THE GIFT is a treasure chest of powerful mental strategies to help recreational and competitive riders accomplish their riding dreams with confidence, ease and fun.

If you have ever experienced any of the following, you will find solutions within THE GIFT:

• Anxiety on your horse
• Worry about your mistakes or your horse’s errors
• Difficulty staying focused
• Worry about other people’s opinions
• Difficulty recovering from a horse accident
• Fear of performing poorly under pressure                             

THE GIFT includes these powerful solutions:

• Getting in touch with yourself and your unique desires and talents
• Building great relationships with the people and horses in your life
• Learning real life strategies to boost your overall confidence
• Mining the unlimited power of mental focusing techniques
• Turning tough times into treasures
• Training positive emotions within

THE GIFT is a treasure chest of powerful mental and emotional strategies that work and will help you take your riding to the next level.  

THE GIFT Book

by Barbra Schulte

This book is divided into nine sections. Each section contains individual messages packed with practical, powerful ideas and tips that are easy to implement into your riding. The messages are easy to read. Because each stands alone, you can read them in any order. Start at the front and read all the way through, or use the table of contents to locate the topics that address your personal needs. This book will empower your riding.
 

RIDE WITH CONFIDENCE Ride With Confidence Digital Audio Program
By Barbra Schulte

“The Most Concise, Research Based, 10 Step Confidence Building Information Available For Riders of All Disciplines.”

Inside Tracks:

• Understanding the Ideal Performance State
• Dreaming great dreams
• Evaluating your personal mental, emotional, and physical strengths and weaknesses
• Using acting techniques to achieve your Ideal Performance State
• Thinking strategically with positive words and images
• Triggering positive emotions on demand through rituals
• Using stress to build mental and emotional toughness
• Strengthening your physical body and increasing your capacity to manage stress
• Testing your skills
• Going for it again – I Believe In Myself

COACH FOR CONFIDENCE Coach For Confidence Digital Audio Program 

“Coaching Tips for Trainers, Parents, Spouses, and Friends of Riders” Be the Best Support Person You Can Be For a Rider in any Discipline!

Inside You’ll Find:

• Your Job as a Coach
• The Ideal Performance State
• Performer Self and Real Self Acting
• Mental Conditioning and Ritual Skills
• Recovery Strategies
• Mutual Expectations
• Performance Goals
• Positive Statements and Simple Ideas
• Recovery Training
• Show Day Strategies
  

BARREL RACING WITH CONFIDENCE …Barrel Racing With Confidence 2 Audio CDs

Tough competitors know how to make great runs in ANY situation. Now, using researched-proven tools, you can, too!

If you have ever experienced any of the following frustrations, you will find solutions in Barrel Racing With Confidence:

• Inconsistency in your performances
• An inability to let go of errors
• Mounting stress when things around you seem distracting or out-of-control
• Difficulty staying focused
• Worry about the comments or judgments of others
• Lack of belief in yourself
• A sinking feeling after a poor run
• Burn-out 
• Lack of fun and enjoyment
  

Barrel Racing With Confidence includes these powerful proven tools (and more) applied to barrel racing:

• Step-by-step help to get into the “Ideal Performance State” (also known as “The Zone”)
• How-to instructions for getting your mind, body, and emotions in alignment
• A simple but effective tool to immediately let go of errors or problems
• Power-packed visualization techniques
• World-class acting strategies
• Physical toughening tips
• Interviews with other barrel racers who overcame obstacles and found success

"HOW TO FIND TRUE SUCCESS IN RIDING"How To Find True Success In Riding

Lasting Success is Not Just About What You Achieve Externally … But Who You Become as a Result of Your Hard Work.

Let Dr. Jim Loehr gives you concrete tools to perform better … achieve more … change your life … and positively impact the lives of people around you.

Dr. Jim Loehr

1. Welcome and Introduction

2. Overview of the Human Performance Institute’s Current Work

• Importance of character in achieving extraordinary results
• Joy in what you do
• You always become something as a result of riding
• The importance of learning
• Going to the core of character through purpose

3. Definition of Performer Skills and How They Work

• What goes on when anyone performs at their best
• Enjoyment, fun, confidence, energy, calm, trusting, etc
• Performer skills train these feelings to come up on demand
• Routines automate your ability to access these skills on demand

4. How to Use Adversity to Mine Good Outcomes

• Learning how to handle stress
• How to carry yourself during chaos
• Performer skills save you when they are trained
• Loving the privilege of opportunities
• Having a clear purpose gets you to this place

5. Putting Achievement into a New Light

• Extrinsic … reason you participate is for the recognition
• Intrinsic … satisfaction is in the pursuit itself
• Intrinsic has to do with doing what we want to do
• Intrinsic has to do with getting better at something
• Intrinsic has to do with a purpose that’s bigger than ourselves
• These things, when engaged are like magic for performance

6. Developing a Helpful Inner Coach

• Never allow yourself to have a self-critical voice
• Become your own best coach
• Find a great inner voice in the middle of any challenge
• Go on a noble adventure

7. How to Find That Magical Place Within Yourself

• Seek a delicate balance with all parts of human system
• Take care of your body
• Clear picture of your purpose of “why”
• Disciplined voice of the inner coach
• Performer skills
• Loving the adventure

8. Getting Your Scorecard Powerfully Aligned

• Extrinsic … how you place
• Intrinsic … what’s important to you
• Using your own converts to great performance
• All about putting energy into things you can control
• Fulfilling accomplishments comes from happiness first 

9. Home Exercises

 Q&A:

1. How do we overcome a mental block after a tragic event?

2. Do you still have “Love the Battle?”

3. What are the areas that really hold people back?

4. How to overcome feeling intimidated by others?

5. How to overcome feeling like a “little fish in big pond?”

6. Excited about “Only Way To Win” … being a teammate with a horse.

7. Information about Human Performance Institute programs

Order Your Programs and DVD's From Barbra Schulte Today-- For A More Successful and Confident TOMORROW!