Tanja Kraus 365

11/04/2025

I am only interested in enthusiastic support.

05/04/2025

Hello Sunshine ☀️

I’m so grateful to feel the sun on my face these last couple of days, something so simple, but has such a huge impact on our wellbeing.

I’ve travelled a lot this past week for clinics and judging, and after you have been away it is easy to count the blessings in the simple things - home, our family, our animals.

Training yourself to be wired in gratitude means you no longer have to experience absence to feel grateful in the everyday blessings.

What are you grateful for today

07/02/2025

2 years Sober.

It’s been a heck of a time, and definitely not always easy, but it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Investing in yourself - health, wealth, physical, mental - whatever it looks like for you, is always going to be worth it.

Happy (sober) anniversary to Phil - it’s been challenging at times, but made so much easier together 💞

If you would like any resources, send me a message and I’m happy to share

T

29/01/2025

Please join us in congratulating our beautiful friend, Matty Tonks, on his remarkable milestone of seven years alcohol-free.

As always, Matty shares (so beautifully) a glimpse into his ''why'' ...

''I like to give myself reminders. When I started out, I would celebrate the wins every day.
Sometimes, just getting through an afternoon was excruciatingly painful and filled with angst.

Luckily for me, time has been my friend; while I am always on guard for the sneaky ways the booze will come at you, my rehearsed response to alcohol is a winner.

I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to live a full life. I made the decision to make a change, and I have backed that up with repeated choices around that decision.

Your life doesn’t become a bed of roses, and the hard times are still there, but my ability to deal with adversity is certainly much greater than it was previously. My mountains are not so high, and the valleys are not quite so deep.

I am truly grateful for the support and assistance given to me by the people who share this journey, my person, my children, my family, my confidants, and the good people of the broader community that I share with.

I am happy in my own skin and quite like being outside the herd.
I put myself first selflessly to protect myself and those closest to me.
I regularly do hard things to see where I am and what I am capable of.
I pray, meditate, or sit quietly to allow my brain time to process and to let the hard, uncomfortable parts of my life wash away.

I talk about what I have been through because I believe that when we release our problems (by vocalising them), we bring them into the light and out of the dark recesses.

I tell the people that need to know I love them.

I have made a choice to be true to my beliefs that we can do so much more to help those that need it and protect those that can’t protect themselves, and I believe empathy and caring will always defeat hate and persecution.

Above all else I choose to live my life to the fullest - and while it's not all flash holidays or trips around the world it is rewarding and full of wonder.

I love the bush, the animals, the country and my very good dogs .

Cheers to another seven years.
Thank you,
Matt.''
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*For the many who resonate with Matty - a reminder that we'll soon be sharing Matty's full (video) story through our Amplification Project series. You won't want to miss it.

27/01/2025

Gratitude is the pathway to happiness, connection, calm and clarity.

A friend and I were talking about this the other day, it’s something both of us have practiced and embraced for decades.

I practice daily gratitude upon waking, and then again when I go to sleep - my day begins and ends with being grateful for what I have, who I am and who I know.

Being grateful doesn’t mean that you don’t strive for more - we may want more financial stability, we may want more love or friends,

Being grateful isn’t you telling the universe “I don’t want any more” it’s you thanking the universe for what you already have 💞

16/01/2025

Decide then do.

The new year is full of promises. Promises we make to ourselves for better health, better wealth, better choices.

Beyond the resolutions we may go so far as to join a gym, open a savings account, but the motivations falter there.

The key is - you have to do.

And the secret is - to do you must decide, truly decide, because it is a mental game.

After all it is the old you that still smokes, drinks, eats bad food or doesn’t exercise,

And the big thing - you haven’t changed. YET.

You can change - absolutely I know this to be fact,

But the issue with New Year’s resolutions is that the old us sets them, and so we convince the old us that it is them that is going to achieve them.

It’s not.

It’s the new you.

So ask yourself - what would the new me do ?

To become the new you, you have to do the actions of the new you.

Seems strange doesn’t it. But it’s true, it’s the ACTIONS of the new you, that transforms the old you to the new you.

Your new life is going to cost you your old one.

Now take action - stand up, do some squats, a stretch, run on the spot, cook a healthy meal,

This is your sign 🪧

15/01/2025

Disappointment

Disappointment

Disappointment is not something that I feel very often. I am very conscious of my mindset, both in and out of the arena, and I fill my days and training sessions with gratitude and opportunities.

Today I felt disappointment. In myself, the situation or something else I'm not quite sure yet, but I thought it was worth sharing, to help anyone reframe disappointment if it turns up in their day.

Phil has been helping with Boogie transitioning from the hackamore into the 2 rein (bridle) and she has been going beautifully. It is a significant change for a almost 17 year old horse, and I perhaps have felt a little guilty that it has taken me this long to 'step her up' into a outfit that she more than deserves.

