As far as our health is concerned minerals are the most important thing in the functions of our body. Vitamins and amino acids are important but minerals are the structure or scaffolding of our body. Trace minerals are important because we do no need large quantities of these so we may miss out in the importance of these in our diet. Most soils are depleted of trace minerals so the food that is produced in these soils is lacking in trace minerals.
    Most supplements have several of the main minerals we need but they do not contain the trace minerals in the trace amounts that we need. There are several sources of the trace minerals some contain anywhere from 40 to 85 of these in their products. The one that has over 85 of these trace elements can be found at trace minerals.info. These can be taken in pill form or added to garden or farm soil. Added to animal food.
   If the food we ate and our diet contained the trace minerals then our health care cost would be reduced greatly. Healthy people are more productive and proactive. Let's take care of our trace mineral needs.

 

Victims

            A victim is one who has no control over the events in their lives, a crime victim, a rape victim, or a victim of circumstance.

            When we have no control over what happens in our lives then we become victims. A victim will wine, cry and complain hoping to gain control in their lives. All this does is to let others be aware of their helplessness. Who then will go and take advantage of them even more. You may have heard of people who have been rape victims or mugged and even though they cried out for help sometimes for hours no one went to their aid. Others were afraid of becoming victims themselves. While if Donald Trump or Paris Hilton went in to a store everyone would rush over to their aid. They need no help. But if a homeless person walks in no one want to help them. They need your help.

            The reason is that no one wants to be around a victim. Everyone wants to be around a winner. It is our choice if we want to be a victim or a winner. Many have been in bad circumstances beyond their control but have decided to maintain their position as a winner not a victim. They were able to keep a good positive attitude and were able to change the events taking place in their lives eventually.

       When bad things happen in our lives we can stop and mourn and gather ourselves up after the event. Just as when you stub your toe or injure yourself, you may stop and repair the wound and give it a little bit of extra attention. If were to see a person fall down in the street and you went up to them and offered a hand and they said it "No thanks I will get up later." Then a week later you walk by the same spot and you see that same person still in the same spot and does not want to get up. You would come to the conclusion that the person was insane. Get over it.

     A victim will go over and over the event and relive this time and time again. Each person they meet in life they will tell the story anew. It is ok to listen to this story once if you wish to be empathetic. Any more than this and you will be promoting their victim story. If you allow it they will fill up your life with this negative output. This will cause you to focus on the negative things in life and you will not see the opportunities and good things in life.

     This becomes evident when nations today are fighting over the inheritance that an ancestor left thousands of years ago. They will fight and kill each other all in the name of God or wrongs they felt were done to them years ago. Others will moan over the mistreatment of ancestors several hundred years ago. They will live in poverty and despair remembering the evil thoughts that others have for their ancestors and maybe for them today. They could just move on and better their life today but they just wallow in their misery and keep attracting bad things into their life.

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      Big farms and large food manufacturing has increased the use of oil and decreased the quality of our food today. The farms have been over produced reducing the amount of trace minerals in our foods. Fertilizer companies are manufacturing products to replace some of the nutriments that are required for proper plant growth. Hormones and other additives are being given to animals to insure their growth and health. These are causing problems with the water supply and increase chemicals in the food chain.
    
     Trace minerals added to the soil have enhanced the properties of fertilizer both organic and manufacturing. some farmers have beed able to reduce the need for these and get better crops and higher yield. They have been able to reduce the cost of the fertilizer to pre oil crunch prices. If all the farmers would use these then our oil needs could be reduced by a large percent.

