Have you ever 'changed your life'?

Have you made some major decisions about your life and completely changed?
I'd love to hear some inspirational stories please!

Answers:
nah but i changed my underwear this morning
I've tried many times !
having a baby, that changed my life totally!
yes my life changed after i left my ex husband.and i have a better life now thanks for asking
I tried to be Gay, but failed abysmally. When 'Little Britain' started on TV a certain character undermined my credibilty.
I have, I had clinical depression and was on the verge of losing everything, so I made a huge decision with my husband. We lived in Slough (near London) and decided to move to Plymouth in Devon. There was too many 'ghosts' in Slough that kept coming back to haunt me. 5 years later I was training to be an Admin Manager for a busy department store until I fell pregnant. I am now a mum to a beautiful 8 month old boy. I have so much more confidence now, I am a different person completely.
I really believe that if I had of stayed in slough then i wouldn't be here now. I still go back to Slough to visit friends and family, but I could never move back there.
Yeah.. being single.. now I am married.. I am more complete and happy than before.
yes i have or im about to totally change my life that is i met my fiance zia on UKQnA.com in april i asked a question about my personal life and he answered me with the best answer he said if everything fails then i am here for you then as i got to know him i fell in love with him and him with me and now we are planning to get married and have children but the biggest change in my life that im about to make is next year i am going to move to bangladesh where he lives you know my life is so great at the moment and i love it
Thats what i am trying to do now.. i had got myself into a rut same old thing day and night very boaring.. i used to make a mess to clean up.. i am trying a new way of loking at things not looking at all the negative all the time its hard but i hope i can be my happy bubbly self i used to be after leaving school. always up for anything laughing and just enjoying life its a slow progress but its going to be worth it in the end
Yes, I chose to have a child, get married, divorced, get two dogs, go to college, get a great job, find a sweetie that is a hell of a lot better than my ex, go to hockey games, watch more t.v. & drink a little more beer on the weekends while sitting back admiring all the great things I have accomplished! How bout you?
If you wanted to read inspirational stories I suggest you read Chicken soup
erm. i dont think so. i think i still have the same one..
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yeah i changed my way of gambling too much, and it did changed my life a lot, i'm more at peace with myself and i don't worry too much of where to get the next gambling money i'm going to use because i don't gamble anymore not even the lottery.
I didn't make any major decision, I just realised my perception of things was wrong. It was a growing feeling when I was 17, and when I realised it, it was like a heart-attack. I spent my whole summer vacation (and more) on exploring this, and I changed a lot.
No stories, sorry.
getting out of a 13 year long abusive relationship changed my life forever, in a good way ! I have never looked back and luv my life now !
ya.i used to scared ofmy ownshadow and found it really hard to talk to people. i loved aerobics and working out . so, i decided to become trained to teach fitness and aerobics. it forced me to relate to other people .now, if you were to know me.you'd never know i was that shy, quiet girl. it really helped me to get over it.
i still have to fight my urge to run away from social situations everday, but i have learned to over come something that was quite cripling.
I have made a radical change in my life 5 years ago ,I have become minimalist , that is I have reduced my environment to a minimum !
It is totally liberating and I am the happiest bunny on the planet !
I have given up the rat race do less work need less money and get great satisfaction out of the little things in life ,I am so glad I have tried it ! It suits me, everybody should try it to see what it is like and if it is acceptable to the individual !
Yes!
I was terrified of failure, so never tried anything I might not succeed in. I cleaned for a living for 12 years.
Then I went to a sign language class just for a bit of fun, kept it up for a couple of years, then my tutor suggested I did an interpreter course at university.
I immediately thought of 100 reasons why I couldn't do it, but for some reason, went ahead and did it anyway.
I've been an interpreter for just over a year now and have never been happier. My life is unrecognisable and I've found confidence for the first time ever.
Just goes to show what you can do if you let yourself just go for it!
Yes, I could write a book on them! Met my farther after 15 years (didn't work out), moved to England from Ireland for eight years and trained to be a nurse (that experience has been an eye opener through things that happened) and now I've moved back to Ireland to be with the man I met through a friend in England. I'm just waiting for the next chapter in the book to happen! Life, it is a book and for others its an encyclopedia
I quit doing insane amounts of hard drugs, and quit drinking excessive amounts of liquor. It wasn't that inspirational though, After a 4 week session of constant partying and being drunk and stoned out of my gourd every day and night my heart went into overdrive and I thought I might be having a heart attack. Turns out I wasn't, I was reaching the limits of human endurance for drink, drugs, and lack of sleep. Anyway, after sleeping for 38 hours straight, I woke up and thought, this has got to stop. Haven't touched it since, only remain friends with two of the old crew, and only have the beer now, and not very often. You would be amazed at how fast you lose "friends" and your bank account grows when you don't party like a rock star. I think I'm better for it.
I was living in Sth Wales and I always fancied a move so I quit my job, packed up and moved to Manchester. I knew one person when I moved there and literally started from scratch.
I was 40 years old. I was in love with a woman who wass also of my age. She was divorced. She offered herself for permanent relationship. Although I was already married and had two kids, yet decided to accept the woman as my wife. We married and we are still living as a good couple. In just moment I changed my married life which is a blessing.
I have made one of the most importand decisions that changed my life for the better.

