10/11/2022
There used to be a saying floating around that said something like “You can change saddles, change bridles, change trainers, even change horses, but you will keep running into problems unless you change yourself”.
It’s easy to take that as a prompt to negatively judge people who are working through the process of eliminating the cause of their horses issues. But in reality I don’t think we are hard wired to look within, and we only arrive there after exhausting all other options.
So if you know someone who is at the changing bits stage, the changing saddles stage, the changing trainer stage, or even the changing horses stage, do not judge them poorly . Those are all stages we need to go through and it would be like judging a toddler for struggling to walk.
By all means plant a seed in their minds, but understand it’s all part of the process and we are all where we need to be at this moment.
It’s not a race, it’s a never ending journey.
And here’s a message from my favorite pirate…