This is question #6 of the Year End Countdown Challenge held in Dec 2012, where we count down to the new year with 13 reflective questions. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Welcome to Day 8 of the 2013 Countdown Challenge! :D
2013 Countdown, Question #6…
Questions for the 13-day, 13-question countdown so far:
- #13: How has your year of 2012 been? | 176 Comments | Post Your Response
- #12: What are 12 things you love about year 2012? | 120 Comments | Post Your Response
- #11: What were your lowest points this year? Why? | 132 Comments | Post Your Response
- #10: What lessons have you learned from those low points? | 84 Comments | Post Your Response
- #9: What could you have done better this year? (Be honest with yourself) | 62 Comments | Post Your Response
- #8: What can you do to ensure you don’t repeat the same behaviors in 2013? | 39 Comments | Post Your Response
- #7: What are you most grateful for in 2012? (Merry Christmas!!! =)) | 32 Comments | Post Your Response
Today’s question, question #6, is:
What are your biggest accomplishments this year?
Your Task
- Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
- Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
- Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers.
Look forward to reading your answers! :)
(After you are done, proceed to #5: What lessons have you gained in 2012?)
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This year, I think my biggest accomplishments lie in moving on from a lot of things from my past. So much has hurt me, even years later, and this year I made significant progress in moving on. By extension, I’ve also begun to move forward, to really begin finding myself and who I want to be. I’ve got a long way to go, but I’ve got a momentum now and I don’t think it’s going to stop any time soon.
In less vague terms, some accomplishments of mine have been making Dean’s list during both of my semesters at college this year, as well as getting two of my poems published in my school’s literary magazine. I also managed to determine what I want to do academically, choosing to keep my English major and adding Web Technology as a minor. I managed to stay on top of my finals and final projects at the end of the year and worked to do my best, where I’ve never put in as much effort before despite always doing well in school.
I think getting over a lot of relationship-based blocks has been extremely important for me. Moving past (or at least beginning to) from past events has given me the strength to take a chance with both romantic and platonic relationships again. I’ve made new friends, mostly of my own accord, and have given romantic relationships a try. While on the romance side things have not worked out, the fact that I tried and have the strength to keep trying is a very welcome change!
I’ve had a good year this year, and overall I think getting through it as great as I have is an accomplishment in and of itself.
Having a glimpse of what i could achieve if i set my heart to it. :D
My biggest accomplishments in 2012 are:
– Coming first in course for one of my HSC subjects
– Working harder than other years to earn my 90+ ATAR
– Living without my mother for almost half a year and counting
– Passing both rounds of my first ever formal job interviews and getting myself a position in the sales industry where I earned $800+ in my first week.
I had some huge accomplishments this year. The first being that I sold my house that had been on the market for 3 years and bought a place of my own. I moved on with my life in a huge way. I have never owned a place on my own. This was a huge step in trusting myself that I can do this. I have always had my parents or my former husband. I have to admit that I am nervous, but new experiences generally are. I also took the huge step of quitting a job I hated. It was hard to give up the money, but I needed to do it for my emotional stability. My father dieing and My mother leaving was more than I could handle along with a job I hated. I have taken huge steps in bettering my attitude and reaction to things in life. I still have work to do, but I’m definitely better. I use to react to things immediately and now I think them through. The biggest accoomplishment is believing once again that their is hope for a Happy and Fullfilling life for me. I use to have what I considered as perfect a life as one could have and I lost it. I didn’t think I would ever be happy again, but now I do have happiness in my life and there is more to come.
#2013Countdown, #6: What are your biggest accomplishments this year?
I feel that I repeat myself. :D
– Marathon in Spain;
– Pay rise;
– Becoming more mature thanks to my intimate relationship, willingness and courage to trust my own feelings and desires, my Toastmasters’ experience, my professional challenges and my therapy;
– 5 Speeches I gave at Toastmasters, 2 speeches I gave in my job, participating in a humorous speech contest and organising successful Toastmaster conference;
– I trust myself more, love myself more, take care of myself more, I am more open to different parts of my self/personality, start to follow the gentle energy flow in myself which makes me want to discover, learn, experience different things, behaviours, states.. This is beautiful, I wish this to all of you! :heart:
– Acknowledging that I CAN be more productive and better organised and can overcome my tendency to procrastinate that occurs from time to time;
– Opening myself more to my gentle feminine part (thanks to the marathon as after having experienced my physical and mental strengths to the fullest, I recover, do not train, feel a little tired and let go of my need to perform. My focus naturally moved from accomplishing to being, letting life be as it is, witnessing rather than producing, accepting rather than wanting to improve, etc.). :hug:
Staying sober since January 2, 2012. 4 more days and it will be a year.
My biggest achievements have been –
Letting go of a toxic relationship that was breaking me from within
Clearing CA – Inter
Graduating with good marks
Earning money though its really meager :P
Started volunteering something that I wanted to do since a long time!
• Contacting my family again.
• Working out the specifics to participate in exhibition.
• Still being strong and holding on.