I was in a long term relationship (9yrs) with a man who i'd been with since i was 17, we had 2 children. I was working FT and he wasn't. 1 was in FT education and the other was due to start PT. I didn't ask him to get a job, just that he did the house work, which he never did. So i was not only working FT but when i got home i was cooking and cleaning. I tryed the dont do the pots, he'll do them method but he never did.

After 5 yrs of i'll change and help or i'll get a job. I decided i'd had enough. I was in love a some one else (a close friend) who didn't know how i felt. I told him how i felt but he just clamed up and diserpeared for a week.

I told my current parnter that it was over and he was to leave after christmas for the kids sake. The friend came back and I asked him again if he liked me the same way that i liked him and explained that there was no chance that i was staying with my current partner. Eventually he told me that he did feel the same way about me.

We got married this year and have been together nearly 2 yrs, we have a lovely son and the other 2 are doing better now, behaving and getting everything they need. My only consern during this time were the kids, not myself. But if a cupple are not happy then niether are the kids.

I took a chance and found love with a fantastic man, I still work FT and he looks after the 2 kids and 1 baby (ages 9yrs, 6yrs and 10 month), but i hardly do anything in the house. He cooks and cleans exept for the weekends, that when he get a break.. lol
Yes, going on two aid missions to Romania in 1990 and 1991 and seeing how people struggled to live, and so many children begging on the streets. You have to see this and be there to truly believe it. All though we took van loads of mixed aid not one bit of it was stolen by those often desperate people, For the most part it was the Christian churches that went there with the aid. Coming back home made me relise how much we really had. My experiences lead me to becoming a Christian, therefore changing my life, that is what being 'born again' means, it is often misunderstood by others. Thank you for your question
I left my girlfriend of ten years, the house we had been living in and my job all in one week. Almost immedately I became homeless, got assaulted in a park, spent time in hospital, suffered a complete breakdown and tried to kill myself.

I was "saved" by going to live in a community where I looked after chickens, met similar people, some who had been homeless for 20 years, and started to get help and support in a completely different environment. I only had 1 bedroom to myself, this computer and the clothes I had saved from my separation but I quickly found that I didn't need anything else of my own to be happy. All the "stuff" I had owned before only made me want more. The less I had, the greater pleasure I started to get from more basic things.

Now, two years later, although I can not work yet because of the damage I caused myself in those years, I live on basic benefit in a small rented house with a new girlfriend, the best thing in my life, and I am rediscovering the things that used to give me pleasure when I was young. I just can't stop reading and learning things. Stuff that had passed me by completely while I was competing in the workplace to prove I was better than I really was.

I don't recommend going through what I did before you decide to make a change. But, I do recommend that you remember this: almost anything you decide to do in life can be undone if it doesn't work.

