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
Challenge: Check into the amount of gratitude and play in your daily life.
Week 12 • November 17th - 23rd
“An accepting community unlocks the courage to grow.”
— Lewis Howes
Challenge: Our community is amazing. Thanks for filling the spaces while I’m gone. - Vicki
Week 13 • November 24th - 30th
“There is very little new information contained in the donkey’s second kick.”
Challenge: What do you feel the first kick trying to say?
Week 15 • December 8th - 14th
“Through attuned connection with ourselves, our bodies, and others, we find healing, regulation, and increased capacity for aliveness.”
— Sarah Schlote
Challenge: How will you connect with your horse this week?
Week 21 • January 19th - 25th
“Harmony is about unity in diversity. It come from respecting and appreciating differences.”
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Challenge: Where in your life can you appreciate the differences?
Week 22 • January 26th - February 1st
“When we create peace and harmony and balance our minds we will find it everywhere in our lives.”
— Louise Hay
Challenge: Where do you identify peace and balance in your life?
Week 23 • February 2nd - 8th
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Challenge: Look deeply into the harmony within yourself this week.
Week 24 • February 16-22nd
“Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of harmony makes great things decay.”
— Sallust
Challenge: What are you growing this week?
Week 25 • February 23rd - March 1st
“To put everything in balance is good, but to put everything in harmony is even better.”
— Victor Hugo
Challenge: Identify differences between harmony and balance this week.
Week 26 • March 2nd - 8th
“Music is the expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.”
— Stephen Gaskin
Challenge: Where can you make harmony this week?
Week 27 • March 9th - 15th
“We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.”
— Anthonio Guterres
Challenge: Be mindful of our differences this week.
Week 28 • March 16th -22nd
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
Challenge: Where can you truly find unity this week?
Week 29 • March 23rd - 29th
“Only in learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
— Audre Lorde
Challenge: Pay attention to where you have contradictions in your life this week.
Week 30 • March 30th - April 5th
“The universe will never give you peace and harmony in something you were never meant to settle in .”
—Unknown