What are you willing to do

We’re only slightly bedraggled… 🥴

I don’t think I’m abnormal when I say I have a limited amount of time to work the horses. In recent years, I’ve actually had more time and flexibility than I had in the past, and I’ve attempted to capitalize on that as much as I can (especially with an aging horse- that means even more to me now than it did years ago).

But my schedule, just like the average person’s, is quite full. And sometimes things don’t go as planned. Today I worked B (yay!) in the rain (BOO). NOT exactly my idea of a fun time, and I’m sure it wasn’t hers, either.

But, this was the time block I had available, and so we worked. I could have easily skipped it, but she’s had her time skipped more often than not, and I didn’t want to do that to her again. Tnd the work is really benefiting her, but she won’t get the benefits unless we work. So work we did.

With all we are juggling in our world, it’s so simple to take the easy road and skip it when things get a little bit challenging. But if we’re begin honest with ourselves, we won’t grow that way. We will continue to get more of what we’ve always gotten on that road, and deep down I think we all know it. But we tell ourselves, I’ll do it later, I’ll get to it, it’ll happen eventually.

But reality is if we don’t push once in a while, it never will.

I’d like to start riding B. She’s getting very close to being stable enough that the riding will start to benefit her body coordination more than the ground work. But guess what - unless we put in the ground work, we won’t get to the riding. Kirsten will be back at the end of the month and so if we want to be ready to ride when she’s here, we’ve got to put in the time together to get there.

And I had no doubt that we will, it might just take a few rainy sessions in order to make it. But it will be worth it, even if it is uncomfortable.