Hello! Welcome! Thank you for coming here as I document my journey with Sony Talent League. 

The seed for the story of Siu Lan and the Adventures of Magic Cookbook began with a recipe, so today I will share with you a “recipe” I will take with me in the coming weeks. 

Before I get into the recipe, I wanted to share some happenings in my week. In the first week of working on my project, I had the pleasure of learning to focus my ideas, so they benefit the current state of the story. This was done by identifying a thesis that will be used to shape the components beyond the series. This learning reminded me of the phrase, “take one thing at a time.” I have had to remind myself of this phrase many times in life. If you ask me how I feel, I’d say excited, curious, open, and probably hungry. 

This week I am finalizing what I will be presenting in my final pitch and getting to meet my mentors. If I were to rate my eagerness to learn on a scale of 1 to 10, I’d say 1,247/10. 

If you have read this far, you might think, “Where is this recipe?” It is coming, promise! By the way, this isn’t a recipe for banana bread. This is a recipe of values I will keep in my back pocket to pull out when I feel doubt about my abilities. For me, the opposite of doubt is trust. So, this is a recipe for: Trust. 

A recipe for trust

½ cup of self-care 
Place doubtful thoughts in the oven for 24 hours
1 tsp of identifying my feelings
A dash of self-compassion
1 cup of reminder that unknowns can be turned into questions

That's it for now! I am very excited to share my journey as the weeks go by.