This started as a ramble. I have horrible cold. I decided to write. In the end, I get to a valuable and important point…what I know for sure. Hang in with me!
I am feeling humbled by marketing. In the past three weeks we’ve worked very intently to build our list and get the word out about our online program Get Unstuck, Build Your Mojo.
We’ve tried a variety of different approaches. We ran a free training and when our own efforts to market were not as successful as we wanted in terms of attracting new people. We connected to a wonderful Facebook advertising person, who helped us create a new campaign. Good news: we had an amazing response, our largest registration yet for our free training. We actually had to upgrade our software because of the numbers. We were thrilled.
However, due to a crash of Customer Resource Management tool, the emails to ensure all could join the training, did not go out as scheduled. Still, some people made it, but we realized we’d failed the folks who had taken that step and signed up.
We decided to provide an encore training, to make sure we provided those people an opportunity to connect with us live. Long and short of it, not many people showed up for that training. We were disappointed because I believe the training was rich and worth the time. Again, our ROI was low.
In other words – if numbers and sign-ups are the success measure, we failed.
We also tried an Instagram photo contest. Which got me a bit more up to speed and a few folks engaged. But again, not what we had hoped in terms of numbers.
Now moving into the final days before Get Unstuck, I find myself a bit discouraged.
I really like the Get Unstuck program we’ve created, and I know each time we run it, the people engaged share the value they get from it.
However, as a pathway for pulling our tribe and finding our people, I am just not sure what we’re doing is working. It is possible our tribe is finding us AND it is just small. Well – small in numbers – not in heart!
During this time spent marketing, I have enjoyed building new relationships. One with our new Assistant, Allison. Another with Ana and her Facebook team. In addition, all those folks who have signed up, showed up, and participated in the training and took a chance at the Instagram context. I do value all of these connections.
Still, today as I dealing with a bad cold, smokey wildfire weather (since when did this become a regular August event), and not having hit my goal for sign ups for the Get Unstuck – I am bit disheartened.
In the past few weeks, we have also spent a lot of time with some of our corporate clients. We’ve been engaged in few leadership development programs. That too, has played a factor in my disheartened state.
In each situation, we had been bought in because of someone strongly endorsing the programs we designed and delivered to them over a decade ago. In each situation, the impact those programs had on their careers was profound. So when looking for a leadership design team to partner with their current companies they called us.
That’s the good news, which was both humbling and rewarding to hear.
However, even though we were hired because of our passion and commitment to build real relationship and ensure that relationships matter equal to results, we have had to wrestle and witness very high value pieces of our content get taken away or dismissed at the highest levels of these organizations.
For me, this too is incredibly discouraging. I know we’ve done our best not to water down our content. We’ve worked to partner and be honest and real when we did not agree. I’m grateful for that.
But here’s the deal for me and where I am realizing I do have some things I KNOW to be TRUE!
When I was young and launching into my career – I fell. I collapsed and was soon facing cancer instead of rising on my career path. As a result of these health challenges, I spent my early twenties trying to get back up on my feet. My best entrepreneurial efforts were spent rallying my own efforts to turn around my health and creating a road ahead that had a better prediction then 3 to 6 months.
The path that generated the energy and motivation to walk that road was a clear and unwavering desire to be real, show up in relationships, face the differences, and find a way to be ME and build a WE.
That focus gave me the heartbeats and the will, day in and day out, to breath and face the next mountain.
I wonder if I hadn’t had to take that cancer, medical journey then would I have realized that relationships are the foundation of health, wealth and community.
I fear that too many people in their twenties are looking up at super rich or super brilliant entrepreneurs and being motivated by that level of genius and success. I’m not saying that’s wrong, but it is missing something crucial.
I doubt many look at my life and say – wow – I wish I had learned that relationships matter as much or more than results, when I was young.
HERE’S WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE:
No amount of money, business success, or brilliance is as important over time as learning how to relate. Nothing.
Learning to be vulnerable in the face of what life throws at you is way more courageous than being brilliant!
Being curious even in the face of cancer or you version of hell – is much more life-enhancing over time than always winning and getting the numbers right!
This is what I know for sure.
CrisMarie often tells me I don’t say it enough that I do believe I have an answer for whatever ills you. It is true I may not say it in a voice of hubris and over- confidence.
The problem for me is that the answer I offer isn’t easy or certain – it is a path riddled with uncertainty. However, it is a path of tremendous reward.
Get Unstuck as been built on that path. If you are inclined to take a path towards relational health and have the courage to launch yourself into the unknown – may be only with a slither of a dream – join us!
