Teeth Whitening, Dog Listening and Trust - What's the connection?!

As I write this I have just published my first book - Barking Mad to Calm and Quiet: Beyond Dog Training. This means I am working with lots of people just getting to know what Dog Listening is and how my Peaceful Paws Framework can help them enjoy a calm and quiet dog more of the time. 

Everyone (including me) when starting on their Dog Listening journey to help their dog always asks these questions: 

How long will it take to work? 

When can I expect to get results? 

My answer is always the same, How long is a piece of a string!

The fastest way to get results, focus on what you are doing and the results will take care of themselves. 

We live in a world where instant gratification is the norm, it's just the way it is.

We get to wondering what year were the pyramids built? quick google and there's your answer.

We feel hungry, hop onto something like Go Eat, Deliveroo and our favourite Take Away food can be delivered in 20 minutes. 

Want to book a flight for your next holiday, pull up sky scanner, find out who fly's out of your local airport, where to and how much - information at your fingertips in an instant. 

You get my drift right? 

I am currently going through the process of Teeth Whitening and I found myself giggling the other morning as I realised what I was doing. Every morning I would look in the mirror check if they got any whiter and conclude no, nothing! Now the dentist had told me quite clearly the process would take around 2 weeks. So why was I checking day1, day 2, day 3 checking, checking! Are my teeth somehow different to the rest of the world, why would I think after 1 day my teeth would be as white as I wanted. Of course they were not. There was literally no need to check every day. I was making this process way harder than it needed to be. The process is in place, I just need to  keep wearing the retainers and the rest will take care of itself.

Trust in the process and the outcome will happen with no more effort from me. 

It got me to thinking, Teeth Whitening and Dog Listening are very similar, if you just keep behaving in the way I outline in the Peaceful Paws Framework in my book and trust in the process, there is literally nothing else to do. The outcome will happen with no more thinking, no more effort from you. You don't need to keep checking, checking checking. Just make the changes and get on with your life. 

For now with my teeth whitening process I am just making the changes: I go to bed wearing the retainers, let them do the work and the outcome will take care of itself. 

Do you see the connection?  You don't do anything with your dog, they don't need fixed.  If there are things you want to change, focus on yourself, the process and trust the outcome will take care of itself.

So much easier than you might think.

If you would like my help to bring Dog Listening alive in your home and enjoy the benefits of a calm and quiet dog, come and join me for a 30 Day Experiment and use my Peaceful Paws Framework to change your behaviour, I will remind you to stop efforting and checking, just trust the process and enjoy the results.

Peaceful paws always,

Julie x