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Let’s say your Ultimate Goal is to be the World Champion Hunter Rider/ Amateur Owner Rider of the Year. Determining a reasonable date for achieving your goal will depend on your current abilities.

Your pathway toward reaching that goal would include learning to ride hunters at home, beginning to compete as an Adult Amateur hunter rider, becoming successful as an Adult Amateur, beginning to compete in the Amateur Owner Hunter division, and becoming increasingly successful within this division.

If your Ultimate Goal is to be able to foxhunt competently and safely in time for a particular season, you would start out riding in the ring in lessons. Then, you would ride cross-country in lessons, and then you might do a little hound-jogging or ride cross-country more extensively and over rougher terrain. Next, you would learn to cub hunt. Finally, your hard work would culminate in having the horses, the confidence, and the ability to ride on an easy hunt. More difficult hunts would follow.

If you approach your Ultimate Goal from the bottom, looking up, it is too easy to become overwhelmed or bogged down in the details. Coming at your goal from the end—knowing what you want to achieve—will allow you to identify the various mini-goals along the way.