We used to use the term “break a horse” when it was time for a horse to be ridden. Break a horse meant that the horse learned to be ridden with a saddle. Now the term is “start a horse”....
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I call it the leaky faucet style of leadership. I have always been amazed at the leaky faucet and bucket dynamic. You put a bucket under a leaky faucet. Each drop of water seems almost meaningless. Then you come back...
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They are called “rail riders”. A deck box planter that is designed to hold flowers and stay on the railing of your deck. When our sinking deck was replaced last year, the railing was too wide for my previous hanging...
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My sister called to ask my perspective on Simone Biles withdrawing from Olympic competition. It was not exactly the New York Times calling for my opinion, but at least someone wanted to know my perspective. My sister was asking because...
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  The postman hand delivered my box of memories, Legacybox.com converted 12 horse show videos to one flash drive.   My dad’s early embrace of technology made the flash drive possible. While I was showing, I did not have the vision to...
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Yesterday my long anticipated box from Legacy.com was returned to me. Inside was the treasured flash drive with the dozen horse show videos I had selected. I was so excited. I was not sure what I would see because I...
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I am bravely hosting my first in-person event in what will be 18 months when it happens on August 15. Covid style we will use the atrium of my building so we can socially distance, attendance is limited, and exercises...
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Webster’s defines a distraction as a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Is that ever a good thing? Or is a distraction always a negative? I tell my clients to be observant but not obsessed...
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I make the worst smoothies. They usually are so bad that I only drink them out of stubbornness. I like other people’s smoothies just not my own. I have sought to understand why I make such bad smoothies. I believe...
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“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.” Spencer Johnson the author of Who Moved My Cheese wrote...
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