what are you proud of? | ADHD Information

You know what, I like this thread, just being able to push along a little each day and post results, is very motivating in itself.

Happy today, that I finally went out to weed my flower beds (this is a new hobby for me) I am seriously having trouble knowing what to pull and what not to pull - since none of my flowers have sprouted yet.

Went running errends this moring... (little misshap) strong urge to run one lady down, but I let her take my parking spot and just moved on. Of course not without cussing a bit, but I am still happy to be done with my running around dealings.

I do have one important task today and hopefully that is to start sorting one table that has a mountain worth of papers - I finally dug two filing cabinets out of the garage for this purpose to orgainize. Hopefully, lol Oh always forget the laundry to do. lol

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I actually got out of bed and didn't sit around for hours before even starting to do anything. Its only 1:30pm and I have cleaned out my fridge and gathered all the trash and gotten it out to the curb. I even remembered the recyclables! That's for today.

In life in general, I have raised a wonderful daughter mostly by myself, have a son I have helped develop social skills so he almost always has friends to play with. I have helped my husband (whom I swear has adhd worse than my son and I put together) get started in a job which he works at consistently and he had never held one job for more than a few months before. He has worked at the same place for over a year and stayed in the same line of work for about 4 yrs.

I have a knack for creating a beautiful home out of mismatched items and using left over paint, creating custom colors. I just wish I could get organized so it always looked neat and orderly. I'm working on it.

The thing I am most proud of though is that I have finally learned to focus on and develop my strengths instead of feeling sorry for myself because of all the areas I am weak in. I have learned that I may be different but I have abilities that other people, the so called normal ones, don't. I love it when they ask me for advice or comment on how something I have created is so original and they want one too! It took me 40 some years before I finally got the courage to share my creations and to realize that I do have something worth while to contribute. I am finally proud of me!!!!

YAY! what a wonderful thread and wonderful things to be proud of !!!

I am proud that I have gotten out of bed 4 times this week before noon!!! (This takes some serious effort!)

I studied for a test that is 11 days away!!!

I listened to my SO without interjecting with my own story and stayed on topic for almost an hour!

Ok, I have great news, today I am proud that one of the web sites has accepted and will soon be publishing one of my articles I have written for consumers about ID Theft.

I have 2 articles total, and hoping to see the second one as well soon... I did not sell my articles - just for the fact that I could have ownership on them for other uses, but it has been so exciting to know that they are going to be published.

 

Sumiah,

YOU are brilliant for starting this thread.  Congratulations to all for your accomplishments in life.

I was in with my therapist last week.  She helped me to see how I don't give myself enough credit for the things that I have been able to accomplish in my life despite my impairment.  As I read over your posts in this thread, I can see how truly amazing one has to be in order to overcome ADD and still raise a child with a 3.8 GPA or to write a publishable article.  What level of determination must it take for an ADDer to get out to register for school even though it's late in the afternoon.  Our propensity is to procrastinate and use the lateness of the hour as an excuse to put it off.  But to get out there AND stand in lines took a steel will.

This is what I was saying in another post.  Non-ADDers could not possibly understand what it takes for us to get through life unless they take the time to learn about our impairment.

I wish I had the words to tell you guys how much you've all changed my life with your words of incouragement and validation.  Hey, look at that.  Yet ANOTHER thing to be proud of.

I find that I get so much more done when people appriciate my work, and it just feeds my ego to do more.

Well today I am proud that I spent a few hours out in the garage cleaning up, of course I did a few things back wards creating more work, but it is a start. Not finished yet, but better then what it was.

 

My friend barb, what wonderful and beautiful things you have to br proud of. But you know what I love to hear the most? That you're proud of YOU!!!!!  You are a worthwhile and amazing person and I am so glad you know this, because it's TRUE!!!

   GOOD FOR YOU!!!

you are just so sweet lizzy!!!!   You should be proud of you also. You are such an encouragement to so many!

I think every one of us here should be proud of ourselves. We have each made the determination to better our lives or we wouldn't be here and most of us are trying to encourage and help others!

i love all of the accomplishments we have! it makes me giddy...see what other ppl are missing out on? they do this stuff with the sense that its commonplace drudgery...

it takes a fine perspective

to raise our mundane actions to the level of brilliant pride.

 

love you guys!!

sumi

I didn't do so well today, slacked, but in the end I was proud to pull through a phone presentation, which my boss set up, come to find out he gave this lady the impression that it was up to me if we sold this product! I patiently listened to her for an hour, and was up on following her, I just made sure in the end to let her know I was not responsible for making such decisions for the business, even though I am the administrator for setting up each customer.

Let her know I was not the person who conducted the sales either, that I don't work like my boss, that if someone asks me about it then I would tell them, otherwise I don't push - and she agreed that that was acceptable for our strange encounter today.

I paid attention in a 1 1/2 hour long meeting . . . for the whole meeting!  I'm really really proud of that because I always drift in and out of meetings, mentally. 

 

 

Ok I got one today for the proud of list.

Last night one of my computer hit a snag - stuck in Safe Mode, I know a bit about diagnostics (thankfully from husbands showing me) well I started with the usual things:

Scan Disk, Defrag, System File Checker, IE Repair Tool, uninstalled IE and reinstalled,

Nothing worked, every time I rebooted it was still in safe mode, so I finally accepted the fact that I might not be able to safe it, so I copied the hard drive onto a zip disk to transfer to the other computer - which did not have the drivers for the zip drive... so had to go online, didn't know what to pick so I took a guess and downloaded one of the drivers (got lucky).

