A Neccessary Untruth
So John and I have had this agreement when I go away to teach. It is that he will lie to me. I think it may be unfair to him, but he doesn't complain and luckily he has rarely had to lie. So the agreement [...]
Recovering from the Weekend
Another very worthwhile use of my time spending 4 1/2 dayslast week at a Tony Robbins workshop. This time I saw things from a different slant as I was crewing for him. One of over 300 people crewing for a group of over 3500 participants. The [...]
The Best Plans
Well, I was hoping not to leave the blog empty this week but wow, time flies. I did have time (with a great deal of help from Lynda) to get a couple of new workshops posted on the website. If you haven't checked yet, do [...]
Stressed?
So the weekend was fun (in my opinion anyway). It was my first (but I don't think my last) Creating Your Trial Stress State workshop. I executed more than 20 (some little and some big) stressors over the weekend (that I planned) and [...]
Creating the Perfect TSS
So, I have a workshop this weekend that I have never taught before. I can't really go into too many details because I know some participants read my blog. In order for this curriculum to be successful, it needs to be mysterious and scary:). The [...]
Shaping and Stuff
Wrapping up some lose ends here. First of all thanks to everyone that contributed to the Shaping Challenge. I hope you all had fun and learned lots. I did promise I would reinforce one of you so the winner is  . . . Chelsea and [...]
Olympic Thoughts
What a great hockey game on Sunday afternoon eh? Those pesky Americans just wouldn't go away. With the age and the talent of that US squad I think the future of international hockey in the mens league has now turned the page to become  as [...]
Heading Home!
Finally! John and I are cranking up the Empress (truly the brand name of our RV) and heading home today. If the roads are clear we should be home by Saturday afternoon. Our rescue BC Autumn has fit right in with our other red BC's, [...]
Need Your Input
First of all thank you. All of your comments and concern really did wonders to get me out of my funk yesterday. You guys rock, I mean that, thank you. Now I need some input. I know many of you live in areas where Lyme [...]
Whoa is Me
I haven't written much in the last week because honestly each time I try to write I am overwhelmed by depressing thoughts that I don't think belong here. I have always preserved this blog to be as uplifting as possible. However, I figured maybe by [...]
You Won’t Believe This!
All of us Border Collie owners better stick to agility! Way to funny! Today I am grateful that the snow has finally stopped in Cincinnati!
Oh CANADA! . . . and a few other miscellaneous thoughts.
First of all a big congratulations to Alexandre Bilodeau for bringing Canada it's first ever Gold Medal at an Olympic Games that we where hosting (sadly in Montreal in '76 and Calgary in '88 we as a nation earned no gold medals). What a relief [...]