     Trace minerals added to the food of humans and animals results in better health and less need for pharmaceuticals. Going green.
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    In today's economy we need to use every tool that we have to get our planets health back into balance.
    Trace minerals added to the soil will reduce the cost of oil based fertilizer and increase the food value of the plants.
    Trace minerals can increase our heath and help us to live happier lives.
Check out the information at the website trace-minerals.info and see how they can

    1. Save you money
    2. reduce pain and frustration in your life
    3. Make you money

Get on board today to see how these chelated trace minerals Can improve you life today.
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    Self-control! We can blame others and other companies for the problems that we are having or we can take 100% responsibility for all the events in our lives. Want to quit using oil or gas, get a bicycle! Want lower food cost, grow a garden. Many things that people are doing in the name of green is just making things worse. Cotton uses three times the amount of oil to produce as rayon. Rayon is recyclable, cotton is not(maybe for money). Cotton also uses agent orange for harvesting. Shows up in cottonseed oil at times.

Set the example in your own life and then others will follow suit. Electric cars more green house gasses. How do you think electricity is produced? Bio fuel- increased food cost. Solar panels keep heat on the planet that would be reflected to outer space. If we would like to fix something then lets learn what is really causing the problem and fix it the right way. No more chicken Little and the sky is falling. The wolf only wants to distract you from the truth. Use self control and find out the truth on your own so we don't run to the wrong place for protection.

Larry
      

 

"What are the two most important training maneuvers your horse needs to know," so that your horse can perform better in all events?

  

  "It is the side movements and the back up of your horse." It is the side pass, the two track, hip movement, the in side and out side movements,  the arc movements, the counter arcs, the inside arcs and the out side arcs, and most of all the backing of your horse. And these are the  maneuvers people spend the least amount of time on.

    Why? Because they take more work to teach and people like to lope more because it is easier on them. But if you spend time on these two maneuvers you will have a nicer horse to ride that is soft in the mouth and body, the kind of horse that is fun to ride.
 
    "Backing is one of the biggest maneuvers a horse needs to have in their life,"    The back creates the sliding stop, the roll back, softening of the jaw and face of a horse, it teaches the horse to ark its back up ward so it can lope correctly, it helps the horse to rock back on its hocks so that they can spin softer and lope  with a better cadence, it teaches better rating and use of the hock. It puts the spring in the horse movement for roping, barrel racing, cutting, reining, jumping, and all English and Western events. It is the top dog of the maneuvers.

    In a sliding stop it teaches the horse how to get their feet up under them quicker, and it also teaches a horse how to break at the poll easier and softer. The stop is the one maneuver you want on your horse if your horse is about to go over a cliff.

    The side pass or side movements' maneuvers teaches your horse to move away from pressure and to use their feet and legs more like a dancer, this is why I say we are only dancing with are horses when we ride. We teach a movement with our horse and than we flow with the horse as they move.

    Side passing teaches our horses to change leads better, it teaches the turn around and neck reins better, the arcs can teach the departing of the lope better, it keeps your horse to be softer in the face, so that your horse cannot brace on the bit. It keeps you barrel horse from dropping their shoulder on a barrel, and it also helps a rope horse from ducking into to quick after roping a steer also. If your horse ducks too quick it drops it shoulder and puts too much weight on the side it is turning on and than your horse cannot move its leg out of the way fast enough to move on, it is what I call stuck in the mud.

    So you see how important these maneuvers are even though I have only touched on them lightly. They are more important than loping or stopping because they are how we get better stops, lopes and spins. So spend more time on these maneuvers and you will have a better horse to ride. Check out my web site for more on this subject.

Thank you and become the best you can become.
                           Bob Logan 

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     I have found that everything in life is like pro wrestling.
  a. A nice show.

  b. You need to be tough to get in the ring
  c. Fixed and all owned by the same cooperation.

I don't care if you voted for Bush or Cary they graduated from the same school same year same skull and bones society.

So just like Pro Wrestling,

Watch the show
Root for one side or the other
But when you go home nothing in you personal life has changed

    The only person who can change things in your life is you. That involves Self Control.
Making choices and direction in life that you want to have.
    When we are waiting for other to bring us happiness or improvement in life it will be along time coming. We can be controlled by the government, church or by mom and dad.
Or we can have self control.
    We can enjoy others and revel in their beauty and energy but we need to educate ourselves on how to direct ourselves. We can listen to others but in the end we must take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in our lives.

