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Most impactful positive changes you have made in your life

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    #32
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,477 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Nearly 6 months mostly continuous at the gym three days a week this month. Missed about 6 days but it's great for the aul mental health. I go in the morning to avoid the Instagram brigade.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #33
    Sultan_of_Ping
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭Sultan_of_Ping


    I retained my ambition but stopped being careerist. I still have a job, but I make sure it doesn't dominate the way I previously let it. This freed up time for me to "work" on topics / issues that I cared more about and were more interesting. It also, serendipitously, led to me setting up a little side business (based on a creative hobby I never previously had enough time to practice properly).

    So now, I've now zero promotion prospects but I've never been happier or more content. My time is now mine.



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    #34
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    Volunteering at an animal shelter was great for me. Nearly 7 years at it now.



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    #35
    Danye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭Danye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118478455#Comment_118478455

    Fair play. I’d like to do this but I think I might actually get to connected to the animals!



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    #36
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118479978#Comment_118479978

    Hi. You should give it a try. Something for the new year. I'd always wanted to do it but kept putting it off, but was delighted once i started. I deal with dogs and of course you bond with some more than others, but you come to accept that they'll have a happy ending going to their forever homes.



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    #37
    Danye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭Danye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118481178#Comment_118481178

    What about the poor dogs that don’t get a forever home though. 🙁



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    #38
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118482282#Comment_118482282

    The shelter I volunteer at don't put dogs down (unless they are too sick or vicious). Some dogs get adopted quicker than others, but they all get adopted eventually.



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    #39
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,861 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Most important and impactful decision…

    using a filter to filter out any…

    mé féiners

    Judgementalers

    everyday mentalers

    ALL from life and not putting up with them or time wasters…

    realising that you spend 40 plus hours at work, if it’s an unhealthy situation or not the terms and scenario you signed up to…. Exit…

    so left the job, don’t speak to one family member… enabling my health through eating well, filtering out stress and exercising at the gym 3 days a week and at home 2-3 days all be it lightly..

    never felt better.

    in addition the words… NO and FÛCK OFF can and need to be used in circumstances to people who won’t listen…. This empowers and enables your wellbeing…

    People / we are thought that being selfless is where it’s at, it isn’t, bôllocks…

    selfless : “concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one's own”

    you are absolutely no good to yourself or anybody if you are not prioritising your own wellbeing and health… and indeed happiness…

    identify what makes you well, happy and make a plan, execute the plan and work on it every fûcking day.



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    #40
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118483052#Comment_118483052


    Could not agree more with you! 👍️👍️ You cannot be there for others if you are not looking after yourself.

    I have learned to say no to people who are always looking for something from me and often do little to reciprocate - and it is very empowering and liberating.

    Filtering out toxic, bitter, negative and manipulative people in one's life also extends to putting plenty of these individuals who post here on Boards on the Ignore list. 😎

    I myself am doing largely the same things I did last year - plenty of swimming, cycling and walking when I can. My plan is to try to eat better this year which means less of the microwave/oven heated ready meals and more home cooking from scratch. Now...if only I could find the time...🤔



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    #41
    Frostynight
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Frostynight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058195520/most-impactful-positive-changes-you-have-made-in-your-life

    Nice positive idea for a thread.

    Buying an Apple Watch. This because I've always been a very inconsistent exerciser. Now I've exercised typically every day for 30 mins but often 60-90 with weights every day for years. I mix in all sorts of activity. Problem solved.

    Taking the plunge on re-training after being made redundant. I've retaken control of my career, I love my work and study paid off.

    Possibly, starting counselling. A few major life issues were stuck there like a poision arrow and they're getting solved.



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