October is Passion Awareness Month
Have you ever worked in a job you hated? A few years ago that was me, dreading work every morning, feeling miserable and tired. And one day I realized I was the only thing holding myself back, I was the only thing keeping me from my passion. I then made the decision to start my own business so eventually I could quit that job.
I had a very rough beginning and worked hard through the tough times. I learned a ton, found support in friends, family and even other passionate people I didn’t even know when I started and little by little have gotten to the point of living and doing what I love. I found and followed my Passion, which just happens to be helping people like me find and live their passion, whatever that may be.
If you aren’t passionate about what YOU are doing, now is the time to change that.
October is Passion Awareness Month.
Take three minutes to watch this remarkable Flash presentation that will inspire, uplift and prepare you to celebrate International Passion Day by rekindling the passion in you, your friends and family, and the world.
Also, check out other links for finding your passion at My Passion Test
If passion is something you are seeking in your life and you would like to have accountability and increased forward movement from someone you can trust call me right away for a free coaching session and start your path to passion today.
Have a passion filled day,
Kerri Wood,
Life Coach
www.adventureon.net
253.238.0877
WoodLanding Retreat Center on Hood Canal
Woodlanding Retreat Center is a house that has been remodled to be a cozy retreat center able to host small retreats up to 12 people. It is located in a small beach community on beautiful Hood Canal in Northwest Washington State. Please call 253.238.0877 if you are interested in hosting your own retreat or want to attend one. For more information on the area check out the article in the Seattle Times below.
Hood Canal: nature on the half-shell
It’s one of Washington’s hidden jewels, a fishhook-shaped natural fjord dividing the Olympic and Kitsap peninsulas. It’s a deep breath, a moment of silence. That place you want to run to, to get away from it all? It’s the Hood Canal.
Seattle Times Article on Hood Canal
See you soon at one of the many retreats!
Kerri L. Wood
Adventure Retreat Coach
www.adventureon.net
Your Art Your Life: Make your life a work of art.
Your Art Your Life Retreat a huge success.
Last weekend a group of amazing women got together for a watercolor and life coaching retreat in Lilliwaup Washington on scenic Hood Canal. This event taught basic watercolor skills in addition to group coaching sessions that answered questions like “what are you tolerating?” and “I have always wanted to…” Free time activities included boat rides, kayaking, hot tubbing, and just plain relaxing. This was a completely catered event and even included a on site wine tasting from Walter Dacon Winery. Ages ranged up to a youthful 70 years old.
All in all an amazing weekend of learning, self-growth, new friends and wonderful atmosphere.
Sound like something fun? Wish you could have gone? Good news there are more of these events coming up.
Two events in November:
Your Art, Your Life: Make Your Life a Work of Art
Watercolor Painting and Life Coaching Retreat
Saturday November 1st - Monday November 3rd
Winter Oasis: The Calm Before the Holiday Storm
Life Coaching Retreat
Friday November 7th - November 9th
For more details and information check back here on my blog the next couple days or contact Kerri at (253) 238-0877 or kerri.wood@adventureon.net.
Have an AdventureFULL day,
Kerri L. Wood
Life Coach
Dreams and Accomplishments
Hello! Hello!
Just wanted to share with you a quick update as things have changed once again. I AM still writing and creating Ebooks. I am still a Coach. Now here’s where things have changed. I am no longer teaching Coach Certification Courses. I began to lose my passion for why i got into coaching in the first place. I noticed this most when i decided to do a coach cert course as a weekend retreat. I began to feel so much excitement and desire to work on it when retreats came into the picture. Doing adventure coaching retreats has ALWAYS been my ultimate goal in my business and i finally realized that i don’t have to work up to being able to do retreats, i can start them now. So i have rewritten my business plan and model and now do my own retreats, retreats with other coaches and also, offer my retreat center to others to use for thier retreats.
Future retreats:
Women’s Watercolor and Personal Growth Weekend September 2007
Beginner and intermediate watercolor lessons paired with coaching sessions taking place in the great outdoors (depending on weather) surrounding the beautiful retreat center located in Lilliwaup, Wa on Hood Canal (Puget Sound).
Women’s Wealth Weekend TBD
Gain confidence in money managment, investing and building your own wealth and financial freedom.
More to come soon!
Contact me with any questions you have regarding attending or hosting/cohosting a retreat.
