Top 18 New Year’s Resolutions for Horse Grooms!

 

1. I will finally master “hurry up and wait”.

 

2. I will not secretly plot revenge on the riders when they arrive late, change horses at the last minute, or forget that Grooms need to sleep.

 

3. I will figure out a way to do 49 things at once instead of the usual 48.

 

4. I will actually sit down to eat lunch. Every day.

 

5. I will train the horses to refrain from pooping the second I leave their stall after cleaning it.

 

6. I will figure out the perfect outfit to wear to work that prevents all footing, bedding, and teenie tiny hay bits from getting into my shoes and/or bra.

 

7. I will stand up for myself when it comes to being paid legally, having worker’s comp insurance, and having all of the rights that come along with being a legal employee.

 

8. I will invent the self-cleaning bridle.

 

9. I will work smarter, not harder, in order to have some semblance of a social life.

 

 

10. I will continue to go above and beyond in my daily duties as long as I don’t become a martyr and allow anyone to take advantage of me.

 

11. My day off will be used to partake in the things that I love to do – horses or otherwise. I will not be sucked back into the barn on this most precious of days.

 

12. Barn drama will avoid me at all cost.

 

13. I will think of many many topics for Liv of Proequinegrooms.com to write about because I know that she sometimes runs out of ideas and is forced to write boring and not funny articles.

 

14. I will learn to read the minds of my riders. As we can all agree, we already know how to read the minds of our horses.

 

15. I will become BFF’s with the Vet and the Farrier so that my knowledge base gets even bigger.

 

16. I will convince that one weirdo horse that the clippers will not, in fact, eat him alive.

17. I will start a new exercise craze, called “stacking hay”.

 

18. The creation of the greatest white board organizational barn chart will happen and I will patent the design.