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Imagine…
(or Getting Motivated and Inspired)
It’s cold.
It’s windy. I just don’t want to go out there and ride
my horses. Do you ever feel this way? Sure I love to go
riding, but some days… I just don’t feel motivated. In
this case, I haven’t been able to make observable
progress with my horse, but I want to train him. How can
I get motivated to go and do it? The answer can be
deceptively easy. Or perhaps, easy to do, but still
challenging.
READ!
Well, let me clarify, read non-fiction books about
horses. I recommend reading horse training books, but
whatever works for you. Read any horse book that
inspires you to dream, especially a training book that
is levels beyond where you are with your horse. This
allows you to envision what you could do with your
horse. If you ride English, read Podhajsky’s The
Complete Training of Horse and Rider, Wynmalen’s
Dressage, or Racinet’s Another Horsemanship. If you ride
western, I suggest Training the Reined Horse by Peter
Phinny and Jack Brainard, Williamson’s Breaking and
Training the Stock Horse, or Brainard’s If I Were To
Train a Horse. If you are just looking for other fun
stuff to do, read Step By Step Trick Training by Jackie
Johnson, Discovering Natural Horsemanship by Tom Moates,
or Hempfling’s Dancing With Horses. All these books
should help you imagine what it would be like to have an
even better trained horse. Reading books can allow you
to dream; to believe that, yes, even you can do these
things. It doesn’t matter if you ever compete or if you
are never recognized. Rather, did you try? Did you
dream?
You can’t train your horse to be great unless you can
imagine him as great. Your horse can’t attain greatness
unless you believe that he can be great. Dream… dream
and imagine where you could be. Read… read and learn
where you can go with your horse. Imagine… just imagine…
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