Ride Every Stride | Horsemanship And Personal Growth With Van Hargis

The message of this episode comes from a quote I encountered during my childhood: Everything comes to he who waits, so long as he who waits works like Hell while he waits. While this may seem simple enough on the surface, it took years of personal growth for me to realize the different meanings hidden there. Let’s start with the first part of the quote, everything comes to he who waits. The reality of working with horses is that you have to be patient. At the same time, no one is going to come along and dump gold on your porch while you wait for things to happen. You have to find a way to be proactive and productive in the meantime. Patience is one of the biggest obstacles people have to overcome while working with their horses. Today’s society is one in which people want everything and they want it now. However, when master horsemen are discussed one of the key elements used to describe them is patience. But what is patience? It’s having realistic expectations while putting things together in a slow and sys