We start on AUGUST 21st!
I am finding that between writing our Life Tidbits Blog and Business Blog, not to mention the writing deadline we are on to get our Couples book out in late October, that my personal blog is just not thriving!
However, I am not sure I want to give it up. For any of you inclined to get regular tips, tools and reflections about our life and work, please go to the thrive website or links above to sign up for one or both of the above mentioned regular releases.
As for this space, I have various thoughts. What I enjoy about this site is that I am often experimenting with ideas. I don’t spend a great deal of time editing and I like that creative freedom.
I have long struggled with being dyslexic and spelling and grammer are a constant source of angst for me! Here I usually attempt to do general edits but don’t dwell on words or correctness.
I want that to continue. I’d even like to find more just writing and sharing. I love to create more dialogue and hear more from folks following.
Like I just had a most awesome birthday week! It started while at Haven and has carried on for a few days now. I have felt blessed and very grateful that I have the friends and lifestyle I have!
There are a lot of things that are super crazy in the world right now. Like having a President who wants to be like a North Korean dictator and have us stand at attention to him.
I read things like this and I weep. How can this be our President? Yet apparently not only is he the President, he still has a strong following.
That is not even the worse of news. It is so challenging to read about injustice, pain, suffering and places in the world where active warfare is a common happening.
I don’t know how to change the world. I do believe my best effort comes through meeting the differences I face everyday with vulnerability and curiosity.
Maybe that’s why I am intrigued by the Jeep Wrangler. My birthday has offered me a series of Wrangler rides and drives!
The Wrangler is a car that on the one hand is rugged and able to drive off-road – however, with the hardtop off and only the frame holding me in – the vulnerability is much more present.
Sometimes I feel like that. I am relatively tough. I can go off-road and into wild places. But really I am just riding through this life quite exposed, heart- opened, which does mean it’s a bit more easily broken.
I actually believe that’s a good thing. That cracked heart let’s so much more light in!
So it is critical to have regular ways to play, find joy in the simple things like swing sets and rental jeeps! Remembering my friends and being curious about those that are so different in their values and choices.
My current plan is to spend some more time just writing like this and posting.
I’d love to hear from you. What do you think of the new plan? Also, how do you stay sane? Also feel free to share what’s on your mind and heart.
When I was young I was a lot like our puppy, ZuZu, full of life, vibrating, sprinting towards friends, and jumping or bowing to invite play. As I watch ZuZu interact with Rosie and they wrestle each other on the floor, I can feel my heart swell, and I touch a memory of that time in my life.
Sometimes I want to go back there. I want to be that innocent, playful, and alive. Sometimes I do touch that vibration, and I experience joy.
Just the other day I had one of those moments with a horse, Luke, a mustang at Stillwater Ranch. Bobbi, my horse whisper partner in our Find Your Mojo in Montana workshop, was giving me a spring refresher riding lesson.
Though I have found my mojo and ease with creating relationships with the horses on the ground, I am still new to riding. Plus, I had taken most of the winter off to play on the mountain skiing.
This day everything with the horses felt a touch awkward. However, instead of being rattled by my nerves and fears, I took a breath, acknowledged my anxiousness and bowed to my four-legged friends. They gathered around and pushed at me a bit, reminding I needed to be grounded in me, not focused on them.
That’s really all they wanted – me to show up.
I did.
I moved through the pasture greeting each of my friends.
I felt calmer and ready to make my way to Luke, to see if he wanted to ride.
Setting up to ride was the next huddle. I struggled because I didn’t remember all the steps to getting the soft saddle on and the side-pull harness set up right. In all worries about getting the buckles, straps, and blanket just right, I was totally disconnected from myself and Luke, and he let me know it.
Luke bobbed his big head and was mouthing at me. Finally, I got the message, took a breath, and slowed down.
Once up on Luke, I struggled to find my balance. I started to get overly focused on the techniques I had learned, trying to assume a certain command in my role as leader. But Luke wasn’t interested. For a while it seemed more of a power struggle than a dance.
I had to catch myself and remind myself what I love about working with horses.
I may want to have a great relationship with them, but first I must get into a great relationship with me!
I’ve had to accept that I’m not naturally smooth and graceful. No. I am a bit rougher on the edges. More made up of lines, scars, and rust – than silk, sweet, and smooth.
But I haven’t always been willing to accept my lines, scars, and rust. I wanted to look good.
