2024 - what did you do that made you PROUD?

[GauntJudy]

No I am not Heather Small!

What 2024 thing are you giving yourself a big pat on the back for?

In October I did a work management course that included a session on self awareness and it really made me stop and consider how defensive and insular I had become in recent years. It was a light bulb moment after years of being somewhat depressed following a messy separation. I feel like I've improved as a person and will keep at it. So I'm proud that I've actually worked on myself, rather than blaming the world around me. Hooray!

Well done OP. Set your 2025 goal. I love it when people take responsibility and make changes. It sets up the rest of your life.

I survived it. Had no expectations other than that. Kind of hoping for a boring and uneventful 2025.

I'm mid 20s and I'm close to exchange and completion on a property in London and I've done it with zero help and on an average wage.

I drove a big transit van for a couple of days.

I left a very toxic workplace & spent 6 miserable months unemployed.

Now in a job I love.

After years of masking (GP thinks I might be autistic) I am slowly allowing my 'weird' to show - and my current employers are fine with it. I'm allowed to fully geek out and it's OK. Feels like a radical new life.

I moved out from a controlling and abusive household, had some pretty devastating injuries in an accident a couple of weeks later, and am still living independently despite all that. Also got and stayed sober and weaned off the morphine I was on after aforementioned accident. Completed a community arts course which I would never have been brave enough to do before.

I rescued my DS from his state secondary school and took what was left of him home to recover. Fought tooth and nail to get an EHCP to home school with EOTAS and got it. Poor little blighter is still in pieces, and I'm knackered.

Also got my research science stuff on national telly. That was pretty damn good.

Well done, OP, and everyone else here! These are brilliant to read. 2025 can only get better!

I got promoted to senior management in my job. It sounds small but I'm only 35, and that's really not very usual in my field (publishing), particularly in my publishing house.

I managed to get DH comfortable enough to walk with his cane (bad accident years ago) in public. Tbh I'm more proud of him, but I put some effort in to help and seeing him out and able to walk without grimacing and stopping is amazing. Wish I'd tried harder years ago now.

Finished a first draft of my own novel, and published 3 of my own short stories in some amazing collections.

Met Reece Shearsmith for the second time and managed not to become a blushing schoolgirl during the function. 🤣

Ah well done everyone, you should be proud 👏 👏👏

I was requested to carry out revalidation for my professional qualifications last spring. I panicked a bit because I work pt for a very small business and don’t have any management responsibilities etc, also have moved away somewhat from the direct line of work that I am qualified in. However an email to my professional body put my mind at rest and I proceeded to fill in the form, it took a few weeks of reading and thinking and writing and re-writing but at the end of it I was “wow, I have done a lot and made a big difference to a lot of people”. It went through no problem. I don’t actually need these qualifications for what I do know but am proud to have and maintain them.

I managed to get my ND child the best support at school.

Delivered at big conferences which I had never done before.

Won an award for my work.

Applied for a fellowship.

Coped with my son seeing his abusive dad again for the first time in years.

Saved £1800.

Finished the year as a single mum with one day of annual leave left to carry over (don't even know how!).

Been a hard but rewarding year.

Every year I am contracted to lead a seasonal project by a big company. Last year I finally got assessed for ADHD ( a procrastinator's feat in itself) and running g the project while on proper medication made such a difference. My work was the best it has ever been and I was proud.
I also finished the very rough first draft of a novel.
This year I want to finish that novel and get very fit. I had poor health last year, so this year am focusing on fresh air, exercise and strength training with very healthy eating.

That is phenomenally impressive. Congratulations.

I gave a 10 minute speech at my ds's memorial...without crying! A month after he died.
Plus moved house 3 weeks later with exchange 3pm the day before completion.

🌷

Finally had the courage to kick out the cheating husband and I'm surviving 6 mo the later.

Really working on getting a handle on the anxiety and pushing my own comfort zone.

Other than those, I've been in survival mode for quite a lot of it.

You're all amazing, how inspiring xxx

Dared to show my paintings in a couple of local exhibitions and sold them. So then approached a local gallery and they now regularly display and sell my art.
I'm so chuffed.

I solved the Rubik's cube. I was working on it for 4 years on and off.