Subject: Your Greatest Accomplishment to Date
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Jul 11 09
What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment so far in life? For me, having and raising two sons has to be my biggie. And nowadays, i count waking up and getting out of bed something of a triumph, too. How about you?
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Jul 11 09
What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment so far in life? For me, having and raising two sons has to be my biggie. And nowadays, i count waking up and getting out of bed something of a triumph, too. How about you?
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BxBarracuda
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Nothing noteworthy in my life, yet. I will have to go with not being as foolish as I was when younger. Searching for wisdom that not only makes sense to my life experiences but others life experiences as well. Reply #1. Jul 11 09, 8:38 AM |
Prison 
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Putting up with my little sister. So far, anyway. Reply #2. Jul 11 09, 3:13 PM |
| Sizzileen
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!. Would be being a cheerful giver and somewhere down the line I suppose would be being Number 10 in points on Funtrivia and after that would be some things I didn t do but wanted to do desperately but they would not have served the best purpose. Reply #3. Jul 11 09, 3:26 PM |
Anton
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Playing in the 15 year old baseball league when I was 13. Reply #4. Jul 11 09, 4:56 PM |
lilith616
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Inventing the 'Warp Drive'... and then selling it to a (hostile) species that pay so much better than Humanity could ever afford. Reply #5. Jul 11 09, 5:09 PM |
L_A_Best
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I'd have to say my greatest accomplishment to date was a photograph I took during the Cape Town military tattoo last year. It was 10pm when I took the photo of the four 25pound World War 2 guns from the Cape Field Artillery that were used to do the gun firing during the performance of the 1812 Overture. I was using a Canon S3 camera and the photo caught all 4 guns firing simultaneously at the end of the piece. Since November the photo has been sent all around the SA Army and is still talked about. The guys were so impressed they asked me to become their official photographer. Reply #6. Jul 11 09, 5:21 PM |
| romeomikegolf
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Producing three children who have made me very proud of what they have achieved. Reply #7. Jul 12 09, 12:13 AM |
tezza1551
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First, raising three kids to adulthood - now watching them bringing up their own. Secondly, deciding to change careers at the age of almost 50.. and making a success of the new career. Reply #8. Jul 13 09, 8:07 PM |
REDVIKING57
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Confirming 'Deep Thought's' calculations that the Meaning of Life,The Universe,and Everything is,indeed,42! And it didn't take me 7.5 million years either! Or 'helping' with four children.Two 'good people',two well on the way to becoming 'good people'. (They're only 11 and 9,so a little early to be sure!). Or just surviving life? Reply #9. Jul 14 09, 9:54 AM |
satguru
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Besides the oft repeated completing all my qualifications regardless of regular setbacks one that comes to mind is the meditation course I took in 1996. Being claustrophobic it involved spending an hour a week for (in my case) well over a year at a crowded video presentation, with the odd live lecture, and then a one or two evening long assessment to decide if we were all up to learning how to do it after the preparatory lectures. We then had to go 50 miles (in my case) to a conference centre over two days with thousands of people to see a lecture on day one and have the lessons we needed on day two which were at the crack of dawn for me. Getting through all that even without my problems was a trial for everyone, and more so if we had anything that made it more difficult. My barmitzvah was also quite an achievement, years of weekly lessons, an exam and then standing up and singing in a foreign language in front of hundreds of people. That taught me and millions of others the value of hard work at a very early age and set my goal orientation system for life. Reply #10. Jul 14 09, 4:26 PM |
| Sizzileen
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"My barmitzvah was also quite an achievement, years of weekly lessons, an exam and then standing up and singing in a foreign language in front of hundreds of people. That taught me and millions of others the value of hard work at a very early age and set my goal orientation system for life." You da Man! Reply #11. Jul 15 09, 7:24 AM |
Arpeggionist