Although I still have a lot of things to sort out in my life, I am so glad I did not die two years ago.
YES!! I've actually got a couple different stories, but the most major change in my life that occurred do to my own choice was when i was 25 years old and going through a divorce because i had cheated on my husband. Obviously their were a few other happenings goin on in my life at the same time, but it was then that i realized i had no clue what i stood for as a human being, i never really had any real values or morals that i actually stood by. I scared myself at what i was capeable of doing and being guilt free. "no concience" I will never forget the hollow feeling in my gut when it dawned on me that basically i had no idea who i was,..I just WAS. I got out a notebook and had to literrally make lists, first i started with what i wanted my morals to be,(cuz i had none) then values and then set a couple small goals that i wanted to actually achieve for once in my life. I promised myself that i would follow my list and stand by it. For example, I decided that i wanted to be honest and i wanted to be known to others as very trustworthy and honest. (cuz at that time, my word meant nothing to nobody, not even myself) Thru alot of trial and error and determination, after a couple years, i realized that I actually became the person that i wanted to be. I didnt/dont even have to try anymore! I actually became the person that I put on the list that i wanted to be. Fake it till you Make it!
This may take a while.but never mind loads of answers before mine so no pressure to be number 1! lol

Ok, here we go. On 30th June this year I was diagnosed a type 2 diabetic. My life for the last 18 years or so has been sedentary, I have not been working (bringing up my family and ill health), I had piled on loads of weight and was eating very badly. I felt sorry for myself! When the diagnosis was made it was a huge shock although I did know that I was at risk but like many people my mind was in the set of "It wont happen to me"! When I had got my head around it I knew what I wanted to do.change my life and turn a negative into a positive. I did a turnout of the freezer and cupboards when I got home from the doctors and the dogs had all the burgers, nuggets and other junk food with their evening meals for the next couple of days. I stocked up with healthy foods and bought lots of fruit and veg. I planned my diet to firstly control my blood glucose levels and to secondly lose weight. I did the first very well, in fact I went too far the other way and my diabetic control medication was halved. I started to feel much better in myself as my control improved. I lost weight (so far since 1st July I have lost 63 lbs). Because I feel so much more lively and dont want to sleep all the time I have started looking for a full time job and I am training to become a volunteer with a local charity. I am exercising every day, brisk walks so far, not got as far as the gym yet but will do as I lose more weight.
Thats about it in a nutshell, my life is totally unrecognisable to what it was 6 months ago!
Yup!!
Was engaged to be married to my fella of 6 years, i lived with him for four, we were due to be married in july.

I came home one monday in january and lokked at him and felt nothing, just like that, I told him it was over and moved out on the
saturday! talk about not messing around blimey!(he was an idiot by the way, he spent more time in the pub and round his mates than at home, i wasnt just being a *****!)

Now im footlosse and fancy free and am moving abroad in a few months, am just finalising the move and property now, im only 27 and habe all my life ahead of me. I have opnly one life so would like it to be a happy one, im sick of putting everyone else before me and am gonna be a little bit selfish, and so far its been one hell of a rockin year! Ive been working in Greece and Tenerife, Ive got a job over here that is just brill and allows me to work abroad,
Ive tons more money, im never stressed, ok so im a bit of a party animal now and large it every weekend, im hs ving the time of my lilife! Im single and just lovin it, I plan to stay this way!
Yes! I was in a rut and living in northern Scotland. I started an internet relationship and left everything to move to London. I quit my boyfriend, my job and my flat. I packed everything into one suitcase and took a one way flight to London. I arranged a flat over the internet and had never even seen it until I arrived there. It was fabulous. The internet relationship didn't work out but soon after I met my husband at the brilliant job I had. Now I've been in London 8 years and love it. Everyone said "you can't just up and leave!" but I proved you can.
Sort of. Earlier this year I quit my job and came to a realisation that I've known all my life: I get nothing from Western culture. I used to go to work, come home and sleep, that's it. I never used to spend any money, it just used to pile up in my account. The interminable grind of 9-5 was driving me insane. One day I just walked in and quit. I now realise the West doesn't want you if you're not going to play by its rules - you'll be spat out of society and live your days in pariahdom. Great, hm?
Yes, I did. When I was 17 I was completely down, trying to commit suicide until I was 21. Some help of psychiatrist, a lot of work on myself, a lot of meditation, lonely walks to the mountains, forests, and all these and a strong will have put me back on my feet. From that days on, I have been down, there were many downs (no job, no social support for a year and half), but this has never put me down to where I was. For me it is definitely like drawing a line. Also my family was one factor that was affecting me much, now I am 'alone', and my family does not and cannot in no way affect me anymore. Anyway my family has completely slitted, so I feel I have no roots anymore. But I am strong, I know and I am aware where I am coming from and have learnt a lot form past experiences and do not allow myself to go back where I was. I look only and only into the future.

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