Learning patience

If you need to work on your patience, buy a cat, dog, or a horse is the best way. One could also work at a juvenile center, but your patience needs to be really refined before attempting that route.

I have a lot of patience, but I still got to work on that thread today, luckily I was calm. I decided to take my horse out on this cold icky day. Since it was windy, I decided to walk her first until her nerves calmed down. I walked Baron (my Mare) up a trail that went under a log, and the saddle horn hit the log lightly when she went under it, so she didn't want to go under the next one. I used all kinds of trainer techniques I had learned to no avail. Backwards, forwards, backwards forwards, backwards, forwards *sighs*. Next I tried giving pressure and releasing when she walked forwards, but she got very close and then back a million miles an hour when I became impatient and applied more firm pressure. Finally, I let the reins loose and sat on a log on the other side of the tree hanging over the trail.... Eventually she decided that sitting there was no fun and she went under it. I got to work on my patience. Every time I got frustrated and wanted to force her, I took a break and went back to sitting on the log. It was a cold icky day for it all, but it worked out okay.