I would always remember 2012 as the year when I started my efforys for personal development. Had accomplished a huge shift in my attitude and thought processes. This was the year I realised that by changing my mental wiring I can really bring about physical manifestation and my efforts towards improving my health bore results
My biggest accomplishments in 2012 are:
graduating high school an Honors IB student
getting accepted into college
receiving scholarships
understanding myself
i went to the gym consistently
experiencing new things
staying strong through all the obstacles faced
open-mind to love and happiness
My biggest accomplishments for 2012 are:
1. landing the montessori job
2. taking anna to the gold coast
3. organising an excursion to see a French film with 7 classes of students over 2 days.
4. arranging a French cakes day with a disco.
5. attending the French Stage a la Plage PD
Biggest accomplishments:
– Continuing to kick butt in college; I never got a degree back after high school, and wasn’t prepared for the work. I’m smart enough, by a long shot, but back then I thought that was enough to let me coast, the way I had in HS. 20 years downrange, and I know better. Smart helps, but effort is also an essential element. And knowing that now, I have a 3.93 GPA and am about to start my last semester before graduating with my Associate’s degree, and the knowledge that I will be continuing on to get my Bachelor’s.
– Facing the problems in my marriage, and instead of withdrawing into my shell or accepting all the blame and doing the same things I’ve always done to “try to make things better”, I’m accepting responsibility for my part in the problems (which I certainly do bear that responsibility!) but not for hers, and I’m seeking a solution, something different since the “same old” doing more of everything she says she wants hasn’t made it better so far. It’s a new approach, but doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting different results is a good working definition of insanity. I’m ready to be sane, for a change.
– Probably my single biggest accomplishment, and certainly a work in progress, is my desire to do things and make changes, FOR ME. Not for someone else. All my life, I’ve sought to change myself to be what others wanted, to serve their purposes, and ended up having my wants and needs fulfilled incompletely if at all. Mine are at least as valid as anyone else’s, and I deserve to have AT LEAST my needs met. Therefore, I deserve to spend at least some of my effort on me. And I am, I will be.
My biggest accomplishments of 2012:
– Visiting my 18th country and 6th continent
– Solving a major work problem that consumed many months
– Running my first 15K race
– Overcoming many relationship anxieties
– Ending the year with more knowledge and a better outlook
Moving home with all the positives and negative hurdles.
Building a kitchen in my new home.
I would like to see more accomplishments but I realised that I didn’t organise my time as effectively and efficiently as I should. I am definitely changing this.
Doing a half marathon with zero race experience.
Doing a hilly 10k in under an hour.
Getting a new job and negotiating my pay.
Confronting some difficult issues.
I started redecorating.
Opening up to my mum about some stuff which was very difficult.
Getting better at allowing myself to feel difficult feelings and being aware of the tension in my body.
Finishing my studies with a fantastic final, landing some successful client jobs and finishing up the work to their satisfaction. Getting paid for something I love doing. Starting a training course for something I’ve been dreaming of for like the past 6 years or so?
Biggest accomplishments this year
*Getting a coach for myself
*taking the break of work which I was dreaming of
*getting rid of many clutters at home
*getting rid of old papers full of sorrow and pain
*feeling better about my beloved sister, who passed away before I was born
*helping a friend to get out the depression and be a new person (she managed this I just helped for trigerring)
Got a great new job in the city. Living downtown city, one of my dreams. Taught my son to work more independently on school work. Still walking and breathing.
I achived the process of peace by doing vipassana.
Its a great technique for internal peace.In this we have to keep our inner concious with in our own body.By keeping it inside the body we can examine our all body parts internally.If we keep daily our inner concious with in our body this will iprove whole day working of ours.
So this is the main achivement of mine in year 2012.
My biggest accomplishments this year have been to be reunited with my hubby again after a year long separation due to immigration issues. Gone back to school. Reunited with all my old friends. About to finish the deal on a brand new customized house.
My biggest accomplishments this year:
1) Personal – Starting my blog, keeping in touch with some good school friends I had lost contact with. Travelling.
2) Career – Getting great grades, TA award, starting my masters thesis.
3) Health – 100 days of gym, drinking vegetable juice for breakfast thrice a week
My biggest accomplishments this year are:
-Weaning myself off anti-depressants after 15 years without killing myself or anyone else in the process!
– Realising I have a potentially problematic relationship with alcohol and joining a support group for help
– Recently realising that my anger, and depression is fed by low self-esteem and is a result of having lost my purpose in life
– Having recently begun to take active steps to address these issues
I am really beginning to look forward to the new year for the first time in a LONG time
– taking a huge risk on joining a startup company, and learning to be okay with not knowing how things will turn out
– giving myself permission to not exercise, to take an extra day when I needed it, to be a little easier on myself
– making smoother transitions for the people in my life, by telling myself to ‘move forward with love’
– maintaining a love affair with V with tremendous joy, by making sure that I leave him feeling that I have done my best to tell him how much I love him
– acknowledging to myself that I am both more imperfect, and more kind, than I ever thought
– being outrageously happy most of the time. My set point for joy is pretty high!
– I got to co-teach a technical math course at the Master’s level at the university, even though I only have a Bachelor’s degree (and that’s in chemistry, not math!). They ASKED me to do it, too! It was a huge honor, and a lot of fun!
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