{"id":36,"date":"2008-04-26T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-04-26T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:41:02","slug":"nebraska-girl-toothpicks-and-75-million-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/nebraska-girl-toothpicks-and-75-million-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nebraska Girl&#8221;  +  &#8220;Toothpicks and 75 Million Mistakes&#8221;"},"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 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calves, pigs,<br \/>\nchickens, lambs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t get near as much time to do that now as she&#8217;d like.\u00a0 She<br \/>\nhas her MBA in music and teaches both instrumental and vocal music<br \/>\nat the high school level really excels there.\u00a0 She loves to teach.<\/p>\n<p>She is a blonde, blue-eyed native Nebraska gal.\u00a0 While petit, she<br \/>\ncan throw hay and carry a 50 LB feed sack as good as most guys.<\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s grandfather lived to be 2 days short of 102 and was active<br \/>\nand strong to the very last breath.\u00a0 A few years ago when he was 97<br \/>\nand visiting us, he was talking to her and joking with her.<\/p>\n<p>For decades he&#8217;s been writing poems and has privately published<br \/>\nhis books of poems.\u00a0 So &#8211; he wrote a poem about my daughter<br \/>\nand naturally called it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nebraska Girl&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A girl I once knew<br \/>\nHad two eyes of blue<br \/>\nFor her age she<br \/>\nWas quite mature.<\/p>\n<p>If some one should ask ya<br \/>\nShe came from Nebraska<br \/>\nAnd all the of the<br \/>\nCow men-knew-her.<\/p>\n<p>Read that last line again and you&#8217;ll understand that we raise a<br \/>\nfew cattle around here.<\/p>\n<p>******************************************************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. &#8220;Toothpicks and 75 Million Mistakes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andy Curry brings this report&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know you can make 75 million<br \/>\ntoothpicks from a cord of wood?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a L-O-T of toothpicks!<\/p>\n<p>Did you also know you could make 75<br \/>\nmillion mistakes with a horse if you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re doing?<\/p>\n<p>75 million?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>But you CAN make a lot mistakes&#8230;dangerous ones&#8230;<br \/>\nif you aren&#8217;t informed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the BIG reasons we do<br \/>\nwhat do here.<\/p>\n<p>We want you informed.<\/p>\n<p>Take Sam Burrell for instance.<\/p>\n<p>When he and I did an interview, he<br \/>\nrevealed his philosophy and thinking about horses.<\/p>\n<p>When you know what a trainer&#8217;s philosophy is, you begin<br \/>\nto understand how and why he gets the results he does.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I ask &#8217;em that question.<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s philosophy is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be as kind as possible<br \/>\nbe forgiving as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Be looking for the<br \/>\nsuccess or slightest try.<\/p>\n<p>Get the horse to enjoy<br \/>\nworking with you instead<br \/>\nof working for you.<\/p>\n<p>Always be<br \/>\ntraining for tomorrow&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Sam&#8217;s philosophy<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t explained in just one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>His philosophy has very serious implications.<\/p>\n<p>First, &#8220;be as kind as possible and<br \/>\nforgiving as necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being kind with the horse is paramount<br \/>\nbecause you can set out to teach him to be mean<br \/>\nwithout meaning too.<\/p>\n<p>And when he&#8217;s not doing something you<br \/>\nwant, &#8220;be forgiving as necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If he messes up, there&#8217;s no need to<br \/>\nkick and scream on him.\u00a0 That&#8217;ll just make things worse.<\/p>\n<p>But also, if he argues with you then<br \/>\nyou gotta be firm and be the leader by demanding and<br \/>\ngetting what you ask if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>When you get it, that&#8217;s the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t hold a grudge and think, &#8220;Stupid horse&#8230;<br \/>\nwho does he think he is?!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When you win, you win.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the end<br \/>\nof it.