| Your mind-set, approach and way of thinking | | | | alasting relationship with your horse. |
| (beliefs)are critical to building trust and a | | | | 2. People generally fall into one of two mind-sets. |
| lastingrelationship with your horse. Your mind-set is | | | | The first, they use force or intimidation to get whatthey |
| thefirst thing you must scrutinize and work to | | | | want out of the horse. The second uses the buddyor |
| understandin developing skills in horsemanship. | | | | sweet-talk method to try to get what they want |
| People generally have one of two mind-sets when | | | | fromthe horse. Neither work. |
| itcomes to getting a horse to do something. They | | | | 3. There is a third mind-set, being evenhanded |
| eitherhave the mind-set that they are going to use | | | | notaggressive or will-nilly. |
| force orintimidate the horse to get him to do it or they | | | | 4. Horseman should do things for and with their |
| usethe buddy up method of trying to sweet-talk their | | | | horsesand not do things to them. |
| horseinto doing it. Both of these methods are | | | | 5. Be creative and think outside the box when |
| hopeless,you will not gain the trust nor respect your | | | | doingthings with your horse. |
| lookingfor from your horse. | | | | 6. Be gentle and calm with out being wimpy andbe as |
| There is a third mind-set, one that will get theresults | | | | firm as necessary without getting mad ormean. |
| you're looking for in your horse. People thatfit into this | | | | 7. Principals are more important than purpose |
| mind set are not aggressive orwilly-nilly, but | | | | andadjusting to fit the situation is more important |
| evenhanded, they lie somewherebetween the two | | | | thanrules. |
| extremes. | | | | In the next article, we will discuss Approach, |
| When working with your horse your mind-set is to be | | | | Helping your horse to understand what it is you |
| asgentle and calm as you can, but as firm as needed. | | | | wanthim to do. |
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| Let's recap today's discussion on Mind-Set | | | | notbe taken as anything more. |
| 1. Your mind-set is critical in developing trust and | | | | |