Comments on: Behaving Gratitudinaeously

By: Heather Wark

Heather Wark — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:36:07 +0000

Thanks for this Susan. I’m a busy mom these days with work and kids and the dogs have taken up the back burner for the most part (especially in the bitterness of winter – we had -29 this week). Anyway, they aren’t getting any younger and I really need a reconnect with them these days…

By: CINDY

CINDY — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:17:21 +0000

Wow. Perfect timing for this exercise. I will have no problem doing this for all of my dogs, but more importantly I am going to try it for my kids. Ahhh, teenagers……

By: Helen Verte

Helen Verte — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:07:25 +0000

Wow! This is a beautiful exercise. Warms my heart. I need to reconnect with my Higher Power and be more consistent with that relationship, and this is a great starting point. Tony Robbins teaches learn to ask better questions if you want to get different results and I love the way you phrase the question: “How can I help this dog to live with more joy and be more connected to me?” Love it! And thank you.

By the way, I have an easy way to remember former and latter. “F”ormer is the “F”irst of two choices. “L”atter is the “L”ast of two. Voila!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:38:53 +0000

I am sorry I never got to meet your mom Lynne, she sounds like an awesome person, but that doesn’t come as a surprise, knowing the kind of person you are. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree!

By: lynne brubaker

lynne brubaker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:16:33 +0000

MOM, MOM!!! Have you taken over Susan’s body and mind!!!!! Holy crap!!!!
Hyperventilating…. (not really, laughing out loud though).

That is so amazing, my mom taught my brother and I to do that when we were kids, not with the term, gratitude stacking”, can’t really remember what she called it, but were were to do that exercise about particular people in our lives that we were struggling with….. She made us do it in our rooms, and it usually coincided with her needing to cook dinner or work, without kid interruptions. I did it a couple of times, but most of the time I played with my pet gerbils or snuck into my brothers’ room so we could play cards

It has been a long time since I thought about that, what a nice memory, thanks. I will have to resurrect that for the pups, it does work….

By: Trudie

Trudie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:06:13 +0000

You are amazing! You expect, and get, “an internal drive from my students to get out there and show me some hustle while waiting to be hit by their next training epiphany”, “goofiness” (my favourite!), and now gratititudinaeousness
Since you mentioned bean burritos, there’s an expression comes to mind: “Holy toots!”
Do not laugh, me and my dog are doing refresher course in Learning to Tug and Play 101, there’s a lot of stuff I never learned in there

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:17:21 +0000

Now that puts it in perspective … timely … thanks a bunch.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:38:17 +0000

Thanks Susan. It’s a great reminder to take time and connect with each dog. It’s really easy to operate as a pack most of the time and individual connection gets lost. The girls are going to love this exercise – especially baby Leilani – who’s not such a baby anymore!

By: Mary Lou

Mary Lou — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:30:41 +0000

What a wonderful exercise. I just love it! Thanks for sharing.

By: Jan V

Jan V — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:23:31 +0000

I and my older girlie, Ajay, are very grateful for this post today. I owe so much to her for the lessons she brought to me, and how my path in life changed… but at times feel guilty for taking her for granted, giving more time and attention to Brio. So today we (Ajay and I) will share some gratitudinaeous time together. I absolutely adore her!! So thanks and yes I can feel it

For gosh sakes, I can’t even pronounce this word!!