Episode 351: Why ‘Kind of Working’ Feeds Dissatisfaction

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And really reflect on where it is. You might be accepting less because you’re like, it’s kind of working. I’m not actually satisfied. It’s kind of working. It’s kind of not working. But I don’t know if I want to be the one that rocks the boat. That’s the challenge of choosing change.

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Podcasting from a little cabin on a hill. This is the Stacy Westfall podcast. Stacy’s goal is simple to teach you to understand why horses do what they do, as well as the action steps for creating clear, confident communication with your horses.

Speaker1:
Hi, I’m Stacey Westfall and I’m here to help you understand, enjoy and successfully train your own horses. I am also joined today by Enzo because I’m recording by horseback again. And the reason I wanted to record this podcast is because I have noticed something happening across three different types of riders, and I think it’s really important for you to become aware of, because if you’re not aware of it, it will hold you back. I want to talk about the challenge of choosing change when it’s kind of working. I have the opportunity to teach a lot of different riders at a lot of different riding levels, all the way from somebody just getting started who’s potentially having safety issues all the way up to people who are competing at high levels of competition and everything in between. And one thing that I have noticed over the years, and I have three different specific examples in my mind right now, is that it’s very common for riders to have a slight sense of dissatisfaction, and also a competing Resistance to change. What I want to talk about today is the three different ways I see this present itself, so that you can double check with yourself and see if you are participating in this. So the three ways that I see this dance of dissatisfaction and also an underlying fear of change show up, are in a safety aspect, in a kind of general riding something’s missing sort of aspect. And in showing let’s start with the safety issue.

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If I’m teaching somebody who has a fear around safety, that often comes from either just a generalized idea that something could happen, or very often it comes from a specific example. Maybe they’re horse spooked or startled, and now that person is aware that something could unseat them. Or maybe the horse actually did jump or roll back and did actually unseat them. The challenge that I see is that very often when I start giving them the physical assignments of things to do, here’s what I want you to do with your horse. Their response will be, my horse doesn’t really like to do that. My horse doesn’t really want to work in the arena. My horse doesn’t really like to do that type of a thing. And what I end up translating this to is I’m dissatisfied. In this case, I’m afraid that a safety issue like spooking or bolting could happen. But I’m also afraid on some level of my horse’s dissatisfaction or my horse not agreeing with this exercise. So there’s a dance here between, I am afraid. I’m also lumping this into the dissatisfaction category. I’m dissatisfied because I am afraid. And I own a horse and I want to ride it. But I’m not satisfied because I’m afraid when I go out to ride it. But I also am sort of willing to be kind of okay, because maybe the spook won’t happen again. Maybe if I just don’t ride down that trail, or maybe if I just don’t ride with that person, maybe it’s kind of okay.

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It’s kind of working and I don’t want to rock the boat because, you know, if if I do the exercise that you just suggested to me, my horse doesn’t really like that. Okay, let’s put that one down for a minute and go to the next one. I’ll also work with riders who don’t really have safety issues, but they just kind of feel like something’s missing. They’re like, my horse feels disconnected. Or maybe it’s not a true safety issue, but there’s some annoying things like the horse decides that it doesn’t want to go any further down the trail, so it just kind of slows down or box. Or maybe it feels like the horse isn’t putting in that much effort when they’re going. So the rider’s overworking to keep the horse going. Or maybe it’s the opposite and the rider is overworking to try to keep the horse from constantly rushing. So although it may not be a true safety issue, and the person does not feel any kind of safety threat at all, it feels like something’s missing between the communication of the horse and the rider. So a lot of times these riders come and they’re kind of looking again. In all these situations, I tend to find riders are looking for, let’s just say a technique that’s going to fix this. Now they’re going to be aware that there’s more than that.

