What are the most important things you can do to keep your relationship with your trainer going strong? Perhaps you have an annual goals meeting. Or you make sure to let her know what you appreciated most at the end of a lesson. There are so many facets to a healthy,...
How to create and utilize a motivation statement Exercept from Tonya’s column “Why do you ride?” “Why do you compete?” Ask two people those questions and you are sure to get different answers. We each have our own personal passion that keeps us involved in...
Eric Navet is featured in my next article for Practical Horseman Magazine “I think one mistake people make is to try to go faster than the other people [in the class]… Don’t try to do better than the others, do the best you can on your horse in the moment. When...
I really enjoyed being on Dr. Cindra Kamphoff’s podcast! She is the author of “Beyond Grit” and her podcast is a good one to put into your rotation, it is called: High Performance Mindset. She is a positive, energetic high performance coach and she has...
When, how and who to hire as a mental-skills professional “As you zipped along the highway going home from the barn today, you had some time to reflect on your riding. It was exciting and a little bit intimidating to realize that you feel ready to get some...
“We talk to ourselves all day long. We can’t go more than 11 seconds without saying something. It’s usually something harmless, but when it’s negative then you are undermining yourself. You need to learn to be aware enough to censor your own speech because those...
