Time Management: Finding More Time to Spend with Your Horse
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. Do you want to know the key to time management? STOP DOING THINGS! Yep, that’s right! You won’t find more time by creating and organizing better and longer to-do lists. The only way you...
How to Overcome Fear in Horseback Riding
A post on overcoming fear has been on my radar for a while. Many of my readers are beginning riders. Lots of fears emerge as we journey through the process of learning to ride, finding an instructor, finding an appropriate mount, etc. Some of us may have experienced a...
3 Big Lies We Tell Ourselves About Our Riding
Have you ever said these things to yourself? You have to be the best Your failures are proof that you aren’t good enough You have to have work – life balance On the surface these may look a little bit like goals. Everybody wants to be the best at what they do....
How to Condition Your Horse After a Break
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. You know how it is. Life happens and sometimes our passions get pushed to the side. I’ve been out of the show pen for a while. Other priorities took over. It’s time. Time to get my horse...
Horse Show Nerves: Overcoming Choke
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. Have you ever choked in a horse show or any competition? I have been a member of our local affiliate of the National Cutting Horse Association for several years. Last year I was actively...
How to Get Out of a Riding Slump
How can something you profess to love so much suddenly become something you start to find excuses to avoid? Take heart! It happens to the best of us. Maybe you were at the top of your game. You were crushing it at the horse shows, but for some reason, now you...
Regaining Confidence after a Fall
Some people can have a fall, pick themselves up, dust themselves off, get back on their horse and carry on as if nothing had happened. But other people, especially those of us who are a bit older, find that it can be very difficult to do. The ground seems to get...
How to Strengthen Your Core and Improve Your Riding
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. What is the “Core”? How can strengthening your core improve your riding? In this age of fitness, you undoubtedly have heard the term “strengthening your core”. So what exactly is...
6 Reasons You Need to Set Goals to Improve Your Riding
By its very nature, horseback riding is a very goal-oriented activity. Perhaps you are just now learning to ride, or you’re moving up through the levels, or training a young horse, or developing a fitness program for yourself and your horse. Maybe you are just now...
7 Secrets to Horseback Riding with Confidence
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. What if you already had everything you need within yourself to be confident in your riding? If you’ve lived on the planet for any length of time, you’ve experienced being nervous...