by shelbyolyschlager | Sep 7, 2022 | Mindset, Wellbeing & Lifestyle
It starts with a good, go-to book you can fully express yourself in. It represents you, as a horsewoman full of thoughts, dreams, goals, and desires. The blank pages are your portal to be heard, uncover and understand yourself better. How Journaling Helps?? check out...
by shelbyolyschlager | Aug 24, 2022 | Horse Training + Education, Leadership Lessons Learnt Through Horses, Mindset
It’s race day, the early morning sun is shining, horses are eating and all is well. We haven’t competed yet so we have nothing to be angry, upset or disappointed with. We are in a place of optimism, possibilities and potential, “yay I think I am really going to crush...
by shelbyolyschlager | Jun 24, 2022 | Horse Training + Education, Mindset
Leadership lessons learnt through horses. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. The path of least resistance is real. We see it all around us, from the rain running down in a stream away from our barn, to the natural ways we can train and work our...
by shelbyolyschlager | May 23, 2022 | Mindset
Do you ever state a fact as permanent even though it is really only temporary? Or declare something you do as “its you” do be like that” or its your horse “to always act in a certain way”? An example being “I never feel fully prepared for competitions” or use your own...
by shelbyolyschlager | Sep 9, 2021 | Mindset, Open Letters
The end of that “what if” can go in any way imaginable.. and it usually does. Our imagination storms up thoughts and stories of events in the future that will likely only happen in our minds. But why is it so negative? Why do we get these thought that...
by shelbyolyschlager | May 27, 2021 | Mindset, Open Letters
I’m going to let whatever happen, happen. Im going to try my best, I am going to water my dream everyday. I’m not in control of the outcomes, as long as I continue to nurture toward this and feel it. Want it so bad that you let it go. You want that thing...
by shelbyolyschlager | May 15, 2021 | Mindset
Without the proper activation, we compensate with other, more strong muscles. Our glutes are build of smaller muscles surrounding the hips, low-back and so on. Take it from me, with first hand experience with under developed glutei muscles. The hip pain I had was...
by shelbyolyschlager | Dec 7, 2020 | Mindset
Reputation is not created by your own thoughts about who you are. It is developed by continuously striving to be a decent human in society. Someone of their word, someone of good character, a person of honesty and so on will have naturally developed a positive...
by shelbyolyschlager | Oct 8, 2020 | Mindset, Podcast
Gratitude for Athletes. Episode #13 by We Can Hustle | listen here When you start to appreciate things for what they are and not what they’re not, your mind takes a shift. I’ve personally experienced that with my riding and my sport performance has changed...
by shelbyolyschlager | Feb 20, 2020 | Horse Training + Education, Mindset
It happens to all athletes. The mental game that’s required for the actual game is nothing to look past.. During this offseason of barrel racing, I have developed some habits that I feel are total GAME CHANGERS. They actually have very little to do with saddle...