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But a lot of times it does feel like, man, if I could just find that one technique that would make it work, then, you know, maybe things would be better. So this person comes. They feel like something’s missing. Horses rushing. They’re constantly working to slow it down. Horse is slow and they’re constantly working to keep the horse moving so they’re not enjoying their rides. Horse seems distracted that something’s missing. Idea is there. But again, when I give them exercises, when I tell them what to do, they’re like, ah, boy, that seems kind of hard. I mean, I don’t really want to show why do I need to work on something like collection? I mean, it’s a little bit confusing to me why I would be having rain contact and leg contact at the same time, and if I can’t comprehend it, why would my horse be able to comprehend it? And this just seems like a lot of work. It’s not that bad. I mean, what I have is kind of working. Do I really need to do all of that? So again, we’ve got this contrast of I’m not satisfied there’s dissatisfaction with what I have, but there’s also hmm, it’s kind of working. I don’t know if I want to be the one that rocks the boat. And then example number three would be somebody who shows their horse, who has goals, enjoys going to shows, and they want to show. And again, they have a little bit of a dissatisfaction, maybe with the results that they’re getting at the show.

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Specifically, they think that they could actually improve their capability and their horses capability, and that would actually factually change the results. But at the same time, when I give them the homework to do the feedback, can you guess it again is, boy, that’s a lot of repetitions that you’re telling me I need to do. And my horse doesn’t really like doing that exercise. And this feels hard. And I’ve done it for two days and I’m not really seeing the results that I wanted to. So again, we see this dissatisfaction, but also an underlying vibe of I don’t want to rock the boat. And what I have is kind of working. And then in this show example, what I tend to get even more of is, yeah, but I can definitely sense how doing that many transitions or doing this exaggerated thing is actually going to slightly disturb some things. And I say to them, absolutely, we actually have to disturb some of those things to go to the next level. We have to address some of those underlying issues that, for example, when you give your half haul and your horse runs through it, that you might need to do a whole halt, or if you are riding your horse and you do a transition in the same spot three times, now you just kind of want to avoid riding through that spot because your horse is going to anticipate.

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The problem is, you don’t get that choice when you go in to show in a pattern class that you’re going to go show in at your show. So we need to address the issue. Now rock the boat on purpose. Handle the communication issues that come up. We need to put the money in the bank through having those conversations, and it’s going to have to be done more than one ride. It’s going to have to be done more than one clinic. It’s going to have to be done more than one week. It’s going to have to be done until it becomes easy, until it becomes your new baseline. And so no matter what the example is, when I think about the challenge of choosing change in all three of these cases, all the riders want improvement. One wants it for safety. One wants it because they’re just generally, you know, not quite enjoying it as much. And one wants it because they really want better results, which again is just a higher level communication challenge. They’re all communication challenges. All the riders are expressing a dissatisfaction of some level. And most of the time, the resistance that they have is actually coming from an underlying thought of. Yeah, but it’s also kind of working. If you take only one thing away from this podcast, I would love it to be this. It’s great that it’s kind of working. And it’s absolutely true that if you want to change, you’re going to have to be the one that rocks the boat a little bit.

Speaker1:
You’re going to have to be the one that says, I know this exercise Size is challenging. I know that we’re both learning something new. I know that I’m going to feel resistance to it, and I know that horse. When you also express resistance to it, I’m going to be very tempted to agree with you and remember all the times where it was kind of working. So you just kind of keep going with it, because you don’t want to be the one that rocks the boat. There’s a different concept that I think sometimes riders use against themselves in this situation, and it’s the concept of a 1% change. So the saying goes, do you want a 1% change in your ride? Would you be satisfied with the 1% change in your ride? And if you say yeah, 1% sounds doable, sounds sounds easy enough, sounds like a great goal. Then you’d be actually changing your horse 100% in 100 rides. So there is some value to thinking about the idea that you can make a half a percent change. You can make a 1% change. You can make very small changes and over time it compounds and it becomes a large change. Where I see riders use this against themselves is that when they are seeing it as a 1% change, but they’re not tracking it over time, they may very easily be doing one step forward and two steps back.

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So if you want to make sure that you’re not doing the one step forward and calling that 1% and then ignoring the two steps back, you’ve got to be able to track your changes over time. So what that means is make a video of yourself riding your horse, and then three months later, do the same exact thing and see if there’s improvement. How much improvement did you see over time? Because it’s easy. If you’re in the mindset of it’s kind of working To. Let’s go to the safety example. To think it’s kind of working. You know, the horse hasn’t done anything that actually scared me in the last 43 days. And by the way, if you’re counting the days, then you’re still affected by it. And you really need a safety plan. When you find yourself sort of arguing for not disrupting things because it is hard to choose change because instead of the external circumstance of the deer jumping or the other rider deciding they want to canter away from you, or the course that they set up at the show, instead of it being an external thing that you can say, oh, that course was just really hard, or that rider shouldn’t have loped away from me on the trail or whatever that issue is. Those are external things that are causing what I’m going to call pressure or challenges And then in that moment, you may realize that the communication you have between the two of you isn’t enough for that situation.

