Seoul Creek Farm

Seoul Creek Farm Hunter/Jumper lessons, training, boarding and showing opportunities in West Bend, Wisconsin.

Bernie is coming to Seoul Creek November 28-30Limited spaces are available for outside riders interested in this opportu...
09/23/2025

Bernie is coming to Seoul Creek November 28-30

Limited spaces are available for outside riders interested in this opportunity—please text Courtney for more information 414-688-8888

Fall always reminds me that we are just 3 short months from our Winter Place in Ocala ☀️ looking forward to the adventur...
09/23/2025

Fall always reminds me that we are just 3 short months from our Winter Place in Ocala ☀️ looking forward to the adventures ahead…if you’ve never been…plan a visit with or without your horse!

09/23/2025

"One of my favorite quotes is, “Riders don’t make mistakes, mistakes make equestrians!” Mistakes make us bigger, bolder, brighter, and braver… but only if we have the courage to own, accept, and learn from them. Coping with mistakes, mishaps, missed opportunities, and messing-up is, however, is a common struggle shared by many riders. Even though we’ve all been told that mistakes are learning opportunities, not missed opportunities (which they are!) it’s often much easier for us to define ourselves by the mistakes that we make rather than by the effort that we made.

One of the most empowering skills any rider can develop – on or off their horse – is to learn to admit, accept, and advance from their mistakes. It’s been said that your last mistake is your best teacher, but you can’t learn from your teacher if you don’t go to class (or if you go to class but don’t listen to them. The same thing happens in riding. If you make a mistake but don’t accept it (i.e. you blame it on the judge, wind, rain, or horse) it’s like going to school but not listening to your teachers.

Developing the ability to own and accept mistakes (and more importantly, learn from them) often requires the use of a technique called reframing, which occurs when we learn to view (reframe) negative events in a positive way. While reframing can be a bit tricky in the beginning, it’s absolutely necessary if you ever hope to admit, accept, and advance from your mistakes. For example, instead of feeling disappointed or discouraged because you got disqualified, you reframe it into a learning opportunity by identifying what caused it so that you can avoid letting it happen again in the future. When you have the courage to do this, you can effectively change the negative into a positive and can now learn from the experience.

Believe it or not, one mandatory sub-skill when it comes to reframing is curiosity… learning to ask self-directed questions when feelings of disappointment or defeat arise. “What caused me to make this mistake?” or “What did I learn from it?” are examples of how positively directed questions can lead to productive answers that can ultimately create a plan for improved future efforts.

In addition to learning to cope with mistakes, reframing can also be used to change a potentially stressful or fearful event into one that feels more manageable and less threatening (like when a nervous public speaker imagines her audience in their underwear). Changing what the stressor means to you (by reframing it as something else) changes how our brain views the challenge, how it responds to it, and ultimately how you cope with it. Two recent examples of reframing that I witnessed were when a rider stopped worrying about a scary fence by calling it “the big purple thing with the flowered sticky-thing poking out.” and when another rider imagined the judge as a good friend giving her tips and helpful hints.

Regardless of the challenging situation – mistake or otherwise – it can almost always be reframed into something positive…but it’s up to you to find what that something is. So the next time you get stuck in a rut, make a mistake, or finish poorly, always remember what Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity” but only if you have the courage to reframe the difficulty as an opportunity!"

📎 Save this article and read more by Daniel Stewart at https://www.theplaidhorse.com/2021/03/19/daniel-stewart-admit-accept-and-advance/
📸 © Chelsea Lothrop Photography

Commitment to the Process…Grit, Grace and Elbow Grease… 👏
09/18/2025

Commitment to the Process…Grit, Grace and Elbow Grease… 👏

09/17/2025
09/08/2025
Congratulations to the New Owners of Nickelottie SPF…many thanks to the Wilson’s, Blue Gate Farm and New Blue Stables fo...
09/07/2025

Congratulations to the New Owners of Nickelottie SPF…many thanks to the Wilson’s, Blue Gate Farm and New Blue Stables for entrusting us to find sweet Lottie the perfect new home to continue her show career!

With some of the Creekers back at college, we have a few horses for half lease available for 2025-26 season.   So if you...
08/26/2025

With some of the Creekers back at college, we have a few horses for half lease available for 2025-26 season. So if you haven’t already talked to Courtney about your leases for next year please do so this week! If you have already talked to me you are on my radar and we can try appropriate options over the next couple of weeks!

We also have the World’s Best Crossrail/Short Stirrup Large Pony for On or Off Site Lease (available now), and 3 Novice Child/Adult, Children/AA Horses one is available now and other two will be available by end of the year.

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1896 County Highway NN
West Bend, WI
53095

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 9pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 9pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 9pm
Thursday 7:30am - 9pm
Friday 7:30am - 9pm
Saturday 7:30am - 6pm
Sunday 7:30am - 5pm

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