So yes, I started out innocent, and somewhere along the way I made a decision to protect that child by creating barriers, walls, and defenses. My armor saved me from feeling pain, loss, and giving up entirely.
What I recognize now is I’ve became a bit over identified with the armor, and lost my connection to my little girl inside, Susie (as I was called through my earliest years).
I have done lots of work to breakdown those barriers between me and the world around me. What’s left are those lines, scars and rust.
When I accept myself – including lines, scars and rust – something special happens. Maybe it’s cracks that let the light and music back in. When I’m with the horses the music comes.
So, once I finally relaxed and settled into riding and dancing with Luke…
once I stopped trying to prove anything and just be me…
I heard my music playing and suddenly Luke’s joined in.
It was a magical moment.
This was the first time I’d heard the music while riding.
Yes, I regularly hear the music of the horses when I coach in the round pen or walk into the pasture with them. It’s what I love about working with the horses.
They call, and all they’re asking is for me to show up – not perfect, not powerful – just present!
What a lovely song.
Until we meet again,
Susan
P.S. Why not join us for Find Your Mojo in Montana and see if you can hear the music of the horses?
I hear lots of people, colleagues and business leaders, talking about a desire to be thought leaders.
I have to admit, there was a time when it was also an aspiration of mine.
However, I have shifted. I’m no longer that interested in thought leadership. I am much more inspired and interested in relational leadership.
Even up at The Haven, over the years I know there’s been a desire to make Haven a thought leadership center.
Maybe that was the mission of the founders, Ben Wong and Jock Mckeen, at one point. It is likely that they were thought leaders. But more than anything else, I think they were relational leaders.
That is where The Haven shines!
When I arrived at The Haven, I did not really have a clue what it meant to be relational. I had spent most of my life defended and surviving.
I don’t want to be too harsh with myself about that. Through rocky, challenging times, I had come up with some pretty creative ways to make my way in the world. I didn’t have a clue just how guarded and protected I had become.
My walls and armor started cracking during my first Come Alive. I was in awe of what I witnessed. The compassion, the vulnerability, and the curiosity that I saw offered to each person in our circle was truly moving.
We all have judgments about what we see and experience. The Haven offered a path for sharing those judgements. Sharing those judgments through storytelling is used as a way of letting someone else know how they see the world. Judgements are not bad, judgements are simply stories worth checking out and using as a bridge to reveal how each of us put our reality together.
The key was a willingness to own my story-making and be curious about sharing that with another to see if they agreed or disagreed.
That shift was huge for me. I could be curious and get feedback. Sometimes I would, and still do, get feedback that I hurt myself. Feedback is like a location device. Instead of taking it all so personally, I allow myself to absorb the information as though someone were telling me in real time where and how they were connecting with me. I also understand that this is a path to locating myself.
Over the years I have come too discover that these relational tools are not thought-based. These tools—along with breath, attention and awareness—are spiritual and embodied.
I reveal my location in the world when I reveal myself, without proving, defending or fighting. This is incredibly vulnerable and very relational. You see, to me, this is relational leadership at its best. Locating ourselves with each other with openness, honesty and curiosity.
So that’s why I think thought leadership is overrated. What we need today is more relational leadership. Leading that is built around honesty, vulnerability, curiosity and compassion. Now that takes courage and, frankly, I believe that is a lot harder than just thinking of new ideas.
The truth is—leadership is all about relationships!
Do you want to discover how to be more of a relational leader in your life? Take a Come Alive, read our book or sign up for Relationship Mojo!
Try on sharing your judgements as a path of vulnerability and location setting (declaring where you are in any moment) . Get curious about how your inner story-telling came to be. Get curious about how someone else might be putting those pieces together very differently.
Get curious about really relating!
Just a couple weeks ago, I woke to a haze of smoke that blanketed my town of Whitefish. For weeks we have been hearing about fires – to the south of us – to the north of us. Yes, we have had days of smokey skies and very poor air quality. Then, suddenly everything started moving closer. Parts of Glacier National Park and Lake MacDonald Lodge were be evacuated! That’s close!
Next our little town and Flathead Valley faced a school closure due to the threat of an attack on people’s children. Apparently due to a cyberattack of some sort that resulted and parents and children getting very graphic and threatening messages. After three days of school closures, games and events being canceled there still isn’t certainty as to where the threat was coming from.
This is just what has been happening in Whitefish – I haven’t even mentioned reading the national news headlines!
Damn – I say – this is crazy!! Floods, hurricanes – fires and mother earth’s fury – plus crazy stuff like cyberattacks, white supremest and a President who regularly sends out insane tweets, talks smack and threats at the UN, really?!