     Its was interesting to hear John Mackaine say that the politics were a great show but when it comes down to it we must all take charge of out own lives.

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      I stress circles in my training for the fact that from circles you can build to other training maneuvers. Circles will build great foundation for anything you want to do with your horse.

      From circles you can teach correct body alignment and body control. I need to have a horse that can lopes in circles in a very precise way. Not cutting off the corners or coming across the middle of the arena or ducking to the right or left. I need a horse to listen to me real well and lope circles perfectly. By staying correct in the circle your horse will learn discipline, and build muscle from the circles. 

      I want my horse to lope with a small arc in their body and their nose pointing inward toward the circle, not outward. As they lope I want them to learn to lope soft and relaxed, I keep this training very simple. If the colt is having a bad day, I will back off, there is always tomorrow.  As your horse lopes, keep feeling for a shoulder or stomach getting out of line, if it does, put leg pressure on the side that is out of line, until it lines up. If the shoulder is out of line pick up the rein on the out side of the circle and with your leg and hand push your horse back in line.
 
      I spend a lot of time loping circles. It is a big part of the reining horse training and barrel horse training. In fact, I had a well-known barrel racing clinician ask me if I would help some of the ladies locally get their horses to lope circles better.  It isn't that tough to do, but you have to be consistent. You can not lope circles one day and then forget to lope them for another two-three weeks and then just go to running barrels or reining on them, and wonder why your horse could not lope circles well. 

     Remember "consistency builds confidence in your horse" and "discipline creates better performance in your horse."  I start out with small circles. When I start a colt, I like to start them in the round pen in the beginning. Horses learn to lope circles correctly in the round pen. Then I move from the round pen to the arena. This is a tough area for young horses at first.  
       At the beginning, in the arena, young horses don't lope circles quite as well. One of the biggest problems that I see with people loping circles, is that they start loping and the horse starts "leaking out of the circle. What I mean by this is they start moving from a perfect circle to moving out of the circle.  

       When I'm loping circles on young horses, I want them to pick up the correct lead. If they don't pick up the correct lead I don't make a big deal out of it. I stop the horse and start again, until they pick it up. If a horse does not pick up the lead after a few starts I will let them lope in the wrong lead, with their head in the circle and I will keep pumping my outside leg. Most colts will change to the correct lead for balance. 
     
      I start on a 20 ft. circle and pretty soon come around to a certain area and it becomes an egg shaped circle where one side is 5 ft out of line, and then they come back in to that 20 ft. circle. You need to keep that horse within that 20 ft circle consistently. If the horse leaks out. Let's say that I am riding to the right and it leaks to the left, I will use my left leg and left hand to move the horse back in to the circle. 
 
      I don't have to go all the way back into a 20 ft circle by pushing that horse back. All I want the horse to do is to move away from my leg and go back, maybe only ½ foot. I just want to show that horse that it is not allowed to leak out. I catch them right at the beginning of their leaking out.  I don't let them end up into a 30 ft circle before I catch them. If they start to move out I immediately move my left leg into my horse, straighten up the shoulder, and push them right back into the circle. Eventually the horse realizes, "I can't leak out, if I do the rider is going to move me with his leg, and I don't like to be moved with a leg, it doesn't feel comfortable, so I will move back in there myself."

     As I lope circles I don't get in a fight with a horse. Once you fight with them and scare the horse you make your job harder because the horse won't relax and stay in the circle, it will run out of the circle from fear. I will lope a 20 ft circle every single day. It is that way in my training with every horse until they are about a year and a half along and then I may not lope a circle each day.  I may walk to the middle of the arena and start a big circle using half the arena. This is because of what I do for my training. 

     If you are just loping circles to teach your horse to run barrels, then lope your horse and teach them to lope a circle and go from a big circle down to a smaller circle. The biggest problem you may have here is that we put too much pressure on a horse when they are down into a 10 ft circle. It is hard for a horse to lope a tight circle in the beginning. If you are patient and if you wait on your horse and let your horse get used to loping into a tight circle, your horse will get much better and comfortable in loping into a smaller circle. 