So in the mean time I found another diagnostic tool to try on the other computer and seen it saying something about monitor problems, - - the whole time something had changed it to 16 bit, so after a few tries I finally found the right color to put it on.

BINGO - and you know it only took my 6 hours between the two computers fighting this and trying everything - but I FIXED IT in the end. So hopefully this computer is going to be running better then ever for a while now. lol

Moral of the story, just because the screen looks like it is in SAFT MODE - does not mean that it actually is - it was the color having been wrong all along.

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My computer is new and I'm having all kinds of fun with things not working or working even after I think I have them off. Wanna come fix it? I'll give you all the coffee you want! 

I'm impressed!

LOL> I will trade the coffee for Tea & Leamon  - actually I know enough to be dangerous as my husband tells me, lol

I only know the steps to go through, he never bothered teaching me why I do certain things... so when ever something goes wrong, I just fumble through until something makes it right again. LOL

My husband would to tear computers down and build them right back up and reinstall, so he needed a helper, so he would always tell me to sit there and hand me disks with instructions, or tell me to go here do that kind of thing. I have done this so many times now that some of it has actually stuck with me.

And you know what - I am glad I do know that much, because working here at the credit bureau, I have discovered a whole world of banking people that call me thinking something is wrong with our internet programs when it was actually their computers having trouble. So this job to me has taken on a task of providing tech support to loan officers and such on a regular basis. Like the blind leading the blind, LOL

I just tell them to try this or try that, until something works... but it is hard to do when you are trying to counsel someone that has Desktop Underwriter and you don't realize something is in the way of what you are telling them they are suppose to see,  alot of our soft ware requires Acrobat Reader, so I have to tell people to go to their web site to down load the program.

I am pretty proud when I really don't know what the problem is, but I work it out and have them mess around and hit upon the fix. A lot of bankers problems are IE not refreshing the pages they are trying to access. So if you ever find a page missing that you know is suppose to be there:

Go Tools / Internet Options / Under Temporary Internet files select Settings then under check for newer versions of stored pages select Every visit to the page. If that don't work you can try in the same area, the Tab for Security and Trusted Sites to enter in the name of the web address you want to force to go through. This I have recently found to fix a lot of IE Problems,

If you really can't fix IE then if you have the right version of IE like 6.0 or better. Then what you can do is go to Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / System Information - then select Tools / Internet Explorer Repair Tools. Only select the middle one that says Repair Internet Explorer This will reset IE and force you to reboot. There is another way to do this, but I usually scare people by telling them to go to the control panel and use ADD/REMOVE Programs, cause then you have to be careful what you click on in there. Has to say Tools & Accessories - otherwise you run the risk of deleting something.

Hope that helps you with your problems, one of these might just set you straight. Also important to use Windows Update often to get security and other down loads to help the computer along.

 

 

NightStar38163.2950115741I am proud because today for the first time I actually left my house on my own, with no kids ,no husband or friends on my own and did me stuff all afternoon.

frootloop,

We are proud of you too!     Barb

Frootloop,

I am so proud of you... WAY TO GO GIRL! That is a hard one to do. I have trouble with that sometimes. I have even considered getting a dog so I don't have to go out by myself! Keep up the good work!

i just thought i'd start a thread that pays real homage to our daily struggles...we all know that as ppl struggling with adhd we have moments in our lives where we are brilliantly proud of ourselves b/c we did something 'right' or on  time..or completed something. for most ppl this is like giving a star for doing whatever you're already obligated to do like breathing. but for us..its amazing..what are you guys proud of today?

i am proud that i registered for class yesterday to restart school!!!! YAY!

i actually went to the campus! LOL it took me til five pm to get to it but i did it! AND i waited in two lines without walking out of the bldg!!! yay! LOL

I'm proud of my fiction writing. Somehow I am able to properly communicate when I tell stories. I'll get this feeling or image in my mind of a scene and write it down and it just feels right. Then to read aloud for class or an audience and have everyone in awe and applauding. It is the few moments in my life when I'm not ADHD, I'm someone who has made a powerful connection with the world around me when I usually can't.

Cheekydeeky

Well; although this sounds kinda wierd; Because over all my years I was kind of a "loser" in this life; I prided myself on being a great husband and dad. Being well aware of the damages of feeling outcast among my peers; I made it a point to always be in the "cheering section" when it came to my wife and daughter. I figured if I always boosted up their efforts in life; they would find satisfaction and get in the habit of being winners. Well; it worked! Not to take anything away from their efforts; they both do very well with life. My wife is in upper management in banking; and my daughter will be a senior in high school next year with a 3.8 grade point average (so far) I was so afraid that my "negativity" would ruin their outlook on life that I guess I "hyper focused" on encouraging them. I'm very proud of both of them, and even a little proud of myself for helping instead of hindering their self confidence.

I'm proud coz yesterday I went out and spoke two about six or seven diferent friends, usually I'm really shy but yesterday I was feeling quite confident and bounced around talkin to ppl.

I'm also proud because I got out of bed before midday today

uncovering scams LOL!!

NightStar, Way to go girl! When you get you organized, you can come dig me out!   My hubby has a ton of papers and I don't even know where to start.

Lizzy, I'm proud of you! That must have been hard to walk into but now maybe you are on your way to new friends.

Don't forget our chat tonight!

Well, the closest I got to the paper work was getting the file cabinets in, lol

This weekend I promise I am going to work on it for sure,

I went to a party last night and stayed for the entire time! It was that party for cop's wives/SO's. I didn't know a soul but I had an good time! It was nice because I found out that alot of the womed there are a little tomboyish like me and almost all the men in our famlies do the cooking, because we can't!  I'm glad I forced myself to go!