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Jennifer Peek Jennifer Peek thrill seeker. mud pie maker. groover.

Jennifer Peek is the founder of Find Your New Groove, mentoring women entrepreneurs to design and build businesses that reflect their purpose, passion, and priorities while embracing a sense of adventure. [http://findyournewgroove.com]

When I was a young child, my adventures were preparing elegant mud pies, hiding in a tree house amongst the leaves, and watching the cows just below me.

The idea of adventure morphed and changed over time. It became about going and doing.

The seventh grade trip to Washington, D.C., with the Girl Scout troop. The family car vacation to Colorado. Church camp, high school band trips, and college spring breaks.

As I’ve gotten older, adventure has morphed and changed again. It’s became about growing and changing. It’s became internal.

The collapse of an engagement. The ensuing personal breakdown and rebuilding of my spirit, my faith, and my self-portrait. The marriage, the kids, the business start-up.

My definition of adventure has come full circle. I want my kids and our family to go and do, but it’s not just about travel. I want adventure for us because it’s a way to experience and expand, individually and as a family. It’s a way to test our limits, build our inner strengths, and learn to rely on the kindness of strangers.

Adventure can show up every day. It’s asking people in another country for the time because your cell phone doesn’t work and you don’t wear a watch. It’s leaving the corporate job and starting your own business. It’s finishing the first 5K with your daughter, teaching your son how to fish, and watching your husband wakeboard.

Adventure can also hide and tease. It’s sneaky and evolving. It can bury itself so deeply that you only see the household chores, the tedious family car trips, and the seemingly endless array of things to be done for the business. An amazing vacation can offer adventure in the form of flight delays, rainy weather, and interesting food.

I choose to see my life as an adventure. Each action I take can bring me closer to who I want to become and how I want to live.

Or not.

– Jennifer Peek

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