How to Improve Your Riding When You Can’t Ride
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...
Finding the Gifts in Adversity
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. ...
Discovering Your Passion
Hobby or Passion? Are horses a hobby or a passion for you? If you look up the word “hobby” in the dictionary, it says: a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation. An activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation...
Time Really Does Fly When You’re Having Fun
When was the last time you said “time flies” or “I don’t have enough time” or “time’s running out” or even “I’m too old to do that”? I recently conducted a poll of riders over the age of 50 and asked them what were their biggest challenges. One of their top answers...
6 Barriers to Confidence in Your Riding
Do you find that you lack confidence with your horse or your riding? Would you like to ride with more confidence, but for some reason find yourself questioning your abilities? Does it seem like you are stuck and having a difficult time improving? What's going on may...
3 Powerful Questions to Accomplish Your Goals
I love the idea of the New Year. Getting a clean slate, setting new goals, starting over. But for some of us, the New Year represents disappointment. Disappointment with goals unfulfilled, dreams never started, everything we hoped to accomplish during the year and...
5 Skills You Need to Improve You’re Riding
Are you feeling stuck with the progress of your riding? Maybe you are feeling unmotivated or frustrated with your riding and unsure of how to move it forward. Maybe you’d like to take it up a level, to set some big goals and accomplish big things. The following five...
Learning to Celebrate Small Wins
This is the time of year when we get out our notebooks and planners and begin to write a list of things we want to accomplish in the next year. Normally it begins with things like lose weight, save more money, read 10 books, etc. If you’re a rider, your goals may be...
Finding the Blessing in the Challenge
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank Clark I listened to an interview this week with Bethany Hamilton. She’s the young girl that lost her arm to a shark attack at the age of 13 while surfing near her home on Kauai. The...
How to Overcome Overwhelm
When I came across the image for this week's post, I realized that there are two kinds of overwhelm. The first is the good kind. Being overwhelmed by something breathtakingly beautiful, like this ride through these magnificent canyons or a piece of beautiful music...