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I think all of us, whether we’re talking about horses or just life in general, have at one time or another, gotten a little stuck. We buy into a certain technique, or system, or idea, or dogma about how things should be done, and then we follow it blindly to the exclusion of everything else. In the meantime, we begin to lose our ability to see the broader picture due to the fact that our thinking process has become more and more inflexible.

As far as horses go, it is almost always that inflexibility in our thinking process that gets us in trouble. Inflexibility creates tunnel vision, and tunnel vision seldom allows for the expansion of awareness. Yet it is that awareness—that lack of rigidity in our beliefs—that will allow us to try things we haven’t tried before, or will allow us to think outside the box when presented with an unfamiliar or problematic issue. It can also ultimately allow us to answer our own questions and question our own answers.

“Hello?” I said, answering my phone. It was a bit of an anomaly. I don’t like carrying my cell phone with me much, and when I do, I never have the ringer turned on. So even if someone does call, I almost never know it. But on this day, it happened that my phone jumped to life just as I took it from the console of the truck as I was heading in the house. I looked at the number on the screen but couldn’t place who it belonged to. Usually, when that happens, I let the call go to voicemail and pick up the message later. But for some reason, on this day, I decided to answer it.