Your Top Three Accomplishments of 2008

[NJCher]

As we head into the New Year, it's good to look back and size up what was accomplished over the previous year.

Recently a friend and fellow DU-er asked me this question. I had to think about what those three things were. What was I proudest of accomplishing?

Here's my list and I hope others will give this some thought and post three top accomplishments, too.

• Extensive reading and research in an area that has cleared up a lot of life's questions.
  
  Now that I know about certain issues, I feel more certain of how to live my life.
  
  
• On Febr. 8, 2009, I will have completed an entire year of working out at least twice a week at the gym. I work out with weights and do resistance training on the machines. I also do cardio on the bikes and stairstepper. Not only do I feel great, I have a solid base of muscle. The workouts have cleared up a couple minor medical problems I had.
  
  Best of all, I enjoy my time at the gym and I look forward to going.
  
  
• Teaching a graduate class. This is the first graduate class I've ever taught and the students were the best! It was such a refreshing experience to teach people who actually cared about the course content.

How about you?



Cher

[soleft]

1. Congrats! Wonderful Accomplishments

Let's see.

I always wanted to live at the beach and finally did it.

I won MVP on my softball team.

I finished a first draft of my first short story.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. My accomplishments

1. Reaching my diet goal and having my BMI (body mass index) be in the normal range.

2. Acquiring the job I have wanted working for a non-profit health education foundation full time

3. Exercising regularly

[Binka]

3. Good Year For Me

1. Kicked shit dog the home wrecker to the curb for good.

2. Walking every lunch hour for 55 minutes and running 12 miles on the weekends.

3. Spending all other free time loving and growing with my seven year old daughter. The BEST. She will be grown soon and she has taught me so much.

[Liberty Belle]

4. I became the media. Check out www.eastcountymagazine.org.

Media in my area was censoring news about Blackwater, election reform, the incompetency of our elected officials in failing to protect us from wildfires, and much more. So I got a small grant and started my own online publication which has had a half million hits in just 3 months.

If you like what you see, please consider hitting the "donate" button; we are totally out of money and can't survive past January without funds, which is ironic given the huge success in terms of circulation and broad community acceptance, content, caliber of writers, every other measure -- but I get so fed up with progressive whining about the demise of progressive media and then not bothering to donate a penny to support an new progressive media outlet started by a former RawStory investigative reporter. Any help, however small, would be deeply appreciated!

[CTyankee]

5. Wonderful! I wish I had such accomplishments!

So far I have travelled to places I wanted to go, Northern Italy and Northern Spain.

Taking on a new ESOL student as a Literacy Volunteer.

Attending my grandchildren's birthdays, plays, recitals, important games, school presentations.

Since I am retired I can do these things. It was a lot more difficult to do them before retirement. So I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking I was a little bit "arrogant" altho I am not.

[we can do it]

6. Great Ones! and Happy New Years All

Ok here are mine.....
1.Got a long time family friend to register and vote for the first time, she's the first in her family to vote (might have the rest of the family interested too)
2. Did my first marathon!
3. Worked my butt off getting Obama elected (made a lot of new friends doing it!)


Lets see what we can accomplish with Barack.

[dysfunctional press]

7. well...

1. my successful weed crop & harvest- ALL of it earmaked for personal consumption :hippie:

2. having my new garage built and a new driveway put in- allowing me to turn the old one into a kickass woodshop by finding riverside/brookfield high school selling their woodshop equipment on ebay...i got a great deals on a rockwell lathe, a drill press, a scroll saw and a planer.

3. building my hot aquatherapy tub(all cedar, 7 ft.diameter, 6ft.deep)- although after december's elecrtic bill, it looks like we'll be draining it until march or april...all 1750 gallons of it. :(

[Libertyfirst]

8. My three were

1. Stayed out of the hospital all year. For the first time in eight years. A real accomplishment with my health and age.

2. Played a major role in electing two really good state senators.

3. The best for last, collected and/or bought 35 kids coats to distribute to kids who needed them.

My goals for this year: (1) extend the hospital record (2) start looking for candidates for 2010 (3)collect 50 coats and 50 blankets for those who need them.

[Aristus]

9. My three:

1. I passed the Physician Assistant course online preparatory requirements.
2. I passed Summer Quarter with flying colors.
3. I passed Fall Quarter, period.

Halfway through my didactic year, and already looking forward to clinicals. B-)