05/10/2024
I appreciate everyone's support! Don't forget to switch over and follow Top Tier Horsemanship, as I will be shutting this page off in a week. Thank you!😄
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05/10/2024
I have some exciting news! We have decided to do a face-lift!
I've been debating about changing my business name for some time now, but never knew what or how. After thinking about our original name, though, I noticed many possible clients were confusing the syllables and what my job was as the trainer. With the word performance, many people that would have come backed down to this one word sounding overbearing or as if I only supported the showing community.
This was definitely not true, and I most certainly enjoy all types of training. I love the show pen but also know that the therapy from a trail ride is also important. I actually prefer the young ones where I am allowed to find what they will excel in. I think of horses a lot like people. Not all of us are the same nor have remotely the same interests. We typically really only succeed when we feel passionate about something, same with the horse. I've seen too many oh, he loves___. But yet the horse is swishing his tail, ears back, and eyes perplexed. Knowing your horse is the biggest part of being the best horseman you can be.
So I decided to change the name! I wanted something that was knowledgeable, but inviting, great quality, but not snobby. So here we are sending off with Top Tier Horsemanship.
05/07/2024
Happy birthday to the lady who gave life to me and the woman I gave a new purpose to! ❤️ I know you have always done your best for us girls, and I'm so grateful for all the things you were able to do for us. I wouldn't have been able to have the life I chose without your guidance! Love you mom, hope you enjoy your birthday!
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05/06/2024
Happy Monday Y'all! I hope everyone is enjoying life, taking the moments they can, and going day by day, taking in the little things. Cause it's the little things that matter and make a difference.
So if you want a challenge this week with your life or horsemanship, take a moment to write down all the little things that happened but made such a big impact to your day and overall happiness. A few things I had on my notes last week was hearing the birds chirping and the breeze blowing through our porch as I had a cup of coffee, how well fancy lifted her feet, the sunshine, hearing from tads new owner and seeing a picture of them, and going ride with Easton in the tractor.
Comment below the little things that impacted you, and try to start noticing more good every day! Ours lives can be peaches and cream if that's what we choose to focus on and embrace.
05/02/2024
Fancy update! This baby horse has come back from her baby break so much more confident and with a can-do attitude! We completed our first true walk/trot session today, working through all the transitions and change of direction. To say I'm proud of this filly is an understatement.She went from her cowy quick and reactive thinking to being sweet and docile with so much less worry. We both have made each other better, and I'm so excited for the process that comes with training these young horses! Yes, the end goals are nice, but the small milestones are what sends me over the edge with excitement and joy, as good building blocks will create a solid foundation.
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04/29/2024
Happy Monday everyone, hope the weekend treated ya nicely. I chose this quote because I find it very important to live in the present and look to your future. Everything I do in my day is to better my future. While the future is important, it's also important how you feel right now, that you are happy. Recently, I may have become a little obsessed with getting so healthy physically and mentally that I've started to live in those states of mind. Not that physical and mental health isn't important, it most definitely is. But you also gotta cut yourself some slack sometimes and just go with what the day has in store.
I hope yall have a wonderful week of riding and training!
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04/22/2024
Living life on the scary side.
04/17/2024
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04/15/2024
Happy Monday! Hope everyone is enjoying the wonderful weather.
I have had some wonderful opportunities come across my path the last month and with astounding progression. From taking on a position at a therapeutic riding center to landing my first ambassador role.
I have also encountered a lot of decision-making and realization. Unfortunately, there are no light decisions and all impacting the future outcome with great intensity.
Praying to God I'm making the right decisions. 🙏😞💕
04/10/2024
Baby horse is back in training! With leaps and bounds of proudness, she has provided me!
Back in January, she was starting to become hard to catch, like I've never experienced before. Which was great as I feel like she challenged me on a whole new level, and we eventually worked out the differences and ended on a great note.
But with fancy still being so young and insecure, we decided to give fancy what we like to call "her baby break" for the last few months. Changed some things with her pasturing routine, and made today her first day back in big girl training!
I am so grateful for this mare! She is truly a one of a kind and I know she has so much more left to teach me! So stay tuned for Fancy updates!
04/08/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I'm definitely looking forward to some warm weather and getting some training in! Fancy will be back in training this week!
04/01/2024
I got tuned in to my notebook Saturday when I was planning this week and I Started rambling to myself of ways I can become better for each part of my life through my relationship, my riding, my personal development, my work, etc. And I instantly thought of it's never too late and I had something after it but, I forgot. So honestly, I turned to the internet and looked up quotes containing. It's never too late. And?
As I read through all the "it's never too late" quotes, I noticed that it's never too late for anything.
It's never too late
to start over
to apologize
to love more
to forgive
to become better
to learn
And the list continued on to pretty much anything you could think of to fill in that blank. Hence, my quote today being so simple and open-ended. This one is for you to simply figure out what it is in your life you need to start.
I hope you all enjoyed my brain spasm as much as I did and had a wonderful Easter!🤣🐰
03/25/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! Here is another wonderful week of training! We are getting hyped for warmer weather and weekends of showing!
