What have you done recently that you're proud of?

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Just fancied starting a nice positive thread!

I've come off all social media, and I've also lost half a stone in the past 3 weeks! Started exercising too. Only on exercise bike but its better than nothing!

Got a 35 out of 36 on my maths test which I was convinced I'd fail

I don't think I've got anything to add but well done all some amazing achievements here

I’ve stated running 5k Every morning come rain or shine 😊

I fled severe domestic violence and abuse with my daughter.. I saved every penny I had and got myself a rented house and paid for every single thing in it.. I got her straight back into a nursery and I've returned back to my job full time and got a promotion and pay rise.. All in lock down.. My house is spotless, my baby girl is happy and safe and day by day I'm feeling better and stronger.. I feel proud that I haven't let his abuse defined us.
Thank you for starting this lovely thread x

Pebbledashery that's just incredible! X

I published a book during first lockdown. Had it languishing on my laptop, so sorted out a design and put it on Amazon.

I have lost 10lbs since July by doing 4 tough workouts a week. Not a lot - and I still have 20 to go but I can feel the difference and nearly keeled over in surprise when I had to swap size 14 and size 12 jeans for size 10 in a shop recently.

I also climbed a mountain this summer, despite an injury. I was in agony but I had always wanted to do it and we were in the area. I knew if I didn't then I never would. Was proud of overcoming the pain to do something I'd wanted to do for years.

@Pebbledashery - that is wonderful. Well done.

I got out of bed today.
Everything in my life that I'm proud of has gone thanks to covid.

It's so trivial in comparison but I really made an effort for work yesterday - hair, make up and work clothes. I've been working from home since mid February and it's too easy for me to be lazy.

I passed my masters despite horrible personal circumstances and won prestigious funding to do a PhD. For someone who has always believed I'm not good enough and not worthy I'm proud of what I've achieved lately 😊

That's brilliant!

I raised my daughter to 13 and she is a kind, loving and funny girl who couldnt give a shit about tiktok and would rather bake or sew. Pretty proud of that!

I finished a big blanket yesterday. Took me six months to knit it. It will be a slightly belated wedding present.

The next challenge will be packing it up and taking it to the post office, which is always a huge challenge (chronic illness).

I’ve lost 4 stone! Feel so much better. I also had 2 fillings done despite having a phobia of the dentist. And I completed SoberOctober and raised £110. And I won a place on a prestigious writing course (that I then turned down because it was really reslllly expensive, and now regret that.)

Gotten back to cycling everywhere and sleeping well post heart attack/cardiac arrest 6 months ago. This was hard because my son (18) was next to me when my heart stopped and he was rushed away by paramedics while they worked on me (CPR/defibrillator). He didn't know for over an hour if I was alive or not. For 20 minutes he waited. Then he ran. He just ran through the streets to go collect his brother and sister from school and just be with them. It always makes me sad that I was the cause of so much fear. But we've gotten through it. He was raised alone by me until he was 8 years old. And his dad disappeared and has been in and out of his life infrequently (his dad suffers from psychosis and mental illness/lives rough in Liverpool). So my almost dying in front of my son was big for both of us. It was a proper 'life moment'. We're incredibly close, DS and I.
I live with the reality that at any time, my artery can spontaneously tear again and cause another blockage, but I've become an expert at not seeing the sword of Damocles above my head. I can totally ignore it now and live each day.

This is all bloody brilliant @MacbookHo! Amazing stuff! Well done you 

@kittensarecute in a year where all has gone to shit for you, getting out of bed each morning and keeping going IS something to be proud of.

Hang on in there. Sometimes that's all we can do.

@Wearenotyourkind Thank you!! That’s so lovely of you. 😊

Pebbledashery Macbookho

Well done both! Persons of the year!!!

Getting out of bed is a huge achievement after the year we've all had xx

I obtained my third degree on the job whilst juggling a divorce and adjusting to life as a single parent, one of which has additional needs

I have continued with my exercise and healthy eating (most of the time) regime, despite lockdown and suffering from anxiety, and continue to lose weight so I’m now only a stone and half off a healthy BMI after years of morbid obesity. I tried and failed to lose weight for over 20 years and getting to where I am now seemed like a pipe dream a few years ago.

I’m finalising a book which I’m going to self publish in the next few weeks. 10 years in the making! Going to use a pen name so if it’s rubbish no one knows it is mine. That’s what stopped me publishing it before.

DH and I have put a lot of work into our marriage over the last year. We were close to splitting up after 26 years. Things had gone really stale and boring and a lot of resentment had built up. I’m really proud of us both that we didn’t give up. It took a lot of tough talking and going back to basics like kissing each other goodbye/goodnight which felt really awkward at first! We’re definitely on our second wind now though and it’s bloody amazing.

This is such a lovely thread, thank you for starting it, OP.

@kittensarecute, I hope that things improve for you soon .

I have started a business. I've set up a website, have a great product and I'm actually making sales. I've done all this while home educating (not lockdown learning, we home ed full time as the school support wasn't appropriate) my two children, one of whom is autistic. I'm proud of myself because I've worked really hard, and I just need a final spark of luck to work.

It sounds so ordinary, but I've tried my very best. I gave up finishing my doctorate when a loved one had cancer and needed a carer, and then I had children, one of whom has complex needs, and this is the first thing I've tried to do for me in a long time. This isn't an advert, I'm not going to post what I do. Just, I'm proud and I wanted to tell someone (DP not that supportive)

One of the lovelier threads I've read for a while. Well done everyone on your achievements. You should all feel very proud xx

Some wonderful achievements here! Mine is very minor but this morning is DH morning off (I had mine yesterday) and it has been so smooth and pleasant, kids happy, no shouting or moaning and I am currently enjoying a coffee and 5 min MN while everyone is on good form and occupied!