Keys for Results
In the previous section we talked about the process of change and offered some ideas around being able to avoid the phases of blame anger and chaos. We also looked at the qualities that top achieving student have, what makes them excel.
6 Keys to success (now 7) Attitude, Knowledge, Tools, Techniques, Time, Imagination.
Support added later.
There are six keys to success: (now 7)
Attitude, knowledge, tools techniques, time and imagination. (support)
Each one of these keys is like a cup, are they all equally filled? Notice also the order they are listed in. The number one key is attitude.
TSTL Formula: Talent, Skills, Try, Luck.
There is also the TSTL formula:
- Talent – Talent is what you are born with
- Skills – Skills can be developed
- Try – Try is intestinal fortitude
- Luck – Luck is spelled w.o.r.k and is defined as when preparation meets opportunity.
How would you score yourself on each of these?
Talent is not the key to outstanding results, Skills and Try are.
If you were to score yourself on each of these you’d get a good idea of what areas you need to build the most. Some people think that talent is the most important thing to have, when in fact you could have not much talent and score highly on skills and try and achieve outstanding results.
What has been observed is that people tend mostly to run out of try. They don’t have enough heart and desire to reach their goals, they lose their focus and gradually give up.
Horses know that people run out of persistence.
Keep a focus. Take a perspective on patience: Never seen it take longer than 2 days!
Here’s the formula:
- Don’t worry about your level of talent. Either you have it or you don’t.
- Work hard at developing your skills. This program is high on skills development, on learning the right techniques to use at the right time and the most appropriate tools to apply them with.
- Never, ever, ever give up. Most people have very little patience, they expect things to work within seconds and if it doesn’t, they give up. Keep your focus, no matter how long it takes. Focus will give you fee, focus and feel will give you timing. Trust that you can get the result and don’t give up until you get it. Horses know that people run out of savvy and give up. All they have to do is resist long enough, and horse are very good at out-persisting people! One way to keep a perspective on patience is to think “never takes longer than two days”! When it happens in 5 minutes, or in a hour or so, it will seem quick.
- Be lucky that you’ve discovered a program to build savvy. There are some things you might already be doing naturally, this will be good confirmation for you that you are on the right track. it will also make you conscious of exactly what and why you are doing it so that you can duplicate it in different situation, and on day with different horses.
Follow a program that builds your savvy.
The Best ways to learn.
Study with a master. It is the fastest way to excellent results.
Don’t learn the tricks of the trade… Learn the trade.
- Study with a master. There is no faster or more effective way. If your goal is to obtain mastery, study only with master and commit yourself to their program until you are at least as good as they are at the basics. By studying with them day in and day out, you learn habits. This is the key, they’ll be things you start to do unconsciously, naturally. This is when theory becomes instinct. Although access to Pat Parelli is now becoming more and more limited he conducts live-in courses for six weeks to three month at the International Study Centre in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, that are mainly for high level students studying Level 4 and above. Occasionally he gives courses outside the USA. (This ran back then and still today)
- Study with a student of the master. In our program we now have instructors who can help you make accelerated progress through clinics, camps and private lessons. Clinics offer you an increased depth of savvy through a great many models to examine with the number of horses and people that attend. Lessons can help you focus on particular areas of development. Above all, follow the program and systematic process of development and ordered learning that is laid out for you. By learning things in a special order, you build solid foundations and the learning will hold true for you and your horse. Often, people will learn isolated things and train their horse to know them. These are tricks and they have no influence on other behaviours of the horse. Don’t learn the tricks of the trade, learn the trade. If you have a horse that can lay down, stand on a box or bow, but his behaviour is disrespectful and impulsive, this is proof that you need to work on a systematic program to gain the horse’s respect, impulsion and flexion. Then you’ll have a true and willing partner that you can do anything with.
- Study with videos. One thing about videos, they are consistent! The information is always there no matter how many times you play it. Watch them in regular speed, watch them at fast speed, play them without the picture and listen to them, and finally watch them without the sound. This will access both right and left sides of the brain. (The left side of the brain deals with logic and ordered thought. The right side of the brain deals with instincts, automatic behaviours, reactions and imagination).
Videos allow you to use powerful forms of learning through repetition and accessing both right and left sides of the brain.
The slowest, most ineffective way to learn is through trail and error and by yourself.
Perhaps the slowest way to learn is by yourself and through trial and error. There are many that have traveled this path now and there is a lot you can learn form them, both by their mistakes and their successes, that will help you to make accelerated progress. You’ll especially see some of this advice offered through he parts entitled “Success Tips” and “Pitfalls”
You can also link up with others studying the same program and principles that you are. Form a Study Group so you can help each other stay focused and motivated.
Try harder than anyone you know.
Never, ever, ever, lose your focus.
Success Tips
- Establish you goal, what you want to achieve. Focus on it.
- Follow a program, study with a master wherever possible.
- Set time goals so you keep on track
- Never lose your focus.
- Try harder than anyone you know.
- Study with people that support your growth.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THESE POSTS-PRIVATE GROUP STUDENTS ONLY.