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03/20/2024
Tad and I have been having some wonderful sessions! A happy boy and a well worked arena. Unfortunately, no video help, so you'll have to take my word that Tad has been putting in his all prepping for our first clinic since 2020! I look forward to riding with the Goodings once again this weekend! 🤠
03/18/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! Hope everyone enjoyed our last little bit of warmth over the weekend. Even though the weather doesn't look too good and some of us are limited to an outdoor arena, keep pushing through and striving to get some horsemanship homework done!
Maybe take a break to the ground, try something new, simply groom and bond, or do some body work. As much as we all can get excited about riding and the things we can achieve, sometimes the limitation to ride is the best for us because it reminds us that the little things are also very important! Take time this week to do one of these things, and I'd love to hear how your next ride goes! Comment below or send me a PM.
Dreams aren't made overnight. They take years. So don't stop pushing. Your ending will be well worth the time, blood, sweat, tears, and self-doubts. Don't be discouraged. Anyone who has had success or grown has struggled through all of them.
03/11/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all, I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
02/26/2024
LIFE... is full of all sorts of events and emotions. Sometimes, a wonderful opportunity can be exciting. Sometimes, a tragic accident can be depressing. Sometimes, a person can do a good deed and make you feel on top of the world, while sometimes another person can say a hurtful thing and make you feel like you are worthless.
You take the emotions and tramas to learn from them. Life is full of them, and none of us will get anywhere without some way to cope or process what came out of the situation. Easton is, of course, my first option when I need the vocalizing reassurance or intimate touch. But when I don't know what to say, when I don't have all my thoughts in a row or simply just need their fur and aroma to cry into, I head to my Tad. We have been a team for the last 8 years and have faced many battles together. Sometimes, just looking into their deep brown eyes can settle the hoof beats racing in our hearts.❤️
Happy Monday Y'all and enjoy this week of beautiful training weather!! Thank you .scott13 and Tad for being there for me in thick and thin!💞
02/19/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! ☀️ Get out there and push yourself this week. It may not be much but just enough to not settle for less.
We are constantly throwing new things at our horses. From new drills to different cues, new environments to different sounds, new questions to different a answer, and the list goes on. We are always trying the new and different because we are trying to figure out what works for our horses and what we can do to make both of us more successful.
In hard times, our horses try, fail, and keep trying for us. I can't think a time in my training when I've asked a horse a new question and have git a flawless A+ on what I was asking. So, how about we get out there, try, fail, and come back, trying even harder!
02/05/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! So blessed we had such a sunny and warm weekend, with better weather for this week!
For this week's quote, I chose something that hit home in a lot of places for me recently. Not just an old friend who was always by my side helping each other out, but a giant picture of everyone who has accepted my help and has also offered help. Helping others shows you know how to care and acceptance shows you know how to receive open heartedly.
While this is great, we also have to cherish our own happiness and do something that will make us happy under total intuition. Nothing to overthink, stress, or contemplate. "To just do it," as Nike would state.
Hope yall are achieving a lot in the increments of training we are receiving, especially for those without an indoor here in Michigan.
01/29/2024
Happy Monday, Y'all! Here are to the friends that come together to support you and encourage you to be who you are, no matter what!
For this week, I want y'all to figure out what your February is going to look like. What is that next big goal you are gonna take on? What is gonna make you wake up in the morning? Whatever it may be set your heart to it and share your goals and progress with me, to share!
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01/22/2024
Happy Monday, yall! I hope everyone had an amazing weekend!
This quote hit me hard today, not even just specifically with horses but life in general and how a horse is so much more loving and caring than we give them credit for sometimes. I also realized that they show light on things we don't understand or know until a soft touch from their muzzle, nuzzles us in the right direction, or their enormous energy and strength running through the snow, thrust us forward to a new view. Thank God for these beloved animals and my man! 💕
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01/08/2024
Life is too short and precious to dwell on the doors that have shut behind our backs. We should look for the doors that may lay before us!
Hope yall have a fantastic week!
01/01/2024
Happy New Year everyone! Here is to another year of fun, laughter, adventures, challenges, and memories with the ones we love and the thibgs we love to do!!
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12/25/2023
Happy Monday and a very Merry Christmas!!🎄
I hope you all have a wonderfully special Christmas!
Easton and I are celebrating our first Christmas on our own, in our own home! ❤️ Along with a new family member... meet Judge!
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12/18/2023
Here is to another week! The week before Christmas. Christmas is a time of year that brings happiness, joy, and love to everyone around the world. This quote hit me a little hard, and I thought it'd be a great one to share.
People may not always be rooting for you as they should be nor do many want to see you grow, however, the ones that don't provide the support and happiness in your success are the ones who want you to stay below them, the ones who get threatened when you show your potential. They are not worth your time and thought. So do myself and you a favor, begin one's journey in 2024 with a new mind... don't drag these people into and through another year.
12/11/2023
We cannot limit ourselves with others thoughts and attitudes, we have to create our own and believe in them strongly.
Happy Monday and have a great week!
12/09/2023
A very low key week, but a great time to accomplish some groundwork, recap basics, and body work! So grateful for the new body and mind releases we have been taught.
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