by arnoudse | Oct 21, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead, Obstacles
I love reading Seth Godin’s daily blog. In a recent post, No One to Say No, he said “people are not afraid of failure, they are afraid of blame”. I couldn’t agree more. And yet, these days it seems that most people are playing The Blame Game. When something goes...
by arnoudse | Sep 30, 2014 | Lead, Vitality
I love watching athletic champions at the top of their game. In fact, I find it fascinating to observe true masters at work in any craft or vocation or hobby. Even “silly pet tricks”. For years, the primary lesson I took from them was their willingness to work hard,...
by arnoudse | Sep 9, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead
I have coached hundreds of leaders in the past thirty years. One thing stands out among those who are the most effective. They focus on making today better. Yes, they spend time on planning for the future and certainly, they learn from the past. But they realize that...
by arnoudse | Sep 2, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead, Obstacles
As a small child, I loved playing the “getting warmer” game whenever I was trying to find something that had been hidden from me. I remember when we five kids were trying to find the last few Easter eggs that Mom had concealed. “Getting warmer”, she would say as we...
by arnoudse | Aug 26, 2014 | Discover, Lead, Obstacles
My knees are trembling. I am standing precariously on a balance beam thirty feet in the air. The beam stretches twenty-five feet to the tree on the other side. I look down. My friend, Terry Tillman, is standing below me. He is leading this Wilderness Adventure for...
by arnoudse | Aug 19, 2014 | Connect, Discover, Lead
Many say that there are only two fundamental emotions: love and fear. I also believe that how we live is how we lead. So if how we live is how we lead, which emotion do we want to live by—fear or love? FEAR RULES With a fear-based approach to life, we are always on...
