Bolder Braver Brighter: The Rider's Guide to Living Your Best Life on Horseback
Bolder Braver Brighter: The Rider's Guide to Living Your Best Life on Horseback
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Overview
Coach Daniel Stewart, author of the hit mind-and-body equestrian workout Fit and Focused in 52, is back with new plans to power you up, bolster your confidence, and supply you with the mental tools you need to be all you can be, in and out of the saddle. With Coach Stewart’s infectious optimism and indomitable sense of fun, readers will find themselves embracing exhilarating changes in their outlook and their abilities. The evolution from “good enough” to “better” begins with:
- Understanding the attributes that create success.
- Comprehending the four stages of competence.
- Improving mindfulness of actions and reactions.
- Identifying good stress and bad stress—and handling both.
- Eliminating pressure as a threat.
- Managing nervousness, hesitation, and doubt.
- Overcoming failure and perfectionism.
- Removing limiting beliefs.
- Moving beyond expectations and comparisons to others.
- Becoming a good “mirror” for ourselves and others.
- Beating blind spot biases—beliefs you’re not aware of that harm you.
- Mastering memories and how the brain processes information.
Infusing his words with energy and compassion, Coach Stewart offers everyone a chance of attaining self-fulfillment and joy when working with and riding horses. His concepts are friendly, fun, and easy to implement, making his book chock full of potential—just like you. Bolder, Braver, Brighter is for every rider seeking improved performance in the saddle and partnership with the horse.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781646010332 |
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| Publisher: | Trafalgar Square |
| Publication date: | 05/15/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 38 MB |
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About the Author
Daniel Stewart has been a successful international trainer and instructor for over 30 years, working with riders in the United States, Spain, Portugal, England, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Greece, and the West Indies. From 1999 to 2007 he coached riders on several US Equestrian Teams at World Championships, World Equestrian Games, and the Olympics. Coach Stewart teaches riding clinics and seminars to thousands of riders each year and is currently a consultant for USA Equestrian and USA pentathlon. He’s a sought-after keynote speaker for many national conventions, and is the equestrian sport psychology expert for the USEA, USPC, USHJA, as well as other equestrian associations. Widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on equestrian sport psychology, athletics, and performance, Coach Stewart is the author of three books and produces weekly equestrian sport psychology video tips, rider fitness video classes, and instructor certification videos through his Pressure Proof Academy. He teaches multi-day Equestrian Athlete Camps at some of America’s most elite athlete training centers, helping riders prove that they are athletes. His previous books include Ride Right with Daniel Stewart, Pressure Proof Your Riding, and Fit and Focused in 52. When not on the road, he resides in Naples, Florida (pressureproofacademy.com).
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Write Your Own Story 4
Bolder, Braver, Brighter 6
The Monkey and the Coconut 8
Part 1 Bolder 11
Chapter 1 Be an Original, Not a Copy 17
Out-Grouping 20
Body Envy 21
Shame 23
Causes of Body Envy and Shame 24
Why You Do What You Do 33
Fixing Body Envy, Shame, and Bullying 36
Self-Schemas and Self-Concept 36
Valuing You Exercise 37
Mirroring 38
Self-Concept Exercise 40
Broken Mirrors 42
Chapter 2 The Best Version of You 45
Instinctual Drift 47
Self-Sets 49
{1} Self-Respect 51
{2} Self-Esteem 51
{3} Self-Worth 52
{4} Self-Compassion 53
{5} Self-Efficacy 56
{6} Self-Actualization 56
Impulse Control 58
Control Influence Exercise 60
Should've, Would've, Could've 61
Seven Ways to Improve Your Self-Sets 62
Chapter 3 Watch Out for Your Blind Spot 65
Blind-Spot Biases 69
Blind-Spot Biases and Out-Grouping 75
Recognize Blind-spot Bias Exercise 77
Chapter 4 Minding Your Mindsets 79
Qualities of a Healthy Mindset 81
Growth vs. Fixed Mindsets 83
Effort Vision 85
More Mindsets 88
The Victim and the Survivor Mindsets 88
The Scarcity and the Abundance Mindsets 89
The Self and the Selfless Mindsets 90
The Short-Term and the Long-Term Mindsets 90
The Dread and the Dreamer Mindsets 91
The Fear and the Feedback Mindsets 93
The Win and the Winning Mindsets 93
The Greed and the Gratitude Mindsets 94
Are You Fixed or Growing Exercise 95
Fixing the Fixed Mindset 97
Unfixing the Fixed Mindset Exercise 98
Chapter 5 Neuroplasticity 101
The Anxiety Cycle Is Not a Spinning Class! 103
The Learning Ladder 106
Stage One: Unconsciously Incompetent 107
Stage Two: Consciously Incompetent 108
Stage Three: Consciously Competent 111
Stage Four: Unconsciously Competent 112
Franky Climbs the Ladder 116
Vulnerability 117
Climbing the Ladder Exercise 119
Part 2 Braver 121
Chapter 6 Fight, Flight, Freeze, Freak Out, and Forget 127
The Amygdala Hijack 131
Stopping the Amygdala Hijack 134
Memories 142
Mood-Dependent Memories 142
Short- and Long-Term Memories 143
The Problem with Memories 146
Repressed Memories 146
Five Fixes for Troubling Memories 147
Chapter 7 Have a Little Faith in Failure 151
Subway Surfers Effect 152
Live Life Like a Game 154
Labeling 155
Take Yourself Out of the Equation 156
Myths and Misconceptions about Messing Up 157
Kinds of Failures 159
Reframe the Picture 164
Eight Fixes for Failure 166
Chapter 8 Your Ego Is Not Your Amigo 171
Coping Mechanisms vs Defense Mechanisms 173
Defense Mechanisms 174
Coping Not Choking 180
Six Fixes to Defense Mechanisms 185
Chapter 9 Fears and Tears 189
Rational and Irrational Fears 192
Rational Fears 193
Irrational Fears 195
Causes of Fear 199
Six Causes of Rational Fears 200
Six Causes of Irrational Fears 204
What Kind of Fearful Are You Exercise 207
Fixes for Fears 208
Part 3 Brighter 217
Mindfulness 220
Remove the Shadows Exercise 224
Chapter 10 Brands, Breakers, and Babble 227
Branding 229
Your Athlete Brand: Part One 229
Your Athlete Brand: Part Two 234
Shifting to Chunking 236
Bringing It All Together 237
Time to Build Your Brand 238
Build Your Athlete Brand Exercise 239
Breakers 241
Time 241
Tasks 241
Triggers 243
Tags 248
Three Examples of Breakers 249
Build Your Breaker Exercise 250
Babble 251
So, How I Will Get to Thank You…Yet 256
Chapter 11 Buckets, Barriers, and Bamboo 259
Buckets 261
Barriers 263
Bamboo 266
Part 4 Best 269
Acknowledgements 274
Index 276