Simple Steps to Riding Success Book

	Introduction	5
1	Your riding dreams	7
	Make your dreams come true	8
	Knowing what you want	10
	Is it right for you?	12
Exercise 1	Balancing different areas of your life	12
Exercise 2	Combining your goals	13
	The outcome process	14
Exercise 3	Using the outcome process	14
2	Achieve your riding goals	17
	Know yourself	18
Exercise 4	SWOT analysis	18
	Know when you want it by	20
Exercise 5	Establishing your timescales	20
	Make your goals happen	22
Exercise 6	Drawing up a timeline	24
	Learning from thrills and spills	26
Exercise 7	Your achievements	27
3	Being wotivated in your riding	31
	What keeps you going?	32
Exercise 8	How are you motivated?	33
4	Believing you can ride better	37
	What do you believe?	38
Exercise 9	Finding your riding beliefs	39
	The Success Cycle	40
	Getting inside your beliefs	42
Exercise 10	Examining and evaluating your beliefs	42
Exercise 11	Confronting your limiting beliefs	43
Exercise 12	Building a stronger belief	44
5	Understanding your riding inspiration	45
	Thinking riding	46
	The value of values	48
Exercise 13	Identifying your core values	49
Exercise 14	Finding your weakest link!	50
6	Talking yourself into riding well	53
	The power of your words	54
Exercise 15	Identifying filters	58
7	Change what you say about your riding	59
	Use positive language	60
	Ask a better question	62
Exercise 16	Questions to change your thinking	62
	Is your horse a gentle giant?	64
Exercise 17	Using metaphors	65
Exercise 18	Simple belief changes	66
8	Improving your riding through your senses	67
	Making sense of your memories	68
Exercise 19	Prove it to yourself	70
Exercise 20	What thoughts are behind your words?	71
Exercise 21	Spotting language patterns	72
	Use the power of your mind	74
Exercise 22	Finding your critical sub modalities	74
Exercise 23	Change a negative memory	76
9	Seeing yourself as a better rider	79
	Visualisation	80
Exercise 24	Simple steps to the perfect visualisation	80
Exercise 25	A starring role!	84
10	Making the most of your resources	85
	Being resourceful	86
Exercise 26	Find your resources	86
Exercise 27	Setting up an anchor	87
Exercise 28	Circle of excellence	89
Exercise 29	Collapsing anchors	90
	Know your horse	92
11	Step into your horse's shoes	95
	Take a different perspective	96
Exercise 30	Horseplay	98
Exercise 31	Perceptual positions and logical levels	100
Exercise 32	Circle of friends	101
12	Learning from excellent riders	103
	How do they do it?	104
	How those that can...train a horse under saddle	106
	How those that can...ride a dressage test	110
	How those that can...enjoy competing	112
	How those that can...love jumping	114
	How those that can...think natural horsemanship	118
	How those that can...share their knowledge	122
	Is your instructor right for you...and your horse?	126
13	Making flying changes	127
	Is it time for a change?	128
Exercise 33	Six-step reframing	131
Exercise 34	The Swish Technique	132
Exercise 35	The Phobia Cure	134
Exercise 36	Integrating conflicting beliefs	136
Exercise 37	Re-imprinting	138
	Bibliography & Further Reading	140
	Learning more about NLP	141
	Index	142
	Case Studies
	Win the Hickstead Derby	11
	Karen gets a livery yard	16
	Be prepared	22
	To be a world champion	25
	British Racing School	30
	The impossible four-minute mile	38
	Logical levels in action	51
	Breaking negative thought patterns	54
	Reframing Frances	63
	Helen's critical sub modalities	75
	A change of voice	76
	A change of picture	77
	A change of feeling	78
	A winning combination	82
	Sorting out exam nerves	83
	Lizzie appreciates her abilities	88
	Jumping for joy--again!	91
	Going back to nature	93
	A problem solved through second positioning	99
	Anne can do it!	102
	The philosophy of the original horsemen	121
	Rosie slows down	129
	No more panic attacks	131
	Ginny regains her confidence	133
	Carol clears a bad memory	135
	Jay makes a choice	137
	David becomes more confident	139