RIDER CONFIDENCE TRACKER
Stop relying on how you feel to decide whether you’re ready to ride
Understand what’s really happening, discover what actually works for you, and know what to work on next.
A practical way to collect the evidence from your own riding, spot patterns you might otherwise miss, and build a clearer picture of your confidence over time.
Stop guessing. Start using the evidence.
Your riding experiences are already giving you valuable information about your confidence — but it can be surprisingly difficult to see when you’re judging yourself one ride at a time.
The Rider Confidence Tracker gives you a simple, structured way to capture that evidence, spot patterns across your riding and understand what’s actually happening.
Over time, you can start to see:
- what you’re already handling differently
- what’s becoming easier or more familiar
- the skills and responses you’re developing
- what consistently helps your confidence
- patterns that might still be getting in your way
- what you want to continue, change or experiment with next
Instead of relying predominantly on how confident you happen to feel today, you have a much richer picture of your actual riding experiences to work with.
Ride. Reflect. Learn. Experiment. Repeat.
You don’t need to complete something after every ride.
Use a Ride Debrief when there’s something useful you want to capture. Reflect on what happened, what you handled, what helped, what challenged you and what you learnt while the experience is still fresh.
Then, at different points through the Tracker, the review sections help you zoom out across your experiences and look for the patterns and changes that can be difficult to recognise while they’re happening.
Sometimes the evidence might show you that you’re already doing far more than you realised.
Sometimes it might help you identify something that repeatedly gets in your way.
Both give you useful information about what to do next.
There’s another reason progress can be surprisingly easy to overlook.
The difficult moments tend to stick.
You remember the spook, the wobble, the ride you avoided or the thing you couldn’t quite make yourself do.
Meanwhile, things that once took enormous amounts of thought, preparation or reassurance can quietly become part of everyday riding.
Perhaps you get on without spending all morning worrying about it.
You ride when it’s windy.
Your horse looks at something and you deal with it.
You trot somewhere you used to walk.
You notice the nerves, settle yourself and carry on.
None of those things necessarily feels like a dramatic confidence breakthrough.
They just start becoming normal.
And once something feels normal, it’s remarkably easy to stop counting it as progress.
Starting Point
Capture where you are now and what you want to change, so you have a meaningful reference point to come back to.
Explore Your New Normal
Rediscover the things that once required more thought, preparation or conscious effort but have gradually become part of what you simply do.
Ride Debriefs
Turn individual riding experiences into useful evidence while the details are still fresh.
Then → Now
Compare your current experience with your own starting point and recognise changes that can be difficult to see while they’re happening.
Reflection Guide
Look beyond whether a ride simply felt “good” or “bad” and explore the thoughts, emotions, physical responses, decisions and experiences that shaped it.
Evidence Review
Bring what you’ve discovered together and decide what you want to continue, change, explore or work on next.
Review Checkpoints
Zoom out across your rides to find patterns, recognise what consistently helps and identify what might benefit from a different approach.
Reprintable Ride Debrief
Keep collecting evidence whenever it’s useful, for as long as you like!
Use it your way.
There are no confidence scores to chase, streaks to maintain or targets you have to hit.
You don’t need to ride every day. You don’t need to fill something in after every ride. And you certainly don’t need every ride to demonstrate “progress”.
Some rides might give you plenty to reflect on. Others might need a couple of notes. Sometimes you’ll simply enjoy riding your horse and record nothing at all.
The aim isn’t to create a perfect record of your riding. It’s to create a bank of evidence which actually helps you build you riding confidence.
This is for you if…
your confidence seems to come and go
you can do something one day and struggle with it the next
you feel like you take one step forward, and two steps back
you find yourself comparing what you can do now with what you used to do
you struggle to recognise incremental changes in your confidence
you’ve tried different strategies but aren’t sure what actually helps
you want to make riding decisions based on good judgement and what’s right for you and your horse today
The Tracker also recognises that confidence isn’t the only thing affecting your riding.
