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10/10/2025

10/10/2025

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Is there a thing your instructor is always telling you? It’s possible she’s always telling it to you because you’re not fixing it, or you’re not fixing it enough. Is she always telling you to shorten your reins? Try focusing on making them TOO short. Is she always telling you to go more forward? Try going TOO forward. And do you always pop your elbows out? Try and bury your elbows into your ribcage, and take your hands too far apart. What feels like too much to you might actually be the right spot, because feel lies to us all the time. And worse case scenario you overcorrect, and then your instructor can rein you back in.

(But your instructor will be delighted to work on something else, because I’m sure she’s tired of repeating it!)

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Had to steal this… because so many of us have had this feeling. Thanks to Tara Vorhes Polson for posting about the recent moment that rattled her confidence and for adding this to your post.

“I was scared today.

I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared.

I didn’t know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared.

Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it.

When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots...

We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not.

Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life.

When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself “can I do this?”, chances are, your account is almost empty.

Every time you laugh and say “oh no, I’m no good” or “so and so is 10x better than me”, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on.

But every time you say “I’m really pleased with how that went” or “I think I rode that really well”, your balance increases.

We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there!

Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account.

Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.”

Author- cromwellandlucy