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janer1967
janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
Hi all 

Just another one to find out more about you lovely people 

What would you like to achieve in the next 5 years ? 

I will start us off 

Support my son to get good gcse results and train in job he wants 

Take him on a holiday of his dreams to usa 

Move back to my home town to be close to family

Use my prostheti  leg to be more mobile 

Train to become a counsellor 

Use public transport 
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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,893 Disability Gamechanger
    edited May 2021
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    I really want to be a published author, trouble is I'm always doubing my self and I can't let anyone read it , incase 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    @Sandy_123 that sounds great do you have a story wroteb
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,893 Disability Gamechanger
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    I'm working on a novel  but not sure if any good
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    What is it about 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
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    Hopely  have passed my degree  in psychology  with counselling 

    Got a job in counselling 

    Travel in my campervan 

    Finish my garden 

    Be happy and settled 
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Community member Posts: 7,942 Disability Gamechanger
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    Ensure that Daisy is happy and content

    Become a freelance writer

    Be able to walk with my walking frame without people assisting me.

    Be happy within myself and learn to love myself
    Disability Gamechanger - 2019
  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,621 Disability Gamechanger
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    In four years time I will be drawing my state pension, no more worry about benefits.
    In the next 5 years I'd like to see my son settled and happy.

    I try not to think too far ahead in case my dreams don't come true.
    2024 The year of the general election...the time for change is coming 💡

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,893 Disability Gamechanger
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    @janer1967 I can't really say without giving too much away, as no one as ever wrote or thought of the idea before. ? I'm going to need a decent proof reader, before sending it off.
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    @Sandy_123 OK what category genre would you say it is 
  • adamskis
    adamskis Community member Posts: 67 Pioneering
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    Sandy_123 said:
    I'm working on a novel  but not sure if any good
    Let a friend read it, someone you really trust, who can be honest with you.
    ypu have to let it out of the box, otherwise it’s just mashed up trees and ink. 
    (Unless it’s electronic!)
  • adamskis
    adamskis Community member Posts: 67 Pioneering
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    I would like to have finished my luthiery degree and be living on my farm in Italy.
    (at least for 90 out of every 180 days)

    This is always providing nothing else goes wrong or decays before then.

  • mamalou72
    mamalou72 Community member Posts: 2 Listener
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    It's been a dream for many years to write my life story. 

    I'd like my mental health and well being in general to be so much better than where its at now.

    I would like to be driving or have a motorbike licence and to have passed my theory test 

    I want to be in employment and be able to cope 

    Debt free.

    Maybe in a relationship. 

    Defo would love a house or new home.

    Passport holder again 

    DA3
  • Suzanne2
    Suzanne2 Community member Posts: 9 Listener
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    My dream is to get my husband well enough so he wants to come out somewhere - maybe for a coffee or to walk the dog. Maybe not grand but at the moment it seems like a really ambitious goal
  • adamskis
    adamskis Community member Posts: 67 Pioneering
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    mamalou72 said:
    It's been a dream for many years to write my life story. 

    I'd like my mental health and well being in general to be so much better than where its at now.

    I would like to be driving or have a motorbike licence and to have passed my theory test 

    I want to be in employment and be able to cope 

    Debt free.

    Maybe in a relationship. 

    Defo would love a house or new home.

    Passport holder again 

    DA3
    All sensible, and achievable, goals.
    tick them off one by one. It’s like the old adage, “how do you eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time!

    I am with you on the life story, me and my wife have started putting some of our adventures down on a Facebook page, at some point I will use them as the bones of a book…it could be a good read.

    have a look if you are on Facebook: the cut price millionaires 
    is the page title.
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community member Posts: 2,616 Disability Gamechanger
    edited May 2021
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    If I'm still here in 5 years time then I just hope life will feel more manageable by then.

    A few years ago I wrote a list of things I wanted to achieve before hitting 30 - including seeing a live comedy show, going to a proper music festival, visiting more gardens and historical places (I have done a few within a small radius) but that all seems well out of reach now.  If there's one achievement I can make in the next 5 years, it'd be having the 'fixable' health issues sorted, which are currently only being restricted by myself and some of the other health issues! 
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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,964 Disability Gamechanger
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    @lisathomas50 who are you doing the degree with is it online or do you have to attend uni 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,597 Disability Gamechanger
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    To be able to leave the house alone for a full day or even just an hour to start with

    To be able to go for a drive on my own

    To be able to go to the shops on my own

    To be able to use a knife with no one watching over me and not have any obsessive thoughts about using it to harm myself

    To be able to drive on dual carriageways and motorways without having obsessive thoughts about doing something bad

    Go to university

    Find a job I can do despite my issues
  • adamskis
    adamskis Community member Posts: 67 Pioneering
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    66Mustang said:
    To be able to leave the house alone for a full day or even just an hour to start with

    To be able to go for a drive on my own

    To be able to go to the shops on my own

    To be able to use a knife with no one watching over me and not have any obsessive thoughts about using it to harm myself

    To be able to drive on dual carriageways and motorways without having obsessive thoughts about doing something bad

    Go to university

    Find a job I can do despite my issues
    I really envy you, being able to admit to, and want to change those things about yourself.

    i Have spent a lifetime hiding my issues, and masking them with drink and other things.

    I hope you find the fortitude to win through some of those challenges, each one of them sound “a handful” on their own.

    do t sweat the driving too much, I used to do 50-60,000 miles a year, and the thought of getting behind a wheel now brings me out in cold sweats…I have lost half my vision, but we are both looking at the same issue, just from different angles.

    sending you my positive vibes, just to get the ball rolling.

    (me and a good friend decided “positive vibes” were our thing, as I wanted to send him prayers, but he is a pagan, so we agreed we could beam positive vibes to each other without leaving our belief systems too far behind)
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 49,893 Disability Gamechanger
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    @adamskis hi ya, it's electronic at moment, m sat editing as I respond. I had some1 read it and she said it was great, but I knew at the time it needed lots of editing, so I need a good proof reader to get that total  honesty.

Brightness