Welcome to the Motivation To Move Community Forums!
Well Hello!
If this is your first visit to the Motivation To Move Community Forums, Welcome! You are currently viewing our forums as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions. By joining our free community you will be able to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, and more. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so join our community today!
Awesome success for you all who have posted so far! It’s amazing what we can accomplish when we set our minds to it and then take action, isn’t it?
I’ve done a lot this year. I: maintained my 4.0 GPA in graduate school with one semester left to go; learned how exercise progression works, got my personal training certification, gone from 163 lbs to 144 lbs and size 12 pushing 14 to a size 10- nearly 8; written an e-book, set up two websites; learned about the law of attraction and made it work for me, started and maintained a blog, gotten a Facebook account, joined a forum or two; watched my 3 year old become a 4 year old and learn about the joys of preschool and programs; and enjoyed a lasting relationship with my husband which only becomes stronger each year.
I’d say it’s been a good year!
Goals for next year: do the Tour deKota bike ride, graduate, and decide what I’m going to do with myself.
Tom - No videos, but a friend in Florida took a few pictures of me rolling while I was visiting. I have to nag her to send them to me, and I’ll post them here. Your success stories this year are inspirational. You’ve come so far and done so much i can hardly keep up.
Zookie - just keep moving one step at a time, one holiday at a time. You’re doing great and there is more to come.
Carrie - I love your goals, especially the one where you decide what you may want to do. Isn’t it wonderful to have so many possibilities!
Julie - you are always so positive about life, it’s really motivational to see what you have accomplished. You must be an inspirational teacher. Keep moving forward with your career choices. One day it will all come together and you will find something that is both financially rewarding and enjoyable.
Wow, all of your guys’ successes this year makes me feel very happy, honestly. You have all bettered the world by bettering yourselves. The more positive and prosperous we are, the more we see things begin to change all around us. If you think about it for a second, the MTM family is changing the world. Folks from all around are benefiting.
I’m going to carry my small success stories on into 2008.
This past weekend I performed my first “Combat Rescue” while kayaking. This is when you are the primary rescuer when someone capsizes unintentionally (not practice, not fooling around, not playing). It’s a real situation where things have gone wrong and could get worse. My goal last year was to become part of the solution and not be part of the problem. By being the first to respond and was able to help my friend and paddle partner get out of cold water and back into her boat, I took a great step forward at being part of the solution.
New Goal - to be an active participant in the safety committee in our kayak club, and to increase awareness of safe paddling practices.
When paddling, 90% of the time, things go right, it’s the other 10% that will kill you.
My latest success was last Saturday. I assisted in teaching my first kayak class, and also received my first tip as an instructor.
I had forgotten how awkward it felt when I first started learning some of the skills required to maneuver a kayak. I would get tangled up with the paddle. Where do you put this 8’ long thing (to borrow one of Scott’s technical terms) while you are trying to rescue your partner. How do you climb into this very narrow, tippy, boat when you are swimming in deep water. How do you turn this 15 to 17 foot thing that’s attached to your body.
It was very rewarding to see the progress that the students made in such a short time.
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted. It’s been very busy with the launching of our new business. Anywho, over the weekend, while in Las Vegas for some R&R;I achieved my Gold Medal in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. It took longer than it should have, but it is done!
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted. It’s been very busy with the launching of our new business. Anywho, over the weekend, while in Las Vegas for some R&R;I achieved my Gold Medal in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. It took longer than it should have, but it is done!
Hey there, Todd:
Having all kinds of things going on in your world tends to distract most people from their goals; but, you’re showing that you can keep a goal in mind, long-term, and achieve it when time, focus and possibility present themselves. Well done, Sir!
Saturday I taught my first kayak class. It was a kayak basics class, nothing difficult, just taking some people and introducing them to a sport that I love so that they could have fun and learn to stay safe. I used the daily boost to prepare for the class and get myself into a peak state. As part of my planning for the class, I visualized what the class experience should be, people out on the water on a beautiful day having fun… and then did what was necessary to create that experience.
My next class is on Sunday, it’s a Sea Kayak 1 class, a full day that goes into more strokes and rescues. I’ll be doing the same kind of preparation and I’m planning on making it fun and educational for everyone there. I need all the practice I can get before my certification exam next month.
That is so awesome, Paula. I’m so proud of you. You are such a great example of what a great success one can be when one follows the MTM tools true to their heart. Thank you for being such an inspiration for so many of us, myself included.
The April Countdown to Certification. I can’t believe the exam is this month!
Two days of hard paddling in 20 mph winds and rough ocean waters. No chance to practice my roll - I made most of my braces, and a good brace (prevention) is much better than a good roll (cure). Actually I did miss one brace doing a surf landing, set up to roll, got half way up, (enough to breath), then side surfed a wave and landed on the beach before I could finish the roll. We did some rescue practices, and some real rescues. After a long hike from the beach to parking lot with boats and wet gear, we met some hikers who were getting into their cars. They said that they saw us out there, and their main comment was “You Guys are CRAZY!!”
The more I’m out in the rough nasty stuff, the easier things look when it’s calm.
I took my instructor’s workshop and instructor certification exam over the past two weekends. What an experience.
We had a very strong group in the workshop. I felt really glad to be mostly keeping up with the younger, and more experienced paddlers. It also made me very nervous to think that I was going for the same certification. At the end of the workshop I had a list of things to work on at home, but very limited time to actually do the work.
I came so close to calling and dropping out of the exam. I could work hard this summer, and try again in the fall, but then a little voice somewhere told me to just go for it. I had nothing to lose, I don’t need the certification for my work, I don’t need it to paddle and have fun, so I decided to go for it and just enjoy the process. Enjoying the process was hard work, stressful, scary, and very rewarding. At the end of the first day, my stroke videos were excellent.
We had high winds (gale force to be more specific), but I still did my teaching, and made all my rescues and recoveries. I even made all my rolls. Wow, only one more day.
Sunday was another stressful day in rough windy conditions, but I did it!!! I know I’ll never be teaching in the conditions we were in, but I was successful at reuniting a paddler with her boat when she fell out and let go. I got the swimmer up onto my bow, then went backwards to her boat and grabbed it just before the evil instructor was going to push it out of my reach. He kept pulling on it and I just hung on, half in the water. By that point, I was relaxed enough to start laughing.
I’m not done yet, I have homework! I need to teach some classes, and report on what I did, with a critique of how the class went and what I would do different for the next one. I’m going to take at least 2 weeks off from serious paddling and just go out and have fun before I get back into the grind. I’m expecting to have my certification in hand by the end of the summer if not before. Then there will be another GOAL ACCOMPLISHED post.
Now all I have to do is get two more tickets on Southwest so I can come up to San Francisco and take lessons ..... (huh oh, she problably charges alot Kayak lessons!!! )
Congrats! Seriously would LOVE to come up and play with a Kayak in the ocean!
)
