Come here and blow your own trumpet

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I’m always the first to give myself a hard time about the many things I consider myself rubbish at so I thought it’d be nice for a change to point out a couple of things I’m really good at.

I’m a great cook and IMHO I’m really stylish too 😊

So what are you good at (but probably never point out to anyone IRL 😉

Thanks, Seiheiki, that's really kind of you.

DidiSquat that's an amazing achievement.

OP, thanks for starting the thread

I'm disabled and very scared what it will do to me in the future (progressive) but I've kept working through the anxiety, in a role I love.

I won't give up until I run out of choice.

I'm a brilliant organiser. Holidays, parties, impromptu buffets. It will be done with minimum fuss. My contingency plans have contingency plans.

I'm also a very good listener & supporter.

At my ripe old age of approaching 50 I am finally on the right path in terms of work. I'm starting on the lowest rung but it's totally what I want to do. I've already started working towards vocational qualifications. I've completed a counselling course of 6 months to help me with past trauma and working on boundaries. I'm in a beautiful equal relationship. I love my partner and he really loves me. I have a lovely family who are very supportive and my Mum is amazing. I have a fantastic friendship group myself and we are part of a brilliant couples friendship group. I part own our house so we can never just be thrown out on the street. I have now got a pension. My past 8 years main focus has been rebuilding mine and the DD's lives following awful DV and at my lowest point we were homeless and without enough money for food. My DD's mental health whilst far from perfect as they are both damaged by the breakup/ DV with their father is much improved. It's been a bumpy path I have to say but I really hope I'm now on the right one!

I left a 28 year abusive marriage with near enough nothing. Three years on I have tripled my salary, survived financially, gone through lockdown in a new town alone and saved enough to look at buying a home, just for me. I've overcome bullying at work and redundancy. I have no family in the UK and only two long distance friends. At the age of 54 I have finally found my inner fierceness and created a single life and am on the path to happiness.

I’m very resilient. I have lost my DH, DF and DM in the last four years and I am still standing.

So sorry to hear this 💐

I'm only little at 5ft3 but I'm as strong as any man 💪🤣

Can't think of anything. I'm a very ordinary person.

Envious of your minimum fuss approach!

I’m really resilient and I’m a really good teacher.

I’m good at asking the hard questions of people in authority (like the bosses at work, and others) without being arsey.

I think really hard about what presents to get people and generally it’s something they really appreciate and enjoy. There is no way to boast about this in real life as it will just make people think I’m talking rubbish but I know it’s true!

We’re all bloody brilliant 😍

Thank you @Seymour5 and well done everyone. Seriously inspirational thread on a drizzly Sunday morning! 👏🏻

Writing my first novel. Entered 5 competitions last year- zero. Rewrote and entered again this year. So far 3 results back - placed in all three. Haven't told a soul.

Go you!

I'm never late.
Always honest.
Apart from that,I'm just an ordinary mum/sister/daughter,nothing special,just myself.

Wow some impressive stuff on here! Amazing how hard work and grit can get us to new heights.

My skill - music. I am MADE of music, I feel. I sing and play the guitar at my local venue and turn a lot of heads. The place goes silent. I used to worry and feel I might be annoying people, but to walk through now and have people say, 'oh good you are here, are you singing again? We have come especially' or 'don't go home to practice, do it here so we can all listen' feels very good. I have made a name for myself in the thing I love the best in the whole world, and all my friends are musicians and I'm in the group now and it feels so good.

I sew beautifully. I am excellent at gardening, and I can speak 6 languages to greater or lesser degrees. My family has been able to eat this year because I have grown all the vegetables and most of the fruit that we eat (both shortage of money and food shortages in local shops have meant that we have also kept a couple of other households well supplied too).
Sometimes I forget these things and I am paralysed by doubt and fear, so this thread has really helped me.

Gosh so sorry to read this and well done for coming through with strength and resilience.

I'm resilient. Survivor of two suicides in my close family. I sustained my spirit throughout the loss.

Nice thread. you lot are bad ass!

I'm also really organised, throw a party drop of hat and day to day stuff.
I'm actually quite lazy, so find ultra planning and efficiency means I get to sit on my arse wasting time guilt free. i also like a good party/feeding people, so that's motivating!

My kids are Good.As.Gold!
I often say - its just them, their personality, they came like that etc...
BUT...now they are 11 & 14* that maybe just a little bit of it is coz i've instilled some good shit in them.
Thing my kids would never dream off doing...
eat in theirs rooms/leave undue mess anywhere
make a fuss/refuse when asked to do laudry/dishes/any house job
rough play
answer back/be openly rude/disrespectful to us or each other

I am so happy I dont have any daily battles iwth these things!
They are genuinely smart, funny nice kids to be around.

• disclaimer...Im not smug, I KNOW I have a whole load of teen years ahead of me and could go tits up any minute, but for now, all calm on the puberty front

I've been studying for almost a decade, but will shortly finish my Political Science degree (have been working, raising children and dealing with a chronic health problem during this time). I'm so proud of myself for sticking with it.

Well done everyone 👏

I am enjoying this thread very much!

I am a good mediator and negotiator and I can transform any space into home.

I'm just coming here to post my win at the gym... After months and months and months I finally managed a 60kg bench press and 100kg back squat... They weren't perfect but I bloody did them... No one irl cares and why would they... But I've cried over the failures, nearly quit multiple times and want to 🎉🎉🎉