The process of self-improvement

[glenatron]

How do you get better at something? In my experience the first thing is that you have to want to get better at it. That's the driving force that will get you doing everything else. On top of that you must build practice, as much as possible, and tuition from the best teachers you can find. Really, that's it. There are no short cuts and no tricks

Comments

[dancing_crow]

holy moly!! That looks like an awesome way to spend February. Do you really harbor visions of being a cowboy?

[glenatron]

I harbour visions of being a better horse trainer than I am now and one of our teachers is working increasingly from that California Spanish direction, so it is a good opportunity to work in a similar way but do more of it...

[stu_the_elder]

According to one Oswald Osbourne, the thing to do whilst in Texas for the up-and-coming Briton in the Lone Star State is to drunkenly piss on the Alamo monument and then go through the following exchange with an outraged Texas Ranger.

"Yew little bastud! How'djew lahk it if ah pissed on Bucking-ham Palace?"

"I wouldn't give a fuck, mate, I don't live there..."

- Crumpwright

[flax]

AWESOME!

Do you think you'll have time to blog it while you're there? I think that would be so interesting.

[glenatron]

I will be writing it up while I'm there and taking pictures as the opportunity presents ( hence the netbook mentioned in my previous post ) so yes, you'll doubtless get a lot more detail than you need or feel to be interesting either while I'm away or when I get back.

[skye_ds]

"We'll leave the porch light on fer ye" ;-)

[glenatron]

You better had, I'll doubtless get terribly lost...

[z111]

Wow! I hope you keep us lj people updated! Congrats!

[penella22]

Moving house and going away for a month sounds potentially a bit overwhelming to me, but the happy thing is its all good changes, and I have every hope that whatever sorts of stressful moments you hit between now and when you set foot on the ranch, that they all disappear in that moment leaving you free to focus on the adventure ahead.

Martin Black looks like a very common-sense kinda guy, judging from one of his videos on youtube. And it looks like you'll be doing plen-ty of riding every day, so I wish you a speedy recovery through the sore muscles phase of things. :P

I'm very excited for you as many horse owners wish for the chance to do something like this and its great to see that you'll be able to go out and do it. A month spent learning nothing but training horses sounds like paradise to me (provided its with the right trainer) and I hope its that good an experience for you too.

And I absolutely trust you'll keep us posted. :]

[glenatron]

You know, I don't think I'll run out of riding while I'm out there. At the moment the whole idea is so overwhelming to me that I can't really imagine what it might be like, a bit like trying to imagine the density of a black hole or the breadth of a galaxy. I'll be totally overawed at first but I think it will be amazing once I get into it. Of course, it may all be way too much so that I come back and never want to see another horse in my life. Alternatively sleepsy_mouse has a theory that I just won't come back at all...

I really like the articles he writes for Eclectic Horseman, those are what put me onto him in the first place- very clear, very common-sense.

A lot of people do dream of doing something like this and I guess I'm very lucky to have the support in place that I can act on that dream...

The moving house though? Not ideally timed. But then it is ideally timed really, I guess it's just that the juxtaposition is a little unfortunate...