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05-14-2007, 09:36 PM
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Cool thread. It'd be nice to see how old some of you guys are too. If the greatest thing you've done at 15 is hold a summer job, that's great, but if you're 34... not so much. Give us some perspective. The greatest thing I've done, at 19, is pass the physical screening test for SEAL training with elevated scores. I hope to improve upon this manyfold in the next couple months. |
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05-15-2007, 12:33 AM
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But I don't much care. I've done greater things in my own head than are visible to others. But they'll manifest someday. | |
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05-15-2007, 12:37 AM
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 Mind you at 238 I'd have a job reading my diary let alone remembering what I'd done!  Seriously, I'd say that the moments that I am most proud of is having run four London Marathons and defeating all the academic odds to get a job as a graphic designer which shaped the next 20 years of my career. Up until that point I was doing insurance admin and counting travellers cheques. The opportunity to show my creativity is something I cherish. As from this point on I would like people to remember me as someone who could help them achieve their goals, achieve clarity and live a happy and successful life. I want to make a difference.
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05-17-2007, 05:13 AM
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05-17-2007, 05:23 AM
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05-17-2007, 01:00 PM
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Summary: - Various 'hobbies' (more like obsessions lol) where I focus exclusively on, ranging from Magic the gathering to WoW to poker. - The last one was poker, I told this story before somewhere on these boards. Poker has a tendency to require changing yourself dramatically, if you want to be good you need to be able to seperate yourself from immediate results. You need to be able to think in terms of weeks and months, if you think in days you WILL get destroyed by the emotional swings. - Poker went in decline, after playing it for like 4 months about 2-4 hours a day (yes) and reading about poker for another 2-4 hours a day I got 'burned out'. The fact is I stopped enjoying myself so I quit. - My greatest challenge was always feeling like I was able to beat the game, the moment I felt like I had a solid understanding and was capable of beating it I would move on. - So I needed my next shot as a 'hobby' and my attention turned towards Personal Development - I started reading about PD 5-6 hours a day for the past 3-4 months, before I got started I realized that I needed some form of income. - Reading started changing my mind, I learned more in the past months than I did in the past years. - During this time I decided that life was the game I'd try to 'beat' from now on (mostly just understand) and since this is a lifetime journey. Thats a really rough explanation of what happened in the past months, mentally I made heaps of progress thats almost inexplainable. I'm a completely different person than just a few months ago, I can't even begin to identify myself with him. It was the greatest achievement of my life simply because up to now I've lived my life like in a dream, going wherever the community and the winds would take me. My only escape was a temporary obsession and my own mind. I always had a little 'box' in my mind where I basically stored myself in, its tough to explain. Changes I made so far: Getting up every morning at 5 AM (busy changing towards biphasic sleeping) Eating much healthier and paying more attention towards drinking (more water, less alcohol) Forming several small usefull habits Cleaning up my desk and KEEPING it that way Improving my social skills and my self esteem/confidence Improved my relationship with friends and family Fixed some issue's from my past (big ones for me) My emotional state is no longer affected by outside events (90% of the time that is) Deciding on my goals and beginning to work towards them (important one )My business is starting to roll, ~130$ a month now. Its time to reap the benefits of my work Reading every day for atleast one hour (right now busy reading Think and grow rich, can't believe I didn't do that faster lol) Excersizing every morning Massive action is starting to roll out of the gate, its time. Does that answer your question?
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05-17-2007, 03:56 PM
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It is evident that all major breakthrough start with the decision that "things must change and they must change right now..." Looking forward to reading about your progress... Your post has left me with the following thought... "It is true that things don't change... we change..."  . | |
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05-17-2007, 04:07 PM
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Also check out my thread about quitting the forum for 30 days in the Personal Effectiveness forum. Be back in 30 days with a ton of improvement and news ! And yeah the first 2 months I was only busy changing my mind other than that not much changed at all... My life really started taking a sharp turn when I started implementing new habits, jeez that stuff has a tendency to supercharge you in the long run !
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05-17-2007, 04:10 PM
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05-17-2007, 04:29 PM
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05-17-2007, 07:05 PM
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I would have to say the greatest thing I ever did was I beat brain cancer. After that I took a lifelong approach to personal health and the health of the planet.
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03-10-2008, 09:04 PM
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I think my greatest achievements are largely unknown to me. I don't often get to hear when I've impacted someone else's life in a lasting, meaningful way, but know that I have.
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03-10-2008, 10:40 PM
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Not to be too repetative, but the birth and raising of my two children is by far the greatest thing I've ever been involved with. Cool fact -- One was born 04/03/98, the other born 04/03/00. Shared birthdays -- fun stuff :-)
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03-10-2008, 11:01 PM
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Leo - Guess we know what you like to do around June 28th, eh?
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03-11-2008, 02:17 AM
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Seeking counseling 6 years after being sexually assaulted, and finally recognizing that it wasn't my fault. I think that was a really big accomplishment for me, and one that I don't often share with people. I still have lots of work to do on that one...but the biggest hurdle was really just recognizing that I needed help...and asking for it. I was (and still am, in some ways) stuck in all the crap about how men are supposed to be strong, and able to take care of problems on their own, and not have to talk about their feelings...yada, yada, yada. All that "man stuff" only served to bottle me up, and so I literally had this toxic experience in me for years before I could allow myself to start getting rid of it.
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