Welcome to Dear Barnby Notes. I'm here to answer any questions you might have about using an equestrian training notebook. There are 10 simple ways to use a notebook and they all have the ability to grow your talent in the saddle exponentially!

The first of 10 ways to use a training notebook is to write what you experience in the saddle. This is one way that Lendon Gray, two time Olympian, used her notebook! Typically it's best to do this right after you ride because the longer you wait, the more you forget, because memory is fallible. That means it forgets. And the point is to remember, ideally before you get on again -- because as we are trying to create new habits and grow new talent, we are constantly practicing bad habits and we don't even know it. For some, depending upon how focused you want to be, keeping a notebook might just be about defeating the odds of that fallible (fall out of your head) memory!

Often times Lendon just wrote one sentence thoughts like, "Be careful not to tilt head to the right." And while her notes were simple, her notebooks piled up. The more the better for those who want to reach their aspirations in accelerated time!

For more about learning to use a notebook, please go to barnbynotes.com and try our 2 week trial. We also have two platforms where you can publish your notes to our equestrian notebook keeping community and earn yourself a 6 month subscription for our online notebook: The 30 Day Challenge and Ah-ha Moment.