At what age do you think you turned your life around for the better and what was the turning point/execution?

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1. Became more financially secure when I got my VA disability to 100%

2. 18 – Moved out on my own and took control of my life!

3. The point where I started doing things because I wanted do them and not because my parents wanted me to do them. I was 23 and it was a series of realizations about my life to that point.

4. Late 20s for me. Met a good girl who is an overachiever who later became my wife. Had to step up my game to be worthy.

5. 28 was the start. Took a breakup after 9 years to shake the comfort zone. Lost 90+ lbs, started taking career seriously, quit drinking and other bad habits, learning became a priority, etc.

6. 24- moved out.

7. 22 – Was doing the best physically, mentally, emotionally, etc.

   Then I got a bad girlfriend, everything went completely backwards and I essentially went into the negatives from where I started.

   Now I’m 26 and I’m getting back into it. So 27 I’ll be fantastic again.

8. 21

9. My 20s, in retrospect, were awful. I came into my self in the 30s and now and 42 I still feel on the upswing.

10. 25 – got dumped by my college girlfriend on a Monday, and got laid off from my job that Friday.

    Had no choice but to reinvent myself and start new.

    Best/worst week of my life.

11. Getting to college and changing from studying everything (high school curriculum) to studying mostly the stuff I care about (my major) was the single biggest change in life quality. So, about 18.

12. Late 20s, had a major injury that ended my career, and my wife at the time took off because she couldn’t handle it, so I went off on my own, made sweeping changes to my lifestyle, and now I’m big into fitness, starting a new line of work that makes me happy, and just loving life on my own.

13. When I got a job, and had my own apartment.

    Didn’t realize how much it sucked to live with roomies, until I lived alone.

    So when I was 25.

14. 26, i stopped allowing people in to my life, tomorrow became something i knew what would happen with no odd mentally life changing events that effected me for months in a negative way

15. 18

16. The best lessons are learned when you lose something you took for granted. In my case, I was not putting enough effort in College so my parents decided to pull the plug and I had to start working instead. That made me realize (in my early 20s) that I was an immature kid and after working hard for a couple of years I went back to College and graduated as an Engineer.

17. 37. Took the plunge to get back into teaching. It meant substituting and working my ass off to get recommendations, while bringing my credential up to date. It was scary, and humbling, and literally every part of my life got better after I started. I had spent the better part of a decade languishing after my divorce and to finally face my fears to move forward.

18. Well, hitting rock bottom was at 25 when I dumped my fiancee and lost my job the same weekend. I had very few friends or hobbies left because the job required tons of travel and suffocated my social relationships.

    From there I found a job and got settled there.
    Then I re-established some old friendships and realized I had too much baggage to restart dating yet.
    I’ve rediscovered how to have hobbies and to some degree get to know people, while working on my baggage.
    Still haven’t really recovered romantically, but in taking time away from dating it dropped *waaaaaaaay* down my priority list and is only now getting back into my top 10 priorities.