What Can You Do in 5 Minutes?
I can’t tell you how excited, proud, grateful, happy I am when I read comments like Esther’s this morning;
Five minutes might seem like a blink of an eye but even my snapping turtles can move amazing distances in just 5 minutes
Got a succesfull recall off a deerhunt this morning …. YES !!! I love it that playing these 5 minute games since only a week is already paying off that quickly.!
That is it. Five minutes a day can create brilliance. The “tofu & potatoes” of this course (or for your carnivores “meat & potatoes”) hasn’t even begun and yet we are already reading about amazing results like these.
Just imagine what is going to happen in a month. I am not writing this as some sort of slick marketing way to get the rest of you to go and sign up for this course because it closes at 10 AM this morning. . . . but subliminally what seeds did I just plant in your unsuspecting minds 
?
Really, all joking aside, even if working with me on this new e-course is not in the cards for you right now, all you have to do is read the comments on this blog by the students participating in the course and you will see that the 5 minute formula works. But here is a secret, it works in anything you do.
You want to start a fitness program, I challenge each of you to do 5 minutes of exercising each do for the next week. Push ups, sit ups, lunges, squats or even do a 5 minute brisk walk. Start reading again by doing it for 5 minutes at night before bedtime. You get it?
In the midst of all that I do, I still find the time to continually be active taking on-line courses myself. I tell myself even if I just dedicate 5 minutes a day to learning something new it will have massive impact on my life. And it does.
5 minute training sessions work for all of us and they work amazingly well for our dogs. So even if this isn’t the right time to join in on my new course, try to set aside 5 minutes of training for you and your dog, work through some old exercises you have in a journal from a seminar you took or dust off your copies of Ruff Love, Shaping Success & Crate Games and you will find loads of games you can play in 5 minutes.
However if you decide, like I do with my on-line courses, I am never going to “have the time” so I will just make the time, click the big Sign Up icon to the right and join the rest of us that have decided to dedicate 5 minute a day into their dog’s education.
Today I am grateful to already see such strong results coming in from people who are making that 5 minute per day investment in their dog.
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Angela says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8:52am
Another little success story – after just playing the first bonus game with my BC about three times over the course of a day and a half (just a few minutes each time), I successfully called him off a squirrel that was taunting him from a few feet up a tree! We had a major celebration for that!
Susan says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 9:33pm
Angela, love to read about you celebrating the small successes ’cause by now everyone should know where those small successes will lead . . .
Edgarfoot says:
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 12:18pm
Yeah Angela that’s Great! Here’s my question though…..I must be missing something. The 5 minute exercise I’ve been working on is the collar-tug. Is it from this exercise that you are starting to get better recalls already? Thanks Susan
Angela Schmorrow says:
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 8:26am
Edgarfoot: Yep, I was just doing the collar game. I think that just making the extra effort to spend even a few more minutes a day playing and being fun and exciting with him is already making him start to give me some better attention. Still a ways from a “brilliant” recall, but it was nice to see him start to make the choice to seek reinforcement from me instead of the environment.
Renee says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 9:07am
Also another major succes over here. My little PRT was chasing the garbage container, which my hubby was moving through our garden so it could be picked up. I just called his name once, he stopped his chase and immediately turned around. I grabbed his collar and celebrated with a lot of very delicious cookies. Just played two bonus games the last few days, and already there is a lot of improvement. I can’t wait till the course really starts!
Susan says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 9:31pm
Awesome report Renee! TERRIER POW-WA!
Nancy May says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 4:40pm
I am wondering when we can expect delivery of books and video from enrollement if we ordered them? I think I am needing to read that Ruff Love book!!!
Susan says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 9:10pm
Books will not be sent out until next week (we still have people on Basic and Advance that are upgrading to Brilliant so we won’t sent them out until we know of the final numbers)> Thanks for your patience!
Bobbie Bhambree says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 5:41pm
Playing these games with Tricky (now 18 months) since she was a baby helped when we came across a family of wild turkeys in the woods behind our house. They flew off in every direction just 20 feet ahead of us. The first awesome thing she did was make the choice to NOT chase. I actually waited a couple of seconds to see what she would do. Then I called her name. Tricky was just a couple of feet ahead of me. She whipped her head around (love that whip-lash head turn!) and raced back to me. Imagine that on an agility course!
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Julie Seeley says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 5:59pm
If my dog chooses to ignore his name, would it be valuable to make a big deal of offering the reward to the other helper dog? As if to say “oops, you missed out – he won.”
Susan says:
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 9:07pm
Not right now Julie, I don’t want to add any form of punishment until we have put the value into the bank account for doing the right thing. So just make sure you manipulate the distractions in the environment so there will be virtually no other value to be found for the dog.
Nancy May says:
Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 12:34am
My boy is really liking the collar grab game. However, now when I reach to grab his collar with one hand, he is practically duvinging into my other hand looking for his cookie. It is rather difficult to clip a leash on with him searching.
now what do I do?
Tobias says:
Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 9:15am
Welldone Susan on the ball again!
Rachel says:
Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 10:34am
Our boys are doing great with these games. And, thank you Susan, my husband’s playing some of the games too (and having fun)! 5 minutes he can spare!
BTW, today I called Quill off his A+ activity, lying on the couch. I know this doesn’t sound as dramatic as a herd of deer, but it’s taken 3 days to get there. So proud of him.
(I know, I know. Ruff Love is on its way… Gotta work on the husband.)
Nanna says:
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 3:47pm
My 13 month old terrier puppy’s recalls have gotten sooo much better since I started rewarding her with class A treats!
Now she often offers coming to me without me calling her. Should I also reward that?