Keep Your Energy and Motivation Levels High
Running an equine business is demanding, and while "working harder" is one option, "working smarter" is a better one.
Managing your energy intentionally may be new to some of you. However, it is essential for preventing burn-out and creating long-term success.
Here you will find proven strategies, systems, and tools to help you optimize your workflow, reduce unnecessary stress, and preserve your passion for horses and teaching.
Why Energy Management Is Essential
Many horse professionals find that before they can implement effective business strategies, they first need to free up time, reduce energy drains, and create sustainable routines. We help our members create efficient systems that eliminate burnout, improve time management, and reduce financial risk.
Key Strategies to Sustain Your Drive
- Developing sustainable daily routines to maintain peak physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
- Automating essential business and marketing tasks to conserve energy and focus on what matters most.
- Optimizing time and resource management to prevent exhaustion and maximize productivity.
- Utilizing peak performance techniques to sustain motivation, resilience, and long-term passion.
- Implementing policies and procedures that protect your business assets while reducing stress.
Tools to Help You Stay Energized and Effective
Below, you'll find expert-recommended tools, systems, and strategies designed to support your well-being, keep your energy levels strong, and ensure your business thrives while you achieve your career goals.
The amount of energy that you consistently have access to greatly impacts your ability to perform at your best. Whether you are headed into a tough conversation with a client or about to compete, your energy levels will affect your success. Just like most of us have had experiences of energetically performing at our best and the joy that comes with that, every horse professional knows what it is to hit the wall-. If we consistently push our energy reserves too far and lack a system for recovering it, the result can be persistent performance and people problems that can take us all the way to full on burnout....More Use this online worksheet to evaluate your energy levels across three areas that make up your success as an equestrian athlete and business owner. Pay special attention to the places where your energy tends to be low. Also, see if you have certain patterns with physical, mental and emotional energy. Note: If you are not an active competitor, substitute "under pressure" for "competition"....More
data-page_number="2140"Webinar Replay: Equestrian Leadership and Sports Performance - What You Need to Know About Empty Tank Syndrome
data-page_number="2001"Evaluate Your Horse Business Energy Levels Across Key Areas
Having proper contracts and agreements in place are essential to protect both your business and the relationships within it. This is a key area to "get right" in order to preserve your peace of mind, Here are some examples of common agreements, forms and protocols....More Horses and their people can get into all kinds of situations. Having the correct insurance in place is critical for protecting your assets. In this department you will find webinars and articles from experts in the equine insurance field. You will learn from their insights and experiences. Turn on a webinar and listen on your phone or watch via your computer. If you want to quickly persuse a topic, check out the articles in this section....More
data-page_number="2064"Horse Business Forms, Documents and Sample Agreements
data-page_number="2036"Horse Business Insurance Options
As riders, trainers, and stable managers, we are very active people. Whether riding a dozen horses each day, running from ring to ring coaching customers, mucking stalls or feeding, and turning out horses, equestrians are getting in a lot of exercise without the dreaded treadmill or weight machines. Many of us feel exhausted at the end of the day, yet our competitive drive to succeed in the sport urges us to keep pushing. However, more exercise isn't always better when it comes to improving our health and reaching our riding goals. In reality, pushing ourselves this hard might actually be detrimental and can even cause the loss of muscle mass and weight gain....More Summer is a wonderful time to be riding and showing - the days are long, the weather is hot, and the sun is bright. However, it is during these beautiful days that you need to be aware and able to prevent your body from becoming dehydrated....More Implementing a few small changes to your lifestyle can help you to increase and maintain natural energy levels. Although long horse show days may seem draining, if you prepare by supplying your body with the right meals, water, stress reduction techniques, good sleep and limited caffeine intake, you will set yourself up to powerfully take on the day and ride your best....More Knowing how sugar affects your body, learning how to identify hidden sugars, and developing strategies for cutting back your sugar intake are the best ways to ensure you are always ready to ride your best....More
data-page_number="1573"3 Ways Overtraining Affects the Equestrian Body
data-page_number="1483"Hydration and the Equestrian Athlete
data-page_number="1436"Avoiding Rider Burnout: 5 Tips to Help You Manage Your Energy
data-page_number="1396"Reduce Your Sugar Intake to Ride Your Best
