Have you ever accomplished something yourself that you originally thought was impossible for you?

[dustybiker]

It’s easy to underestimate ourselves. Have you ever accomplished something that surprised you? You just thought you would try it, or maybe even been talked into something, and it worked?

I dug my own water main out by trench shovel. Something all the neighbors hired a tractor for when theirs went. Never really thought I could finish. 2-3 hours a day for three weeks + lots of life distractions. I give all the credit to taekwondo fitness and technique striking the shovel.. and a lot to being stubborn. lol

[DonkeyDan]

I don't know I'm that kind of annoying person that can turn my hand to anything, and few things ever phase me. Having said that, at my last house that I lived in with my ex wife, I built my own full brick extension, I had a builder mate come round and get me started on the basics, never layed a brick in my life until that point. Didn't think I'd be able to finish it on my own, and I'd have to call him back to bail me out. But I finished the lot myself, except gelp with bits that needed 2 people, and it passed building regs with flying colours, was so please with myself, but I'm never doing it again!

[dustybiker]

👏 Well done! And I share your sentiments. lol

[DonkeyDan]

Thanks for the MHO ♥️

[dustybiker]

You are welcome. 🧱

[Charliefretz329]

I love your work ethic! You sound a lot like me! I don’t tend to think that there is much of anything I can’t do. But there are some things I don’t like to do at my age lol. I still dig trenches by hand also lol

[dustybiker]

Don’t you have a tractor? I think you are the age I was when I did that. lol Thanks. 😎

[Charliefretz329]

I just got my first tractor, but it doesn’t dig trenches lol. Soon I will retire my back and buy a new one! 😊

[dustybiker]

Ah, good. For now it keeps you buff. 💪

[Charliefretz329]

Lol! I have no shortage of tasks for that! But yes! 😊

[melanieeeB]

No I just assume that I'm going to accomplish something and then I do

[dustybiker]

That sounds like a good gift to have.

[HighlyVolatile]

Not completely impossible but a number of things I thought were extremely improbable. One of my ultimate was the 540 McTwist on a skateboard. It is the trick at 0:25 in the video:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VAyG6ZyU9I0

I fell so many times and got injured so many times until I finally managed to land it. It really seemed almost hopeless that I'd ever get it down. It took me almost 2 years of trying for hours and hours every 5+ times/week: maybe a total of around 10,000 hours of practice doing it over and over like an insane person until I finally landed it.

[dustybiker]

Great! Were you able to keep it up once you figured out the muscle memory?

[HighlyVolatile]

I can still land one but it's not as pretty or as high as in my teens or 20s. I find the muscle memory part we keep for life as with learning to ride a bicycle or doing a backflip. The hardest part is over, but there's a bit of struggle I find with age that makes it hard to do these things as powerfully and gracefully as I once could.

[dovendyret]

Yes, pretty much everything I've done in life - education being my biggest surprise, despite of me always being good at schooling, when my head is in it.

A smaller project: I taught a kid to do push ups and sit ups correctly - only took 4 months AND I lost hope many times during that project. 😅

[dustybiker]

That is adorable. 😊

[dovendyret]

It was more frustrating tbh. 😅 For both him and me but it ended with a sucess for him, so it was a sucess for me.

[Apulu_3]

Yes many things. Few of them are, I always wanted to write songs when I used to write poems only but it seemed so impossible to write a decent song. Now I have written over 20 great songs. I want to be a writer and musician in future. Before I had 0 hopes for it but now there are hopes.

[dustybiker]

You can do it.

[Apulu_3]

Thanks a lot :)

[Apulu_3]

It's due to motivation from people like you that I still have hopes for it :)

[dustybiker]

You are welcome. It’s people with a head on their shoulders, like you, that I notice accomplish things.

[Apulu_3]

Thanks again :)

[CuriousMufuxka]

Congrats! Yes I have in the last year. I got extremely tired of where I was living and moved. It was a 6 month process that I totally didn't plan and had to put most of my things in storage. I didn't look for anywhere to live, which was stupid so I lived in hotels for close to 5 months before purchasing the home I'm in now. So much of that time I felt horrible. "Why did you leave something you had so set up?" Well in the past 6 I've learned for something better.

[dustybiker]

Are you happy now?

