Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Start working towards your dreams. Each day of this week, commit to setting aside at least 1 minute to work towards a dream of yours, no matter how small or meaningless the work might seem. Here’s an example:

Dream: Become an artist

Task: Learn how to draw a circle properly.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

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The story is a snippet taken from a blog about a woman with a kidney disease.

For 20 years, she has been under treatment daily for 7 hours. However, she didn’t let it stop her…

“My imperfect, fickle body deals with a lot.

I have always demanded a huge amount of myself professionally, combined with a strong commitment to volunteering, mentoring and peer support.

Time and energy can be bent to your will if you push hard enough and I have an insatiable appetite to try new challenges.

I love the juxtaposition of being absolutely dependent on a machine to survive,

contrasted with the ability to run my business, climb mountains, skydive and seek out situations where I can find myself on adventures abroad,

many miles away from my booked dialysis unit in inevitably hostile weather (yes, there are a few stories in that category!)

So for my 20th dialysis year I am going to push my physical limits towards a new challenge in aid of Kidney Care UK and Kidney Research UK,

as the first woman on dialysis to tackle the London Marathon.

Whatever my body decides to throw at me, I will use every ounce of my mental strength to get to that finish line."

Source: https://homedialysis.org/news-and-research/blog/249-i-won-t-let-kidney-disease-define-me-or-stop-me-achieving-my-dreams

REMINDER: These questions are based on the story, and are meant to help you gain the most out of it. I advise you to write your answers down.

Reflective-thinking question:

-If she has managed to live her dream life under such harsh conditions, why can’t you live your dreams?

Critical-thinking questions:

-The woman risked her life various times. Would you be willing to do the same as her and put your life at risk? Why?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What stops you from achieving your dreams?