What's the smartest decision you have ever made in... - Page 5

patbz · ‎03-10-2010

After I graduated from college in 1966 I took a chance by leaving Washington. DC and taking a Government job in Germany. Thus began a lifetime of Government jobs and world travel.

Katyq · ‎06-10-2015

Stopped drinking. Alcohol, that is...

Ha d to edit to add the decision to quit smoking.

Thanks for asking this. I've been feeling bad about not exercising and not eating great, but these are two really hard things that I made the decision to do and did. (Smoking took several tries but it has been 8 years) Makes me feel better about myself and if i could do those things, I surely can give up sugar (excessive) and being a couch potato.

Plus I love hearing about everyone else's great life changing decisions!

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

Not accepting a marriage proposal when I was 27. Several months later, I had good reason to believe that had I accepted, I would have lived a barefoot & pregnant life. Dodged that bullet!

fourpaws56 · ‎03-04-2015

buying chunky peanut butter instead of creamy...

Shorty2U · ‎03-09-2010

Qutting smoking!

And....

To move out of the city to the country. The city I was from was nice, but now it is (sadly) a dump. I will always be a city girl at heart and miss the "old" city. But it was for the best.

(I know you said no marriage/ but I also got remarried then too, to my 2nd husband and thus we live in the country).

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make~ The Beatles

Blahblahvampemer · ‎08-31-2010

Personally: Not getting married or having kids.

Financially: Not buying that second home last year.

Emotionally: Getting the weird people out of my life. When they reveal themselves, I now listen.

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qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

This has been a very good thread! So nice to see all the personal success stories. I really like to see how everyone for the most part, worked so hard. Neat to see all the continuing education p.osts too. It's so important. Also, all who did it themselves for themselves and what they discovered in themselves of just what they are/were capable of doing. Bravo!

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

Probably the best and smartest for me was not buying into the idea that every female's goal in life was to snag a husband and have kids after being told by the so called guidance counselor in Catholic highschool that as I matured I would change my mind. I stayed true to my beliefs and never married nor had kids. I have a wonderful 30 year committed relationship with my boyfriend and many of my friends got trapped in unhappy marriages for the kids' sake.

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

Well, my answer might get pulled if the moderator thinks it's too controversial, but the best/smartest decision I've ever made in my entire life was to accept God's gift of eternal life by receiving Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was just 10 yrs. old. Because I did, I entered into a personal relationship with Christ which has been the foundation on which I have made other important decisions throughout my life.

violann · ‎03-10-2010

I made my life's best decision for terrible, ridiculous reasons, and I've been grateful to my Higher Authority EVER SINCE.

My mom and dad paid for my first degree, in performing arts, and I got a paid teaching job in that field before I had even finshed my degree.

I immediately found myself in a position in a dead end school who kept "specials" only to cover the off duty periods of the classroom teachers.

On the Wednesday night of Thanksgiving vacation I was watching TV, and got very interested in the movie Johnny Belinda, with Lew Ayres and Jane Wyman.

All weekend long, I thought about how rewarding and i teresting it could be to become a teacher of the deaf and hearing impaired.

The following MONDAY I walked into one of the schools in which I was teaching, and found confronting me on the Main Hall bulletin board a posting for a state fellowship for masters' level work in special education in several categories.

Teacher of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired was one of them.

The fellowship was amazing, and I went on to get my MA and do post grad work in the field.

I never wanted for a job and was able to schedule my work so seamlessly that one of my sons didn't know until he was an adult that I'd woked through his whole childhood.

EDUCATION, whether by formal schooling OR life experiences, is ALWAYS the key......