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To ask what is the proudest you've ever been of yourself?

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needapickmeup · 07/05/2017 17:03

Sorry for the strange sounding title I couldn't think of how to phrase the question!!!
Been a bit stuck for motivation really - got lots of things I need to get done that I KNOW I can do, just been feeling a bit low.

So help me out guys!!! Tell me stories of when you've made yourself really proud. Get me motivated!!!

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YorkshireLass2012 · 07/05/2017 21:21

Holding my DC after giving birth because I persevered against the odds after having battled (and won!!) against cancer and being told I was infertile as a result to fulfill my dream of becoming a Mum. Several specialists told me it wouldn't happen for me. It took me nearly a decade to get here. And it has been so worth it.

MojoMoon · 07/05/2017 21:42

Putting a glass over a spider, picking it probably and taking it outside and releasing it

I took the arachnophobia course at London Zoo and was very proud the first time I managed to deal with a spider at home all by myself and calmly.

SamPotatoes · 07/05/2017 22:00

Giving birth to my daughter. I rapidly realised that it was extremely likely I was likely to be giving birth alone and I went deadly calm and remembered an article is read a couple of weeks previously that covered unplanned home birth. Despite the chaos I was able to get myself to a safe position and focus on what I needed to do.

The paramedics did turn up but didn't realise how far things had got (I couldnt talk by that point) so I delivered her myself while they weren't looking Hmm

When I need a confidence boost I just think back to that night and remember that when the shit was hitting the fan I kept my head and did what I had to do.

Coulddowithanap · 07/05/2017 22:32

Being the first person at my diving school to get 100% in a certain exam.

Also passing a crazy hard fitness test and getting my dream job (hoping to repeat this and get the full time job rather than part time).

Bunnyjo · 07/05/2017 22:42

My two children.

Graduating with a First in front of my parents and DC, and being on course to finish my Masters with a Distinction.

Now, if only the ideal PhD could come my way...

cavatron · 07/05/2017 22:43

Graduating with a First at 8 months pregnant!

Inarightpickleandchutney · 07/05/2017 22:46

My proudest moment will be soon, I'm nearly a whole year clean after a 10 year drug addiction.
Just need to confront the alcohol but that's not as bad.

musicposy · 07/05/2017 23:02

needapickmeup you should do it! The funny thing was, after all those dreaded childhood lessons, in the end I did it with no teacher at all. I just took tiny step after tiny step towards it all on my own. Day to day my progress was imperceptible but over the weeks it added up until I could actually swim.

Loving reading the stories on here; they are so inspirational!

AtSea1979 · 07/05/2017 23:07

There's obvious ones like getting my degree etc but looking back now it seems like no big deal. I'm proud of myself now. I do a difficult job where everyday is a risk but so very rewarding. I think I do a half decent job of it too.

junebirthdaygirl · 07/05/2017 23:08

Keeping my whole family going while my dh had a few breakdowns in his 40s . Eventually diagnosed with bipolar.
Taking up circuit training in my 50s and loving it.

SamPotatoes · 07/05/2017 23:09

Well done pickleandchutney- fantastic achievement!

Rachel0Greep · 07/05/2017 23:11

Have lots of educational and other achievements, but my biggest is recovering my health, after a long hard slog! There are things one should never take for granted! This I now know.

toomanyloos · 07/05/2017 23:11

I hadn't driven for 10 years but on hearing my sister was in hospital I got in the car and drove round the M25 to go and look after her dc. I was so scared that my hands were sweating and I gripped the steering wheel so tightly my fingers woudn't unfurl when I arrived!

That is the one thing that stands out as I did it for her, not me. All my other achievements have been for myself.

MajesticWhine · 07/05/2017 23:12

Bloody well done everyone. Great thread.
I am proud that I completed my professional doctorate. It took me ages and it was the hardest thing I've ever done.

