“Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.” – Ralph Marston

It’s 11 : 49 AM on day 2884 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:

July 30 – 6 August Goals Self-Evaluation

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 Choose Joy [not done]
5. Learn 7+ new things [didn’t more often than I did]
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week [did as often as I could]
7. Try new things [working as part of a team locally to make things happen]
8. Call a friend
9. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL! [didn’t do it as well as I’d like]

Highlights of the Week

• Being a part of a special project with friends
• Meeting and spending time with Esther and Yonna from Smile Train (Africa) and reading the card signed by everyone at Smile Train’s New York office (in all my years of working with non-profits I’ve never had a house visit before it was beautiful actually)

August 6 – 13 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
4. Finish reading Choose Joy
5. Learn 7+ new things
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day 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!

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” – Earl Nightingale

It’s 12 : 39 PM on day 2870 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse spend time outside 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:

July 16-23 Goals Self-Evaluation

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous [tried]
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides [tried]
3. Spend time outside as often as I can [did most days]
4. Finish reading Choose Joy [still not done]
5. Learn 7+ new things [learned three thing ]
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week [didn’t more often I did]
7. Eat or drink something new [not done]

1. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL [tried]

Highlights of the Week

• Co-ordinating a special project
• What I was blessed to do on Mandela Day
• Getting a positive update on a project my friend and I are working on this August
• Spending time with new friends

July 23-30 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
4. Finish reading Choose Joy
5. Learn 7+ new things
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week
7. Try new things
8. Call a friend
9. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL!

Every Monday is a chance to start a new life, so use it.

It’s 1 : 23 PM on day 2856 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and hang out with family

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:

July 2-9 Goals Self-Evaluation

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous [tried]
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides [tried]
3. Spend time outside as often as I can [did]
4. Finish reading When Dimple Met Rishi 
5. Learn 7+ new things [didn’t more often than I did]
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week [did more often than not]
7. Eat or drink something new [had homemade rusks from our neighbour ]
8. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL [I tried]

Highlights Of The Week

• Spending time with K – that girl is my sun and my moon [I had planned for us to do a community service thing together but we couldn’t find the place, I got the wrong phone number for the place.. everything that could go wrong did and yet that girl still thought the world of me and with that a piece of my heart was forever hers]
• Meeting Donae Carelse Goosen – Founder of the Norman Goosen Memorial Soup Kitchen and  a lovely lady in my city who feeds the children and elderly in her area on a weekly basis
• Participating in Dischem Pharmacy’s #MillionComforts Campaign which provides school girls with sanitary pads
• Superhero Catherine Constantinides making into News24’s 100 Young Mandelas of the Future list [I think it’s very appropriate that Catherine has been dubbed a Mandela of the future she is the best of humanity her humility and kindness is breath-taking – I’ve never shared this publicly but last year my helper passed out on the floor while my parents were at work I tried calling dad but wasn’t getting through so I quickly sent Catherine a private message on Twitter asking her to quickly phone my father and tell him to come home ASAP she paused everything she was doing, called my dad and stayed online with me until help arrived I would later find out when I messaged her she was organizing a dinner happening that night which a South African Minister would be attending AND STILL SHE DROPPED EVERYTHING TO HELP ME I was blown away]
• Calling a friend to say happy birthday

July 9-16 Goals

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides
3. Spend time outside as often as I can
4. Finish reading Choose Joy
5. Learn 7+ new things
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week
7. Eat or drink something new
8. Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL

Set goals, achieve them and repeat – that’s my message to the world.

It’s 12 : 48 PM on day 2835 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse, and chill – i’m not so feeling hot

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:

 11^th – 18^th   June Goals Evaluation

1. 1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous [I tried]
   2. Raise at least $500 for my campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – so far we’ve raised enough to help 58 kids with clubfoot I want to help get that number as close to 75 before the campaign ends on June 17^th )
   3. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides [I tried]
   4. Make sure my friend and I have a school to work with for a local project we want to do in july [everything’s sorted now we just have to execute the plan on August 4^th ]
   5. Spend time outside every sunny day [did more often than I didn’t ]
   6. Read 200+ pages of When Dimple Met Rishi (currently on pg. 10) [not done]
   7. Learn 7+ new things [I did but not every day]
   8. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week [I did but not every day]
   9. Eat or drink something new [not done]

• Call 2 family members and 2 friends just to say hi or thank you (come to think of it who am I going to call my grandma is no more she was always so happy to hear from me while with other people I’m always afraid my kind phone calls are nothing but a nuisance everybody’s so busy my worst fear is calling someone and them thinking why is she calling doesn’t she have anything better to do? – it actually happened once I called someone to say hi/thank you and while she was polite I could tell she wasn’t really excited to hear from me I felt horrible) [called 1 friend]

Highlights of the Week

• My sister being okay
• Seeing a final donation to my campaign of $500 and ending the campaign on a grand total of $15 219
• Calling Superhero Catherine Constantinides (I called at 6 AM and God bless her she still picked up and was delighted to hear from me [it always always amazes me how genuinely happy she sounds to hear from me no matter what time I call or what I call to say she seems to have all the time in the world for me even though she works I know from morning to morning sometimes [I aspire to the love in her heart and kindness of her spirit it’s the most incredible thing I’ve been privileged experience outside of the love of my family]
• Having lunch with the extended family

 18^th – 25   June Goals

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous
2. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides
3. Spend time outside as often as I can
4. Read 200+ pages of When Dimple Met Rishi (currently on pg. 10)
5. Learn 7+ new things
6. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week
7. Eat or drink something new
8. Call 1 friend

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” –  Earl Nightingale

It’s 12 : 30  PM on day 2812 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, spend time outside, have breakfast, read a Bible verse,and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised $14 469 only $4 281 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.

Today I realized I am more productive when I set weekly goals so starting from today I will set goals every Monday and every following Monday I will check to see how I did the previous week and set new goals for the following week Take a look at my goals for this week below:

May 28-June 4^th Goals

1. Continue to be kind, honest and generous
2. Raise at least $500 for my campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – so far we’ve raised enough to help 57 kids with clubfoot I want to help get that number as close to 75 before the campaign ends on June 17^th )
3. Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides
4. Make arrangements for a small local project I want to do
5. Finish reading Room by Emma Donogue
6. Spend time outside every sunny day
7. Learn 7+ new things
8. Write done 7 beautiful moments – 1 for every day of the week
9. Make entries in my gratitude journal daily