It's not uncommon for anyone to get to a place where you know you should be training

your dog today, but you just don't feel it. You just can't motivate yourself to do it.

Or you might go, okay, I'm going to go train my dog. You look around for your dog and he's like,

yeah, really? Yeah, that's a hard pass for me. What do you do? And successful people know how to overcome

those challenges and that's what we're going to talk about today. In episode 57, I mentioned the

acronym Dash. It's something I've been teaching for way more than 25 years.

D is desire. How are we going to get your dog focused on you? It's something I've been teaching for way more than 25 years.

D is desire. How are we going to get your dog focused on you and ready to work? A is splitting

a behavior and working on just the accuracy of that behavior. S is once you get that accuracy,

the speed just happens and H is the habitat. You've got to generalize that behavior so it

shows up everywhere.

But what if that D, the desire, is you, not the dog? We've got to overcome that.

Now, one of the things I've mentioned in the past is you've got to schedule your training

time because once it's scheduled and in your daytime or you're more likely to do it.

But what if it's scheduled, it's in the daytime where you look down at 7 p.m daytime or you're more likely to do it. But what if it's scheduled,

it's in the daytime or you look down at 7 p.m. and you should be trained. Yeah, really.

Today got away from me. It's been tough. I don't really feel like doing it.

Here's what you can do. Here's what I do. Number one, check in with like just kind of

tune out everything else and check in with myself emotionally. Where is it that I'm

feeling? Do, am I in a state that I really could do justice to training my dog? Yeah,

if that's a no, please don't train your dog. No good can come from that. Let's go

down to step number

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