Your skills, your horse, your environment, your physical and emotional state, your previous experiences and the situation you’re actually dealing with all matter.
The aim is to help you build a fuller picture — not automatically label every difficulty as a “confidence problem”.
You already have evidence.
(You’re just not finding it.)
The challenges you navigate. The skills you develop. The emotions you manage. The decisions you make. The situations that become easier. The patterns that keep appearing. The strategies that genuinely help.
The Rider Confidence Tracker helps you find that evidence, make sense of it and use what you learn to make informed decisions about your riding and build your confidence.
Start proactively building and tracking your riding confidence today.
£9 once • Downloadable & Printable PDF • Immediate digital access • Use at your own pace
You have two options…
You can close this page, keep doing what you’ve been doing, and hope something eventually changes.
Or you can way spend less than the price of a lesson, get the system you’ve been missing, and start enjoying your horse again.
The Guarantee
Download the workbook. Read it. Use the the techniques. Test drive them all. Give it 14 days.
If you don’t feel measurably more in control of your riding mindset and confidence, email me and I’ll refund every penny. You keep the workbook either way.
I’m offering this because I know these tools, techniques and strategies work, when riders go all in, explore the exercises and apply them to their specific situations.
In all honesty, I want you to absolutely love the Rider Confidence Tracker, so if it doesn’t work for you, I don’t want your money!
Recommended Add On:
Tackle the inner critic that can undermine your confidence too.
The Rider Confidence Tracker helps you understand what’s really happening with your confidence. The Inner Voice Workbook gives you practical tools to work with one of the biggest influences on it: the way you talk to yourself.
The Rider’s Guide to Managing Your Inner Voice is a practical workbook designed to help you recognise the thoughts and self-talk that can fuel nerves, overthinking and self-doubt when you ride. You’ll learn how to challenge unhelpful thoughts, create more useful alternatives, change how you respond to your inner critic, and develop self-talk that actually supports you in the saddle.
So instead of trying to simply “think positively” or stop negative thoughts altogether, you’ll have practical strategies for deciding which thoughts deserve your attention — and what to do with the ones that don’t.
Download it straight away and work through it at your own pace.
Full price £24.99 — Only £12.50 when you add it today – simply tick the box in the checkout below.
Ready to see what’s really happening with your confidence?
Get immediate access to the Rider Confidence Tracker and start using the evidence from your actual riding experiences, starting today!
Includes:
✅ Ride Debriefs to turn your riding experiences into useful evidence your mind can use
✅ Review Checkpoints to uncover patterns, changes and what genuinely helps you
✅ Tools to recognise the progress, skills and experiences that are easy to overlook
£9 | One single payment | Lifetime Access
Disclaimer
The Rider Confidence Tracker and all associated resources from The Everyday Equestrian are for educational and personal development purposes. They have been created to help riders develop practical skills and strategies for managing nerves, anxiety, and loss of confidence in the context of riding.
Alison Buttery, founder of The Everyday Equestrian, is a BHS Accredited Professional Coach and NLP Practitioner. She is not a psychologist, counsellor, or licensed mental health professional, and no resources from The Everyday Equestrian, specifically the Rider Confidence Tracker & any additional purchases, are a substitute for professional psychological or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
The content within this programme draws on evidence-based approaches including NLP and principles from psychology and neuroscience, and is intended for educational and personal development purposes only. It is not designed to diagnose, treat, or address clinical anxiety disorders, mental health conditions, or trauma.
If you are currently experiencing significant mental health difficulties, or if your anxiety is having a serious impact on your daily life beyond riding, please speak with your GP or a qualified mental health professional before enrolling. This programme is not a replacement for that support.
Results will vary between individuals. The experiences shared by members of this community reflect their personal journeys and are not a guarantee of specific outcomes.
By enrolling in these resources, you confirm that you are participating voluntarily and taking responsibility for your own wellbeing throughout.