Day 52 - When Do You Decide to Take the Leap?

I'm curious as to where this NEED to bake has stemmed from.  Wouldn't it be nice if it was a need to cook, or a need to clean, or a need to exercise.  That would put me at a completely different place in my life if my "need" was different then what it is.  My daughter in CO asked me for one of my recipes this morning and immediatley I wanted to run home and make it.  My other daughter keeps asking me to go on her Pinterest Page and look at all the recipes for baking she has collected - I can't do it.  I will stay up til all hours of the morning printing recipes and making my grocery list and then when I get a moment I will come up with a perfect reason to bake and bake and bake. 
It's an addiction really.  I actually convinced myself a little while back that baking is a workout for my arms.  I never use a mixer so I have to stir all those cookie batters by hand.  What I realized with that theory was that if it was true that flab on the upper part of my arms would not be flapping away when I'm stirring my workout cookies.  I wonder if they have any "Baker Support Groups - Hi, I'm Becky and I'm a Baker.  Anyone want a cookie or brownie, I have some in my purse."  (You think I'm kidding, I'm not).  I actually am known to carry baked goods on me or close to me.  That's a problem! 
So my thoughts are that maybe I can incorporate this need I have into a living.  The problem is that for years and years I have given my baked goods away.  I'm not sure how people would like if I started saying, "Do you want a cookie, give me a buck.  Say what???  I never had to pay for them before..."  Also, would I possibly ever get sick of eating cookie batter because that would have to happen quickly or sooner then later I will actually look like my Aunt Helen (that was explained in a previous blog). So I continue to put off my dream and come up with reasons/excuses why now is not the time (because I am making way too much money at my present job (I'm a realtor and a partner in a real estate company so that is extreme sarcasm)).  But I wait.  I wait for the time to "feel" right.  I wait for me to be stronger financially.  I wait for any possible reason to bounce around in my head to convince me I can't do it and I listen to it and wait. 
Now this is soooo weird.  I just went onto FB to see if I could find something motivational that someone posted that would fit my blog for today and my dear friend from high school just posted the following...
"Whether in your personal life or in your work life, I think this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt is a statement that we all should follow everyday:
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
Thanks Kim!!!  Sometimes the answer you're looking for has to hit you upside the head like a 2 X 4 before you realize that maybe, just maybe you should just listen and take the leap!!!

RECIPE FOR THE DAY - From Me

PEANUT BUTTER CHEERIO TREATS

3 tablespoons butter

1 package (10-1/2 ounces) miniature marshmallows

1/2 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter

5 cups Cheerios

Place butter and marshmallows in a large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 1-2 minutes or until melted. Stir in peanut butter until blended. Add the cereal  & stir til covered. Spoon into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. pan; press down gently. Cool slightly before cutting. Yield: 15 servings.