30/07/2024
Do less better.
The majority of the time there’s no big magic fix, perfect one exercise, or big exciting change that you need to do in order to achieve whatever it is that you’re working on. Many times folks will come into lessons thinking they need to work on one thing and we end up going back to doing lesser things better. This of course can look different for everybody depending on where you were at, but we can almost always find this saying to be true with almost anyone. Including ourselves. It’s easy to get caught up in wanting to do advance maneuvers and trying to put our focus into those without first mastering how to do the basics well. That’s so much more exciting.
Your Horsemanship and your ride starts the moment you get your horse from the pasture or the stall. The way in which you lead them, the way in which you halter them, the way in which you handle them, the way in which you saddle them. It all truly matters. Good horsemen and women are created in their mundane, simple, and consistent tasks in which they do every everyday. Don’t get me wrong, we all want to advance to the higher level stuff, but many times when we focus on doing less better, the higher level things get so much simpler.