      Within a week or so your horse will like to lope down in the small circle, because you will bring your horse down into a trot after you have loped in a 10 ft circle. Let your horse break to a trot, then to a walk and let it relax down into a 5 ft circle. Now, if you were a horse and I was making you travel in a 20 ft circle and I brought you to a 10 ft circle then to a 5 ft circle and you got to walk, relax and catch your breath, you would begin to ‘search' for the smaller circle. Wouldn't you.  
   
     After doing this for a while, your horse may create a problem and become too eager to get down into the circle. Your not helping the horse if you permit them to run down in the circle too soon. Your horse needs to lope out there in the 20 ft circle and come down when you tell them to come down, not when they want to come down in there. You need to be careful of this and be in control all the time.

     There are times when I will lope from a 20 ft to a 10 ft circle and bring my horse back out to a 20 to a 30 ft circle. I want the horse to know that I will move them in and out of the circle not them move themselves in and out. It is a drill that I use to teach my reining horses, and I use it to condition the horses mind to be able to move them where I want them to go, not where they want to go. I constantly work at keeping control of the horses mind so that it is with me, listening to me, and not listening to themselves.

    One of the other things that you need to do is look at where you are going. I am sure you have heard this a lot. If you look down into a 5 ft circle and the next time you look out to a 20 ft circle, you will constantly have your horses not making a perfect circle. Make sure you look at the circle size that you want. Don't look down into a smaller circle unless that is where you are trying to go. 

     Always know where you are going. Where you look is where your horse will go. Later, when loping in the larger arena I use half the arena and lope across the middle of the arena. This is where you may have trouble with your horse. They want to cut the corner. Let's say that you are loping across the arena with a grand stand on one side. When you come to the side with the grandstand and your horse cuts the corner instead of going straight to the grandstand. You need to fix this and keep your horse honest.   
       I like my horses to lope straight across the arena, stay where I ask them to stay until I ask them to go left or right. Now if your horse cuts off a corner to the right side and I feel that horse moving its body before I get there to go to the right I will automatically take them off to the left and do what is called a counter canter to the left.  I will bring that horse back around a couple of times in the counter-canter and I will sit and wait for this horse to see if it quits anticipating going to the right. I want the horse to wait, listen to me and not go to where it wants to go. I don't want a horse to cut off the circle. There are good reasons for this. If you can't teach a horse to run straight across the arena you will also have trouble running straight to the barrel and run-downs.  You need to keep control of your horse. Teach them that you are in control.

        Sometimes you must confuse your horse from anticipation, so that they don't second-guess you going to the right, even though you are in the right lead. If your horse starts to cut off the circle, take them back to the left so that you keep them honest. That is probably the biggest challenge we have in the horse business. Keeping horses honest. Once you have done that you can come back and go the other direction and lope to the right and come back around and constantly work at loping straight across the arena into circles. It is very important to me because, I want to keep a horse honest.

     The other thing that you can do is to lope straight down the middle of the arena. It teaches my horse how to lope straight. Not all horses know how to do this. When I get to the end of the arena after say 250-300ft I will lope a circle.    I will start at maybe a 20 ft circle. I will bring the horse down to a 10 ft circle, 5 ft circle, walk and let my horse rest. If I do this consistently, within a couple of weeks you will have a horse loping much better.   I believe that we do not lope circles enough and then we ask a horse to lope around tiny little barrels and we wonder why they have lost their alignment.  

      We don't practice this exercise enough to help them build their confidence. Learn to dance with your horse when you ride, I am not the best dancer in the world by any means. I am probably not any good at all because I can not stay on a pattern. But once I have learned a pattern I can dance a lot better. Horses are the same way. Once your horse learn's how to balance it's body in a circle and as it gets smaller and smaller, they build their confidence and they get better and better all the time.  

