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Speaker uses horses to solve problems www.reporternews.com

"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there." ~Vince Lombardi I just love motivational sayings. They inspire us with words of wisdom. They make us want to start the day with determination. Unfortunately for me they usually don't last very long. It only takes a few minutes or ...

The Mystical Power of Horses Throughout history the horse has been given almost mystical powers. Books, poems, songs, and statues all attest to their power to influence our lives. Anyone who has ever spent much time around them can relate some special moment where a horse has had a significant impact on their lives. And, they aren't just for riding anymore. Programs like NARHA use horses to aid handicap riders of all ages in physical and mental ...

Cowboy Campout and Cowboy Solution featured in June issue of Cowboys & Indians Magazine.

Building Trusting Relationships; Making a Difference About 10 or so years ago I found myself mired by my own personal crisis. "These things can't be happening to me. I am not supposed to be in this situation." My world growing up said that if you went to school and got a job, everything would be ok. But after 3 college degrees, 12 years as an educator, and 18 years as a business owner with over 300 employees in two countries, I found myself at one of the lowest points ...

Why is communication such a difficult concept? Did the cave man have it right? I am always amazed at the number of seminars, workshops and articles I see about how to improve the one tool most basic to interaction with others - communication. One would think that once caveman and cave woman developed past the occasional grunt-and-gesture into a world where an actual book - the dictionary - was established to create common definitions, communication would have become much easier.  ...

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Cowboy Solution owner, Don Hutson has opened a ranch retreat. The intimate horse ranch offers overnight Cowboy Solution leadership seminars and a host of customized business and leisure experiences.

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A March, 2008 editorial in the Houston Chronicle title "Back to School" once again focused the light of truth on the problems of educating our children. And like thousands of other studies and billions of dollars spent on them, the conclusion is the same: “Houston, we have a problem.” However, this piece did shed light on a few new ones. The letter stated that “almost no one believes that the law (NCLB) can achieve the main goal of having every child in America reading and doing math at ...

It is widely recognized that the U.S. and the world have moved towards a knowledge-based economy—one where knowledge and technology are vital to economic growth. Knowledge, of course, is embodied in human beings and thus the use of the term “human capital,” which seems to hold the key to our nation’s future success and its ability to compete in a rapidly changing global landscape. Social observers in fact agree that a city’s prosperity depends on finding, attracting and retaining the ...