Welcome to the 150th episode of Shape by Dog.

99 weeks. We have been bringing you this podcast. And if you're good at math, you will know

1.5 and change podcasts per week. I thank each and every one of you for tuning in. I thank you

for the support you've given this

podcast. And I'd like to think this is my most important podcast I've ever delivered. Please,

I will ask you in advance to share it with every dog owner and every dog lover you know. Hello. I am Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And today, I'm going to talk about

probably my most favorite thing to talk about, and that is mindset. And before you turn away

and go, wait, I want to teach my dog how to sit. I want to teach my dog to come on. It's called.

I want to teach my dog to stop jumping up. Mindset, to me, is everything in life. One of my biggest

influences in my life is a man by the name of Zig Ziglar. And he used to say, what you get when

you achieve a goal is not nearly as important as who you become. And when we train a dog,

we're achieving goals. We set goals. We want our dogs to behave. Think about Olympic athletes.

They work very, very hard to achieve their big goals and then they get their medals.

And who have they become to achieve that goal?

There's this great story of, it was in the late 30s in the Olympics and Jesse Owens,

phenomenal, gifted American athlete and he was in the long jump and you get like three

chances and he had foot faulted twice. There was a German athlete, a Lux was his name, was

the European gold medal holder. And again, German, it was in Berlin.

Here's the story. Jesse Owens had faulted twice. The German athlete took him aside and told him

what he was doing and how he could fix his technique for his third and final attempt. Because if

Jesse Owens faulted again, he wouldn't

get to the finals. And guess what? His competitor helped him. He got to the finals, the German

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