The Starbucks Diet

I’m sitting in Starbucks writing this email and I just had my favorite drink.

Do you know what it is.

It’s a bottle of water.

Why would I go to Starbucks and have a bottle of water.

Two reasons:

1. Water is perhaps the only healthy item in the joint. Many of the drinks are heavy on calories and the food items
are a carb nightmare (cakes, scones, bagels, brownies, etc.) Not a protein to be found.

2. I believe in abundance. I am sitting in their establishment using my laptop and it’s only fair I make a purchase.

Sure, I could get a complimentary cup of water, but it’s only right to “pay my way”. I don’t care how much money Starbucks makes, if I’m in their place, I should pay.

It all comes back to two of my favorite self-improvement concepts:

RESPONSIBILITY

ABUNDANCE

Take responsibility for your choices and embrace abundance.

Everything else is gravy.

Stay strong,
Ryan

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karrie said on December 28th, 2007 at 12:12 pm

Water is great!

I might suggest though, that you reconsider your thoughts on the complimentary cup of water. Pay for it if you want. Tip the workers the amount the bottle would have cost you.

It’s just that with the bottled water, you now have a plastic bottle that must be thrown away or recycled. It’s a bottle of water that had to be shipped to that coffee shop on a big truck. All those bottles of water add up to a heavy weight, which means more gas or diesel to get that bottle of water.

The paper cup on the other hand is much lighter and made of a natural, or at least more natural than plastic, material. One hundred cups, probably weight as much as 2 or 3 bottles of water. Much better for the environment around us.

It all comes back to two of your favorite self-improvement concepts:

RESPONSIBILITY

ABUNDANCE

Sincerely,

karrie

Roland said on December 28th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

Ryan,

I hope you had a great Christmas. From your emails, it sounds like you did.

I’m writing this from Starbucks, too. A cup of coffee with some half and half. Organic, half and half they tell me. Also, they have triple filtered water for the coffee, so you’d be happy.

I love my coffee, and make sure to plan for it, cream or no cream. Water sucks, unless it’s in something. Just sayin’

And, I agree with karrie about the bottled water. And, bottled is not likely to be better than tap. At least Starbucks filters it for you. It still sucks though, so consider having them heat it up and pop a tea bag in it for you.

Anyhow, I always enjoy your emails, so I thought I’d say so. And thanks for making the emails actual email messages, rather than just a link to your message. Those suck worse than plain water.

Happy new year.

Jim Labadie said on December 28th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

Very interesting point, Karrie. As a big believer in personal responsibiliy and abundance myself, well, I need to take a good look at my own actions in regards to what you wrote. I do my best to recycle whenever possible, but I can do better.

Jim

Lindsey said on December 29th, 2007 at 11:51 am

Hi Ryan and Readers,

Purchasing plastic water bottles is possibly one of the worst consumer choices you could make for the environment. Do you know how much energy it takes to package and transport plastic bottles? Not to mention how much plastic is wasted? Even if they are recycled, it takes energy to complete the recycling process. A complimentary cup of water with a tip would be a better choice, and you’re still supporting the establishment.

Lindsey

Jason said on December 31st, 2007 at 7:46 am

Karrie,

I think you forget the important thing and that is while drinking and paying for the bottle of water you are helping countless numbers of people feed their families.

The truck drivers of the bottled water and diesel fuel, the people who drive the tankers, the people drilling the oil, making the plastic containers. It is endless really.