{"id":426,"date":"2007-09-17T05:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/426\/on-leadership-and-horses"},"modified":"2013-07-10T01:32:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:32:31","slug":"on-leadership-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/on-leadership-and-horses\/426\/","title":{"rendered":"On Leadership and Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every Sunday, I engage in a lively conversation with a fellow Church-goer about his employment.\u00a0 My friend works with troubled youth but he does it with horses, something he calls equine therapy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fascinated with horses and really enjoy speaking with my friend about his experiences with the youth, leadership, and what horses can teach us about how to lead others and affect change in an organization.<\/p>\n<p>Because of confidentiality agreements, it is difficult for outsiders to come into the facility.\u00a0 I mentioned to him that I would love to spend time learning from the horses and, especially, have the horse teach me about how to lead with clarity, authenticity, intention, courage, intuition and focus &#8212; clearly all things that I still sorely lack.<\/p>\n<h2>In a moment of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/hansei-what-is-really-important\/414\/\">Hansei<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>I believe that my heart is in the right place &#8212;\u00a0 it is still sufficiently soft.\u00a0 Yet, I make mistakes that impact other people negatively.\u00a0 In moments of self-awareness, I realize this and feel so badly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>I have been on my own since I was 17.\u00a0 Has that difficult upbringing and time as a troubled youth baggage that I still carry with me?\u00a0 Is it something else?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to spending more time\u00a0 with my friend, his horse, to help me learn more about myself and to help me improve on my still many character flaws.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Sunday, I engage in a lively conversation with a fellow Church-goer about his employment.\u00a0 My friend works with troubled youth but he does it with horses, something he calls equine therapy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fascinated with horses and really enjoy speaking with my friend about his experiences with the youth, leadership, and what horses can teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12327,"featured_media":9663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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