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There are quite a few singularly unique accomplishments I've achieved in my life. In no particular order, I've gotten a copy of a musical manuscript of mine into the Library of Congress in Washington DC, I've survived several terrorist attacks (including 9/11), I've lived to tell about a clerical error which had a military doctor once pronounce me dead, I've written two first acts of two operas (to which I also wrote complete libretti), not to mention four symphonies, several string quartets and any number of pieces for 6-part choir. I've sent my blood through parcel post, learned a song in Norwegian for a play audition, conducted a few rehearsals of Beethoven's 9th, and built a library full of forgotten works. I've flown more than 100,000 miles in my short life, which is the equivalent of having been around the Earth more times than Alan Shepard. I've built up a nearly complete collection of state quarters. I've found a good number of errors in Torah scrolls on both sides of the Atlantic, and read almost all of the Torah in public at synagogues. I've invented words in at least four different languages. In short, what little I've lived of my life so far has been put to good use. I only hope the next three decades can match the last three in accomplishments. Reply #12. Jul 15 09, 6:48 PM |
| satguru
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Thanks Sizz, I reckon it may be the reason so many Jewish kids grow up to join the professions or do well in business. When you've had to do all that before 13 it becomes part of you for life. One more big lesson I learnt that seemed smaller at the time but had a large effect was the passive response to disaster. One term before the end of my last college course the tutors 'assessed' each of us in front of the class of about 30. They more or less said I didn't have what it took and was wasting my time on it. I did not react and as they didn't actually throw me out (they did someoene else) just came back the next week and week after as if nothing happened. Then we had a two day course and then the break. When I came back they said the change in me was incredible and it was like a blockage had been cleared. Well they had cleared the blockage, just like the tutor who said I may not be degree material. That made me do what I could to prove I was. I also had to spend two weeks in the summer holidays doing nothing but property law for my resit (lessons 5 afternoons a week with assignments for each one). Had I failed that again I'd probably never had got a third chance as that was already my second after accounting. It was probably the hardest exam I've ever passed although O level physics came close. Reply #13. Jul 16 09, 8:14 PM |
Mommakat
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Having a wonderful daughter, my one and only, and when nosy relatives say "What? Only one!" I have a quick answer - shuts them up every time - "when you achieve perfection first go, you quit while you are ahead" (tee hee hee) Mommakat Reply #14. Jul 20 09, 9:15 PM |
uc0nnfan92
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Getting up out of bed everyday and trying to be the best i can be at everything i do and as nice as possible to the people i meet. Reply #15. Jul 21 09, 5:57 PM |
leith90
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My biggest acheivement is raising two healthy, happy well adjusted girls. They're not married yet but are happy as they are and both have long-term boyfriends. My second greatest acheivement is going to Uni (at my age) and doing very well at it. I've got my photo wearing a funny hat so it was worth it! lol Reply #16. Jul 23 09, 5:29 AM |
Rowena8482
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I'd dearly love to think that my biggest achievement is yet to come. I don't think I've managed anything particularly noteworthy yet. Reply #17. Jul 23 09, 3:23 PM |
blindcat78
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I guess that my greatest achievement right now is making good grades on the courses that I take from a distance learning school located in Winnetka, Illinois. It is called The Hadley School For The Blind. It's for people who are blind or visually impaired, for their family members, & the people that work with students or adults that are blind visually impaired. You recieve a cerfticate every time you complete a course. So far I have gotten 19. Reply #18. Jul 26 09, 5:41 PM |
terbear528
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Well It make not sound like much but one of my greatest accomplishments to date is I quit smoking. I always thought I would smoke the rest of my life. I never thought I could quit but I did and except for an occasional bad day where I would almost kill for a cigarette, am so glad that I did it. Reply #19. Jul 27 09, 4:06 AM |
| blindcat78
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My greatest achievement up to now is making good grades through Hadley School for the Blind located in Winnetka, Illinois. It is a learning distance school, which the material for the courses come to you in the medium of your choice then you can do it at your own pace. Reply #20. Oct 18 09, 9:05 PM |
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