Today, we headed out of the arena, and it started really well, she was forward and walking out, I actually said to Phil that she felt a little 'up' - for context 'up' for boogie is a little bit of a fast walk, a pep in her step, and ears forward - still easily managed on a loose rein. We headed for a short walk around the property, and when we came to a causeway, which has a downhill slope, Boogie struggled. She was feeling the bridle (I hadn't uptaken any more rein, its just the hanging balance of it) and as she headed down the hill, it shifted a little, and she threw her head a few times, and then got locked in her feet. I could feel it was a genuine struggle, and her inability to figure out how to balance her body, in an engaged frame to help her go down the hill. I ended up dismounting and walking her forward, lunging her around a couple of times on flat ground to rebuild her confidence, and then we rode on flat ground, introducing some bend and a much more mild hill. We ended on a really good note, and she progressed none the less.

BUT, I was dissapointed. Mainly I think because she struggled, and It's been a long time since I saw Boogie struggle with anything. I said to Phil maybe I had jumped ahead of the training, that she wasn't ready to be out and about, and he disagreed - he pointed out that the arena has no hills, so there was always going to be a 'first time' with her having to learn how to carry the bridle up and down hills etc.

Ive reflected, and I am looking forward to tomorrows training session, I have some ideas to try, and I have processed my disappointment, realising that the only way I am disappointed is because I had an expectation that wasn't met. I expected this process to be perfect, and certainly the first half a dozen sessions were.

So when I let go and surrender to the process, my disappointment dissipates and becomes excitement at the information that I received in the session, and how I can help her tomorrow.

I know for alot of people disappointment results in a paralysis, a now inability to move forward for fear of 'ruining' the horse, or simply getting stuck in the attachment and personalisations of our expectations not being met. If we can use 'imperfect' situations to give us information to help the horse, then we can progress at a pace that works for both of us,

Of course professional help may be needed depending on what you are working on, but next time you feel disappointment, unpack the situation and see if you can't reframe it for the betterment of the both of you,

A huge thankyou to Phil Monaghan, Jaquima a Freno, Classical Horsemanship.

T x

Train with me;

February

1 & 2. Cowboy Dressage Clinic. First of 2025! Glenreagh $400pp

8 & 9 Cowboy Dressage Coffs Classic Gathering, Glenreagh Recreation Grounds Entries open Now and Close January 26

15 & 16 Liberty, Glenreagh $650pp only 6 places - 1 place remaining.

17 & 18. Coffs Coast Boutique Clinic 2 Places remaining $400pp

20 & 21 Gold Coast Boutique Clinic 1 place remaining $400pp

22 & 23 Waterford Club Clinic (Entries VIA NOMINATE)

March

1 & 2. Grafton Riding Club Clinic

5 - 9 Cowboy Dressage 5 day immersion $975pp Glenreagh 6 places only

15 & 16 Taree Liberty Clinic $650pp 6 places only - 3 places remain.

24 & 25 Coffs Coast Boutique.

27 & 28 Gold Coast Boutique

29 & 30 Logan Rivers Club Clinic

Pic by Flash Pony

04/01/2025

Just because you have a core belief about something doesn’t mean you have the right to ridicule those who aren’t also doing it.

Making fun of,
Using others as a ‘bad example’
Using words like “crazy”

These are all ways that we ridicule others in order to make us feel superior.

It happens in all aspects of life

Those on a special diet ridicule those not following the same plan

Those raising children in a certain way ridicule those not doing the same

Those making money in a certain business or investing a certain way ridicule those not also doing it.

Spend less time making fun of others and more time on you, and the world becomes a better place.

By all means share your passions, but you don’t need to employ bullying to do it - that’s just your ego, and maybe a small part of you doesn’t believe it ?

After all aren’t the ones going out of their way to tell you how happy they are the saddest ?

Things to ponder

🤔

T x

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

365 Opportunities lay ahead of all of us today.

What are you going to create out of 2025.

What is your word of the year?

What are your priorities this year ?

Every day we get the opportunity to change the course of our life, for better or for worse.

How are you going to invest in yourself and your future this year and beyond ?

31/12/2024

Online members guided through Goal Setting and the NYE ritual process, then my own complete ✅

New Years Eve ritual done 🧡

This morning I have taken my online members through the goal setting and New Year’s Eve ritual process, and then sat down to complete my personal ritual and goals.

My gratitude journal is overflowing with appreciation for this past year, it has been one of growth, spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally, not to mention all the other ways we use to measure our success.

It wasn’t without its challenges, and I am grateful for the lessons and strength,

As always I am grateful to you, the person reading this for your support, from the click of a ‘like’ to the share of a post or a comment, or joining my online program or training with me in person, I am so grateful for every single one of you, always.

Wishing you a safe, happy, healthy and wealthy new year, and I’ll see you in 2025 - let’s thrive!

29/12/2024

Write. Them. Down.

29/12/2024

This morning I took our Thrive members through a valuable ‘Self Audit’ workshop, explaining;

What a self audit is

Why we do them

How to ‘go deep’ into Self Audit to build awareness and consciousness of our beliefs

How this impacts our daily decisions and cycles

What do do with the results

This is all in preparation for our New Years Eve workshop

There is still room to join this transformative programme!

💪🏻 Self Paced so no time pressures or waste of $ if you don’t keep up.

💪🏻 Comprehensive

I don’t empower you - I guide you to empower yourself, a skill for LIFE 💞

Take the leap and THRIVE in 2025