What is the biggest personal change you've ever made?

Zippie84 · 01-02-2015 06:30PM #1

What is the biggest personal change you've ever made?

Been a few for me. Obvious one of emigrating from Ireland and starting a new life in a new country.

More recently, leaving my full-time, permanent job for self-employment in an unrelated career.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 01-02-2015 07:13PM

White sheets for blue ones this morning. Massive!

GerB40 · 01-02-2015 07:16PM

I gave up drinking after the doctor told me I'd be dead in ten years if I kept going the way I was. 9 months sober exactly today, I'm pretty happy with that..

Dr Turk Turkelton · 01-02-2015 07:17PM

Lost 200lbs-i dumped that fat bitch good!

Bio Mech · 01-02-2015 07:18PM

Changed a hundred euro note for a guy once that was pretty big. Wanted all tenners.

SadieSue · 01-02-2015 07:18PM

I lost about 80 pounds.. I'm nearly half the person I used to be!

D Trent · 01-02-2015 07:19PM

GerB40 wrote: »

I gave up drinking after the doctor told me I'd be dead in ten years if I kept going the way I was. 9 months sober exactly today, I'm pretty happy with that..

All liquids or just alcohol?

Macavity. · 01-02-2015 07:20PM

Giving up my job as a neuroscientist and becoming a crack whore.

lazeedaisy · 01-02-2015 07:22PM

Gave up full time career for a part time job, love life 3 day week,

GerB40 · 01-02-2015 07:26PM

D Trent wrote: »

All liquids or just alcohol?

Just alcohol. If I gave up drinking all liquids then I wouldn't be alive and you wouldn't be reading this post..

Zippie84 · 01-02-2015 07:27PM

GerB40 wrote: »

I gave up drinking after the doctor told me I'd be dead in ten years if I kept going the way I was. 9 months sober exactly today, I'm pretty happy with that..

*high five*

Aongus Von Bismarck · 01-02-2015 07:29PM

Two stand out.
One involved leaving a secure, if dull, job in Ireland and moving to Germany to work in the career I always wanted to have. I suffered some knock backs along the way, but persisted. Now loving what I do and what I've achieved.

The second was integrating mindfulness practice into my life. An hour a day is spent carrying out meditation and being fully aware of the present. I can now 'lean into' and explore difficult thoughts and emotions. I'm far more relaxed and self-aware as a result. I'd recommend it to everyone.

Macavity. · 01-02-2015 07:30PM

Two stand out.
One involved leaving a secure, if dull, job in Ireland and moving to Germany to work in the career I always wanted to have. I suffered some knock backs along the way, but persisted. Now loving what I do and what I've achieved.

The second was integrating mindfulness practice into my life. An hour a day is spent carrying out meditation and being fully aware of the present. I can now 'lean into' and explore difficult thoughts and emotions. I'm far more relaxed and self-aware as a result. I'd recommend it to everyone.

CJ Haughey · 01-02-2015 07:31PM

Two stand out.
One involved leaving a secure, if dull, job in Ireland and moving to Germany to work in the career I always wanted to have. I suffered some knock backs along the way, but persisted. Now loving what I do and what I've achieved.

The second was integrating mindfulness practice into my life. An hour a day is spent carrying out meditation and being fully aware of the present. I can now 'lean into' and explore difficult thoughts and emotions. I'm far more relaxed and self-aware as a result. I'd recommend it to everyone.

whupdedo · 01-02-2015 07:33PM

GerB40 wrote: »

I gave up drinking after the doctor told me I'd be dead in ten years if I kept going the way I was. 9 months sober exactly today, I'm pretty happy with that..

So your saying that you could have drank for another 9 years without dying :pac:

anncoates · 01-02-2015 07:34PM

I started with the man in the mirror and took it from there.

Zippie84 · 01-02-2015 07:34PM

whupdedo wrote: »

So your saying that you could have drank for another 9 years without dying :pac:

Nah he says he'd 'be dead in ten years' not that he'll 'die in ten years'

You could die at any point in the next ten years e.g. in 18 months and be dead 'in ten years' :P

hallo dare · 01-02-2015 07:37PM

Coming to terms that I was suffering with depression and seeking help through counselling to try and get my life back on track.

ancapailldorcha · 01-02-2015 07:41PM

Moving abroad to find work in my field. It was only to the UK but it still involved leaving people behind.

Links234 · 01-02-2015 07:45PM

Came to terms with being transgender, which was insanely difficult, stopped drinking the crazy amounts that I used to, lost loads of weight, and started my transition. Yeah, pretty big personal change

01-02-2015 07:52PM

Completely changed careers at 31.
Got fit.
Started thinking I'm deadly and believing I can achieve anything.

greenfrogs · 01-02-2015 08:05PM

I have gotten help with my mental health. For years I just thought I was this horrible strange person. It got to the stage where I lost my job and I was encouraged by others to go see a doctor. I was in a very dark place at that time. I found working, maintaining friends, socialising with others and day to day life very difficult. To be diagnosed with depression was a weight off my shoulders. Now I am on the road to recovery. I still have a long way to go but I know I am improving.

Andy-Pandy · 01-02-2015 08:16PM

Turning my back on a unwanted sales career when i was 32 and going back into full time education for 4 years. The single toughest but rewarding decision ive ever made. The smile and pride my mother had towards me when I graduated made it all worth while.

Contacting my father just after i started college was up there as well. It had been on my mind that he was getting old and could pass away. If i had never done it and he had passed away i would never have gotten over it. We have a relationship now.

eviltwin · 01-02-2015 08:32PM

Leaving a well paid, high status job to work with vulnerable adults and children as a volunteer. I haven't two cents to rub together but I've never felt more at peace and fulfilled.

Zippie84 · 01-02-2015 08:36PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Leaving a well paid, high status job to work with vulnerable adults and children as a volunteer. I haven't two cents to rub together but I've never felt more at peace and fulfilled.

I feel similar about my new self-employment career. Only earn a fraction of what I did. First year I really struggled to get by, and still do at times, but so much happier.

xLisaBx · 01-02-2015 08:51PM

Losing who I thought was a best friend, turned out to be the best thing that has ever happened to me. Often wonder how different things would be if we were still friends, but then I probably wouldn't be in college!

stimpson · 01-02-2015 08:57PM

After all these years, I've only recently come to accept that Marathons are now called Snickers. I've never been happier.

TheBeardedLady · 01-02-2015 09:05PM

I suppose moving here to Madrid 5 and a half years ago on my own to a city I'd never been to before with a very basic grasp of a lingo, no mates, nowhere to live and no job (more down to my laziness than my bravery tbh) and it all* working out in the end.

Edit: *well not all, but most things. It didn't turn out to be a fooking disaster anyway.

dinorebel · 02-02-2015 12:23AM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Moving abroad to find work in my field. It was only to the UK but it still involved leaving people behind.

Big field.

osarusan · 02-02-2015 12:27AM

Moving to Japan.

Got married, but that came about as a result of moving to Japan, so yeah, moving to Japan.

massdebater · 02-02-2015 12:35AM

Recently packed in my nice, safe (but boring) career, moving out of my house, getting rid of most of my possessions and moving full time into a motorhome and will be travelling around for the foreseeable future. Something I've always wanted to do but have only recently gotten the courage to.

What is the biggest personal change you've ever made?

Comments