label

Power

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

I want to feel powerful, don’t you? Don’t you want to feel like you can deal with whatever occurs while climbing? Let’s investigate how power is understood from a warrior’s perspective.

Tags: power
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Last lesson we clarified fears as either survival or illusory. Now, let’s look at different types of fears.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: fears
Posted in Arno's Blog | 9 Comments »

Clarifying Fears

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

There are many types of fears, which we’ll dig into in the next lesson. In this lesson we’ll look at how to clarify fears. Fears come in two varieties: survival and illusory. Illusory fears are the ones that need our attention.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: fears
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

What if

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

“What if” questions can leave us passive, not taking any action to answer the questions. How do we deal with such questions?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: answers, questions, what if?
Posted in Arno's Blog | 3 Comments »

Keep Attention Expanded

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

What can we do to keep our attention expanded when under stress? Read it here or listen to the audio version of this lesson.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: expand attention, gilgamesh
Posted in Arno's Blog | 7 Comments »

Expand Focus

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

What we focus on expands our attention in either helpful or unhelpful ways.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: attention, focus
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Concentration

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Concentration focuses attention either broadly or narrowly. How does that relate to redpointing and on-sighting?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: concentration
Posted in Arno's Blog | 6 Comments »

Stop Thinking

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

How do you stop the mind from over thinking and second guessing? Do you focus on stopping thought or redirecting attention. Let’s investigate.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: awareness, stop thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 5 Comments »

Willpower

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

In the last lesson we investigated positive thinking as a method for improving mental fitness and found that it limited awareness development. What about willpower?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: willpower
Posted in Arno's Blog | 15 Comments »

Positive Thinking

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Does positive thinking enhance performance or hinder mental fitness?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: positive thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 3 Comments »

Beliefs

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

One strategy for goal attainment is to strengthen our beliefs. But how do beliefs affect risk-taking and improving performance?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: beliefs
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Affirmations

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Are affirmations effective tools to improve our mental fitness? To find out, we need to first understand mental fitness at a broader level.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: affirmations
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

True Motivation

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

We looked at goal setting strategies last lesson. Now let’s look at tapping into true motivation for accomplishing goals.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Goal Setting Strategies

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

The last several lessons focused on decision-making and the creative process. Now let us touch on a few final topics as this year comes to an end. The end of the year is a great time to contemplate the past year and what we’d like to accomplish next year.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: goals
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Completion

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

It’s fun to come up with ideas and begin taking action, but following through to completion on those ideas can be the most challenging part. How can we stay committed to taking these final steps to complete our ideas?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: completion, ideas
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Maintenance

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

We’re looking at the creative process, from creation to completion. Last lesson we addressed creation. Before we can complete an idea we need to maintain our momentum as we take action. In this lesson we’ll address the maintenance process.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: maintenance
Posted in Arno's Blog | 3 Comments »

Creation

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Creating something new includes creation of a new idea of what you want to accomplish, engagement and maintenance of the idea as the project takes form, and finally completion of the project. Let’s look at the first step, creation, in this lesson.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: creation, creativity
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Creativity

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Climbers want to create something beautiful, whether it is a first ascent or repeating an established route that really challenges them. In the next four lessons we will look at the creative process.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: creativity
Posted in Arno's Blog | 1 Comment »

Secondary Decisions

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

A foundational decision determines why we climb. Primary decisions determine what we will climb. Secondary decisions determine how we will climb so we can accomplish the primary decision.

Tags: decisions
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Primary Decisions

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

“Why” decisions lay the foundation for our actions. Once we know why we do whatever activity we do, we can determine specifically what we want to do. “What” decisions give us vision.

Tags: decisions
Posted in Arno's Blog | 1 Comment »

Decisions_Foundational

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

The quality of our decisions begins with foundational reasons that address why we do what we do. Quality “why” reasons lead to quality actions.

Tags: decisions
Posted in Arno's Blog | 10 Comments »

Types of Decisions

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

In previous eLessons we outlined a structure based on current reality, vision, and following the path of least resistance through that structure. As we enter that structure we’ll make many decisions. What decisions we make, why we make them, and how we make them determines the quality of our actions. In the next four lessons we will study decisions, how they differ, and how they build into the climbing process.

Tags: decisions
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Desnivel Questions_2011-06

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Desnivel, my Spanish book publisher, received several questions from climbers after my presentation in Madrid. They asked me to give answers, which I am posting here.