Have an AdventureFULL day,
Kerri Wood
253-238-0877
I am a co-author and writing ebooks
Hello all,
I don’t know about you, but i really have a passion for writing and a lot of information to get out about self improvement. I’ve always wanted to get something published (which i now am a co author for a self improvement book coming out later this month… but that’s a whole other topic) and ebooks are the quickest easiest and cheapest way to produce a product other people can get for free or you can have them pay for it. I’ve done tons of research on finding ways to not only learn to write a good ebook or report but also how to sell it and create a web page for it. I’ve paid lots of money for some information and gotten some for free. Now i would like to share with you the one ereport that not only helped with the “cover”, the title, writing, length and even provides scripts for easily creating your own web page to sell it. Feel free to check it out. If you like it, get it and run. If you don’t like it, no worries, you don’t have to get it and if you do get it and decide you don’t like it… by all means you can ask for a full refund. I just really want you to have the opportunity to write and sell an ebook like i did.
It’s a seriously awesome information packed report.
Check it out: Ereport on writing and selling an Ebook
Have an AdventureFULL Day,
Kerri
When it happens… it happens!
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein
I’d just like to start out by saying hello… i’ve missed you all! Do you ever find yourself wondering how life gets in the way? Somehow, while we are doing our best at living our lives we can only manage to get in the way of ourselves. Well that is what happened to me the past month or so and now i am going to change it. No more getting thrown of MY track by ME! We all know that at times we are our own worst enemy and i’m here to face myself.
Tripped, whacked and/or smashed
So what do we do when life throws a pebble in our rollerblade wheel and flings us across the pavement? We get back up… keep rolling… and look so hard for those pebbles that we run into a lamp post (or the postal carrier..oops). Sometimes i find myself in situations similar to this where i’m so focused on one thing that i SMASH (at times somewhat painfully and completely lacking grace) into something else. This is when i casually step onto the grass, get my bearings set again and keep going. I don’t stop because i fell… and then tripped… and then smashed something. I get back in there with a new vision. I stop looking so hard for the pebbles, lamp posts and postal carriers (but i do keep them in mind for future reference) and look at the whole picture. Sometimes it’s smooth sailing and other times i have to slow it down and break it into smaller, more managable sections.
Getting back up
It’s hard to keep getting back up and throwing yourself back out there, but keep doing it anyway. Find a new way, use an old way or borrow someone else’s way, but just get back up. For example, I was doing a pretty good job blogging and writing articles and newsletters and then those “pebbles and lamp posts” (probably put there by me) threw me to the ground. I stopped blogging and writing, working on my website and even networking. What i did to get back into was make a decision! A few minutes before i started writing this blog i was sitting at my computer thinking about how i hadn’t been doing the things i wanted to do and really enjoy doing. I was thinking about how i missed it and wanted to do it again. So i did it! I opened up my blog and started typing. Hoping that i am not the only one who gets in my own way and hoping even more that you would want to read about how i overcame it. And maybe even inspire you to get back on your track of building your health, changing a lifestyle, learning and growing or whatever you want to do. Don’t let yourself take another moment to think about how you COULD be writing again, just start writing. That’s how i got back on track. I’ve started a movement and i’m creating momentum. There are many many ways to get back on track and pick yourself up. This is just ONE way. Find what works for you. Try different things until you find something that really helps you out and remember it for the next time you fall off track.
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
So keep your chin up (blood dripping from your faceplant) and roll down the road again. You may have to get some stitches or a cast, but just think of the great stories you’ll have to tell.
Have an Adventurful Day,
Kerri Wood
Life and Fitness Coach
www.adventureon.net
What do you tell yourself?
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
- William Shakespeare
Lately I have really been listening to what people are saying to themselves. I have always found it fascinating to learn how people work on an individual basis. This listening lead me to notice how absolutely rude, mean and unforgiving people are TO THEMSELVES. Everyone knows we judge ourselves more harshly than others would judge us and also more harshly than we would just those others around us. But when it gets to the point where there is hardly a positive thought in your head, it becomes a problem. People don’t always notice what they are saying. Do you know what you say to yourself on a regular basis? Have you ever paid attention to that little voice in your head? I have been listening to tapes and reading books and researching this topic. What you say inside your head ultimately decides what happens outside your head, that good ol’ self-fulfilling prophecy we have heard so much about. It doesn’t have to be a negative prophecy we fulfill. If we are talking and believing in the positive then we will live out that positive prophecy. Now your next question might be, “Well that’s all good and stuff, but how do you change something you have been doing all your life? And what if you really don’t believe what you tell yourself?” First off, you’ll never know what will happen and nothing will change if you don’t at least give it a try. And not just for a couple days.
