Patience

We all need patience. Patience makes such a difference when working with animals or humans. Everyone deserves to be given patience. Many of us lack this skill in our lives. Horses have much  patience, donkeys even more. Cultivating patience is essential to your Horsemanship Journey.  
You need patience with the animal you are working with and learning with. Also you need patience with  yourself. We are all in such a hurry to accomplish things that we rush though and push ourselves and then get frustrated when things don't work out well.  Many times we need to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and try again the next day. Learning is a long process and you just can't hurry the results. Every horse will teach you something different and you will benefit yourself by listening to them. You can't force progress, it has to come at its own speed. Sometimes for smaller children may not be physically ready for the progress. Adults may have a harder time with progress due to other commitments and out of shape muscles. . 
Give yourself a hug and tell yourself you are doing the best you can at this point in time. Allow yourself the learning time. 

Last year I got one flower from this Christmas Cactus. This year I got 2. That is patience. :)