Tags: Desnivel
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Structural Tension

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

With our starting (current reality) and ending (vision) points clarified, we set up structural tension between them. Our actions will now be directed along the path of least resistance through this structure to close the gap.

Tags: POLR, Structural Tension
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Vision

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

A vision gives us an end point or target to shoot for. Our starting point (current reality) and our end point (vision) set up a structure for our actions to flow along the path of least resistance. Let’s look at how to create our vision.

Tags: POLR, Vision
Posted in Arno's Blog | 3 Comments »

Objective Current Reality

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

I’ve introduced the path of least resistance in the last lesson. Now let’s see how understanding our current reality gives us our starting point.

Tags: current reality, POLR
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Path of Least Resistance

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Energy moves along the path of least resistance. This is true from how atoms interact to how planets, stars, and galaxies move. Is it best to follow the path of least resistance when climbing?

Tags: POLR
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Persistence

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

We’ve all probably heard that it is important to be persistent in order to achieve our goals. But, some climbers are more stubborn than persistent. What is the difference between them?

Tags: persistence
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

On-Sighting Tendencies

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

How do we refine our on-sighting ability? Becoming aware of how we deal with ambiguity gives us some insight. We need to create flexible plans that can be modified through quick decision-making.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practice tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: on-sighting
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

On-Sighting

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

On-sighting differs from redpointing. There are many more unknowns and quick decision-making is important. You need to decide what to do and when to act it out.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: on-sighting
Posted in Arno's Blog | 1 Comment »

Redpointing Tendencies

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Before we address on-sighting, let’s look a little deeper into redpointing. We can diminish our redpointing ability by falling into typical tendencies, based on how we avoid stress.

Tags: analytical, intuitive, redpointing
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Redpointing

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

There is a distinct difference between redpointing and on-sighting. Lets look at redpointing in this lesson and apply the best strategy in using the material.

Tags: redpointing
Posted in Arno's Blog | 6 Comments »

Cycles of Prep-Action

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Let’s now begin putting together preparation and action, thinking and doing. The next few lessons will address applying this process to redpoints and on-sights.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: action, cycles, on-sight, preparation, redpoint
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Momentum

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

We’ve discussed the skill set of doing and the skill of moving. Now let’s see how momentum and the moment help create quality.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: momentum, quality
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Skill of Moving

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

We last talked about “the doing skill set.” Now let’s begin digging into how to engage our bodies when we commit to taking action.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Doing Skill Set

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

When we commit to action we focus our attention in our body, doing the climbing. It’s important to know precisely what our body does to take action effectively.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: berp, doing skill set
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Shifting to doing

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

As you transition from preparation to action, you move from one skill set to another. Making a definitive break is critical for committing fully to action.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: doing skill set
Posted in Arno's Blog | 1 Comment »

Body Knowledge

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Climbing on Defective Sonar, Laurel Knob, North Carolina

We’ve gone through the preparation and transition phases of risk-taking where we use our mind’s intelligence to think–the thinking skill set. Now we shift to the body’s intelligence to take action–the doing skill set.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: body, doing skill set
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Face Your Fear

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Facing your fear of falling directs your attention onto the actual situation and can diminish the fear. You accomplish this by literally looking down into the fall zone.

Tags: eyes, falling
Posted in Arno's Blog | No Comments »

Fear of Falling

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Fear of Falling originates in the mind. This fear can be created by the mind due to a feeling of loosing control or concern about injury. Experiential knowledge of falling is required to clarify the limiting aspects of the mind.

Tags: experiential, falling
Posted in Arno's Blog | 5 Comments »

BERP

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Are you learning to expand your ability to deal with stressful situations or are you learning to avoid those stressful situations? Learning requires converting stress into comfort. Learn how to key into your body signals to make this conversion.

Tags: berp, falling, stress
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Experiential Learning

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

How much stress is too much stress? This lesson touches on introducing just enough stress to allow learning to occur.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: experiential, intellectual
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Follow-Lead Progression

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

When should I start leading? This is an important question. You need to balance safety with learned skills. Many climbers opt for following too long and are lured into a false sense of safety.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: falling, following, leading
Posted in Arno's Blog | 11 Comments »

Performance vs. Recreation

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Falling is a hotly debated issue among climbers. The next series of lessons will dig into understanding falling so we can make better risk decisions.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: falling, motivation, performance, recreation
Posted in Arno's Blog | 6 Comments »