And thank you, the digging was I think four years ago now though. : )

[CuriousMufuxka]

I'm content.

[midnightmoon05]

Yeah… I was told that I would be good at business while going to college… I was offered different business opportunities, I turned them down and focused on my college degree. I started my career… all well… again another business opportunity… I took it. Love it. So I now have another passion I have to deal with (running a business)… and my career.
it’s all good.

[ohshee]

I don't really remember but I think it's when I first started to want to walk we all have gone through this so no matter what we do in life our very first success is learning how to walk why would anybody ever I think they cannot do something when all they have to do is look back at what we've gone through how many times we have fallen down how many times we have gotten back up it doesn't matter what we do in life is long as we keep getting back up and keep going forward

[ClaryFairchild26]

Yes off course
I’m not one to read a lot of books but now a days I’m reading a lot of books and it makes my mom proud to see that I’m reading!
Or that I studied at a point in my life but took a break cause realized what I was studying was only 2% of the real thing
I really need to get back to studying

[exitseven]

Yes, I ran a marathon. I used to be a fat kid that couldn't even run a half a mile never mind 26 miles. I trained for a couple of years, and I ran it and finished.

[dustybiker]

I could never do that. Really impressed.

[exitseven]

I finished six of them Now I have a fake hip. Coincidence?

[dustybiker]

Is that cheating? 🤔😁

[dustybiker]

Did you have your hip looked at yet? You mentioned it was bugging you. I know my appointments take more than a month.

[exitseven]

it is feeling better but not back to normal yet. I walk the fine line between training and getting hurt.

[dustybiker]

Marathon mentality.

[exitseven]

yes, there are no ex-marathon runners.

[Mantinziza]

I've given up on a lot of things in my life, but the 1 thing i did manage to pull off was getting my pilot license, its good to have at least one thing.

[dustybiker]

Oh, nice. Congrats! What do you like to fly? 😎 It’s something I always wanted too.

[Aerissa_Jade]

Yes, I learned to be able to touch men again. Never thought that was going to happen but it did with a lot of hard work and the perfect set of situational surroundings.

[dustybiker]

That is big. Thank you for sharing this.

[SaoirseS]

Yes, both physically and mental. Some things people said I couldn’t do I never got the memo and just did them, and sometimes even surprised myself 😀

[dustybiker]

Really glad you were able to prove doubters wrong too!!

[Sasha_Gee]

Being able to land the corkscrew without breaking my neck! Honestly if you put your mind to something, you'll make it work, you can make it work!

[dustybiker]

The flip and spin dance move?

[Sasha_Gee]

the flip!

[dustybiker]

You are awesome!

[Sasha_Gee]

No you are!

[dustybiker]

🤣 We both are!!

[Sasha_Gee]

WOAH HOO!! \o/

[douride2]

I just recently did a total rebuild on my snowmobile motor.

[dustybiker]

This really impresses me.

[douride2]

I had the full shop manual & my brother was around to point me in the right direction if I needed help.

[dustybiker]

Those kinds of brothers are good to have.

[douride2]

Yea well I have 5 of them.

[dustybiker]

Incredibly lucky. I was given a hopeless sister. So I went out and found my own brothers. lol

[douride2]

Good on you.

[dustybiker]

lol didn’t mean it like that. Just remembering wanting them.

[douride2]

Sorry my bad I meant it's good you found some good friends you can count on.

[dustybiker]

All good. Another GaG moment.

[scooogy]

Interpreted enumerable universality as modularity. Considered as a halting problem in computer science.

[dustybiker]

I’ll add a 🤓 to that. Nice!

[ms_and_ms]

I’m trying to lose 10 pounds which right now seems impossible

[dustybiker]

You’ve already accomplished it. Your mind is set. Hang in there.

[CubaPirate]

Yeah I won a 36 hole annual golf competition at my club back in 2018

[dustybiker]

Nice. 😎

[Anonymous]

Yes, going from compulsive thought, to having the ability to have absolutely none for extended amounts of time.

[Zolly99999]

Yes.. I actually surprise myself at least once a week...

[UniquelyBasic]

Nothings impossible for me

[dustybiker]

That’s the spirit!

[UniquelyBasic]

Damn right