Share Your Stories of Personal Greatness
It seems in life we're quick to hand out praise to those around us, but how often do we take a few moments to acknowledge our own accomplishments and successes? Well now's your chance to reflect on your moments of greatness, pat yourself on the back, and share your story with everyone in your neighborhood!
Nature Made teamed up with Vox to help us celebrate the greatness in all of you. Answer yesterday and today's QotD to share your story.
After you’ve answered the QotD, you can submit your story of greatness at NatureMade.com and enter to win $1000 and a spot in the Nature Made “Fuel Your Greatness” documentary.
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All I had to do was give up pron!
I used to look at porn and I used to have the pretty pics on my blog page. That time I used to spend watching porn is now the amount of time I spend advertising my business each day. This is why I also no longer have a J O B. I listen to people say "happy hump day" or "thank God it's Friday". I personally find I may not even know what day of the week it is. I am no different then anyone else. I may be a little older and have a different career background, but I simply got sick of having a boss as well as the amount of time I was spending at work each day.
Think twice about your life. Think about the time you spend doing what. Then think what you can do productive with that time to help make your life more what of what you want and what God wants.
All the extra time in my life I give to God and helping others. I live according to His terms now and just for the sake of giving up porn, I no longer have to punch a clock.
Enjoy life every day and give thanks for all you have.
~Ken
That was a great story. I guess my story of greatness is that I've been a geriatric nurse for over 40 years. Apparently, I wanted to be a nurse even as a little girl of 4 or 5. My folks said I was walking down the road to take care of my sick granddad with a nurse's hat on.
I was taught to respect your elders and to treat my patients as I would want my mom or dad treated. I have always tried to do that. You learn a lot from listening to the elderly and caring for them. And since I have lost both of my parents, it has become more important, because I miss them so and feel I should have done better as a dtr, but I know they loved me and forgave all my shortcomings.
The geriatric nurse-Linda
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The most challenging and rewarding accomplishment in my life was writing a book. I had no idea what I was doing or how much work it would involve which was undoubtedly a good thing or I probably would never have started the process.
Today I can say, I am the author of I Can't Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult.
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The greatest personal story of mine is when I first believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Lord,Redeemer, Savior and God. I knelt in humbleness of heart and confessed all my sins to Him in the privacy of my own closet(room). This happened after I had read the the four Gospels according to; Matthew,Mark,Luke and John, over and over again. I met my Savior whom I was looking for all this while, in those powerful pages. The Holy Spirit was there to guide me into all truth to see Christ and I heard the Heavenly Father inviting me to His side through Christ. All this happened when I was just a teenager aged seventeen.The exact time and date of this event was : 9th October 1977 at 3.00pm.( My eyes was on the clock, when I was about to pray for thr first time). I recorded this wonderful moments with the Lord in my personal diary. I felt the burden of my sins leave me.
From that day on, everything was different in me. I did not know what was exactly happening in me but I was visibly reading the Bible everyday for hours during the night. There was so much joy in me reading the word of God that I would go the church library during the nights passing midnight to read and search the scriptures with all the concordance and reference books I could find there. Almost all the books in the library will be out from the shelf onto that study table. The surprising thing about it was that I was only seventeen years old when I did all these. No human being had encouraged or told me to these things. Where did it all come from, when, all my other classmates in school were enjoying themselves either in the pubs or nightclubs with their girlfriends at that tender age of seventeen. I did not understand what was happening to me then but now I do, after nearly 32 years of walking with the Lord Jesus Christ, after turning away from a background of staunch parental roots in idolatry,witchcraft practices, sorcery and falsehood. I praise the living God for having chosen me for Himself and that I have this calling of God to be faithful to Him till the end. All praises to God and His Christ alone.
Well my story begins in june 2006, I was a broken man, I had always realised that I was not made to work a conventional job, and although I was a good competitor in the rat race for a while I knew that there was something else out there for me to do.