Transitioning-Arousal

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

This lesson is the final step for using our minds. We’ve prepared, weighed the risk, and made a decision. Now we need to let go of the thinking process and shift into action. This lesson addresses a very important part in accomplishing this shift.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: arousal, transitions
Posted in Arno's Blog | 6 Comments »

Intention

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

This lesson address intention and how it fits into decision-making.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: goals, intention, motivation
Posted in Arno's Blog | 3 Comments »

Different Ways of Engaging

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

You engage yes-fall risks differently than no-fall risks. By “different” I mean you need to determine whether or not to listen to your mind’s doubts.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: no fall, yes fall
Posted in Arno's Blog | 6 Comments »

Decision Points

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Risks contains decisions within decisions. How we utilize our analytical and intuitive intelligences changes as we go deeper into the risk.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: decision points, decisions, feeling, strategic, tactical, thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

No-Fall Yes-Fall

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

To make appropriate risk decisions we need to understand consequences experientially rather than just intellectually.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: consequences, experiential, no fall, yes fall
Posted in Arno's Blog | 14 Comments »

Intuitive Intelligence

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

We’ve gone into the mechanics of how decisions are made in the previous lesson. Now, we need to address what will help us follow through with those decisions. The main driving force of our decisions is our motivation. Motivation, however, is determine by the goals we have.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: decisions, intuitive
Posted in Arno's Blog | 13 Comments »

Motivation and Goals

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Tags: dave macleod, end-results, goals, motivation, processes
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Decisions

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Decisions shift us from preparation to action. If we don’t make appropriate decisions we don’t take appropriate risks. Read more as we begin digging into the transition phase of risk-taking.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: decisions, transitions
Posted in Arno's Blog | 10 Comments »

Yogi Berra

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Forks in our path require us to make decisions. What do you consider when making decisions?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: decisions, yogi berra
Posted in Arno's Blog | 7 Comments »

Information Gathering

Monday, March 29th, 2010

This lesson addresses gathering objective information during preparation for a risk.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: lookings, objective, preparation
Posted in Arno's Blog | 2 Comments »

Intentional Thinking

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This lesson addresses thinking intentionally, not habitually.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: habitual, intention, mental, thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 5 Comments »

Resistance and Acceptance

Monday, March 1st, 2010

This lesson addresses resistance we feel concerning stress and the need to accept it.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, discount offers, and practical tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: acceptance, resistance
Posted in Arno's Blog | 9 Comments »

Intuitive vs. Analytical

Monday, February 15th, 2010

This lesson addresses how we each have a tendency toward being intuitive or analytical and how this tendency can interfere with our climbing.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, product offers, and practical application tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: analytical, intuitive, preparation
Posted in Arno's Blog | 4 Comments »

Expectations

Monday, February 1st, 2010

In the next series of lessons we’ll investigate the mind’s intelligence for preparing for risks. This lesson addresses how expectations effect preparation.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, product offers, and practical application tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: dan millman, expectations, mind, preparation
Posted in Arno's Blog | 18 Comments »

Mind Tricks

Monday, January 18th, 2010

This lesson looks at ways the mind tricks us into skirting the learning process. Your mind does have intelligence, which we’ll address in later lessons. For now, we need to understand its limitations so we don’t unconsciously waste attention. Labeling is one limiting tendency of the mind. Many people label a situation or outcome as “good” for instance. So, what do you mean by “good?”
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, product offers, and practical application tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: label, mind, tricks
Posted in Arno's Blog | 16 Comments »

Who Am I

Monday, January 4th, 2010

This lesson addresses how random our thoughts are and helps us ponder the question: Who am I?
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, product offers, and practical application tips, to our eList subscribers. Please join our eList to receive these lessons.

Tags: attention, awareness, thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 16 Comments »

Mental Lies

Monday, December 21st, 2009

This lesson addresses the way our minds can lie to us about situations we haven’t yet engaged.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail, with upcoming training, product offers, and practical application tips,to our eList subscribers. Please sign up to receive these lessons.

Tags: awareness, climbing, lies, mental, mind
Posted in Arno's Blog | 12 Comments »

The Mind Comes Forth

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

This lesson addresses the natural tendency of our minds to be active.
-
These lessons are emailed in more detail to our eList subscribers. Please sign up to receive these lessons.

Tags: diamond sutra, mind, thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 20 Comments »

Thinking vs. Awareness

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

These lessons are emailed in more detail to our eList subscribers. Please sign up to receive these lessons.
-
This lesson will dig into the difference between thinking and awareness.

Tags: awareness, thinking
Posted in Arno's Blog | 21 Comments »