What is happening? Chaos and what can seem like a definite message to stop, pause and ….. wait for it…
PLAY!
Yes, I bet you didn’t think that was coming.
But really – I wonder if a little more play, joy and pleasure wouldn’t be the best remedy for us all.
I get it. Life as we know it is spooking us!
We could wrestle with the reality or not – of climate change. We could fight about healthcare, building walls or disarming North Korea. But really wrestling with any one of these big issues s with the intent to determine right and wrong – seems like it just ain’t working.
Don’t get me wrong – I believe in climate change. I think we owe Mother Earth a major shift in our attitude and actions, but I’m not into proving that point. I will recycle. Ride my bike when I can. I participate and vote for measures that support recycling, science and alternative energy!
I also don’t intend to stop speaking up when I think someone is being a bully – making statements that seem cruel, mean or frankly racist, sexist or just ignorant! But I am not interested in fighting about it.
Instead, I think our best path is to play.
Over and over in nature, there are signs that when under attack – especially a vicious attack – the best answer is to engage in play.
Stuart Brown did a Ted Talk on this very message. One piece was a video clip of a hungry polar bear coming for lunch where there were sled dog huskies chained up. Those huskies knew they were going to be the polar bear’s lunch, but what happened instead was amazing. One female husky did a classic play bow and the polar bear’s whole being shifted. Instead of a meal the two had a play date! Now the polar bear makes an annual trip to play with the pups!
I know, when you are feeling under attack or you are facing threat and fear – the last thing that comes naturally is to rollover and play.
But maybe we need to get back in touch with our joy, our innocence and remember play can be just as important and life changing as any work, spiritual seeking or political activism.
What can you do to add a little play and joy to your day? How can you invite and encourage others to join in!
Don’t leave you work behind just add more play into your day and notice the results. Let me know how it goes!
P.S. Need some help playing, give me a call. I’m happy to help.
I love the movie Ground Hog Day! That same day, repeating and repeating – until finally – finally – something shifts!
Though I have not lived such a dramatic version of Bill Murray’s day from hell – I sure have had my moments and days of being stuck in an unserving, suffering storyline!!!
Indeed it is a type of hell! Plus it plays havoc with reaching my dreams, finding my joy, my ability to connect and basically eroding my relationships!!
I call this a KINK. 
It’s like a knotted shoelace or a garden hose that isn’t just twisted put wrapped around itself in such a way – no water comes through!!!
That’s what it’s like to have a limiting belief, it can spin you around and round!
Let me give you an example. Here’s one of my classic KINKS!
“I’m a horrible speller so I can’t…. write, put things up on flipcharts”
or
“I can’t spell – I’m stupid!”
“I’m stupid so I shouldn’t be thinking of publishing a book”
You see how one belief just plays havoc!!
That one – well it’s been around in my head for years!! I even have labels for it now – dyslexic, learning disabled.
Well may be I do frequently flip letters, mix up my words and struggle with spelling.
Indeed it’s a kink that doesn’t easily go away!
However, I’m not stupid. I can write. Plus, there’s always editors – right?
Here’s the deal – we all have our storylines – some of them helpful – some of them not so much!
I am not someone who believes you can just get rid of them!! However, I do think there are ways to become aware of when a KINK is getting in the way of what matters most to you!
Awareness is the first step to any shift! Once I notice I am spinning into a KINK – I have some options.
I can do Byron Katie’s, the work on that belief. (for some this is magic and works great! – it is a great tool but for me needs a bit more breath and emtoion!)
I can breath and see what I am feeling. Usually there’s an underlying river of feelings that have been trapped or wrapped up in that KINK!
I find for me, it helps to move, dance, shake that story around!
Then pause and check inside. See if anything has shifted. It’s not a perfect formula or science. However, I am getting pretty good at not letting that KINK of mine – send me into full-on Ground Hog Day!!
I’d love to help you avoid getting caught in a KINK or worse finding yourself stuck in a Ground Hog day!
That’s part of my online program, Get Unstuck. How to work through Kinks and Leaks! and make sure you are not caught in a Ground Hog Day!
I’d love to help you find a way to reach your dream or goal without to much spinning.
I’m sure there are some typos in this post – but I want to get it out! Get Unstuck starts – July 25th and it’s 25% off through friday, July 21 at midnight!!
Get out of your own way! Get Unstuck!!
