Today, right off the bat I got a great example of something that's killed my progress in the past. Obie, my male GSP had started limping last night out of the blue. He really seemed to be hurt. He was much better today but I didn't want to bring him to the park today because he runs so hard when we're there.
This would usually be the kind of thing that would start the inevitable veering back to old habits and cause more and more times of not doing the new habit, which would eventually lead to failure to create the new habit. So I decided that when I see something blocking what I want to do, instead of just blowing it off completely that I'd do something as close as possible.
So I walked the dogs for an extra long time at 4:00 instead. It worked out good, they enjoyed it and we got in plenty of leash training. So - that'll be part of the plan - when something is in the way, I'll substitute instead of blow off.
This would usually be the kind of thing that would start the inevitable veering back to old habits and cause more and more times of not doing the new habit, which would eventually lead to failure to create the new habit. So I decided that when I see something blocking what I want to do, instead of just blowing it off completely that I'd do something as close as possible.
So I walked the dogs for an extra long time at 4:00 instead. It worked out good, they enjoyed it and we got in plenty of leash training. So - that'll be part of the plan - when something is in the way, I'll substitute instead of blow off.
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