<\/p>\n<p>And that goes right into part 2 of Sam&#8217;s<br \/>\nphilosophy: Be looking for the success or the slightest try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Think of it like this.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>You have a very timid student.<\/p>\n<p>You ask him what 5&#215;5 is.<\/p>\n<p>He just looks at you.<\/p>\n<p>Again&#8230;you ask, &#8220;What is 5&#215;5?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looks down&#8230;afraid to answer<br \/>\nbecause he&#8217;s not sure.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, you have patience.<\/p>\n<p>So you ask again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s 5&#215;5?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unsure and desperate to not look a<br \/>\nfool he barely whispers the answer as he looks down<br \/>\nto the ground again and says,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;.twenty f-i-v-e???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221;, you ask.\u00a0 &#8220;What did you say?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, with zero confidence the child<br \/>\nwhispers, &#8220;&#8230;twenty f-i-v-e ??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You ask, &#8220;Did you say twenty five?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looks up at you with those big<br \/>\nglassy eyes and cautiously nods his head &#8220;yes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THAT&#8217;s RIGHT!!!&#8221;, you blurt.<\/p>\n<p>Eureka!\u00a0 The boy got it!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>If you as the teacher had not sought out<br \/>\nthe slightest try or success,&#8230;do you think you<br \/>\nwould&#8217;ve gotten more tries from him?<\/p>\n<p>Had that child been badgered, what would<br \/>\nhis chances at success in education have been?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the thing with horses.<\/p>\n<p>You gotta look for that try&#8230;that success.<\/p>\n<p>A try is every bit as good as a success.<\/p>\n<p>The success will follow.<\/p>\n<p>But if the horse is trying and you&#8217;re not<br \/>\nallowing that try to count&#8230;Mr. Horse may stop<br \/>\ntrying or worse&#8230;fight with you.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a fight you WILL NOT win!<\/p>\n<p>Sam&#8217;s part 3 of his philosophy is: Get<br \/>\nthe horse to enjoy working with you, not for you.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230;he may be just an animal, but he&#8217;s<br \/>\nan emotional being that&#8217;s easily upset.<\/p>\n<p>Again, an upset horse is not an easy-to-<br \/>\n-work-with horse or a safe horse.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you there are people who&#8217;d<br \/>\nargue with me and say, &#8220;You&#8217;re being ridiculous.<br \/>\nYou gotta get that horse doing what you want<br \/>\nand there lots of times you have to get ugly<br \/>\nwith him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although you can get a horse doing what<br \/>\nyou want by brute and force, we&#8217;ve found that only<br \/>\nthe person who works with that horse can ride him<br \/>\nsafely &#8211; at least&#8230;that&#8217;s my experience.<\/p>\n<p>But a horse that&#8217;s chosen to do the work<br \/>\nyou ask of him and does it in agreement with you<br \/>\nis a safer, more partnership-oriented horse.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool stuff when you think about<br \/>\nit, eh?<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of what Sam reveals by<br \/>\nclicking on the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-samburrell.html \" title=\"Sam Burrell Training DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sam Burrell Training DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Sam said &#8220;Always be training<br \/>\nfor tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means quit your horse when he&#8217;s<br \/>\ndone what you set out to do.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you can ride him around and<br \/>\njust enjoy riding him after he&#8217;s done what<br \/>\nyou ask&#8230;but stop the teaching already.<\/p>\n<p>At least, stop the drilling of asking<br \/>\nfor it again, and again, and again.<\/p>\n<p>Always have your horse in the frame of<br \/>\nmind to be ready for you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get him &#8220;dreading&#8221; to be with you.<\/p>\n<p>Get him wanting to be with you.<\/p>\n<p>And as Sam says, &#8220;Quit him on a good<br \/>\nnote and try the horse again tomorrow and you&#8217;d<br \/>\nswear he was up all night studying how to do<br \/>\nwhat you asked of him.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-samburrell.html \" title=\"Sam Burrell Training DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sam Burrell Training DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Ok&#8230;\u00a0 That&#8217;s it for this 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