ProfessorPickles · 07/05/2017 23:13

One of my proudest moments was when I opened my A level results. I had struggled with my mental health for the first time during college, whilst being bullied at work and in an emotionally abusive relationship.
There were many nights I cried myself to sleep genuinely wishing that I would die, and I often would close my eyes when a passenger in a car praying it would crash and that I would be killed.

By the end of my final year I was feeling much better but still struggling, I no longer cared about my results and just wanted to have passed.

I opened them and saw that I got A*BB and even now 5 years on I still can't quite believe it when I think back to how much I struggled.
Those results felt like a light at the end of the tunnel, things could've turned out much worse.

That entire experience is now my motivation in life and I'm grateful that I had such a horrific time as even thought it was so difficult I'm a much better person for it

MycatsaPirate · 07/05/2017 23:17

Actually quite a few moments that have stuck with me over the years.

Being so terrified of heights that I couldn't even go on an escalator which went downwards - I did a solo parachute jump.

Being a single mum for 7 years and doing everything in my flat myself. Having to use youtube to work out how to do plumbing but managing to do things myself was a huge sense of achievement. Also got indoor scaffolding and painted my whole flat on my own which involved dismantling the scaffolding, moving it to the next room and putting it back up. Took 3 weeks to do it but painted the whole place.

Throwing out the violent ex, giving evidence in Court and moving on.

Driving a 900 mile round trip on my own with a sickly toddler. Not particularly fun but I did it.

DontFuckWithMyChocolate · 07/05/2017 23:19

I am proud that I have (in the last two weeks) finally come off antidepressants following a nervous breakdown, and am only 1.5lb away from losing 4 stone since the beginning of the year. (Still got a bit to go). But yes, right now I'm feeling very proud of myself. Grin

SabineUndine · 07/05/2017 23:22

Getting my MSc although I changed jobs in the middle (it was work-related).

Working abroad for a year in my 20s.

StinkyMcgrinky · 07/05/2017 23:26

I was severely needle phobic until the age of 25. I would sob uncontrollably at the sight of a needle and would need to be physically held down to have immunisations. DH and I had to go through IVF to have DS1 which meant having to give myself daily injections. That first injection took about 3hrs, lots of tears and throwing up but I did it! I can now have needles to problem Grin

I had horrible PND after DS was born. I was utterly convinced he was going to die, if we left the house the pram would get run over by a car, a bus would crash into us, we would end up in a river etc... so much so I didn't leave the house alone with him until he was about 9 months old. I now have two sons (2 and almost 1) and took both of them to Tesco the other day alone. For some reason, whilst wandering the veg aisle, I had a sudden sense of pride that I was out with my two children and not on the edge of a breakdownGrin

Enko · 07/05/2017 23:28

Crossing the finish line at the London Marathon. It is 10 years ago but oh yes I felt proud of myself.. Still do when I think about it

SpottedOnMN · 07/05/2017 23:32

Getting my masters degree as a mature student. I always said I'd get a masters and I'm proud of myself for achieving my goal.

Bitconfused75 · 07/05/2017 23:40

The day my mum moved into a new flat which I had project managed the renovation of alongside working full time and juggling my kids as a single mum.
It was almost a year to the day that we lost my dad and she'd moved across the country.
She has a form of dementia and I was so proud of her for everything she'd coped with and me because I had given her somewhere safe where she was happy.

flyingspaghettimonster · 08/05/2017 18:41

I think I was proudest when I had my firstborn without any pain meds. It was long and agonizing and didn't go well (4th degree tear) so afterwards I felt like I had wrestled a tiger. For a week or so afterwards, despite all the blood loss, I felt so strong and powerful.

I'm also proud of learning to sew and some of the projects I've made... I have many regrets if things I haven't done, so when I do finish things and create things I feel proud.

MyheartbelongstoG · 08/05/2017 19:02

Leaving my ex husband.

zoekickin · 10/05/2017 11:14

I have two super proud moments. One is nice, one not so nice.

I used to self harm. Seriously. I have now, not self harmed in three years. That makes me super proud.

My nice one, I wrote a book. The day that book arrived in proper published form, was the most exciting and proud day of my life.

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