Update
So friends it's been a while and I meant to post more often, but life just got in the way. My experiment from my last post has been going well and I have even seen some REAL things come of it. First off I am in the process of getting a contract with the government. I got this opportunity by basically living my experiment. Someone I know basically saw my new attitude and when the contract came up he nominated me for it. So that's that... I hope ;) Nothing is set in stone yet, so we'll have to see. Also my riding is improving dramatically, which is great seeing as that's the only real "thing" I have right now and I felt for a while like I was stagnating. It occured to me that most of you don't really know what type of riding I do. I do dressage. You can see a description of it here . Basically I train in the "classical german style" which means that I follow the school of thought on training that comes out of Germany. (I can get more