When You Don't Feel Like Training Your Dog #60
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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It's not uncommon to know you should be training your dog, but you just don't feel like it. You can't motivate yourself. And you might look at your dog and can tell that your motivation carries over. If you have ever found yourself unmotivated and in need of inspiration, you are going to love this episode. It does not matter what you are working on, or what challenge you want to overcome; you can find success leaves clues.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About checking in with yourself to see how you feel.
• What Lou Holtz says about the "why" and purpose following passion.
• About your feelings for your dog and how they can give you focus.
• The difference being busy and being purposeful.
• About your dog's motivation.
• How to use D.A.S.H. for you and your dog.
• Reasons cheerleading is not what you want to do.
• The inadvertent behavior chain that cheering can create.
• Why short sessions will help low drive dogs and high drive dogs.
• About using food rewards to help your high drive dog with focus.
Resources:
• Vlog Post: Get Your Dog Training Done (And Make Your Week Awesome)-https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/08/get-your-dog-training-done/
• Podcast Episode 57: Why Balance Breaks Fast Track Your Dog Training-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/57/
• *Book: Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success by Lou Holtz-https://geni.us/winning-every-day
• *Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek-https://geni.us/why-sinek
• *Book: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden-https://geni.us/lifetime-wooden
• Recallers-https://recallers.com/
• Podcast Episode 16: The Thing Before Your Dog's Thing-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/16/
• Podcast Episode 12: When Helping Your Dog is an Illusion-https://dogsthat.com/podcast/12/
• Blog Post: Identifying and Using Positive Triggers for Your Dog-https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2019/01/positive-triggers/
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| 0:00.0 | It's not uncommon for anyone to get to a place where you know you should be training your dog |
| 0:14.3 | today, but you just don't feel it. You just can't motivate yourself to do it. |
| 0:18.8 | Or you might go, okay, I'm going to go train my dog. |
| 0:21.4 | You look around for your dog and he's like, yeah, really? Yeah, that's a hard pass for me. |
| 0:26.0 | What do you do? If you've ever found yourself in that place, you're going to love today's |
| 0:31.0 | podcast episode. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome back to Shape by Dog. Today I'm going to |
| 0:36.4 | share some insight from two phenomenal |
| 0:39.0 | college coaches because it doesn't matter what you are working on, what you are trying to |
| 0:45.1 | overcome, what challenges you're faced with your dogs right now. Success leaves clues |
| 0:51.1 | and successful people know how to overcome those challenges. |
| 0:55.9 | And that's what we're going to talk about today. In episode 57, I mentioned the acronym |
| 1:01.0 | dash. It's something I've been teaching for way more than 25 years. D is desire. |
| 1:07.2 | How are we going to get your dog focused on you and ready to work? A is splitting a |
| 1:12.1 | behavior and working on just the accuracy of that behavior. S is once you get that accuracy, |
| 1:17.2 | the speed just happens. And H is the habitat. You've got to generalize that behavior so it |
| 1:21.5 | 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 |
| 1:30.0 | things I've mentioned in the past is you've got to schedule your training time because once |
| 1:34.2 | it's scheduled and in your daytime or you're more likely to do it. But what if it's scheduled? |
| 1:40.4 | It's in the daytime where you look down at 7 p.m. and you should be trained. Yeah, really. |
| 1:45.7 | Today got away from me. It's been tough. I don't really feel like doing it. Here's what you can do. |
| 1:51.2 | Here's what I do. Number one, check in with like just kind of tune out everything else and check |
| 1:56.9 | in with myself emotionally. Where is it that I'm feeling? Am I in a state that I really |
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