I just finished taking a short break to catch up on the latest news. Coming back from my break I am a little shaken up as I often am these days after reading the headlines. Today’s news was covering bombing in Kabul and Trump’s latest decisions to pull our of the Paris Climate accord. These are just a few examples of what’s happening in the world.
It’s hard to reconcile the news and my life. I have had a wonderful couple of months. I have spent a month at The Haven leading an amazing Living Alive Phase program with 24 participates all very committed to their learning and engagement in life. The month was very fulfilling and I loved being part of a team committed to holding space for people to explore, discover and be different.
Thank you Carole Ames, JoAnn Kevala, Jan Pullinger, Gillian Chandler and Jan McGinn!
Since returning to Montana, I’ve enjoyed our second run of Find Your Mojo in Montana and it was a huge success. YAY!! Great people, great fun, great learning — not mention some awesome moments with the horses!
CrisMarie and I’ve worked with two corporate clients and though one is in a more challenging phase, there was dialogue, empathy, connection and care — even amidst the conflict and crisis.
Add a couple days of being a part of the Haven strategic faculty team tasked with ensuring The Haven continues to grow and deliver transformative learning experiences, and I hope you can get the idea that my life is very different than those headlines!
I am so grateful for my life and the work I get to do!
I love the way I get to contribute and engage with individuals, couples, teams and organizations. I feel fortunate and privileged to do the work. I have the opportunity to see people work through painful stories, connect and find creative options even in some pretty dark places.
Yet I pick up the paper and wonder, Does not it make any really significant difference?
Is it is possible to feel good and joy when it sure looks like so many are suffering and our own government is creating so much disruption?
That part is hard.
I do believe the work I do makes a difference. I also believe when anyone feels joy, connection and fulfillment it’s a strong vibration that carries further out into the world than despair, helplessness and fear.
So I choose to keep playing my game of relating moment to moment, person to person and holding space for our humanity to shine — even in the face of what seems like tremendous choas, pain and suffering.
I do wonder how you hold on to faith and stay in the game because sometimes it’s hard to reconcile what’s happening out there with what is happening inside.
I want to hear from you: How do you hold onto your faith and stay in the game? Email me: susan@thriveinc.com.
This week I got to go CAT skiing, a.k.a Snowcat skiing, which is backcountry untracked skiing through trees and powder. So today’s piece is all about finding the best untracked line,be it in the snow or on the page, and both take PLUCK!
Pummeled and humbled by the mountain and still I rise!
That’s right. I have no doubt the reason I got the cheers as I skied up to the cat on our last run was because everyone there was just grateful to see that I had survived and was arriving smiling.
Yes – the mountains had humbled and pummeled me but I had completed all ten runs! I had shown I had pluck! Who knew most didn’t.
Well let’s be clear most didn’t who signed up for a cat ski day at my level of skiing.
I haven’t been skiing that long and frankly have been a touch conservative about where I ski at our Whitefish Mountain Resort.
I have steadily gotten better and this year signed up for the women’s ski program that included weekly lessons. Now I have made a few black diamond runs and have been feeling pretty good about myself!
So when I got the invite to go ski powder – I took it. I thought I was ready. Yes, I was scared but I wanted to go.
The thing is if I had thought it all through, I would not have gone. I would have been rational and realized skiing in powder really meant skiing through trees, very high up in the mountains of Montana. That skiing where there were no tracks meant significant bumps, ledges and (little) cliffs that resulted in taking air! That once you got out of the Cat and put those skis on there really was no other way down, except to ski and if falling regularly, to keep getting up again, again and again. Let me just say here, though falling in powder is soft – getting up over and over is exhausting.
Rationally it made no sense. But emotionally – well that is a different story. My heart wanted to be out in the back-country and loved those moments when I would find some rhythm and even did land a little jump. I enjoyed learning how to do a flip through the powder as I was falling so my skis would be in a better position to get back up. (just to give the full picture – this isn’t an airborne back flip – no this is falling face first towards the snow, throwing both of my skis over my head and sliding ski first so it would be easier to get back up! – nothing graceful about it – but once I did manage to get back up on my skis and continue on down as though I had never fallen!!!)
There were a couple runs that were near perfect through the untracked snow, through the trees and over the bumps. A couple runs where I did find that perfect line our guide suggested we shot for at the start of each new run. 
I believe I will be a better skier having made this trip. (Yes, I’ll have to get over the stiff and sore muscles – but I will!). But even if I’m not a better skier, I found my pluck – having or showing determined courage in the face of difficulties and I’ll take that!
