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Start Here
- Part I · 1. The Read
- 2. Leave Your Ego at the Gate
- 3. The Lead Mare and the Boss Horse
- 4. Your Breath Is the First Cue
- 5. Peace That Has Structure
- Part II · 6. The Release Is the Lesson
- 7. The Four Phases
- 8. Diagnose First, Respond Second
- 9. Soft Hands, Hard Standards
- 10. Make the Wrong Thing Difficult
- 11. When the Horse Won't Try
- Part III · 12. Trust Is Built One Release at a Time
- 13. The Wreck and the Repair
- 14. Shutdown Is Not Calm
- 15. The Lifetime Horse, the Lifetime Team
- 16. Becoming Someone Worth Following
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The Horseman's Agreement
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Resource Library
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Certification
Practice: Make the Wrong Thing Difficult
Chapter 10
Practice: Make the Wrong Thing Difficult
Two practices for the barn, two for the office or home. Write one line after each: what improved today was.
20 minPracticeBarn and office
The same work in two rooms. If you have no horse, watch horses at a fence or at a lesson; seeing is practice too. Do the office practices this week, with real people, at low volume.
Barn: Arrange the pen
HowBefore you work a horse, ask what you are about to make easy and hard: your position, your energy, the gate, the halter on the hook.
You've got it whenYou moved something before the work started.
Barn: Read the aisle
HowWalk your barn or tack room at dawn. Fix one thing so the right way is the easy way.
You've got it whenSomeone used the new arrangement without being told.
Office: Three seconds, not forty
HowFind one task your team avoids. Remove one step or one wait from it.
You've got it whenThe behavior changed without a meeting.
Office: Intent, not how
HowBrief your next project with what and why only. Let the team choose how.
You've got it whenA better how than you would have chosen.
Safety
Equine activities are inherently dangerous. This course does not replace hands-on instruction from a qualified professional. You work with horses at your own risk.
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