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#73: Are your beliefs helping or hurting your Q rate? (Both, maybe)
Beliefs are powerful stuff. Like hidden-superpower-level. What we believe about ourselves we create in our lives, so we need to be careful what we think. Thoughts become beliefs become action become results! So let’s...
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#72: Want to help your dog’s soft tissue? (Interview with canine massage therapist Kim Bennett!)
So excited to talk to my friend, Kim Bennett of Stablemate Massage for this episode! Kim launched the Canine Bodywork Membership to help all of us be able to work on our own dogs! Learn about Kim and what she hopes to...
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#71: A refresher on rituals (Have yours gotten away from you?)
Call them rituals or habits, just make sure you are protecting those things you do that help set the tone for your day. Most of us have things we do without much thought, but being more conscious about how you get you...
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#70: Don’t let the bullies win! (Why are we still talking about them?!)
I’m kinda fired up about this one. I hear WAY too many stories about people being bullied in the dog world. Are we still in high school? Mean girls. Cliques. It’s dumb. And it’s getting in the way of us all enjoying...
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#69: Why the negative stuff is so darn sticky (And how to get that goo gone!)
There’s actually science to explain why it’s easier for us to believe the negative things easier than the positive (in short, scanning our environment for the things that could kill us kept us alive). But when we...
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#68: I realized my post-run ritual sucked (But I’m fixing it now!)
The concept of our “post-run rituals” came up in a recent member workshop, and after giving it some thought I realized that mine sucked. Now, I LOVE my pre-run rituals and have been espousing their importance for...
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#67: Stress might actually be helping your performance (Yes, that includes your ring nerves!)
Last month in the Q-Membership we had a special event in the form of a workshop led by special guest Lizzie Larock. Lizzie walked us through the ways stress can be used to focus us for great performance and also how...
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#66: Getting in the zone means staying in the present (I’ve got a practice for ya!)
It may sound cliche, but the present moment is the only one we can do anything about. Elite athletes and handlers know this - it’s the key to getting into that coveted “zone” where the rest of the world falls away and...
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#65: Ever need a pep talk? (Don’t we all?!)
Dog sports can be a surprisingly lonely endeavor in that we often are the ones who have to pick ourselves up on tough days. Well, this week I give you a little pep talk and give you a few ways you can help yourself...
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#64: Dealing with unsolicited advice (and how not to be that person!)
Ever walk out of the ring and directly into some unsolicited “observations?” While the person giving the advice probably means well, timing is everything and the message may not be invited. So this week we take on...
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#63: Feeling down? In a funk? (My 2 favorite ways to get back into positivity.)
It’s easy to get into a funk: take a less-than-stellar weekend, add a bad night’s sleep, and top it off with a sobering news story and it’s a wonder we are positive at all! But we can’t accomplish anything positive...
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#62: Got performance jitters? (I’ll bet one of these 5 sources is to blame.)
Call it ring nerves or performance anxiety or a case of the jitters … whatever your name for your nervousness, it’s likely based in one of five common sources. I will unpack those sources and give you a little insight...
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