It’s not the first sign of my plucky nature.
Writing has been a bit like powder skiing for me as well. I struggle with grammer, spelling and find it difficult to stay committed when that great story in my head just doesn’t come out on the page. I have been terrified of feedback (sort of like trees wells and moguls on our mountain!)
Starting my blog took an effort and know I have gone through hearing no feedback from a post , great feedback, mean feedback – over and over. I don’t wake with sore muscles but sometimes I wake up dwelling on someone comments.
Still I love to write. My heart sings. I show my courage, to show up and work to speak from my heart. It’s especially cool when I find a great story line and ride it through – editing, spell-checking, wrestling with the best way to make a connection.
Yes, be it skiing or writing, life , or really most any great day, it’s about finding the best untracked line. Your line and sticking with it.
Bottom-line, that’s life. We know some day it will end or it’s very possible our heart will be broken over and over along the way – will we take the risk? Will we have the spirit and courage to find our best line through – even the rough spots – even when we fall?
Funny thing is, I bet if you asked your own heart – even if it’s been broken many times – the answer would be – yes – I will do it again!
I’m glad I got to ski untracked powder.
I’m glad I write
I’m glad I have opened my heart.
And if I when I have the chance to to do any of the above again.
I say – YES!
Where’s the powder in your life? Where have you been invited to open your heart, live full-out, even when it’s not rational?
Did you say yes?? I encourage you to say yes!
Be Plucky!!
Special thanks to Merrill Lynch, specifically Jamie Carbo and Mike in Whitefish, MT and to Great Northern Powder Guides – you guys are awesome!!
Valentine’s Day, the day of romance and hearts! Right? Cards, flowers, chocolates and gifts are shared on February 14, either openly or anonymously in the service of romance and following one’s heart.
The first time I even noticed the day I was in an airport in February 1999 and had recently met CrisMarie. I found myself looking at all the cards in the rack. I was smiling and felt the warmth, joy and elation of opening my heart to someone. I was quite thrilled to find just the right card and for the first time write some romantic note that spoke of my feelings.
I had every intention of giving her that card on Valentine’s Day…but it wasn’t until a year later that I found the card I’ d stashed away and finally had the courage to pass it along!
That’s right. I stalled, stumbled and almost walked away from the love of my life because the stories in my head, designed to protect and keep me safe, were controlling the choices of my life!
It’s funny, in my 20’s when I had life-threatening cancer I learned to follow my heart and take a chance, but when I was older and healthy, following the nudges and wisdom of my heart wasn’t so easy or graceful.
I have some pretty strong heart protectors, and frankly, for some pretty good reasons! Those patterns aren’t overcome easily for someone like me! So yes, I stumble, stall, procrastinate on those things that matter to my heart, but I have learned about my tendencies and also how to do it differently.
My Heart and The Horses
In 2011, CrisMarie talked me into taking a Koelle Simpson horse workshop. I was in awe watching Koelle work with the horses. The moment I stepped into the arena myself was life-changing. My heart opened similar to when I met CrisMarie.
There was an invitation to apply to become an Equus coach. Now, I was still terrified of these amazing beings, and had absolutely no background with horses.
Aware of my tendencies, I made note of my resistance and decided to apply anyway, and I got accepted!
Now you might think the path was set, and I would go with grace and ease towards starting an awesome Equus Coaching practice here in Montana, horse country.
No – that’s not what happened!
While in the actual training sessions with Koelle, I was doing great, but back at home I’d procrastinate, stall and not even go and work with the horses. UGH!
Again, having learned about my resistance I have developed strategies to work with my natural tendencies. I turned towards the fear and started using the many pattern-busters I’ve developed of the years. Pretty soon I found just the right ranch close to me and started my practice.
Now I have regular visits with the horses, and I bring my clients and teams out to Stillwater Whisper Ranch. Yes, the dream is happening. Without hiccups and bumps – no – but one thing I have learned is that which makes your heart beat, and even ache, is worth the effort.
So what about you?
I know there are other people like me – who stop themselves: put the Valentine’s Day card in the desk drawer, don’t send their manuscript to the publisher, never apply for that dream job, don’t sign up for the training they long to take.
Because it’s not logical, practical or safe.
That’s why I designed Get Unstuck: Build Your Mojo to help people like you and me!
If you’re like me, you probably have some part of you that protects you for some good reason. But that doesn’t have to keep you from following your heart and inner wisdom.
Build Your Mojo gives you a proven, step-by-step path to face and work with your resistance.
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