by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
Are you finding it difficult to get motivated to improve your riding? Motivation, simply defined, is the ability to initiate and persist at a task. The reason motivation is so important in our riding is that it is really the only thing which we can control. That’s...
by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
When I decided to learn the sport of cutting a few years ago, I knew that I needed to find a horse that knew more about the sport than I did. I wasn’t a beginning rider. I’d been riding for some 40 years at that point and even competed in a few cattle classes, but...
by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
Have you ever gotten to the end of your week, and said something like “What did I do this week?” or “I had 6 things on my list that I wanted to do and didn’t get to one of them.” When it comes to managing our time, being intentional about how we spend it is key. It...
by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
Do you ever think about your things you want to accomplish with your horse or your riding and then suddenly realize that you’re not sure how to make them happen? Does thinking about accomplishing those things make you feel nervous or scared? Do you put them off or...
by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
When Can I Ride Again? At the time of this writing, many of us are in a season with the COVID-19 shelter in place orders where we may not be able to even see our horses much less ride. Even if this pandemic has past, you may be in a situation where you...
by Pam | Mindset, Showing and Competition
My computer crashed this week. I spent 4 hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting to see a guy for a license renewal that took 3 minutes. My flight was 3 hours delayed, and on top of that, I’ve got some sort of mung that I probably picked up on the flight. ...
