I’ve been going to type this post for the last seven days and have guiltily put it off…… yes I’m sure you can guess the reason why.

I had been going along swimmingly, actually not even missing drinking and then an interesting situation came along.

I was in Sydney doing a personal development workshop that challenged me – in a good way (well a week on I can now see that it was in a good way) and had the thoughts of “oh my god I can’t do this”. But of course I knew I could, I was just crapping myself in that particular moment. Therefore, the dare.

And yes, of course I did do it, sucessfully, or to the best of my ability anyway. Dare accomplished!

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Well, today marks week 3 on my HSM journey and I’m feeling really great. I have to say I’m actually a little surprised I’m feeling so great. Not sure why – maybe I felt that in some way I would sabotage myself and have a drink…. Don’t get me wrong – at the end of Day 4, got home at 8pm after seeing clients all day, exhausted, would have killed (well maybe just bribed) someone for a nice glass of Sav Blanc or a Southern & Coke. BUT I didn’t. And I still haven’t.

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Well, it’s day 1 of my 38th year.  I don’t even really know what a blog is but what the hell, I’ll have a go anyway.

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