Speaker1:
And yet, the flip side is at home. Are you doing anything that would cause the horse to be able to understand something that challenging? The challenge of choosing change, especially when something’s kind of working, is that you’re going to feel like you’re the one causing problems when you decide to stick with that technique, to stick with that ride, to stay in the arena longer, to do more repetitions, to ask the horse for more bend, to be more firm about whether the horse speeds up or slows down, it will feel like you are the one causing the problem when you decide that it’s time for change, that will feel completely different than when you are put into a situation like the deer jumps out through. And to save your life, you have to grab, hold and shorten up the reins. In that moment, a lot of times you won’t feel guilt because it’s a safety choice. But that very same rider a lot of times will avoid pulling on the reins when they’re in the arena because they feel guilty about using techniques that apply pressure to the horse. But notice they’re not avoiding it, they’re just postponing it and putting it into a different situation. That’s far less effective than it could be in the actual arena. Or let’s go back to the show example for a moment. One of the biggest challenges with coaching people who are showing is that showing is polishing, and polishing is trying not to rock the boat or disturb things too much because you’re trying to put it all together and present a very pretty picture.

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And a lot of times when you need to go back and take things apart and clean things up, you will disturb that pretty picture. It doesn’t necessarily mean ugly is the answer, but if you sit and you do a lot of transitions that are stop, halt and back, stop, halt and back, stop, halt and back. It’s going to be more likely that your horse is going to maybe overdo a specific transition because of what you’ve been doing, and that might not go well in the show arena. It’s actually one of the reasons why I really highly encourage people who are showing to double down on their training outside of the show season, which is really hard to convince people to do, because what it means is that you end your show season and then you go to work for the next show season because that’s your best opportunity to be able to put money in the bank without having to worry about how you stop, pause. Polish it all, put it together, and then get ready for the next show, and then figure out how to improve it. Do a ton of improvement on the off season and then come together, and you’ll be better off for polishing when you get to the next season.

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So there really is a dance between the two that I think you can see really clearly in the show example, but what all three examples have in common is the challenge of choosing to move beyond its kind of working, and be the one that’s going to choose change. When I was thinking about recording this podcast, I went back through and looked through older episodes to see if there was a podcast that would also support this that you could listen to, because I’ve had a lot of feedback from people saying that these double episodes have been really helpful because they get to see a similar topic or a related topic from a couple different angles. I was originally going to title this one. It’s kind of working or something’s missing. And then when I was going back through older episodes of the podcast, I found the one episode 300. The challenge of Choosing change. So I’m going to play that again for you now. And you’ll hear me talking about baby whispers ultrasound. But now baby whispers actually here. So I’ll go ahead and see if I can remember to put a photo of her over on the website. So if you want to see a picture of her, you can do that. Otherwise, listen to this past episode of The Challenge of Choosing Change and really reflect on where it is. You might be accepting less because you’re like, it’s kind of working.

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I’m not actually satisfied. It’s kind of working. It’s kind of not working, but I don’t know if I want to be the one that rocks the boat. That’s the challenge of choosing change. This is episode 300. That is over five and a half years of weekly podcast episodes. And if you had asked me back then, would I be podcasting five and a half years later? I would not have known what the answer would be. So what I want to talk about on the podcast today is choosing to change. And specifically the challenge of choosing change. I want to share with you moments where changing something seems like the best idea ever. But there may be some red flags around doing that. And I also want to share with you why choosing to make changes can often feel so challenging. So I’m going to go over change for what I’m going to call the wrong reasons. Change when it’s exciting and change that other people might not agree with. In some of the changes that I’m about to talk about, it’s amazing how resistant I was to the idea of change. Especially when I stop and think about the idea that change is always happening. Basically, there are changes that come our way without us choosing them, and then there are changes that we choose. One of my favorite quotes about change is change alone is unchanging. And what I notice, at least with myself sometimes, is that it can feel like we can stop change if we try to keep everything the same.

