Here are 3 things Rodeo taught me about life heading into the new year:

1. The thinking post works, eventually. Hopefully.

Sometimes you need to drop off the face of the earth for awhile. Sometimes things call for you walking away and letting people sit at the thinking post for awhile.

2. Not everyone can ride along.

There will be people who place. There will be girls who don't. There will be people who get a big head. There will be those so incredibly humble. Who will you choose to ride along with you down your path?

3. Keep going.

Even if your horse rates the barrel too hard and you go over the horn. Keep going. If you blow a tire on the way to a rodeo. Get it changed and keep going. You start wondering why you started and want to quit. Keep going.

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts