What do you do when you fall off a horse?

What do you do when you fall off a horse?

YOU GET BACK ON AGAIN!

So, what do YOU REALLY do when you fall off a horse?

Chances are good if you are like most people I talk to…

When you fall off a horse, you probably think up suitable punishments and/or means to rectify your fall.  Think of all the ways you can try even harder and do even more to make up for the fall and make it appear as if it didn’t happen at all…

Some people decide not to punish themselves, but instead look to place the blame for the fall on someone else…

And other people pretend they never fell at all, shove their heads in the sand and ignore it…

It doesn’t matter how you handle falling…what does matter is that it takes precious time and energy…here’s what I mean…

Falling off the horse isn’t setback…the setback comes in the beating ourselves up, thinking how we’ve let ourselves down, about all this will cost us and what failures we are and how we are weak and not committed and lack follow through and will NEVER have what we want BLAH BLAH BLAH! We spend so much time and energy in all of that muck and mire that by the time we’re done it seems impossible to get back on the horse.

THAT’S the real setback…if you just fell and got back up again without taking the time to beat yourself up, look for someone to blame or pretend it never happened, you’d be surprised how small the impact of inevitable falls are…

Ask anyone who rides, ‘What do you do when you fall off a horse?’

It isn’t just a saying…I GUARANTEE they will answer, ‘Get back on again.’

Then ask them, ‘When?’

I PROMISE they’ll say, ‘RIGHT AWAY!’

You’re going to fall off the horse…there…I’ve freed you…given you permission…told your future.

Leave me a comment to let me know these 2 things…

Before this moment, what did YOU do when you fell off a horse?

After this moment, what will YOU do when you fall off a horse?

Go Big!

Kristen

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11 Comments

  • By kay, November 10, 2009 @ 8:27 pm

    wow–got a little emotional reading that.
    Before this moment, allow shame and fear.
    After this moment, hopefully courage and compassion. Hopefully realize — I am where I am and where I am is where I’m supposed to be and this is a good bouncing off place for a better life, wisdom, and Oneness.

  • By Joshua Clayton, November 10, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

    I answered that question the same way.

    Josh.

  • By kay, November 10, 2009 @ 10:04 pm

    Me too Josh– my first thought was answering it the same way. But am trying to think different. They say if u change the way u think, things change. So —- we’ll see..

  • By Rev George Wesley Tagoe, November 11, 2009 @ 3:44 am

    The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.Morning has been all night coming.No matter what happen in life you must get up,dress up,and show up.

  • By Leila, November 11, 2009 @ 4:58 am

    Hi Keristen,

    Before I used to sulk and make up (with myself or whoever), sometimes it didn’t take long and sometimes it took forever. Now, I don’t want to waste any of that time – which doesn’t mean I won’t ever sulk again but I can guarantee it won’t take so long.

  • By Bernard, November 11, 2009 @ 5:09 am

    Falling off the horse would usually bring me down and lose the confidence that things are/will change for the better
    Now I´m trying to accept it as part of a natural process. We need to be reminded of this
    Thanks for the reminder!!

  • By Velda, November 11, 2009 @ 9:39 am

    Amazing!

  • By PANCHA, November 11, 2009 @ 12:09 pm

    I ACTUALLY DID FALL OFF A HORSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I RODE. I TRIED TO RIDE FAST LIKE THE OTHERS, & DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO STOP! THE HORSE DECIDED TO STOP SUDDENLY AND I FELL OFF. I HAD ONE LEG IN THE STIRRUP, AND MY BODY UNDER HIM. I LOOKED UP, DIDN’T HURT ANYWHERE & JUST BEGAN TO RELAX. MY BUDDIES GOT OVER THERE QUICK & GOT ME LOOSE. I FELT NO RUSH, UNTIL I NOTICED IT WAS A MALE HORSE & VERY BIG..BOY, DID I HURRY UP THEN WHEN I RELIZED HE COULD RELIVE HIMSELF AT ANY MOMENT!! I GUESS THE LESSON IS–GET UP QUICK CAUSE IT CAN GET WORSE JUST AS FAST!!!

  • By Joshua Clayton, November 12, 2009 @ 2:46 am

    What I meant was, that I answered the question this way. I always get back on the horse and do my thing until it is done right. (Now do you get it Kay?) And Kristen, I shortly blurbed that answer, because I am busy on my horse riding if you know what I mean.

    Go Big!

    Josh.

  • By bart van hoeck, November 13, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

    I tend to still punish myself at sometimes and at some point i get the feeling again of falling apart.SO you can easly say there are still old pains remaining behind.I have a mother whom doesn’t believe in much then the old believes of the rat race.
    My dad doesn’t really know the whole deal but sees my doing better and is then happy about it.
    To fall of your horse happens to the best but then it’s not alwayw easy to get back up cause it can create blockadges when NOT having the right people around whom have been there and have made it. And still fall of the horse at some times but i know that every moment i have to deal with it i’m still a winner and the others are the losers cause they rather stick to the rat race and believe they are happy but show no sign’s of that.
    SO to go BIG is all there is but some still try to put me back into this old pattern i’m more into breaking free from and becoming a whole diffirent person,and this makes one at some points really pissed of at them.
    So to BIG is all there is cause we are all born as winner but half way down your life some try to convince you of diffirent.
    If to quote words from Bob Proctors winners image there is said we are god’s greatest

    creation and are born with the tools in our minds to gain the abundance but like said non have told you will be falling down but without faith in ourself and to to pull thru we will fall of out horse every time & not knowing what you can achieve will make a person quite half way when there are so close to achieving there goals so i have to remind myself i’m better then what people tell me to be and i’m stronger then the others for i’m going to continiu with this cause i would love to see that the year 2010 becomes a better year then this and that everything i’ve lost along the way will some way return to me.

    GOING BIG,

    Bart

  • By Rosemary, November 26, 2009 @ 9:37 am

    Bart’s post was closest to my reaction:

    When I fall off the horse, I almost always get up and push harder until I get it done. How soon depends on how much emotion I allow myself to wallow in, emotions such as I’ve blown it, I am being punished for not doing the right thing, I’m so frustrated that it’s not working yet, etc. It’s never someone else’s fault, even if someone else has confronted me with the problem, or someone has let me down. At least, I’m not that far gone.

    AFter this: I’ll just shorten the time between falling off and getting on again.

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