My Goals

Determination

This is just one way to describe my personality.
Ever since I was a little girl I've always been determined to do well, or try with anything.
It's probably the reason I still gained GCSE, A Levels throughout my illness.
It's most likely why I got accepted to all five universities I applied too.
And it's definitely why I beat 4000 people to 200 jobs at Walt Disney World in 2014.

Your goals can be small or large but it's important to have them - they keep you focused and make you thrive. More importantly when you've achieved them - you feel amazing.

At the start of my flare I lost alot of my independence - too poorly and fatigued to drive (and due to my eye sight) and walk, getting dressed was a daily fight and remembering simple tasks such as taking tablets, remembering names/dates etc was a constant battle. However, in my eyes mind over matter is an important part of recovery. I set my eyes on the future and began once again to make goals I used to make before my diagnosis.

It's important to remember with lupus start small to make them achievable.... then you can dream bigger as you get better.

MY GOALS

- To get back in my car (achieved January 2015)
- To start walking independently again (achieved December 2014)
- To dress and wash myself regularly (achieved December 2014)
- To have the confidence to go out with my friends to the pub (January 2015)
- To wear my hair down all week without putting it up
- To go snowdome and try skiing
- To carve a pumpkin (I missed out on this due to being in hospital last year)
- Start/Go back to work (achieved June 2015)
- To book Disney 2016 with my boyfriend (achieved April 2015)
- Go on holiday for the first time since my flare
- Raise money and awareness for Lupus UK
- Learn German
- Try an easy going exercise class
- Be flare free for one year
- Get my tattoo extended to cover my stretch marks
- Go back to university to start my masters
- For one last time, dye my hair a crazy colour
- Meet someone in person, a similar age who has lupus