Barbra Schulte is an award winning professional who was inducted into both the Cowgirl Hall of Fame and the recipient of the prestigious National Female Equestrian of the Year award. She is a popular author and certified LGE Performance Coach. Her work in equestrian sports performance has brought remarkable results for many riders and trainers. During this free webinar, Barbra will share strategies for boosting confidence, training your emotions to be a powerful force behind your success and how to mine the unlimited power of mental focusing techniques....More Chipped so hard to the first jump it made the earth move? Rode around the warm-up ring for 20 minutes with a mane comb stuck in your horse's tail? Missed going through the timers on your way to the first jump in the jump-off? We've all been there -- well, maybe not to exactly the same places -- but certainly every rider has their own list of forgettable moments; if only we could forget them! Why do they seem to stick like glue to our memory banks?...More How many times have you completed a ride and thought, "Man, I so messed ______ up! I can't believe I did that! I know better!" It is so natural to bemoan what went wrong during a ride. It's also natural to feel badly about mistakes unless you make a personal commitment to process results in a truly constructive way....More Two girls went into the second round of the junior hunter classic within one point of each other it was up for grabs. Each one had a true desire to win. One envisioned a way to shine, determined to nail it with a clear plan of...More Most people have heard about it, read about it, and will say they use it to prepare - but do you really know the primary benefit of all visualization? It's to make your body and mind experience a sense of deja-vu when you perform; to feel as if you have done it all before so that you can relax, trust your skills...More DOWNLOAD: Tracking progress and planning what to work on next helps riders improve and stay motivated. Use this download to help you track and improve your riding at shows and at home....More This download will show you how to write a Motivation Statement. Your Motivation Statement will help you focus and clarify why you ride. This download will help you identify what it is that fuels your dedication and helps you achieve your goals....More In a typical 8-hour show day, how much time are you actually in the ring? 15 minutes? 30 minutes? This is the nature of horse showing, and it creates an interesting challenge. With all of the other things going on in your busy horse show day, how can you best prepare yourself and get focused for the ring when it is actually time to ride?...More Take a deep breath!" "Relax!" "Stop holding your breath!" "Don't worry about it!" "Just breathe!" Are these phrases part of your riding? Perhaps it was at a show while you waited for a client's class, on a large group trail ride, or during a frustrating moment in a lesson. These phrases are meant to be helpful, but...More Walking through the in gate at a big show feeling focused, excited and ready is a skill that all riders need. It doesn't matter if you are in a novice equitation class or a World Cup qualifier, the ability to harness energy or adrenaline and direct it to your riding skills is essential. In fact, it is...More Most often riders think of visualizing their courses once they are at the show. However, a lot of valuable practice can be done in the weeks prior to your most important shows by visualizing sample courses at home....More Using sport psychology to track your progress and build the quality of your schools between clinics and shows can be very valuable. As a professional, you often school your horses on your own. This fact not only contributes to the physical abilities of both you and your horse, it also creates a need for you to have a variety of mental skills and strategies at your disposal....More About warm-up rings, I have heard it all: "I try to make my warm-up as short as possible, it just works better for me." and "I can't stand the warm-up ring. It makes me: scared/nervous/frantic/nauseous." and "The warm-up ring makes me lose my confidence." and "If I didn't have to warm-up I would win more often!" So, do you recognize any of these thoughts? Have you ever wished for a different warm-up ring experience?...More Watching video of your rounds, tests, or cross country runs can be many things: fun, exciting, useful, frustrating, enlightening, painful, or entertaining. Some riders run from the mailbox to the DVD player when a video arrives from a recent show. Then there are the riders who buy video of themselves but never watch them. There are also plenty of riders who don't think about video at all. Whatever your current approach it is...More Often your clinician or ground person can help you create specific 'homework' for each horse. By having a specific idea of what you will work on, you ensure a productive schooling session. Integrating exercises and training solutions from prior schools can really add to the value of the ride, and can increase the intensity of your focus....More Use powerful cue words to direct your attention to the specific areas you need to focus on in the ring. This will keep your mind directed to your performance (over which you have control!) and away from outcomes or ribbons (over which you do not have control!)....More There are three main types of breathing useful for controlling your focus and managing your energy. They are: Circle, Ratio, and...More It goes without saying that when you are heavily invested in something, you care a lot about how it turns out. But this same care, if left unchecked, can mushroom into feelings of pressure and fear of failure that often create excessive nervousness. This can affect a rider's enjoyment of the show, and will certainly impede their ability to ride well....More
data-page_number="1672"Webinar: Coaching Riders from the Inside Out - How Focus, Inspiration and Community Can Empower You
data-page_number="605"Mistakes, Embarrassing Moments, and Brain Bloopers:
How to Let Go
data-page_number="1671"How to Process Results - 3 Keys to Unlocking the Hidden Benefits of Riding Mistakes
data-page_number="673"'Competitive Fire': Keep it under Control
data-page_number="332"Equestrian Mind Skills - The Fundamentals of Visualization
data-page_number="504"Post Ride Notes
data-page_number="492"Equestrian Motivation Statement Download
data-page_number="481"Pre-Ride Routines: A Key to Your Focus
data-page_number="386"Control Your Energy with Circle Breathing
data-page_number="392"Use Your Focus to Succeed in the Show Ring
data-page_number="334"Visualization: Before the Horse Show
data-page_number="393"Stay Focused on Your Progress
data-page_number="394"Conquering the Horse Show Warm-Up Ring
data-page_number="395"Using Video to Improve Your Performance (and Your Confidence)
data-page_number="391"Strengthen Your Focus with Book-Ends
data-page_number="396"At the Show: 4 Strategies to Feel Relaxed and Confident
data-page_number="385"At the Show: Breathing Techniques for Energy Management
data-page_number="368"Five Strategies for Coping with Horse Show Nerves
