b"Running the RaceBy Betsy Nunnhowfastdouwannab@gmail.com, facebook.com/Willnunnp3, youtube.com/user/howfastdouwannabH ow about this beautifulhave to also realize weather we are having?!that in life we all have Really Betsy? Are youseasons. We may be seriously gonna talk aboutpregnant or raising the weather? Well if you know me very well, then youkids. Even if you just know I am a cut to the chaser, a call it like I see it typehad that baby 8 weeks and no we are definitely NOT going to talk about theago and your hubby weather. Lets talk about something substantial, likeor grandmamma can GOALS. What are your goals? Now, am I referring tocome to babysit for 30 goals in your personal life or your career goals? Letsminutes while you go talk about them both.get on your horse to clear your head, that How do we navigate rodeo/barrel racing goals, andis great progress.our family, our jobs, our spouses and life in general?We all have these goals when we are in this circleI see some folks that whether we are a weekend warrior or someone at theto me seem to have top of our game. unrealistic goals butthats their business. I guess a person has to access their own life andAs long as they are doing something although everyone is very different we are alsoto move toward it, to me, that means they are headedNow, in the process of reachingfundamentally the same. We all have dishes, laundry,in the right direction. If you are a Senior Pro and you jobs, and kids to pick up and drop off. Some havehave been easing around for a while but you still haveour goals, we have to be sure to keep gotten so bogged down with life that they havethat itch to get in the middle of it then you owe it pushed their goals back to where it seems like they areto yourself to get strong and work every day towardour priorities in the right place.just a memory or something they used to do or enjoy.getting back in. If you have a goal to make the circuitAre we so focused on the prize and Its almost like they have forgotten what they wantedfinals and you have been winning at the jackpots, then to achieve. Some have gone after that goal and notget your card and go season your horse. Do you havethe gold buckle that we forget to look achieved it. Some are still hanging on to that momentthat big goal to be a world champion but you dontin the rearview mirror and truly in time that they can see still in their mind's eye. Theyhave the horse to do it right now? Get in the middle of have visualized themselves doing what they want toone and work with it to make it a champion.appreciate what we have?achieve but sometimes their minds do not know what is real and what is just their imagination. Now, in the process of reaching our goals, we have tosense that I won an event. I want to be a good person. Ibe sure to keep our priorities in the right place. Arewant to be remembered that way, as a good mom and My point is that we just need to do something towe so focused on the prize and the gold buckle thatwife and when I say good, I mean Godly. I know I am move toward the goal every day. Even if its a smallwe forget to look in the rearview mirror and trulystepping out there and better stay accountable but that thing like getting home from work, throwing a saddleappreciate what we have? If your horse works bad,is my true personal life goal. I would love to be a world on your horse and riding into the sunset. That inare you back at the trailer whipping, spurring andchampion someday if its Gods will, but I want to finish itself is just great therapy. Write your goals downforgetting who is watching? Are we yelling at ourwhat I started here with my family and finish that race and dont forget about them. Pray and seek the Lordfamily because we screwed up and made a bad run?well!! The Bible says, Where your treasure is, there about them. What is His will for your life? WeWhat and who are we representingyour heart is also. Where is your treasure? We have to and why are we so concerned aboutlook at our goals and decide if they are realistic at this what just happened in the arena?point in time. We also have to realize that we can beTHESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR WALKIN.Can we afford to be entering? Isthankful if we didnt win the last barrel race but know it too much pressure? Are we toothat we can learn from our journey as we move forward prideful? Is our horse where itthrough whatever season we are in and try to be theThe Concert Series will be traveling around Wickenburg this year!needs to be to achieve the goal weperson we need to be for others first, even before our have set? These are things that wegoals. From there have faith, do the work and pray it allLocation information and vendor applications can be found at:need to keep revisiting.gets put together at some point for us. If it doesnt, wehave to tell ourselves that it is going to be ok and look at I think we need to ask ourselves,all that we have to be thankful for on a daily basis!why exactly have we set this goal?Rodeo or running barrels? In theDont sit back and let life pass you by as it goes end, does it matter how muchquickly but in turn dont be so involved with focusing we won or who we beat? I love toon the goal that you lose focus on those who win. I love to teach people how tosupported you and loved you whether you won or win. I love to teach horses how tojust plain sucked that day.be champions but I want to be achampion. Does that make sense? IBe sure to look us up on Facebook at BarNunn Barrel***See online for details.want to be a champion, not just inHorses and P3 Farrier. We have quite a few videos the arena, and I want that for myto share on Barrel racing, shoeing and just life in family as well. I dont mean in thegeneral. Until next time! Keep running the race! 52 November 2019"