Improve Your Comeback Potential

especially when you are first beginning to try something different with your thinking. As soon as you find yourself having that old familiar I want to give up feeling find a way to mentally stop yourself. It doesnt have to be a long pause just long enough to acknowledge that you recognize whats happening and know youre about to steer yourself in a different direction. If appropriate you could stop your horse or take a deep full breath in and blow it out.
A pause can also come in the form of containment. Try visualizing parking the error or thought in a stall or container. The message to you put it away and take it out for the purpose of understanding when its more appropriate.
This first part of the process is crucial because it effectively interrupts your usual response your habitual thinking. Once you have derailed your usual process you can then make way for something new.
The second part of your process will have to do with refocusing your thoughts and ultimately your direction. Here you need to decide what your new thinking will involve. Will you encourage yourself to look for the opportunity? Will you boost your positivity by saying something like you can you go! to yourself? How about directing yourself back to the job at hand by naming what you want to attach your brain to straight horse eyes up even pace.
Lastly give your new process a name. Its an important part of a new skill set for you and one that will ultimately change the way you and others view you as a rider. Call it the turnaround the reboot the reset or even the comeback.  Jill called hers the bulldog. Call it whatever you like as long as you know what it means and how its done.