How to Excel At Being Average

Challenges It's important to know which challenges to tackle, and then to tackle them.  There's an old prayer which I am sure you've heard of: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference Warm up I am learning (very slowly) that the warm up is key to everything.  Having said that we can produce some marvellous work in the warm up and then go into the arena and it all falls apart. It's almost as if when we stop and walk to the arena Beau thinks it's all over, and being so opinionated spends the next 5 minutes trying to persuade me of this! We've had some marvellous work using lateral moves in the warm up - small circles in walk leg yielding in and out gets him to accept the contact and work up into it.  I have to avoid the perfect accelerator check which is a walk to canter transition, because he offers them in the test if I do, and we are mainly at prel