by Admin | Dec 17, 2013 | Change
It’s been a bit of an emotional roller coaster this weekend in the Filbert Household. My husband and I have another business that breeds and raises Dutch Warmblood horses for the Hunter/Jumper show market. Our very first ‘piece of inventory’ was a lovely filly born in 2005 who was named Adame by my Grandmother in one of her last lucid moments with our family before our passing. Needless to say this horse has an emotional attachment as well as representing a significant business asset. Well she decided with the weather changing and all, she just wasn’t going to drink anymore for a bit. With horses this creates all kinds of problems and hers escalated into a life threatening situation called colic. During the 5 hour long surgery as the vets worked to save her life, I had a lot of time to think. This blog post will share with you a bit of insight that perhaps will help you as you look to your career growth or perhaps inspiring your team. We know how critical water is to life, so is growth to human beings. The phrase, ‘you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink’ is a statement we have heard and often counter with something like ‘you may not be able to make him drink, but you can sure make him blow bubbles’. Which represents how often we force new behavior on ourselves or others. Many people are complacent and satisfied with status quo. Others perhaps may want something different, but have no willingness to go through the pain of change. So they...
