MyInitialThought.

I call it the Single Lady Diet

Tuesday: Breakfast: woke up and made myself a coffee and 1.5 weetbix. Felt pretty good about myself, like I was turning over a new leaf. Lunch: Vietnamese noodle salad. Look at me go. Evening: 2 x Beers. Dinner: Japanese with mum, but most of it was deep fried – felt pretty nauseas after. Also a cocktail drink named something like autumn sunset. Desert: a cup of frozen yoghurt at like midnight in bed.
Wednesday: Breakfast: Didn’t eat before I left home but it’s my birthday so I had a coffee and a croissant from corner café. I am worried next time I go in they will predict this order as not actually a ‘birthday treat’ so much as I do it 2 or 3 times a week. Lunch: Can’t remember, in all likelihood Vietnamese noodle soup. Dinner: 3 beers then Curry with Dad then so. Much. More. Beer. After Dinner: Beer and Beer and Scotch and Hungry Jacks at like 3 in the morning.
Thursday: Breakfast: Maybe last nights hungary jacks counts as today’s breakfast? I don’t know I didn’t eat until 1pm when I went to the pub for fish and chips and a soda water. Dinner: Fried rice. Desert: Cup of frozen yoghurt at like midnight again.
Friday: Didn’t eat breakfast. Lunch: Vietnamese noodle soup again, need to find new option. Dinner: some wedges and hot chips at the pub and a lot of beer. More beer and scotch. 2nd Dinner: Cheeseburger and small fries which I started eating while I rode home. Bottle of soda water before bed.
Saturday: Breakfast: Avocado and chilli on toast. No Lunch. Dinner: Half some battered fish and some chips with some GnT’s. Lots more Gin.
Sunday: No Breakfast. Lunch: a quarter of a vegetable wrap. Dinner: fried rice.
Monday: Breakfast/Lunch:a whole baguette and container of spinach and vegetable dip, a cup of frozen yoghurt and some flavoured mineral water. Dinner: poached egg salad. Maybe I am turning over a new leaf again….


It’s not a failure until you stop trying.

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I don’t think you can achieve anything remarkable without some risk. Risk is actually a rather tricky word because humans aren’t wired to tolerate it very much. The reptilian part of our brains wants to keep us safe. Anytime you try something that doesn’t have any certainty associated with it, you’re risking something, but what other way is there to live?

An interview with the brilliant Debbie Millman, whose 5-point advice to young people starting out is to be heeded. 

Complement with famous creators on the fear of failure, which might be the greatest psychological impediment to happiness, and see Millman on confronting our self-imposed restrictions

(via explore-blog)