A new week brings new opportunities be hopeful, helpful and kind – that’s my message to the world.

It’s 1 : 24 PM on day 2935 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and do some work

Last Monday I set some goals and today I will again be evaluating myself to measure my progress and I’ll be setting some goals for the coming week as well. Take a look:

September 17^th – 25^th  Goals Review

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous (give more, do more and be more) [tried]
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides [tried]
3. Spend time outside as often as I can [tried]
4. Finish reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [not done yet]
5. Learn 7+ new things [not done]
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments of the week [not done often]
7. Try new things [not done]
8. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL! [Done – I even launched a #DifferentIsCOOL campaign]

Highlights of the Week

• Finding out that my brother got provisional acceptance into the university of his choice – the look on his face when he got the email is something I will never forget…truly priceless (we are all so proud of how hard hr works for his every achievement)
• Winning the QuickBooks challenge and doing something I’ve always wanted to do with the prize
• Celebrating my Alive Day (the monthly anniversary of my surgery) by doing something nice with dad’s help – everybody though I was nuts but I felt good about myself that day
• Connecting one person to another to make sure someone else got what they needed
• This is not important in the bigger scheme of things but Jason Derulo retweeted the tweet I sent him with pictures of me paragliding and my sister’s friends officially think I am the coolest
• Celebrating my sister’s 24^th birthday even though she lives in a different city

25^th – October 1^st  Goals

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous (give more, do more and be more)
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides
3. Spend time outside as often as I can and appreciate the little-big things
4. Finish reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
5. Learn 7+ new things
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments of the week
7. Try new things
8. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL!