Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

If you have ever undertaken something new you recognize the messy middle. It is no-where land. You’ve departed from the safe harbor of your usual practice (a rut perhaps) and ventured into the wild blue yonder of something new. Yet there is no charted course, no neatly defined path to...

Sharing stories with you about my efforts to master dressage gives me the opportunity to provide a different perspective on life’s lessons. A more light-hearted approach if you will as dressage is not how I make my living and for good reason! I have also had my share of messy...

Equipped with proper instruction and the encouragement not to get discouraged when I encounter resistance, Usache and I begin retraining our walk. Some days I think it would be easier if I could be instructed every time I ride. Besides being hard on the pocketbook, it is impractical in terms of...

Are you in a rut or on a path? It is hard to tell at times isn’t it? Sticking the truck in the cow pasture is an obvious example. Yet in our lives we can fall into other, more subtle ruts – like one in riding. A rut in horseback...

So how do you bust out of a rut? Most of us have been in one in our life, either literally or figuratively. Let’s take the literal version of being stuck in a rut. I have had quite a lot of experience with this. My home town is Elkhart, Texas,...

I recently heard this saying, “A rut is simply a grave with both ends kicked out.” How does that strike you? When I first heard the phrase, my reaction was, “Oh my, too true, and what a way to put it.” A little research reveals the original version to be:...