The February challenge for Equus-Blog is perhaps one of my favourite things: education.
Over the whole of 2014, I encourage you to work to better educate yourself. February can be a great time of year to set yourself an education related goal. This may be achieved a myriad of different ways:
- enrol in a course
- set a goal to read a certain number of books on a particular topic/s by the end of 2014 (eg: 12, 1 a month)
- create a list of questions for yourself that you’d like to research and have answered by a certain date
- attend horse events throughout the year where you can learn more about a particular discipline or breed, meet new contacts and perhaps even score some short term (or long term!) work experience or a job
- ask lots of questions of horse experts that you come into contact with (be curious!)
I love to learn, in particular about horses, so I am doing a few of the above things.
- My equine science degree at Charles Sturt University starts back in March so I will be back studying (I’m already reading one of the prescribed text books to try and get ahead);
- I have enrolled in the 3 free online courses run by CAFRE and am into the second half of the first short course this week;
- I am aiming to read at least one book a month, many of which are horse related (you can learn from fiction and non fiction);
- Often I will have questions for my farrier when she trims my horse’s feet and the property owner where I keep my horse – there’s no end to the learning!
Remember from the January challenge that goals are more likely to be achieved if you’re accountable to someone for them. Write them down, tell people and of course – set an end date so that you have a good form of pressure reminding you that something needs to be done! For more on achieving goals, check out my article on Setting SMART Goals.
Until next month’s challenge, good luck and be sure to comment and let me know what your planned goals are 🙂 I’d love to read about them!
To learn all that a horse could teach, was a world of knowledge, but only a beginning… – Mary O’Hara
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