     You must remember to sit up correctly in the saddle. Don't lean into the circle. That drops your shoulder down when you lean down. If you find a horse dropping its shoulder, then you need to pick it up as you are loping circles. But don't pick the shoulder up so high that you move the horse way off balance and out of your circle. A shoulder doesn't have to be picked up in the air 10 feet. If you pick a shoulder up and you only move your hand two inches, you are still picking that shoulder up. 

     A lot of times I see people trying to pick up a shoulder and they overdo it. All you are asking a horse to do is pick its shoulder up by lifting its rib cage back up and tilt the horse back up straight so that it lopes a circle standing straight up. Not leaning to the left or right. Well, good luck. I hope this helps you. Circles are very important in everything you do with a horse and in every event. You must have a horse that can handle circles. You should be loping a lot of them. Let me know if this helps you.  

                                                                       Thanks Bob Logan
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Self control

     Have you met some one without self control?  Think of the following. Imagine that you are going out to take care of your yard. You look over to see your child who had been cleaning up the yard stuck in a weed chipper. Then you proceed to also notice that the grass next to the side walk is ragged and should be trimmed. So you proceed to take out a pair of scissors and start to trim the grass.????  Wait a minute!!!!!

I think there is something more important to take care of first. Let's take care of the most important things first. Get the kid out of the weed eater.... That is the most important thing you should take care of. Anything else is pure insanity.

     Like wise when you look around you in the world and start to look at all the things that need to be fixing like global warming, taxes, health care, immigration and all these seemingly important things. So you start all these projects and efforts but overlook the most important thing that needs to be taken care of which is the kid in the weed eater. The kid in the weed chipper is self control.

     All these things may be important but the most attention should be given to self control. I have found that you can be controlled by the Government, Religion or Mom and Dad. Or you can have self control. Wallace Wattles in his book "The Science of Getting Rich" and Napoleon Hill in "Think and Grow Rich" both say that to effect change in or life don't try to control things around instead try to control yourself.

     Even God wants you to have self control. When you gain self control you send out self control waves that affect everything and every person in your life. You will then notice that no longer will you have to control things around you but simply enjoy the beauty around you.

      When you find small stuff in your life to become upset over, things that you have little power over like Global Warming, oil prices, health care and many others this is just misdirection. This is to distract others and ourselves away from taking care of the most important thing in out life first. Get the kid out of the weed eater!!!  Get self control!!!! 

Then you can take care of the small stuff in your life.  We help you to work on self control.

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                                      The Simple Principle

 

 It’s too hard for you to do. You will never be able to learn how to do this. Only the most intelligent and able people can do this.  I hear this over and over again. This is not the simple principle

 

     In School my teachers told me that I was too slow and would never be able to keep up with the others kids. So in the summer after first grade my parents bought my brother and I each a book from a used book sale for 10cents each. Mine was “Cowboy Bob”, my brother’s was “If  I  Were Going”.  I took one month for me to get through the book, then I read my brothers book in one week. I then went to the library and started checking out 7 books a week and my brother also checked out 7 books a week. I read all mine then his. My parents had bought a set of encyclopedias and science books which by the end of the summer I had read them all. I had learned the simple priciple. Make learning fun and you will never stop learning.

 

    The next year when I went back to school my teachers could not deal with my high school reading level so they started to find other things that they could complain about.

It took me some time to figure out why.  The harder something is to do the more valuable the teacher becomes. So to make themselves more value they have to make the process hard. Agian not the simple principle. 

 

    I would like to introduce the “Simple Principle” which tries to break everything down to the simplest process and to show anyone that they can do what ever they want to accomplish or learn.

 

     Galileo said that “You don’t need to teach a man anything, only how to think” and my saying for years is that you don’t have to teach a child anything, only that learning is fun.

 

     I am breaking down every training program down to the “Simple Principle” which will make every program fast and easy for all to learn. Learning how to think and remember is the first skill. At boblogantraining.com and horsesecrettips.com we will have many programs to help you become the best you can be. Anyone can become better and have fun doing it.

                                                                  The simple priniciple.