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If I don’t make any new decisions, if I just try to repeat the same thing, maybe I can keep things the same. I don’t know how that’s going for you, but it doesn’t work so well for me. Things still keep changing, even if I try to hit pause and keep them all the same. And I think that’s why this second quote pretty much sums it up. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I’ve been thinking about this topic for months now, as I’ve watched myself choose to make some pretty big changes, and it makes sense to me that choosing change would feel very challenging because change represents uncertainty. So here it is. Change is challenging because it brings up uncertainty. And yet change is always happening whether I choose it or not. And when I choose to make changes, it almost seems like more uncertainty is added to my life. So why would I choose to make changes? I know for me, over the last several months, one of the reasons why I’ve chosen to make some changes is because I’m looking forward in my life. I’m looking forward two years, three years, five years, and I’m beginning to plan some of the things that I want to have happen in the future. And change is coming, whether I like it or not.

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If I plan some of those changes, I will actually be able to influence the direction that some of this goes. But before I go on to tell you about some of the changes that I’ve made that were exciting or that other people might not agree with, let me first tell you about how I know if I’m about to make a change for what I’m going to label the wrong reason when I consider making changes. One red flag or warning sign for me is if I’m about to make a change because I want to escape from something. This is a warning flag for me, and an example of that would be sitting down to record an episode of this podcast. If you’ve been a long time listener, you’ve heard me talk about the challenge of recording a podcast. In fact, if you go all the way back to the first episode of this podcast or the first ten episodes of this podcast, you’ll notice quite a bit of a difference in my voice due to me being afraid, due to my hesitation, due to the uncertainty that surrounded beginning something new. And as much as it surprises some people when I tell them this, I have hit moments of resistance repeatedly throughout the years of recording this podcast, specifically around milestone episodes like episode 300. Although as I sit here today recording this, there’s not nearly as much resistance as I had at the end of the first year.

Speaker1:
And the resistance I had to continuing the podcast, or when I hit episode 100, I remember my brain really arguing with me that I’d done enough. I didn’t have anything else to talk about, and it tried to give me all kinds of reasons why I didn’t need to go on with the podcast sitting here five and a half years later. I know that I could do this for another 300 episodes and continue to have things to talk about, and yet my brain will frequently offer me the idea that I could be done now. What’s interesting to me about this is that I’m willing to consider the idea of changing what I do for weekly content. So for those of you who may be newer to me, I’ve been creating some version of weekly content for over a decade. In the beginning, that was blog posts. At other times that has been videos. And for the last five and a half years, it’s been a weekly podcast. I’m still willing to change what I do for weekly content, but I’m not willing to stop doing weekly content. So when my brain offers me the idea that I don’t need to go on with this podcast, I’m able to hear myself think that, hear and feel the resistance to sitting down, to creating an outline, to recording, to editing, to Two posting, and I’m willing to do all of that because of my commitment to creating weekly content.

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In that moment when the work feels so heavy, when I would rather go on a trail ride or read a book, or take a nap, when my brain is really trying to talk me into the idea of stopping the podcast. My red flag is that I’m not willing to change what I’m doing to escape from something. In this case, it would be the work of sitting down, outlining, recording, editing, and posting a podcast. I would be willing to change to a different format with an intentional plan. This is what has made weekly content possible. This dance between the goal of creating weekly content and the resistance to creating weekly content. This has built a mental muscle that I have been honing for over a decade, and because I have navigated this dance of change or don’t change, do a podcast, do something different. But you’re going to be creating something weekly because I’ve been doing this for so long. I think this has influenced my view of change, and what’s interesting is that it has influenced the way that I view changes that I choose, because that mental muscle that I have been building, when I have the goal and the resistance, has helped me understand myself when I’m in that conflict, because there are changes that we choose and there are changes that come that we don’t choose. And I believe that the choices we have the power to make can help us build the muscle that then help us win.