I had tried this and tried that, I had even started two unsuccessful businesses in the past, well I say unsuccessful businesses, what I really mean is they were successful it was me that wasn't. I hadn't got the right sort of knowledge to running a traditional business, but I thought that hard work and investing money that I hadn't got would sort out all the major problems. Anyway, once I had failed at the first business I went walked away licking my wounds and took a job working for a boss, and working for his goals. I then tried again when my job was made redundant and my boss decided to let me go. And worked in the I.T. Field as a consultant basis replacing my one boss with many bosses, that all wanted my services free of charge. Every penny they gave my company was one penny that they didn't have for their goals and dreams. So that went the same way as the first, after a lot of long hours and very little reward, but more than that it had taken a little more of my self esteem with it, a little of my belief in myself away. I had started to listen to the people around me that were telling me that I should get a proper job and stop this dreaming of working for myself. That was it I began to believe the people telling me these things and not listening to my inner voice that was telling me to keep trying. So I took another job, this time it was harder for me to find an employer to give me a chance, so I gave up on my career and took any job to pay the bills. I went on like that for maybe 10-15 years hating every minute but not believing enough in myself to do anything about it. And then one day I answered an add on the internet, not a get rich quick scheme but a top up income opportunity. So I decided to give it ago, that was in june 2006, since then I have grown this part time business from a business that turned over £1500 in its first month to a business that turns over around £36000 per month. Along the way I have won trophys from our supplier won holidays to thailand and austria and we are just about ready to set sail on the largest sailing ship in the world Club Med2 in the Caribbean all paid for by our supplier, not bad in a little over two years. I am really enjoying the challenges that I face on a regular basis, because I know that in any business you get paid in direct proportion to the amount of challenges that you overcome. I have had the great pleasure in helping othernpeople that were in similar positions to where I was when I started get off to a great start in business, through the help and guidance I provide them with, which all stems from empathising with their circumstances. If you know someone that would also be interested in changing their circumstances then get them to give me a call on my helping number +44 1212759165. I wish you the very best success in whatever it is that you do, and thank you for reading. Please visit www.youcan2.co.uk
I am living the most exciting time of my life right now. At 45 years of age, what is exciting to me is not sky diving or or any other extreme activity designed to flood my body with adreneline however; I had a big enough adreneline rush on the morning of July 24th 2008 to last me a life time. . .
The night of July 23rd was no different than any other night for my husband and me. We had been living in the house we built for the past eight years and we went to bed in the bedroom we had slept in securely every night of those eight years never knowing our lives would never be the same once we got up again.
At approximately 3:15 a.m. I awoke to hear my two large dogs snuffling past the bed and out the bedroom door which should have been closed but wasn't. It wasn't closed because a large man armed with a gun, a knife and a baseball bat had quietly opened it and was standing in the open doorway. I didn't know he had all the weapons at first. I only saw the sillouhette of the man and the baseball bat. I sat up and said, "Roger someones in here!" at which point a bright light was shined into our eyes and a loud, male, accented voice started yelling at us to, "Get the fuck up!" In the next instant the intruder threw a backpack onto my lap with the demand to open it. My husband sitting next to me in the bed had time only to ask, "Are you serious?" before the loud crack of the bat filled the room. The intruder had cracked the bat against my husband's ribs. "Does that feel serious?" was the intruder's response.
Naked and completely defenseless my husband and I scrambled off the bed to get some distance between ourselves and the intruder. I was frantic; I didn't know what was going to happen but I knew it was very bad. Were we going to be killed? As I was trying to cover myself with the blankets from the bed ( I'm not really sure why my nakedness mattered to me in this moment; perhaps I just wanted some shield even if it was mostly mental) my brilliant husband was trying to ascertain whether this violent intruder was alone before he made his move.
When I saw my husband lunge for the intruder, I didn't even stop to think, I just followed behind. My memories of the next few moments play through my mind in scattered pictures. I remember getting punched in the face three times; I remember my husband yelling at me to get the bat and my frantic rush to get to the bat before the intruder could grab it again; I remember getting to the bat at the same time as the intruder and I remember lying on the floor, pulling on the bat and kicking up at the intruder who was stomping down on my naked body but I don't remember falling to the floor in the first place or getting up with the bat securely in my hands. My next scattered picture was of me swinging the bat at the intruder while trying to avoid my husband who was attempting to wrestle the guy to the floor. Our struggle had taken us from the bedroom to the adjoining weight room and back into the bedroom. My next memory was of the intruder lying across our bed as I was swung the bat at his head over and over again. When a fist size flap of his scalp lifted off the front of his skull I thought I had crushed his skull in and I couldn't understand why he wasn't losing consciousness. I knew I didn't want to kill him so I started focusing on the back of his head. He never did lose consciousness. That guy must have a three inch thick skull.
All in all we estimate we fought the intruder for 20-30 minutes before we got him hog tied with belts from our closet. Mid-way through the fight I thought we had him under control enough to allow me to call 911. When he heard me on the phone with 911 he renewed his efforts and we ended up fighting again. The sounds of our struggle and the sound of the bat smacking his head over and over are recorded on the 911 call and it is indeed intense to listen to. I would have never imagined I could be so brutal.
