14/11/2023
Now this, this is what we are about 🙌🏻👌🏻🫶🏻
CELEBRATE YOUR OWN WINS.
It’s important to run your own race, ride your own class, lope your own warm up and celebrate your own wins. Whether there are 60 or 600 entries, everyone wants to win, but ultimately, everyone has to show up to even be one step closer to winning.
And winning doesn’t look the same for everyone and that is OKAY.
Some days winning is that your horse is sound after months of time off.
Some days winning is that your sick horse perked up and whinnied at you when you walked in the barn.
Some days winning is that you drove yourself to the horse show.
Some days winning is that your horse walked into warm up.
Some days winning is that you left three barrels standing or didn’t go off course.
Rarely ever is “winning” actually WINNING and a lot of wins happen outside of the arena.
Celebrate all of those wins because you worked your tail off and you earned them!
When you treat and rehab a horse for a year and you finally get to haul them to a show, that’s a win, an hard-earned one.
When you finally hit one lead change out of four, that’s a win.
When you make it through the trail course without a DQ, that’s a win.
When your ulcer prone, anxiety ridden SELF, keeps lunch down at the show, that’s a win.
Don’t compare your win to the person who took home the blue ribbon, because you never know, that may be just what they needed to not sell out on their dreams. Congratulate them after you congratulate yourself.
It is so easy to get caught up in the idea of “winning” that we lose sight of our own goals, how far we have come, what we have conquered, and the wins that we let slip by us because they weren’t a declared WIN on paper.
Easier said than done, I know. So in case you haven’t heard it or in case you haven’t told yourself lately,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN!!! ❤️
Tweaked and modified by Jeremy Anglin, full credit to unknown author.
