Happy New Year & Giveaway!

Happy New Year everybody!

The beginning of a new year is the best time to take stock of what we did last year, and make plans for what we'd like to see in the year ahead. 

After all the parties are done, and the celebrations are finished, the calm after the storm is a great time to sit back, reflect, visualize and plan, and schedule your goals - especially your riding goals. As I've already discussed many times, goal setting is a little different when it comes to horses, because they have quite a lot of input into what can happen. 

So it is great to have a structured, organized way to start off the year, then come back on a weekly and/or monthly basis to evaluate, adjust, and think ahead to next steps. Which is where the giveaway comes in!

Goal Setting For The Equestrian: A Personal Workbook has helped thousands of people do just that. 

And in celebration of the brand-spanking new 2019, I'd like to give away FIVE digital copies of the book! Print off the pages as many times as you like. This is the Giveaway that keeps on giving! 🙂

All you have to do is write a riding or ground work goal in the comments below. Make the goal something specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound (get it? S.M.A.R.T. - which is how the goals in the book are set up!). Silly, irrelevant goals will eliminate your entry, so think of something that you really want to do this year in your riding, that will benefit your horse (or the horse that you ride).

FIVE lucky winners will be announced the first week of January. Enter only once. Winners will be randomly chosen after the close of the Giveaway. Look for the "Winners" blog post in the first week of January to see exactly who won.

Please use a name in the comments below that matches the email address you will use if you win. Email addresses are NOT necessary for entry. 

The giveaway is open to current readers as well as new readers (so tell your friends!). Entries will be accepted starting now and ending at midnight (12:00 am) on Jan.2. 

OK! What are you waiting for?! Looking forward to reading all about your goals! Comment below.

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Horse Listening Round Up: Top 10 Posts of 2017

top 10 Horse Listening 2017

A year gone by already? So hard to believe! 

It's been an active horsin' around year for me personally, and I've been happily sharing new posts on the blog regularly. Taking a look at the articles from this year, I can see that while I still have some "fun" articles and some horse "listening" types of posts, I've moved more and more into writing about the rider, the aids, how to become a more effective rider (and listen to the horse while riding), and patterns to help develop the rider and the horse's specific skills. 

The Practice Sessions are taking on more shape and I'm almost ready to present them. I've been working on developing a repertoire of patterns but as I got more and more into it, I realized that there should be much more to the Practice Sessions than just the patterns. As soon as I'm ready to proceed, I will share updates with the people on the Practice Sessions Pre-Launch list. If you want to be included, go here and sign up. You'll be the first to hear the news.



Thank you for being part of another fantastic Horse Listening year. Here are the top 10 articles by number of views, in backward order. 

10.

https://www.horselistening.com2014/09/16/one-simple-way-to-quiet-your-hands-while-riding-horses/

 

9.

https://www.horselistening.com2013/03/18/heres-how-and-why-you-should-ride-with-bent-elbows/

 

8.

https://www.horselistening.com2013/06/03/when-good-riding-instruction-becomes-great/

 

7.

https://www.horselistening.com2013/02/28/how-to-halt-without-pulling-on-the-reins/

 

6.

https://www.horselistening.com2011/12/29/the-1-rider-problem-of-the-year-the-outside-rein/

 

5.

https://www.horselistening.com2016/11/30/inside-leg-to-outside-rein-the-cheat-sheet/

 

4.

https://www.horselistening.com2014/08/24/7-essential-aids-for-an-epic-canter-transition/

 

3.

https://www.horselistening.com2016/11/02/dear-adult-with-many-responsibilities-horse-person/

 

2.

https://www.horselistening.com2017/08/11/to-the-50-year-old-horse-rider/

... and the Number One article of 2017...

1.

https://www.horselistening.com2013/09/30/9-things-you-need-to-know-if-you-want-to-ride-horses/

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Horse Listening Book Collection - beautiful paperbacks with all the excellence of the blog - in your hands! Click on the image for more information.

Read more here:

https://www.horselistening.com2017/01/04/12-riding-quick-tips-five-ways-to-set-your-horse-riding-goals-in-20112-7/

 

https://www.horselistening.com2016/01/26/top-10-common-goals-for-riders-presented-by-buck-steel-horse-barns/

 

https://www.horselistening.com2012/12/07/listening-corner-riding-goals-defined/

https://www.horselistening.com2013/05/03/first-plan-your-ride-then-be-ready-to-scrap-it/

 

https://www.horselistening.com2017/09/28/6-ways-to-compete-against-yourself-in-horse-riding/

 

 

Happy New Year Giveaway – Winners!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Happy New Year Giveaway by writing down your favorite article. I truly enjoyed seeing which articles resonated the most with you. 

Five Years Of Horse Listening is compiled out of the top 20 most widely read articles from the blog. It celebrates the fifth anniversary of the blog, and is available in both digital download and paperback versions. Our 5 winners today will receive a free copy of the digital version. The draw was randomly done and included all comments up to midnight on Jan. 2, 2017.

If you didn't win and would still like to get the book, click here for more information. 

 

Congratulations to the winners below! Please contact me privately by email to receive your digital copy of Five Years Of Horse Listening! fwdnrnd@gmail.com

Naomi Towan

Why Rising Trot Is Not Rising At All

Jeanette van der Ploeg

Move to stay still on horseback.

Jacquie

Why Would You Bother to “Scoop” Your Seat Bones

 

Ruth Moore

How to ride the stumble out of your horse

 

Marion H

Dear Adult-With-Many-Responsibilities Horse Person 

Happy New Year

Happy new year

Just before I head out to tuck the horses in for the night, and then go celebrate the New Year in the big city, I want to take a moment to wish you and yours a wonderful New Year's Eve and a healthy, successful 2016 filled with doing things that really, truly make you happy - and horses, of course!

Thank you so much for being a part of Horse Listening over the past year, and looking forward to much more in 2016!

 

Happy 2013!

Happy 2013

Wishing you a year filled with good health, true happiness, and lots and lots of horsin' around!

Thank you for reading Horse Listening.