Clearly this was an extreme experience and not one I would have wished would happen, but the truth of the matter is I was sort of just existing for a few years before this happened. I was pretending to "run my own business," I had good friends I saw regularly, I enjoyed creating art and spending time with my husband and my dogs. But I wasn't truly living. I certainly wasn't living out loud as I know I was created to do. It has only been eight months since our experience and I have a long journey ahead of me. But I know it will be an exciting journey and for that I am eternally thankful for the man who intruded into our lives. He really made it clear to us that we have lives worth living.
For now, this is my biggest moment of greatness and it was teamwork with my husband of 16 years that made it possible. I think it is important to remember that our moments of greatness are not created in a vaccuum and that our moments are frequently carried on the backs of others. I look forward to many more moments of greatness.
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Hello Team Vox,
Acknowledging my accomplishments; within my life I had many accomplishment I could call “personal success stories” or “hard learned achievements”, I would have never felt I could achieve anything if it wasn’t for a loving father as a child, to point me in the right direction. Even with his passing away, I still feel hold close to my heart the lessons I’ve learned form him “thank you Dad”. My greatest accomplishment I would say, “Learning to listen from a higher power”, some call him God, some call him Almighty and some don’t even believe he there; I do.
The Double Light Tower Sculpture (Monument & Memorial Site) Project first came as a dream to honor 9/11 victims and Military served in Afghanistan and Iraq, almost four years ago. From that time till now, I have created photos on high quality canvas, logo T-shirts, logo pens, and comments from all walks of entertainment (Gospel, Country, Pop, Hip-Hop, Classical, Dance, and Rock,) on four websites; all to show how their support could help create jobs. With the entertainment young inspiring entertainers will get to meet professional in the field of Music while honoring our loved ones no longer here, and helping the programs within the project. The three programs within the DLTS project which touches on some of our major problem in America, Youth Program, Senior Citizen Program, and a City Beautification Program; in honor of all the victims of September 11th 2001 and Military serve men and women who died in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three programs designed to help stimulate education, cleaner living environments, and Home ownership; to remodel, remove, and rebuild fuel-efficient home. Targeting actual education programs with a 70% success rate, targeting senior citizen and retirement home for affordability, and creating our own demands within these sectors, we circulate the flow of funds to create jobs and the expansion of them, for the future; in construction (Bricklayers, Electricians, Land Development, Designing, revamping homeownership and Real State).
In this posted message, you hear a lot about what I did but it’s really not about me because I strongly feel it was give to me, through the dream a had four years ago “that all”, it about us as a people helping one another. This accomplishment I can never claim as my own because we all have lost family or friends in what this project represents, we have all felt the heard hit of a creasing economy, and we all have dreams for a better future; I’m just doing what I was told and what I can, to try and help.
To help other understand what I had to go through to, and after many request from time to time and doing something I would have never in a million years, thought of doing, ground work for a book in process. If it becomes a Best Seller, I could only hope but my goal is not that, it’s to show (dreams can come true, if you work hard and it’s for a positive reason “helping others” and not “greed”, anything can happen). As it stands, the project is now being reviewed, locals – you’ll find out in time “sorry” but if you are wondering what it look like, please visit: youtube.com (JMHamilton1) or myspace.com (4uprojectdltsonline). View possible entertainment for a year round event, that’s all I can tell you for now but that a lot of info (smile) and God Bless.
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My greatest personal achievement came as a moment of self-realization, that I had to change things for the better or things would get worse.
Everyone is displeased with something about themselves, but when it starts effecting the people around you who care about you, your conscience tells you something has to be done.... But it's not easy. Deep emotional pain turns you into someone you don't recognize, until one day you look in the mirror and you can't seem to recongize yourself. That's exactly what happened to me. When there's SO much to change it has to be a little bit at a time because it takes deep reflection and thought... But my God, it's worth it. I am officially a work of art in progress.
Thank you-I just decided to write that, need to vent a little bit-maybe be an inspiration to someone else? I don't know-was just telling a little bit abt myself.
Love, mom
I've been working for various companies for almost 23 years, and I realized that I did not get enough money from them. However, when I joined a Networking business recently that caters Health and Beauty products, I began to receive BONUSES that help me with my finances. Soon, with the help of God, I may have financial freedom because of the residual income that I get from it. Remember the popular verse in the Bible, "Seek ye first the kingdom of GOD and all these things shall be added unto you".
