cook, Have Trouble Getting Motivated, and Failed High School Gym Class!”

Odds are you want to improve.

Right?

You want to feel better. Maybe get leaner, stronger, and slow aging.

Perhaps you want more income or a more flexible schedule.

Maybe you want a better relationship with your family.

As a coach, I'm just wired to keep pursuing improvement for myself and my client-athletes.

But sometimes you get stuck.

I do too.

So, if you’re NOT improving, it usually rolls back to one of these two things:

1. Fear

Maybe it’s a fear that you’re not up to the task or that the goal is just too big for you to tackle.

Maybe it’s the fear of change because different is often scary.

Or it could be a fear of how others will react.

For this one, the first step is to identify why you’re fearful or lacking in confidence.

Once you know, you can work through it. You can ask yourself "what’s the worst thing that can happen?"

And realize that "the worst thing" usually isn't so bad.

You can also accept that about 90% of the things you worry about never really materialize.

You can simplify the goal and make it feel more manageable, which is my go-to strategy.

You can refocus on why you’re doing it in the first place and remind yourself that the "why" is often bigger than the worry.

You can look back on your previous successes and draw confidence from them, as well as remind yourself of the strengths you used to succeed.

And finally you can look ahead and think about what it will feel like to achieve the goal.

You see, fear is a good thing. It forces you to take stock of situations and make better decisions.

But it shouldn’t paralyze you or derail you from pursuing your goals.

2. Lack of Focus

Focus embodies a few things to me.

⭐ Clarity

⭐ Prioritization

⭐ Immediacy

You often procrastinate.

You get overwhelmed with options and information overload.

You get distracted.

You’re short on time.

Focus is the ability to cut though all that and take decisive, consistent action.

So how do you get focused?

Well, start by eliminating the fear we just discussed.

Then you have to get decisive.

There's no such thing as the perfect plan, because perfect never happens. Instead, choose one strategy and course correct along the way.

You can’t get bogged down with all the things you could possibly do. You have to decide what you should do right now.

Sure, there are all these different things that seem like they could help you reach your goals.

Many times you fear that if you choose only one path, you’re missing out on the others.

But the reality is that by NOT acting you miss out on them all.

So, the way I’ve found to best approach this is to recognize that "no" is really just "not right now."

You can always come back to something later, but to succeed you need to get enough information to make a choice and then act.

By doing this, you can prioritize what you’re doing and you can also free up the time you spent researching and the mental energy you wasted on indecision.

The beauty of this approach, at least in my experience, is that with clarity, everything else becomes easier.

You know what to do so you don’t procrastinate.

You have defined action steps so you don’t need as much time and you know how much time you do need.

The best part?

Action creates momentum. And momentum produces both more action, more confidence, and ultimately that big result you've been chasing.

In my own experience, when I’ve had a simple plan I could focus on executing, the ultimate result usually far exceeded my more complex plans that were harder to put into action.

So, if you are stalled it usually comes down to one of these two.

Hopefully those insights can help you get moving and seeing the progress you want and deserve.

Be my guest and share this message if you agree.

To your success,

Coach Joe

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