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  AIM to Get Be tter   a t New Beginnings Blog#1 :  Introduction to New Beginnings Upcycling We live in such a “throw away society” – when people or objects have “outgrown their usefulness" or no longer meet our current needs, or no longer look the way they used to, they are often discarded, pushed aside or dumped.  At Aim to Get Better we passionately believe that everyone and everything deserves a second chance, an opportunity to be reinvented and upcycled! Sometimes, all it takes is for someone to take an objective, creative look and see the potential!   There is something extremely profound about rescuing items that people are about to discard, dump in the tip as useless, or throw away because it no longer looks presentable; to look at what others perceive as rubbish, rescue it from its fate, see its potential and find ways, not of restoring it to how it was before, but reinventing it, giving it a new use that far exceeds its former glory!  No two item...

  AIM to Get Better ©  at Changing my Mind About My Body:  Blog#4: My  Trek Across the Sahara                My trek across the Sahara was a 100km trek (5 days walking, 2 days travelling) from                   Sat 22 nd  Feb - Fri 28 th Feb 2025. I did it to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society with a fundraising target of £2200 It was arranged by Discover Adventure.   MJ’s Sahara trek journal: Day 1:  Left home at 8am. Got to Gatwick 11.40. Had coffee with Peter, then met some people I recognised from the trek WhatsApp group, so Peter left me with them. We met the trek leaders at check in. Flight left Gatwick 15.45, arrived in Casablanca at 16.20. We had a scheduled four hour wait, but additional delays of several hours plus meant we left Casablanca at 11.40 arrived Ouarzazate 1.20am. Didn’t take long for bags to come throug...