I agree with you, by the way I'm Yangli from Australia, just new this site, I'm not business man like you but I'm emerging artist I'm just new this kind of job and just student, but I believe in Gods grace and His promise that He never leave us nor forsake us. He is watching every moment I have time I'm down but He always there for me. have my group art exhibition here in Newcastle on the 8 of April but I need to travel on sunday to display the group artworks. and I believe that through this I will tell the world the creation of our Creator our God :)
My story of personal greatness is still in affect, I am only 21 years old. Not saying I couldn't reach a level personal greatness yet I am just saying that journey has just begun, I am young self owned businessman who has his struggles but through those struggles I see opportunity. So to me my personal greatness starts with my perserverance over the things life has thrown at me.
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tell me about it with all the thing that i have done and to still have life it some thing that just can not be explane know any old way it take time to tell O yah i could just say i had to learn to put god first but he should get so much more criedit for were he has brought us from so one day i sat down and wrote my first book about me and come to fine out so many poeple need it me as i need them !!!!!!!!!
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it so many thing i want to tell about my life were God has cover me with out me even knowning what was going on i use to call it look were i hate God i just know he for got about me ask a little girl my bother use to beat me all the time so be for i new it i was a woman be for being 12 years old never learn how to read and wrighting untile i was 34 years old in and out of jail all of mylife it been 9 years sent i was in jail am the mother of six childern whom there father will not have any thing to do with am sorry for what i have put my babbies throught i walked a from them a long time ago but truth is i had my first baby looking love and did not know how love how could i when i did not know how to love myself i keep going thought life making all the wrong move never think of how my childern will suffer poeple had told me our was crazy most of my life they told me this so much untile i was beliving that but one day i tell you God step in my life and i start loving Marlo i had move from my home town to come out of play grand were all the pain steel lays i gave up sell drugs and my body now me and my six childern live in a motle i gave up my home to self publishing my book i know one wanted gave me a job so i went got my own busine trying to wrighting book and Publishing other some say we are homeless i say we just waiting on God promise my gold is to tell all poeple it is importint for use to show love for all poeple you can read more about my book on my myspace and see my book my email address is Marlochapman@yahoo.com look me up
Sorry about what you went through as a kid. Your story is quite touching. Glad you're okay now. God be with you.
My personal stories..
I grew at Christian family with strict rules..n my dad held it..so it mean that my father is disciplined parents..but actually more n worse discipline everyday in the evening,when my parents came home,my heart beat fast than normal,cause always he will abuse us(my old brother too..)So it make us till now miss a person who can caring us like the others kids..
I hope who read this can help or remind someone nearest u to love n care to their child..
I grew up with an abusive, alcoholic parent.
Even so, I was raised Catholic and attended a private, Catholic high school, then went to college, so I guess that shows how God works in our lives.
Right now I am unemployed, as I was laid off from my long term customer service position after our call work was outsourced to overseas call centers, but I am attending school for Medical Billing & Coding, and, God willing, I will find a job soon in this area of expertise.
I am raising two sons who are both college bound--one is an honor roll student and the other is attending a scholarship Gateway to College program, and he will soon graduate with a high school degree along with extra college credits towards an associate degree, so life could be worse.
I am happy that my sons are turning out well despite the adversities in life that we have faced.
As it is said, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!
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I co-wrote, directed and produced a $15,000 independent film titled "Bad Kung Fu" over the course of 5 years...
While working a full time job...
And attending a private film school...
And did I mention it contains more visual effect shots then fellowship of the Ring?
Check the trailer out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WefnPs1TyLg
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I almost went insane in the process....
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Life is great, enjoy life while it last!
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Raising my beautiful son, who is now 21 years old. He's had 2 major health issues since he was 2 weeks old.
The first being he was born with a hole in his heart. After an attemped repair, he ended up having to get a pacemaker. He's had a few issues and a couple more surgeries since then, but he's always had a pretty good understanding of it all.
The second is he has Asthma. It was pretty serious when he was younger...if we weren't taking him in for his heart, it was for his asthma.
Through all this, he was able to participate in Baseball, from little league until he graduated from High School. He's always loved and was oh so good at it!!
He's now a grown man, trying to support himself as well as his daughter. He's a good person. Sometimes he hasn't made the best decisions, picking the wrong person to have a child with (both of them should have known better!), a couple jobs not panning out...etc. But I'm still very proud. He's courteous, kind, and soft spoken. He's got a decent job, but hopefully one day, he'll be able to go to culinary school and become a chef.
I do consider him my story of 'personal greatness'. And I'm sure it's gonna just get better!!
You sould like a wonderful parent. You were given some tests early one with your son and you dealth with them all with flying colors. I see love here. I am very glad to have read your story. I have the love of two wonderful parents and unfortunatly it took me way to long to show my respect in return for the wonderful job my parents did. You have a good man for a son now and I hope God will bless him with good health during his adult life.
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