If Your Horse Is Dead - DISMOUNT!

Riding as a professional jockey for 7 years, taught me a lot about dismounting horses which were effectively 'dead'. They didn't win, they were never going to win and they certainly weren't going to enhance the career of any jockey. Where expectation of a racehorse's potential is high, perseverance often overcomes common sense as trainers of 'dead' horses continue to find 'bad enough' races in which they may be sighted. As it costs just as much to train a bad horse as it does a good horse, little is achieved until a decision is taken to retire these horses and re-train them for another, more suitable role. In her book Ladies........If Your Horse is Dead - DISMOUNT! Lyn McDonald uses this analogy to tell the stories of women who recognise their 'dead horses' (their own self limiting beliefs) and who find the courage to discover a 'thoroughbred' to take them in the direction they really want to go. A dead horse is not our dead-end relationship or our dead-end job but a mindset we need to let go of in order to grow and prosper. So why are we so reluctant to dismount our dead horses? We cling onto what we know because its comfortable, even though its not what we want. 'Better the devil we know'. This is the most common reason for sitting on a dead horse. Be Careful What You Wish For........... What if we knew we could safely and reasonably navigate the uncertain space between letting go of the old and discovering the new? That we could handle the fears and the obstacles which keep the most resiliant among us on dead horses?

A unique set of practical, easy to pick up tools, has now been developed by Bumpy Business. Drawing on 15 years experience, including the successful coaching of over 100 sports professionals, who went on to find themselves a new career after sport, evidence strongly suggests this process really does work. Delivered as flexible1:1 learning or to small groups Be Careful What You Wish For.......can be taken as an entire workshop or as individual modules, depending on client availability and current situation. If you think you're on a dead horse, clinging to a dead belief or behaviour hoping that no-one will notice......we would really like to hear from you.