2024-2025 Riding Season Quotes & Challenges
Week 1 • September 4-7
“Horsemanship is the act of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions, and behavior. NOT THE HORSE.”
— Mark Rashid
Challenge: Pay attention to your body this week.
Week 2 • September 8-14
“The problem is not the problem, it’s your attitude about the problem that’s the problem.”
— Warrick Schiller
Challenge: Check in with your problems this week.
Week 3 • September 15-21
“To create trust and connection we have to take things at a pace our horse is ready for.”
— Vicki Tait
Challenge: Be aware of your pacing this week.
Week 4 • September 22-28
“Our emotions are just a warning sign from a previous life experience.”
— Vicki Tait
Challenge: Look deeply into any warning signs.
Week 5 • September 29 - October 5
“To be successful with a horse is being present enough to notice the little things that go wrong and then staying with it until you have the little things resolved.”
— Vicki Tait
Challenge: Pay deep attention to the little things with your horse this week.
Week 6 • October 6 - October 12
“Easy short term choices lead to difficult long term consequences, but difficult short term choices lead to easier long term consequences.”
— Vicki Tait
Challenge: How are your choices serving you this week?
Week 7 • October 13 - October 19
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
Challenge: What can you face this week?
Week 8 • October 20 - October 26
“You get out of the horse what you put in and the way you put it in.”
— Ray Hunt
Challenge: Be aware of your ask this week.
Week 9 • October 27 - November 2nd
“Connection is not something you do, it’s something that happens as a result of what you do.”
— Warwick Schiller
Challenge: How are the connections in your life?
Week 10 • November 3rd - November 9th
“When you accept yourself the way you are the world recognizes you.”
— Muniba Mazari
Challenge: How accepting are you of yourself?
Week 11 • November 10th - November 16th
“Gratitude is the gateway to abundance. Play is the pathway to freedom.”
— Lewis Holmes