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Those changes that we don’t choose come our way. I understand why change feels challenging on many levels, even on the most basic level. Our brains default setting is the motivational triad, which is conserve energy, seek pleasure, avoid pain, and change is uncertainty. And uncertainty is the opposite of the comfort that we find with the familiar. And I often have to keep that in mind when I’m choosing to make changes. So one change that I decided to make this year that falls into the exciting category, but it still carries uncertainty with it or the possibility of pain is my decision to breed Gabby. Gabby is now a little over two months in full. And if you want to see a video of baby Gabby in utero, you can actually see it looks like a little tiny seahorse. I’ll post that video on my website and on my Facebook page. I actually paid for the stud fee last fall for a horse named Electric Snow that I could breed Gabby to, and at the time of purchasing that breeding, it was mostly excitement. There was a little bit of uncertainty because it means that I will not be riding Gabby as much when she’s big in foal, and that I will not be able to show her when she has a full at her side. So I was already navigating certain levels of uncertainty around breeding Gabby even last fall when I first bought the stud fee.

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But then this spring, when Lucy foaled in March, she actually had serious complications and ended up dying because of complications from foaling and navigating. That change that we did not choose was very challenging. And in the same time period that we were navigating Lucy’s death and raising an orphan foal. This was the same time period when I was also hauling Gaby over to the vet to have her bred. Knowing that breeding complications can happen is a little different than having breeding complications happen to you. I actually believe that the work that I do on a weekly basis of facing the resistance to recording a podcast or doing any number of things that could be choosing, exercising or any other things that I consistently have some kind of resistance to that I also navigate my way through. I believe these are the things that have built resilience in my decision making process. So when I look at the idea of breeding, Gabby and I know the risks of breeding first hand as we are raising an orphan foal right now, as I navigate those things, I realize that every thought my brain offers me is not true. That when my brain thinks there would be a safer choice to make somewhere, that that’s not always true. And I know this also firsthand, because I’ve had horses that have had death and injury from numerous different things, because I’ve owned horses for many decades. So there were things completely out of my control that many of you have experienced with your horses.

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So it’s not completely true that I could choose enough things to completely keep them safe. That’s just not a true thought. So there’s a perspective that happens when I start to step back and think about, can I really control all of these risks? Which things can I build some steps in to make things safer, and in which ways is there just change and risk when you are doing life? And then I recognize again that this is a very similar cycle to my resistance to doing weekly work, and then my celebration at the end of the week when I’ve done that weekly work and the celebration now that I’m five and a half years later, 300 episodes later, and I’m so glad that I have not given into that resistance, and that I have chosen the path that has led me here, and my choice to breed Gabby is a choice that is impacting me to three and five years from now. So as I make some of these choices, it’s not just a fleeting thing in a moment. It is me looking into the future and knowing that I would love to ride a foal or several foals from Gabby. And the only way I’m going to be able to do that is if I choose to breed her. And I face the uncertainty of what could happen. So I’ve shared with you moments where change might seem like the best idea ever.

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Like, you don’t need to record a podcast this week. But there are also some red flags around that thinking and my idea that I’m willing to change, but only with an intentional plan. I’m not willing to change just to escape the work in front of me. And I’ve also shared with you why change can feel so challenging. We’ve got the motivational triad, the avoid pain. Seek pleasure. Conserve energy. Route. And we’ve got just that feeling of uncertainty that can come up when making changes. I’ve shared with you the news that Gabby’s in foal, and while it’s exciting, it also carries a certain level of uncertainty around that change. And finally, I would like to share with you the idea that there may be changes that you choose, that other people might not agree with when you’re about to make a change that other people might not agree with. That can really feel challenging because on top of your own uncertainty that just surrounds making change in general, you’ll also have other people’s uncertainty or just flat disagreement with your choices. This has been in my mind because this spring I’ve been contemplating selling a couple of my horses and because my horses are so publicly known. I realize that people are going to have thoughts about me selling my horses, and I’d love to say that this doesn’t influence me, but it’s there as something that I have to navigate because it’s there and I have some resistance in me to making those changes.

Speaker1:
I don’t take lightly the idea of selling one of my horses. So again, if I’m going to do something like that, I’m going to do it because I am looking further down the path. I’m looking two years out, I’m looking three years out, I’m looking five years further down the path, and I’m looking at the path that I’m on, the path that I want to be on. And I’m looking at the path that the horse is on. And inside of all of those personal reasons I make my decisions around. When is the right time to sell one of my horses? I was tempted to record an entire podcast, and if enough of you ask, maybe I’ll still do that. But for this podcast, I’ll keep it on the shorter side. So I actually chose to sell Presto, and he is the foal that I adopted from Last Chance Corral. I’ve had him for eight years now, but in the last year or two, I had begun to suspect that our paths were headed different directions. And that was an interesting thing for me to reflect on in the moment, because it actually brought me all the way back to the day that I chose to adopt him. So sometimes when you’re getting ready to contemplate a change, there’s actually a benefit to going back to the beginning, to how you began down this path to begin with.

