http://parelliworld.com This is a blog by Jerry S. Williams for Parelli students. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:55:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After spending the month of August with Pat Parelli, on my last day I had the opportunity to ask him "What is one tip you would give me for my horsemanship?" His answer was thoughtful yet simple "Raise your expectations". That simple phrase seems to have become my theme since then, ... http://parelliworld.com/raise-your-expectations/ I recall in graduate school studying the speeches of great men and women. I was attracted to Winston Churchill and several of his speeches. I don’t recall all the details of where and when but I do recall the entire speech. He was giving a commencement address at a small ... http://parelliworld.com/never-give-up/ While at the Parelli ranch in August participating in the Master Instructor Program one of the things that Pat talked about on several occasions was to watch the Masters and get to know what is world class. He also recommended we look on the internet for videos of World Class ... http://parelliworld.com/watch-the-masters/ “Don’t saddle the the young horses in the barn because someone saddled Presence in here and she started bucking and about jumped through the plate glass window into the office” was one of the first comments I heard about Presence even before I knew her name. Little did I know ... http://parelliworld.com/presence-my-first-ride/ “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed” are the final words to a song from the musical “Les Miserables”. I think in many cases this is true in our lives. We have a dream when we are full of energy and then as life unfolds our dreams begin to ... http://parelliworld.com/what-is-your-dream/ Just the other day I created a video on a private blog for my Level 2 students and one of the things I talked about was focus. Or more specifically using the natural power of focus. Flashback... ...to a job I had over 30 years ago. I mowed the fairways of ... http://parelliworld.com/be-careful-what-you-focus-on/ I have often wondered… Why do we have horses? I think for most of us, at least those of us that abide by natural horsemanship, we have horses in our lives because of the connection that is possible. It is that interconnection that causes us to have horses. Somehow it makes us ... http://parelliworld.com/why-horses/ Hopefully many of you have had a chance to read my article in the Nov. “Savvy Times”. It focuses on my relationship with my first levels horse Kahn. A story I like to tell about Kahn is how he showed me that horses never lie… It was sometime back when we were ... http://parelliworld.com/do-horses-lie/ Recently I was reminded of an idea that I heard over 30 years ago. Tony Robbins called it "millimeters" I first heard it as "degrees". He gave the illustration of driving a golf ball. If you are just millimeters off when you strike the ball, it goes off in the ... http://parelliworld.com/degrees/ I get the question quite often “why did you get an Andalusian?” Most of the time I say something like “ I just like the way they look” and leave it at that. But I can tell you exactly the time when the desire to have a Spanish horse started. ... http://parelliworld.com/why-taz/