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What Do Horses Have to Do With Digital Neuro-Decision-Making?

Over the years, people have asked me about the connection between our experiential leadership...

Go Vertical: The Singular Shift For Your Company’s Successful Future

Leaders, organizations, and societies are confronting increasingly rapid change and disruption,...

How To Lead And Live From A State of Well-Being

OUR WORLD’S INTERCONNECTEDNESS DEMANDS NEW LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP AND WELLNESS Never before have we...

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF RESILIENCE AND SELF CARE

THE SCIENCE Stress may be inevitable, but cumulative stress can be avoided. Emotional resilience...

Rest and Rejuvenation-An Interview with Lisa Arie as Seen on Thrive Global

You have to unlock your self-awareness and develop your metacognition to unleash your unstoppable...

The Most Important Habit Most Leaders Neglect

How to integrate self-care into your life to become an unstoppable leader. It may come as a…

This Is What Happens When You Persist and Celebrate Your Wins

We are celebrating our friend and neighbor, TJ Holmes. She lives in the valley behind us in these...

How to Tackle Your Fears To Become Unstoppable During A Crisis

A science-based framework to move from surviving to thriving It’s normal to experience unease...

How to Shift From Fear and Vulnerability to Empowerment

During these unprecedented times, it’s normal to experience unease. Fear is what keeps us...

Avoid These 4 Mental Traps To Become Unstoppable-Imposter Syndrome Is One of Them

How ultra-successful CEOs, athletes, and entrepreneurs avoid mental traps for unparalleled success...

Reflecting on The Road To Success

True success is found when you avoid the comparison and contrasting of places, people, data, messaging and emotions. In fact, there is no need for interpretation with baseline experiences when one is called into a conversation.

You Are Not Your Work: How to lead the life you were meant to live

No matter the social setting — whether it’s a date or a networking event — if someone asks you the question: “What do you do?” or “Tell me about yourself?”, the socially acceptable and automatic answer is usually a job title.

This ten-minute habit will improve your life, according to science

As you start your week off strong, remember that every athlete knows that rest is a vital part of performance, and even Olympians take a break.

How to Embrace Your Vulnerability To Unlock Greater Confidence

Conscious leadership is not about working towards the goal of becoming someone or something that you are not already. It’s about gaining a clear understanding of your power and truth, outside of your comfort zone.

How to Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone and Step Into Fulfillment

A science-based framework to face the fears found at the edge of your comfort zone. On the list of anxiety-inducing, gut-wrenching scenarios, negotiating with yourself to start a new professional venture can rank somewhere between trying to talk yourself into walking a tightrope over a 10,000-foot chasm and setting all your worldly possessions on fire.

Leadership Development is a Lifestyle: Challenging Your Thinking Is The Way To Thrive

“As human beings, we think that because we can think a certain way that we’ll think this way forever. What I discovered is that we spend years being unconscious in our thinking, in part because we’re growing up and living our lives.

Become Unstoppable in Your Leadership Development

If you want to bring your leadership development to new levels of consciousness, start with how you lead your own self. Slow down the process of looking out and begin looking in to reach new levels of consciousness.

How Stretching Yourself Expands Your Comfort Zone

Among the many benefits that come with challenging your thinking, the opportunity to see your blinds spots is perhaps the most precious. Seeing your blind spots reveals the edges of your comfort zone.

The Complicated Way I Learned to Simplify Transformation

In today’s fast-paced world, transformation is a must. It’s a critical and ongoing part of life. Transformation keeps us relevant. It allows us to make a difference in our own worlds and in the broader world.

Shape the World

Like seeds, humans must meet our needs in order to grow. There are the basic needs for survival—air, water, food—then there are other needs that—met consistently and abundantly—enable us to flourish. And like seeds, whatever we grow becomes part of our network, part of the environment around us. What are you growing? Is it beneficial to the world?

How To Make Difficult Decisions Easy

The decisions we make define us. So why is decision-making so hard, and what can we do to make the difficult decisions that have the power to transform our lives?

An Opportunity for Transformation

The best way to effect change is almost always to start with opening ourselves to new possibilities. Are there things you’d like to change that you can’t seem to? What are you not seeing that’s right in front of you?

B the Change: From Brain Freeze to Brain Science

Check out this article on Vista Caballo, originally published on B the Change.

A Season—and a Reason—to Rest

We have many good reasons to make time for ourselves to rest, but for adults who have spent years working frantic schedules, allowing time for rest may take some brain retraining.

Business Insider: This ‘CEO whisperer’ uses horse training to guide the business elite towards enlightenment

Check out this piece on Vista Caballo published by Business Insider.

A Case For Mindfulness and Empowered Thinking

Why mindfulness? Because being mindful, or living in the present, prevents us from worrying about the past and future. Living in the here and now focuses us. It mitigates stress. It allows us to celebrate life and realize that what we have is this moment and that making the most of this moment is making the most of life.

Change Your Thinking to Manage Your Stress

The answer to sustainably reducing your stress lies in a simple shift in perception. When you become aware of how you’re impacting others, you can inspire people to be innovative and productive. And your business and families can thrive.

Become More Creative: Release the Stress, Embrace the Tension

Most people will experience a huge level of stress as they are reaching a new level of development. The reason we feel this stress is because we feel out of control. And usually, we feel out of control because we haven’t discerned what the threat is.

Find Balance, Save Your Life

When we first moved to the Great Sage Plains of Colorado, the sacred ancient grounds of the Ute, Anasazi and Hopi, we decided to live as sustainably as possible, making as little impact as possible. One of our first considerations was water, namely how to find it in this arid high desert. It was a conundrum as old as the land.

Should Work-Life Balance Be A Priority?

If our strategy to achieving work-life balance is to figure out how to allocate the same amount of time and effort to the various areas of our lives, something or someone is going to get shortchanged. Usually us.

Want To Spur Company Growth? Let Your Heart Talk To Your Brain

No matter how successful you are, there is always a surprise around the corner. Having the ability to interpret the business environment differently is an empowering skill for leaders who no longer want to fear the shifting earth beneath every business and react to this reality with less stress.

The Question of Plant and Animal Intelligence

In the dispute over whether a selfie can belong to a monkey, the monkey lost. The U.S. Copyright Office decided that the selfies a group of Indonesian macaques snapped belong to no one.

Reaching Your Full Potential: The Secret? Getting Introspective

Think about it: If something has worked, you want to do it time and again because there’s less risk involved—the results are proven.

Fear of the Unknown – Part III – Play and the Vista Caballo Experience

Sure, there are days when I need to remind myself not to take things (or myself) so seriously. After all, my old “method of operation” muscle–the safety of “knowing”–became very strong. So, yes, I still practice at fun.

Fear of the Unknown – PART II – The Lost Art of Play

What does play look like if you (like so many adults) have difficulty connecting to your sense of play? A few years ago I probably couldn’t have answered that question. I’d become so work-driven I lost my sense of play.

Fear of the Unknown – PART I – What Is it Really About?

I would be hard pressed to tell you how often I have heard someone say, “I want to do this or that, but I am afraid.” I am quite fascinated with human behavior and what drives it. I am usually led to ask, “Afraid of what?” I am quite often met with the response: “Afraid of the unknown.”

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