{"id":100,"date":"2008-12-26T23:29:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T05:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-12-26T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T05:29:31","slug":"horse-training-is-like-a-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-is-like-a-riddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training Is Like A Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p><strong>&#8220;Horse Training Is Like A Riddle&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope your Christmas was enjoyable!\u00a0 We had all the<br \/>\nkids here for breakfast and dinner and really had a<br \/>\nnice time talking and reflecting on the true gift that<br \/>\nChrist Jesus gave to us.<\/p>\n<p>We played board games, ping pong, and simply had a fun time.<\/p>\n<p>Now that 3 of our 5 kids are out of the house, the<br \/>\ntimes we can all get together are very special.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nYou often have to think through it<br \/>\nto figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>Some riddles are easily solved.<\/p>\n<p>Some are very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Same with horse training.<\/p>\n<p>Take this riddle for instance.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that grows larger the<br \/>\nmore you take away from it?<\/p>\n<p>What a weird question because it<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t make sense&#8230;until you know the<br \/>\nanswer.<\/p>\n<p>And getting your horse to do or<br \/>\nnot do something is very much like that.<\/p>\n<p>But the good news is this.<\/p>\n<p>The more you work with your horse<br \/>\nthe more you can figure out his riddles.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ll come across riddles you<br \/>\nsimply can&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you solve them?<\/p>\n<p>One way is to get a knowledgeable<br \/>\nhorseman to help you.<\/p>\n<p>If one&#8217;s not available or you want<br \/>\nto figure it out yourself, then you have to<br \/>\nstep back think about it.<\/p>\n<p>You may be working with your horse<br \/>\nand you&#8217;re just not gettin&#8217; him doing what<br \/>\nyou want.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re in the round pen and<br \/>\nyour frustration level is shooting through<br \/>\nthe roof.<\/p>\n<p>Understand that it&#8217;s okay to stop<br \/>\nfor a bit and do anything with the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Just leave the round pen for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Go in the house and get a drink of<br \/>\nwater.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to redirect your mind to<br \/>\nsomething else because when you&#8217;re feeling the<br \/>\nfrustration, that is often all you can think of.<\/p>\n<p>When that&#8217;s all you can think of, then<br \/>\nit&#8217;s hard to think through the problem.<\/p>\n<p>So after you&#8217;ve got your drink of water<br \/>\nthen your mind will have settled down and you<br \/>\ncan start thinking through the problem.<\/p>\n<p>And even if you don&#8217;t come up with<br \/>\na solution, you&#8217;ve calmed down enough that you<br \/>\ncan actually invent one after you get back into<br \/>\nthe round pen again.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about horses is there is lots<br \/>\nthat can go wrong &#8211; at least,&#8230;it seems that way.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that way because when you lack<br \/>\nthe knowledge and then try to fix something and it<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t work, you feel like you&#8217;re out of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, the problem is there&#8217;s something<br \/>\nyou just don&#8217;t know and you must find the answer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it can be frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>But it can be fun too.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I urge you to learn from lots<br \/>\nof people.<\/p>\n<p>And this is why I constantly seek new ones<br \/>\nbecause everyone does it different enough at times<br \/>\nthat you get some great tips, tricks, and techniques<br \/>\nwithout having to travel all over to get them.<\/p>\n<p>Take JJ Rydberg for instance.<\/p>\n<p>One of his biggest &#8220;No No&#8217;s&#8221; is making the<br \/>\nhorse mad.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever made your horse mad?<\/p>\n<p>If you have, then you know how unlikely it<br \/>\nis you will teach him something while he&#8217;s mad.<\/p>\n<p>Some horses get mad r-e-a-l easy.<\/p>\n<p>Some seem to never get mad.<\/p>\n<p>Some are in between.<\/p>\n<p>And some are closer to one end of the<br \/>\nspectrum than the other.<\/p>\n<p>Where does your horse fit?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a BIG clue for you.<\/p>\n<p>Understand your horse&#8217;s personality and<br \/>\nyou understand better how to work with him.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>If your horse will do what you ask but<br \/>\nhe won&#8217;t tolerate much of it after a few minutes,<br \/>\nthen you say to yourself, &#8220;I can only ask him so<br \/>\nmuch and then we need to do something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heck, your horse may only allow you to<br \/>\nask him something 4-5 times and he&#8217;s had enough.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case, then you should know<br \/>\nthat.<\/p>\n<p>And if it IS the case, then do as J.J. says.<\/p>\n<p>Ride him around on a loose rein for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Give the horse back his head.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d prefer to have control of your head too<br \/>\nif you were mad, right?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be like someone gettin&#8217; in your face<br \/>\nand pointin&#8217; their finger and nagging you.<\/p>\n<p>How would you like that?<\/p>\n<p>But if they left you alone, you could calm<br \/>\ndown and soon get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Do you see how important and valuable that<br \/>\nis to know?<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you want to know more good stuff, you<br \/>\nmust see J.J.&#8217;s information if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>Just click on the following:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-jjrydberg.html<\/p>\n<p>Now before I forget, you might want to<br \/>\nknow the answer to the riddle I posed at the beginning<br \/>\nof this email.<\/p>\n<p>The riddle was:\u00a0 What gets bigger the more<br \/>\nyou take away from it?<\/p>\n<p>The answer:\u00a0 A hole<\/p>\n<p>Now that you know the answer, it seems easy<br \/>\nright?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re shooting for with horses.<\/p>\n<p>Keep working with them.<\/p>\n<p>Keep at them.<\/p>\n<p>You will just get better and better.<\/p>\n<p>And you will get better faster by learning<br \/>\nwhat others teach.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-jjrydberg.html<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230; 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