The journey of Athos

Last year Athos was born on our farm. He is our very first foal here in France. It is an Azteca-horse.
I will keep a trainer's log of his progress. His journey from an ignorant, upnoxious, rude, irresponsible foal into a magnificent show-horse.

I couldn't refuse ...

A couple of weeks ago one of my clients asked me if I wanted to ride her Lusitanian horse. She has bought the horse a few months ago and had been having trouble handling him. She recently found out that the 12 year old horse had only been castrated a year ago. This means that, in his head, he thinks he is still a stallion. However, I just adore Lusitanian horses so obviously I didn't say on!
What you'll see on this video is not a prepared dressage exercise, it's just me riding this horse for the first time trying to find out how he has been ridden. Even though it has been a long time ago, this horse has learned something at some point and still has a faint memory of it. I enjoyed riding him and I am convinced that with good training, patience and persistence his new owner will find a way to work with him and enjoy a good dressage horse.

Negative Thoughts are like Bad Weeds in Your Head

Negative Thoughts grow like bad weeds, our imagination creates a negative world if we let the weeds grow. Staying positive and having a constructive attitude is work (De-cluttering), you have to invest time and effort to reach the goals you're dreaming of. As the old Samurai says in the movie 'Last Samurai' : you have to empty your mind, you can't think about fighting, you have to do it.

Friends on the Countryside on a lazy Sunday Afternoon.

Yesterday we had a calm, relaxing and fun day. We shot some arrows on the new 3D Archery Target we've bought. Had a chat and a whisky afterwards. Life is supposed to be fun and easy, especially on a Sunday afternoon.

Traffic-jam on a lazy Sunday Afternoon.

Some people say living on the countryside is boring and stress-less. The city-dwellers don't know anything about our life here at the foot of the Pyrenees in the South of France.

Today we wanted to go out and visit a fellow archer and hunter, so the ladies could discuss my wife's first experience on the local farmers market and my friend and I could shoot some arrows. But something happened that took us complete out of our planning, we got stuck on our farm, we suffered a TRAFFIC-JAM. Look below.

Nobody wants him

As a coach I often meet men who feel nobody wants them.
It's a very intimate moment when you're in the woods with a bunch of men. Camping, lighting a Fire Without a Match and sometimes killing animals.

Oeps there I go in my very first post "KILLING ANIMALS", I've warned you this is a MEN ONLY blog. So if you hate meat eaters go here.

I'm sorry I lost track here for a second... but I'm back! So in the woods surviving on food we find in nature. Most of the day we spend on finding water, filtering it, building a shelter and ...

Well you know what I'm talking about and if not give yourself a treat and book a survival experience!

For those who know what I'm talking about, have you ever experienced this moment of unlimited joy sitting around a campfire listening to stories your buddies share and suddenly someone starts talking about feeling criticized by women. The reason for these assaults : "Being who you are, a man!"

It is true; being a man is a hard thing to do, cause we like

• to drink and smoke,
  
• to go out,
  
• to look for tasty body-parts,
  
• to enjoy eating meat,
  
• to ... even better we love to fight and argue,
  
• to ... lets say prefer to avoid talking about our feelings when interrogated,
  
• to make our hands dirty and take action.

My advice : next time you feel criticized remember this :

"We are all descendants of adventures men and we have to honor them, the only way to do this is being a man as a man should be."

Thanks for reading my first post... and BRO, BE AUTHENTIC, BE A MAN!!!

The Charming Warrior