Should you pursue your passion?

• What is passion?
   
  • Suffering
  • The thing you can’t not do
• Pros and cons to pursuing passion
   
  • Pros
     
    • Purpose
    • Accomplishment that’s important to you
• Cons
   
  • Suffering
  • Often alone, because most others are afraid of failure

Busyness vs Productivity

• There are lots of busy people out there, but not a lot of people who are productive
   
  • Productivity creates something useful
  • Busy just wastes your time without actual creation
  • A lack of productivity doesn’t always mean useless, police, military, etc
  • Not all productivity is useful
• Find things that are both productive and useful

You are responsible to create your own life, stop blaming others for your failure

• Why you should always accept responsibility for everything you can
   
  • You have the power to change things
  • You stop looking for other people to do things for you
  • You realize the possibilities of everything you can do
• How to accept responsibility 
  • Stop being afraid of failure, of course you will fail, figure it out
  • Stop expecting other people to take care of you
  • Set one goal today and start working to accomplish it 

Failure is the Route to Success

• Have you ever wondered why you have been unable to achieve the things in your life that are important to you?
   
  • The obstacle is the path
  • No one is coming, its up to us
  • Do Hard Things - Stop seeking comfort
  • Discipline only comes through discomfort
• What you can do about it
   
  • Embrace the suck

Your life is very short and you’re going to die soon

• Why is this a positive thing?
   
  • When you think you’re better at something than you are, you typically stop working at it.
  • When you pretend you have a lot of time on earth, you tend to think you have all the time in the world.
• What you can do about it
   
  • Set goals
  • Take risks
  • Accomplish what you always wanted
  • Leave the world a better place than you found it

Weak people target strong people

• Why?
   
  • Psychopathic tendencies
  • Fear
  • They recognize their own weakness
• What you can do about it
   
  • Stop caring about what other people think well still caring about the people themselves
  • Be a sheep dog. Don’t be one of the problems, week people fear strong people because strong people can harm them.
  • Do good for other people and make the decisions you want to make.
  • Stop being afraid

Dealing with a protection dog during arguments

• Is this a concern?
   
  • Family dispute
  • Extended family
  • Rough housing
• Different options you have
   
  • Crates
  • Different rooms / out side
  • Train the dog to relax in the situation
• Dealing with interpersonal conflict in general

Feeding Your Dog

• Kibble vs Raw vs Whole Game
   
  • Kibble - PROS: Great for traveling, easy, mostly mess free. CONS: Fillers, Things dogs don’t naturally eat, Often poor quality. Victor Hi-Pro +
  • Raw - PROS: Natural diet, typically must higher quality, dogs prefer it. CONS: Messy, difficult to balance their diet without organs and gut, difficult to travel with.
  • Whole Game - PROS: Best diet, full balance for dog, fur/feather roughage and gut for enzymes, etc. CONS: Almost impossible to get consistently.
• Fasting
   
  • PROS
  • CONS
• What I do…
   
  • What I would do if ideal world…

Stability and the drill/scenario process

• Build the new scenario into the dogs mind
   
  • Introduce the drill
  • Build confidence
  • Add stressors
• Stabilize drill
   
  • Present non threat variations of the drill
  • Test drill with more similar situations
• Alternate variations
   
  • Blend drills
  • Randomize scenarios

Thanks to @TX_Joe and the Insurgency Knitting Circle Podcast for inviting us out to show off our dogs and speak. This is a live event recording