09/06/2026
How To Train Horses While Surviving The World On Fire
Focus on one thing at a time.
Not one thing with three side hustles. One thing.
E.G.
Today I focused on bend from leg. That's it.
Not- bend from leg, AND flexion at poll, AND impulsion development AND suspension to the gait AND AND AND...
Just bend from leg.
How? Opening inside rein, and asking my high mileage trail horse to not follow his nose, but instead let the rein bend him and find his neck meeting his shoulder meeting my leg.
Are there multiple things working when you focus on a single thing? Yes. When you focus on one thing, you create multiple "down river" side effects. But the best part of these side effects is that your riding is not directly creating them. The horse is organising them. This is an easier runway to self-carriage. A horse carrying themselves.
You may get further and faster to an outcome if you stopped running your trainings like you have to fix all of it or as much of it as you can every time. Focus on one thing. Give it your full attention and presence, and make sure it really landed, take care to ensure your horse really found they can embody it.
Also- have found that in a chaotic world this creates a place of simplicity and awe at the study of a craft, that most of us would choose to do, right until the last possible moment.