Speaker1:
And for me, with Presto, I adopted him because I had been a long time follower of Last Chance Corral, and I had always wanted to raise an orphan foal that I adopted from there. So eight years ago, when Presto popped up on the Last Chance Corral page, I decided he was the one. And now was the time and the only real criteria I had for choosing the foal that I wanted to adopt was that I did not want it to be a Quarter horse, a stock breed. That’s primarily what I ride, because focusing on reining means that I’m going to ride primarily Quarter Horses. And so when I chose him, I chose him because he was not a Quarter horse and because he was really cute and he had spots. But when I got thinking back about those selection criteria eight years later, it makes sense to me now in hindsight, how our paths might not line up as clearly anymore. And while trail riding him hundreds of miles each summer has been And really enjoyable for both of us. I began to realize that our paths didn’t line up. When I start looking to three and five years into the future. When I look back and I think that my criteria eight years ago when I adopted him was that I wanted to adopt a foal from Last Chance Corral and raise an orphan. It sounds shortsighted. And yet, even when I take myself back to then, I also know that in the back of my mind, I have done the work around being okay with selling horses.

Speaker1:
I know that this work is very challenging for many of you who would never consider selling your horse, and for you, that might be the best decision you could make. For me, that has not been the consistent decision that I make. I know that I can train horses well, I love teaching, I love teaching people, I love teaching horses, and there are days when I want nothing more than a full barn full of training horses so I can meet more horses and influence more horses. And yet, because I don’t train for the public anymore and I ride my own horses with that often means is that I’m going to train a horse to a certain point, and then, because I don’t want to own a hundred of them, I will eventually need to open up a spot for a new horse to come in. If I want to go through that training process again, and at the end of the day, it’s kind of a beautiful thing because when I sell a horse like Presto, or when I consider selling a horse like Willow, I know that these horses are well trained and that they can go on, and that they can be a blessing to the next rider that has them. So even though eight years ago when I adopted Presto, I didn’t have a long term plan in mind.

Speaker1:
I also did know that this was a possibility, and yet still choosing to make this change was not easy. Choosing to make this change involved a lot of tears. And if I choose to sell Willow by the end of this year, which is what I’m considering, there will again be a whole roller coaster of emotions. And that choice won’t necessarily be easy, but I do believe that I can create win win win situations where the horse can find an amazing home, where I can open up my home to another horse that can learn with me, and that the person who takes this horse will have an amazing experience with this horse. And I can do this because I believe many of you out there listening could be amazing homes. Sometimes when people struggle to sell horses, it is that uncertainty of what could happen that makes you want to protect the horse. I can feel it too. And yet I also know that in a way I can’t protect them even when they’re under my care. And I truly believe that there’s not just one of you out there. There’s not just ten of you out there, that there’s not just a hundred of you out there. There are many, many, many more than that of you listening to this podcast who would be amazing homes for my horses. And this is the certainty that I remember when I’m navigating the uncertainty of making a change like this.

Speaker1:
And I also understand that other people might not agree. I can feel it coming with the orphans with Lefty and Stormy. I’ve read the comments under the posts when I post Lefty and Stormy running together in the field and people say I hope they stay together forever. And I know that people will not agree when I ween them from each other and when I separate them. And I’ll do it anyway, because I believe that it’s in their best interest to navigate those changes. Because change is coming. Change alone is unchanging. Whether I’m navigating a change that has an energy of excitement around it, like the idea of breeding Gabby and having a fall in the spring, or whether I’m navigating a change that I believe other people won’t necessarily agree with. At the end of the day. What I know either way is that I’m building a strength in me. I’m building a resilience as I choose what I change and what I don’t change. I know that sorting through the certainty and uncertainty and accepting the things I cannot change. Changing the things that I think will take me on a path that I want to be on. Two years, three years and five years from now. And the wisdom to know when I’m making a change. Simply to escape from work. These are the things that help build my resilience. Because change alone is unchanging. That’s what I have for you this week. Thanks for listening and I’ll talk to you again in the next episode.

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