what is your greatest accomplishment in life?

Answer 1

reaching my age

Answer 2

Living.

Answer 3

Finding the way to be on my own side regardless of what messages were coming back to me from the external and internal worlds. Honouring my own reality whether it coincides with anyone elses or not and finding the way to be okay about heprospect of being a complete outsider.

I am not 100% there all the time but have the foundation in place and the way to stay in process.
I feel that mental health difference and resulting stigma gave me the grit to get making that pearl.

Answer 4

It's a long story...

In the late 1980's I had a computer business in Zimbabwe. A colleague was a bit overweight and knew I had an interest in diet and health, because of my vegetarianism, so he asked me to write a diet program that he could put on his laptop and wherever he was in The World, he could have access to a personalised diet plan, including recipes and any other information he needed. Lets say a nutritionist, dietitian and doctor in front of him...

The project started, it was going to be more than just a diet program With different modules it would have many features, an automated Food, Diet and Health System!

Different kinds of diets, for example - an 'explorers diet', one where the weight of food is the most important factor, other than, obviously, providing optimum nutrition, a diet for weight loss, or weight gain, kosher, vegetarian, seasonal, ecological (depending on many factors, i.e. locality, availability and seasonal).

A Nutritional database containing the nutrient content of all raw, processed and cooked foods so you could analyse what you've eaten over a day, week, month, etc. and see what nutrients you're lacking or have in excess, calories too.

On top of this there'd be a catering module. This would allow you to keep stock of the ingredients needed for the recipes and menus in the diet plan or used by restaurants etc. So not only could you have a nutritional analysis of the dish, you could have the cost price for the dish, menu or per person. With today's technology this would include automatic on-line ordering and delivering of food products

Okay, you get where I'm going. As I said, a long story.

I did two years of Nutritional Research. Didn't even start writing the program yet. Went back to the basics, O' Level Biology, basic dietetics, asking questions. Couldn't get all the answers in Zimbabwe, no web, this was the '80's, so we took our research to the Top. University professors, the US Surgeon General, USDA, FDA's chief nutritionist, American and British Dietetic Association, Diabetes and Heart Foundations....

I was starting to understand a lot about food, nutrition, diet and health and had plenty of data to assemble together in a useful bundle and then the bubble burst.

My mates, and partly mine, company went into liquidation. So finances ran out. Not going to get into that. It wasn't my fault! But that was the end of that. I had about five man (sorry people) years of research but no compiled program or anything else that could be produced, put on the shelf and sold.

I didn't know what to do, after a few years of putting all this research material into layman's terms and some sort of order I wrote a manuscript - Nutrition for a Living Planet - I contacted hundreds of publishers, Oxford University Press, Penguin, on and on, but no one was interested, I couldn't get it published. Other than self publishing I discovered you've got to be an expert on the subject and commissioned to write such a thing or be a famous celebrity, otherwise forget it.

A few years passed and the web now started becoming more common. So late '95/96 I blew the dust off, so to speak, unwrapped it and put it on the internet, in the Public Domain.

You see, there is no point in writing something, creating something and not 'publishing' it. No one's ever going to see it. So I learned HTML converted it all from a WordPerfect document into a website and I put it on Geocities.com, it's free. Here's the link -

Nutrition for a Living Planet -
http://www.geocities.com/nutriflip/

It sat there for a few years, I had a guest book, got heaps of responses, it started becoming more and more well known. I added a few more sections, did a bit more work over the years. Then after a few years I bought a domain name and parked it there -

http://www.diet-and-health.net/

It eventually reached the top of google. in almost all searches on diet and heath or related topics. At the moment it's number 5 of about 51,700,000 for diet and health. But these things change, it not always is. A year or so ago it was having thousands of unique visits a day, that's about a million a year or so. It's done well and I'm proud of it.

Okay, I haven't made a million out of it, yet, but to see something that I did, my baby, being one of the best and reaching millions of people in the world, is an amazing thing and I'm chuffed.

Answer 5

Initiating as a Priest of Avalon, a Priest of the ancient British Goddess

Answer 6

this might sound daft but recently the place i work had a test purchaser come in for alcohol (basically the girl was 13 and if i served her with alcohol i would've either had a £1000 fine or six months imprisonment), one of my collegues failed a while ago and it scared every one to tell you the truth. I passed it though and you dont understand how relieving that felt. plus it makes your bosses start to appreciate the work you do.

Answer 7

Admitting that I am not perfect, recognized that I have a foul temper and mean attitude.

I work on my flaw step by step 1st by seeking forgiveness from all the people I have hurt Putting in my best effort to change and let ppl see the real me so they will appreciate and luv me back in return.

Answer 8

being the great mum that i am, with two little girls, and even though i was only 16 when i had my first, im still with the same man eight years on with another baby, have a nice house, car, job and was slated by everyone at the age of 16, so its nice to say "well it turned out fine"

Answer 9

Realizing that the world is crazy and being to get on with life making the most of bad situations and not letting it get to me.

Answer 10

I actually lived long enough to see the birth of my grandchild. Never thought I'd make it!

Answer 11

Graduating from university.