What’s your self-talk?
First you need to start out by listening to yourself. What ARE you saying between those ears? This make take you a few minutes to notice or a few days, but really pay attention to it and learn to hear yourself. If you don’t know it’s there, you can’t change it.
Acknowledged! Now change
Now that you can hear your inner talking and have acknowleged it you are well on your way to a much more positive world. Whenever you catch yourself saying something negative, stop and change that thought into a positive one. For example, if you hear yourself say “I can’t accomplish this it’s too hard, why even try?” You should reword into something like “This will be hard to accomplish, but i can do it!” Or “What can i do or where can i get help to make this even more possible.” Also, make sure your new comments don’t use negative words. For example, instead of saying “I am not a failure.” Say, “I am a winner.” There is some research out that says the brain doesn’t “hear” words like NOT, it just hears FAILURE. So use positive words. Erase words like can’t completely from your vocabulary. Just because something is hard, doesn’t make it impossible.
Repetition is key
Keep rewording your self talk over and over. Even if at first you don’t actually believe it. Repeat the positive thoughts in your head. You can even write them out on paper and post them places you will see it often. Repeat it when you are driving, brushing your teeth or waiting in line. If you are somewhere you don’t mind talking outloud, repeat it to yourself outloud! If you keep doing this, you will begin to believe AND achieve the positive and successful things in life you always doubted in your own mind before.
“The only real limitations on what you can accomplish are those which you impose on yourself.”
- Unknown
This isn’t going to be a quick or easy change, but it IS very possible and you will be amazed at how the world around you changes, not to mention the world inside you. To me this is a very important thing to accomplish if you want to change your health into a lifestyle (as well as the rest of your life). If you don’t tell yourself you can accomplish your goals and don’t believe in yourself, you won’t make the progress to a healthy lifestyle, it will still be a daily task. You are a winner! You are beautiful! You are intelligent! You are witty! You are loved and lovable! You are fit and healthy!
Love yourself daily and you will love those around even more.
If you want to be apart of a group or recieve individual coaching on topics like this or would simply like to learn more go to www.adventureon.net
Kerri Wood
Life and Fitness Coach
www.adventureon.net
Making Health a Lifestyle
Dwell in possibility. - Emily Dickenson
To be truely healthy and fit you need more than just exercise. You need more than just eating the right foods. You need more than just to quit smoking, drinking or drugs. Doing just one of those things will help, but unless you add more changes you will only get so far. You could quit drinking but still be obese. You could eat well and exercise but still smoke. Neither of those are healthy. To be truely healthy you must make it a lifestyle change. It’s a change for the better for your lifetime. Sounds huge, I know! But it is something YOU can accomplish. You just have to start small. Switch out one habit and replace it with another. When the new habit is set move on to the next. So how do we create a new habit?
Making a lifestyle change (habit):
First choose a habit you wish to start doing frequently or daily. Next choose a habit similar or opposite you would like to stop doing. For example: You want to start drinking more water and you want to stop drinking sugary drinks and soda pop.
New habit: Drink water
Old habit: Drink sugar drinks
Next you are going to practice the new habit. Make a plan as to how many sugar/other drinks you are going to switch out for the water. For example: I drink sugar drinks 5 times a day. For at least 3 of those drinks i will switch in water. Throughout the day you will make a conscious effort and switch a minimum of three waters in place of sugary drinks. Monitor your progess daily. It takes about 30 days to form a new habit. If you slip up a day or two, it’s ok, just get right back to it.
And finally comes the CELEBRATION!! When you succeed in forming your new habit of drinking water you should celebrate. Get yourself a gift or go for a special treat that doesn’t go against all the hard work you just did.
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Now that we can create new habits and change old ones we have the stepping stones to start making lifelong changes in our health. What’s one thing YOU can Do today to start making your health a lifestyle?
You can join your friends, make your family apart of it, take classes or try group coaching to help you get where you want to be!
Start your adventure TODAY!!
