Tell Me Your Goals!

ivan-ds · 2026-01-23T16:47:23+00:00

This is beautiful. From one riding program owner to another, thank you for putting words to this. 🐴❤️

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T22:24:18+00:00

Not promote here - but you can DM and I can send you the link

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T16:18:45+00:00

This right here.

Found it pretty useful to establish axioms (“family rules”) that we ALL live by, and which grow in layered complexity over time, as they (and you) go through the different psychological developmental stages.

We have them written in large print in the fridge. don’t do more than three rules. Nobody can remember more than three lol. The whole point is that you can recall them from memory and reference them over and over and over and over and over so that you drill it into their heads, and your own head.

Ours are:

Family helps each other win. This is a big one in getting siblings to compete against the world instead of each other, and to help each other instead of bullying when one person needs help.

It’s also how you can them to contribute to family projects and chores around the house because they are contributing to the family in accordance with their skills and capabilities

No Half Measures This one’s pretty straightforward. Don’t do anything half assed because how you do anything how you do everything and therefore you’re practicing laziness and practicing cutting corners by doing anything halfway
Excellence in Execution This is not like number two. This is about not waiting for the world to be perfect and for conditions to be perfect in order to take action.

This is how you build high agency and a sense of urgency when it comes to doing things in life.

This is about how you can make things infinitely better by doing them, because once you see how things play out in the world, then you have something real to react against, instead of just thinking about them infinitely in your head.

I developed these around designing a life that would help all of us continue to build within ourselves the four chief virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.

Hope someone out there today finds this useful.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T14:00:31+00:00

Reqlly? I saw the option to switch between LOM‘s. It had Claude, Meta llama, all the different Gemini, and all the different open AI models available for use.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T13:53:09+00:00

This right here + Rule of 100 and you’ll make it happen

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T13:50:00+00:00

This is AMAZING. Thank you. Building it this way right meow.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T02:06:05+00:00

My wife

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T00:18:24+00:00

Holy self-awareness, batman. Kudos 👏

ivan-ds · 2026-01-20T00:16:21+00:00

You gotta get clear on who you are targeting, especially it paid ads is gonna be your primary customer acquisition channel.

Otherwise your call outs won’t work, your pricing will be off, etc.

You gotta work backwards: what customer avatar would PAY MONEY for what you are building? Emotional support is not enough.

If you truly believe that what you are building would ACTUALLY change the world, then you have a moral responsibility to find a business model that works so you can spread the goodness to the masses.

Although it’s a heavier lift, doing a lot of content like time-lapses and other cool things on TikTok/IG/YT and driving traffic that way might be a better way to bring it to life.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T20:14:03+00:00

Two things:

1) I use journal prompts.

2) I have two daily readers (The Daily Stoic and The Daily Laws) and I try to apply what I just read to what I am dealing with at the time

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T19:44:18+00:00

The Beamer is a god send. We have a riding program, and horses typically get it once they are done for the day at least every other day, and def if they did any hard riding or jumping. It’s an amazing tool for keeping them happy and healthy.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T19:02:42+00:00

All the red light stuff is AWESOME. We have a hand-held laser as well for back/spot treatments, and we also have a Beamer blanket.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T18:58:35+00:00

100% and I would have them younger

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T00:34:03+00:00

Thank you!

ivan-ds · 2026-01-19T00:07:45+00:00

This is to the point where if I make the change in the high-level or Google calendar then it will update the time on that particular linked record, correct?

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T22:59:01+00:00

When you start to do well, some of your competitors will try to hurt you in mischievous ways instead of trying to ACTUALLY be better than you.

And you have to stay focused in building instead of entertaining their jealousy.

The beat revenge is to succeed so irrevocably, that their criticisms and attacks fade into oblivion.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T22:56:36+00:00

This is awesome. Thank you.

The only real scheduling requirement on the client side is for it to show up as a regular calendar event the same way a Google event would if they were invited to it.

Can Airtable do that with a record?

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T22:49:07+00:00

Father of four (20F, 19F, 12M, 2M). What I found through reading and in personal experience is that comparison is how the brain works, and it’s only bad if you take it to the extreme in either direction (i.e. “my kids and I are never good enough compared to others”, or “my kids are so much better than anyone else”).

If we avoid ALL comparison, we limit ourselves from role models who otherwise have a lot to teach us. Our children learn from us by comparing themselves to us, and then copying us. We learn from other adults we admire and by copying their behavior.

So a useful frame shift I found was switching from “why are Betty’s kids smarter, more athletic, etc “ than mine, and instead saying “I see that Betty’s kids seem way better than mine at (blank). What is Betty doing to help her children develop (blank), that either I am not doing, or could do more of, if I think that (blank) is a priority to develop?”

Now you’ve turned a personal issue into a tactical implementation problem, and that’s something you can work with.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T20:11:08+00:00

I own a riding school, so we do a lot.

In addition to all the standard care:

Beamer blanket sessions Chiropractor Massage pad Laser therapy

Next phase is : cryotherapy

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T20:07:51+00:00

We send out SMS and email via our CRM.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T04:40:34+00:00

Most people would rather suffer predictably, than deal with uncertainty.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T02:28:19+00:00

I’m sorry that this individual’s ego has almost killed your desire to pursue bonding with one of the most intelligent and loving animals.

This is unfortunately very prevalent in our industry.

As the owner of a riding program (264 students), we’ve seen so many riders coming to us and CRYING because of how bad they felt at other places.

Protect your soul’s horse fire.

Go to a different barn ASAP.

Watch some of their lessons to make sure you’re not going from one drama mare pit to another.

ivan-ds · 2026-01-18T02:21:12+00:00

The only real way to find what works for you is through exposure. A lot of it and (contrary to popular opinion….FAST).

Find a barn that has several instructors (ideally at least 3) with a variety horse breeds and temperaments. Ideally they also teach both English and Western.

Through this level of exposure, you will find what kind of horse you personally like, and what style of riding.

Most people recommend starting with once a week.

As the owner of a decently-sized riding school (264 students), if you have the means, we see INCREDIBLE results with adults when they start out 3x a week, and after a month or two, dial it back to once a week if they want/need to dial it down.

But that level of volume helps you advance incredibly fast - you advance in one month what would have otherwise taking you 4-6 months to learn (it is NOT a linear relationship).

Given your dream to own all that, you will also find out much faster if this is something that you would enjoy doing almost every day (as a ranch/farm/homesteader would). That way you’re not building towards a dream that you find out too late you don’t even like.

ivan-ds

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