For your horse to trust you, you have to trust your horse. It can take time to accomplish this but working on a daily basis you can gain trust with small things like handling, grooming and ground work and build to ridden work. Progress can be made onto more complex tasks whether that is at liberty, online, riding lateral moves or even riding bareback and bridleless, but without you trusting your horse he will not trust you and that will hinder your progress.
Whether you’re training for a specific task, working on fitness, having agility fun or even just hanging out together you are always learning something from each other. If that learning is based on a great connection, filled with positive energy and sprinkled with achievable goals then learning is not only rewarding but fun too.
Keeping things fun can mean just that, to have FUN in your sessions with your horse, smile, laugh and enjoy each others company. Or it could mean keeping things within you and your horses abilities, that way there will be harmony in your goals. Try to find what your horse enjoys doing and improve on that, try other things too but if your horse (or you) don’t enjoy what you’re doing then there really isn’t much point. Life is too short to not have fun and enjoy what you do together.