Kerri Wood
Life and Fitness Coach
www.adventureon.net
Life is what you make of it.
“Most people are neither for you or against you, but rather are thinking about themselves.” - John Gerdner
It’s been an interesting year so far. January is almost finished and I find that it has been a month of set backs and trials. Not just for me, but for many people. For me the “bad luck” started the very first hour of the very first day of this year. I’m pretty sure I am just getting the bad out of the way so the rest of my year is the most amazing ever. I have never had a month so filled with downers and I step back and look at my life and know that it’s amazing. Filled with so much good and so much love! My darkest days are bright in the eyes of so many people in this world. Even people that are so close to me they are practically family. So here is what I have to say about all these “unhappy” times. Keep your head up and massage your scarred hearts. Show love and choose happiness. It won’t be easy and it will hurt at times, but you have to keep going and more importantly look for the positive. Some of the best things in my life have come from the worst disasters. I am a strong believer in things happening for a reason. What can you learn and where can you grow from what has happened? What new doors or openings will you find in your life with these changes? Where are you freed to do things you thought you never would or could? What will you make of your life?
“Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.” - Eileen Caddy
Kerri Wood
Life and Fitness Coach
www.adventureon.net
Motivations and Plans
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
–Dale Carnegie
As you know, it is a new year! The year 2006! Every year more than 90% of americans come up with New Year’s resolutions. Most of them never start even start thier goals, a few start but never finish or follow through and even fewer yet accomplish what they set out to do. So why do so many people fail before they even start and so few people make thier dreams come true? Motivations and Plans! Every one of the people who have New Year’s resolutions have the ability to accomplish what they set out to do. Some people find the motivation to start, but can’t finish. Others have a plan but no motivation to follow it. Others do neither. Those who succeed have a well laid out plan and the motivation to make it happen.
What is YOUR motivation?
Everyone has something different that motivates them. Some people have heart problems or diabetes. Some people want to share a healthy life with thier kids or family. Others are working towards a race or end product. Motivational stories and quotes can help inspire and drive people also. Whatever it is, in any area of your life, you need to find YOUR motivation. You need to Explore YOUR world within! Once you find your motivation, it’s not automatically easy to do what you need to do. You may need to put up motivational reminders or carry with you something that brings out what inspires you. Constant daily reminders. Take time in the next few days and dig inside yourself and find what you motivation is to accomplish your New Year’s resolutions.
Make yourself a PLAN!
Now that you are motivated, you need to make a plan. A fitness plan, a nutrition plan, a financial plan, a personal development plan etc. Whatever your goal is you need to have a plan. A map to how you are going to accomplish what you want. This should be written or typed and laid out in simple easy steps that keep you heading towards your goal. One way to create a plan is to start with your main goal and break it down into easy action steps or smaller goals.
For example If you want to lose 5lbs your goals could include:
Then for each goal you can make a checklist of what you need to do to accomplish those goals:
Join a gym:
__ List what i want in a gym (personal training, pool, spa, classes etc.)
__ Research gyms in my area
__ Go in to gym for tour/talk with sales department
__ Join gym
And you would do this for all of your goals leading up to the main goal. All of your goals should have a due date so you are keeping a good pace at working towards your resolutions or goals. They should be measurable. Instead of saying i want to look better word it in a way where you will KNOW when you have accomplished it. I want to wear a size 6… or i want to lose 5lbs. Both of those can be measured and you will know exactly when you reach it. Your goals should also be realistic. A goal of being president of the United States next year if you are not old enough or have no experience is an unrealistic goal. A goal of being president of the United States by the time you are 55 is much more realistic. Set yourself up for seccess, make small steps in the right direction at a reasonable pace and you will succeed. If you make a mistake or fall down, it’s ok. Just pick yourself back up, learn from it and keep going.
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
If you need help on making a plan or finding your motivation, you are not alone. You can join groups like Fitness From the Inside Out or you can get one on one coaching to help you get there faster. The most elite athletes in the world have coaches. The most successful and influential business people have coaches also. Both of those groups know a lot about the areas they work in, but know the value of having a team working with them and for them to help them get where they want to be. Find your motivation, make a plan and take action! Your dreams and goals ARE within your reach. Don’t give up and it’s always nice to have a little help!
Kerri Wood
Life and Fitness Coach
www.adventureon.net
