I PASSED MY GROUP KICK ASSESSMENT!!!!!
I want to shout it from the rooftops…I am elated, ecstatic, relieved, proud, and excited, all rolled into one. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect, with all of my frustrations and struggles with Kick since my sister and I began this journey in December (wow, six months sure does fly, doesn’t it?), but was thrilled (and a teensy bit floored) to see the email this afternoon saying:
CONGRATULATIONS! You have passed your Group Kick® Assessment and now join a dedicated, professional and committed team in delivering Body Training Systems® (BTS) programs. Attached are your Group Kick® Certificate of Completion and Assessment.
Becoming a Group Kick® instructor means that you have access to a comprehensive education system to support you and your club in creating WOW! experiences to get more people MOVING!
When I look back at where we began, we’ve both come a long way, and I couldn’t be more proud of our accomplishments and doing this together. Jess posted a great list of things she’s learned from this experience, and I’d echo all of them…and add to that list the ability to be patient. While I may not always appear to wear my “patience pants” (I know more often than not, I can’t find them in my closet!), with Kick, I’ve tried to bide my time, take it day by day and always keep in my mind that the goal – for me – is to pass. Not to *necessarily* get a class, but to pass. I think my sister has struggled with this a little bit more than me because she WANTS a class badly, and that has added more frustration for her, stresssing over that piece, rather than just the passing piece. However, I think most recently, she’s become pretty “zen” about it and I’m proud of her for that, and I’m proud to make her proud, because that makes me happy (could I have said “proud” one more time in that sentence? heh.)
So, I say bring it…bring it ON, whatever the future holds in my Kick career….BRING IT...I’m ready to kick some!!
May 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Congrats! Continue to kick! 🙂
May 26, 2010 at 7:27 pm
thanks CBG 🙂 I shall!
May 26, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I’m proud, proud, proud, PROUD, so effing PROUD of you!!!!! Thank you for being so supportive when I’ve had my non-zen moments, it’s always brought me around and for that, I’m most appreciative! And pretty fitting that you found out first about passing so now you can give me all the good zen vibes you can muster until I hear from BTS! It’s killing me!!!
Signed – Proud-as-hell-Super-Proud-Proud-Proud Fab sister
(I was trying to outdo you in the “proud” dept, did it work?)
May 26, 2010 at 7:31 pm
LOL wait, are you proud? 😉 You’re cute, I am glad to make you proud and I will be SO proud of YOU when you pass – SO PROUD! 🙂
Signed,
proud-as-effin-hell-proud sister!
May 26, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Yay!!! I’m so proud of you! You did it!
May 27, 2010 at 8:08 am
thanks friend! XO!
May 26, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Honestly? I never for one minute had a doubt that you’d pass. You take things head-on…by the horns. My only doubt was whether or not you would mentally freak yourself out. I’m glad this time you got external confirmation of your internal strength and fierceness.
May 27, 2010 at 8:09 am
aw thanks Cindy! You’re right, the mental freak-out is the thing that WAS clearly getting to me. So glad it’s over and done now!!
May 26, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Whoo hooo! CONGRATULATIONS!
May 27, 2010 at 8:09 am
thanks so much!!
May 27, 2010 at 6:49 am
yay! so proud of you!
May 27, 2010 at 8:09 am
thanks Nicki 🙂 XO!
May 27, 2010 at 7:34 am
Congrats girl! I know you’re on cloud 9 right now.
May 27, 2010 at 8:10 am
thanks Heather, I am, I could totally NOT concentrate the rest of the day yesterday!!
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Yay, congrats babe!! 😀
May 27, 2010 at 11:38 am
thanks dear! XO!
May 27, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Congratulations Jolene – I know you worked really hard to get this and pushed yourself outside your comfort zone. well done.
May 27, 2010 at 5:51 pm
thanks so much Mandy…that means a lot, definitely out of my comfort zone, and doesn’t feel nearly as scary as it did last December!! Have a fantastic vaca btw!
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