Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Alpha Dogs Never Go Hungry
Chester the Alpha Dog always surprises me in his ability to be an absolute opportunist. For a dog that often moves at the pace of a sloth he knows when to move how to move and where to move.
All of these things are linked and will only bare positive results if there is the right motivation that proceeds them.
Chester loves his food and never ceases to lack motivation in getting it. A lot us can learn from this. How often do we as people find ourselves taking action that is lack luster, half paced or even just busy work.
Why?
This is often because we don't have the backing of what we truly want behind the action. People can lose sight of vision or even on a smaller scale the goals which they are wanting to achieve.
If like Chester you stay 100% focussed on what you want you will have enough fuel for the fire to make your actions effective and the right direction so that your efforts are not placed in the wrong things.
So put yourself in Chesters place and think what is my vision or figuritively speaking what is the food that I want.
Stay Connected and Inspired.
Copyright Jeremy Reynolds 2011
All of these things are linked and will only bare positive results if there is the right motivation that proceeds them.
Chester loves his food and never ceases to lack motivation in getting it. A lot us can learn from this. How often do we as people find ourselves taking action that is lack luster, half paced or even just busy work.
Why?
This is often because we don't have the backing of what we truly want behind the action. People can lose sight of vision or even on a smaller scale the goals which they are wanting to achieve.
If like Chester you stay 100% focussed on what you want you will have enough fuel for the fire to make your actions effective and the right direction so that your efforts are not placed in the wrong things.
So put yourself in Chesters place and think what is my vision or figuritively speaking what is the food that I want.
Stay Connected and Inspired.
Copyright Jeremy Reynolds 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Barking up the Wrong Tree
A lot can be learned from the waqy Chester uses his voice and in many instances how he doesn't use his voice.
Dogs and people alike communicate verbally but that isn't to say that how we use our voices effectively or for the right reasons.
Chester has learned that constant barking isn't the way to get his pack of Ruby, Coca, and Beyonce to listen. Alpha Dog's like Chester know that actions speak louder than words and in fact constant barking like overactive one way communication will evventually be ignored.
First of all Chester does not have a booming howl of a German Shepherd or the sharp yap of a Cattle dog nor the growl of an American Staffy, so he uses his voice sparingly and gets attention with every bark he makes.
Chester uses his voice to reinforce the actions he is taking which for his pack shows consistency, integrity and inteeligence.
Chester knows
"He who barks much says nothing" so when communicating he uses positive words backed with helping actions. The result of this is his words have increased value and impact on the pack.
This can be seen in effect when getting the attention of the pack when a stranger approaches the house. The pack knows to follow Chester's lead because they know he does not have empty words.
Copyright Alpha Training 2011
Dogs and people alike communicate verbally but that isn't to say that how we use our voices effectively or for the right reasons.
Chester has learned that constant barking isn't the way to get his pack of Ruby, Coca, and Beyonce to listen. Alpha Dog's like Chester know that actions speak louder than words and in fact constant barking like overactive one way communication will evventually be ignored.
First of all Chester does not have a booming howl of a German Shepherd or the sharp yap of a Cattle dog nor the growl of an American Staffy, so he uses his voice sparingly and gets attention with every bark he makes.
Chester uses his voice to reinforce the actions he is taking which for his pack shows consistency, integrity and inteeligence.
Chester knows
"He who barks much says nothing" so when communicating he uses positive words backed with helping actions. The result of this is his words have increased value and impact on the pack.
This can be seen in effect when getting the attention of the pack when a stranger approaches the house. The pack knows to follow Chester's lead because they know he does not have empty words.
Copyright Alpha Training 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Fight Flight and Bite!!!
Chester hasn't always been the valient leader of the pack but like the real world had to establish his position in a cut throat environment which was both figuritively and literally dog eat dog.
I will paint a picture of the environment, and the circumstances of what Chester the Cavalier king Charles Spaniel faced in becoming the Alpha Dog.
First of all chester was at a complete environmental disadvantage.
Chester had at least three environmental factors that he was confronted with.
1. Chester was placed in an environment that he had never been before.
2. He was placed in an environment that was the existing packs home territory.
3. He was placed in a physically unconfortable location whereabouts he was in extreme hot weather and also on a balcony where fear of heights could prevail.
So what happened?
Chester Acknowledged his disadvantages but always knew that his advantages would be more than enough to gain position and leadership.
Chester's Attitude
When placed in a positional disadvantegde like dogs we can do either of "Fight or flight" with fight being the affermative.
Chester knew this and also knew that there is much more to fighting than latching on the throat of your adversary. If it were as simple as that and as one dimensional we could call it "Fight or bite".
Chester is a fighter and contained within this Fighting mentality are many positive strength based factors.
1.Chester has has a positive attitude
2.He always recognises what resources he has, knowing that they will always outway the challenge
3.Chester never loses sight of the things that he wants. More correctly Chester never loses dight or doubts the things he knows he can and will attain.
These mental factors were already apparent but produced fruit or evidence when dealing with his introduction to the pack.
Stay tuned to see how Chester rose to the top and became Alpha Dog.
Copyright Jeremy Reynolds 2011
I will paint a picture of the environment, and the circumstances of what Chester the Cavalier king Charles Spaniel faced in becoming the Alpha Dog.
First of all chester was at a complete environmental disadvantage.
Chester had at least three environmental factors that he was confronted with.
1. Chester was placed in an environment that he had never been before.
2. He was placed in an environment that was the existing packs home territory.
3. He was placed in a physically unconfortable location whereabouts he was in extreme hot weather and also on a balcony where fear of heights could prevail.
So what happened?
Chester Acknowledged his disadvantages but always knew that his advantages would be more than enough to gain position and leadership.
Chester's Attitude
When placed in a positional disadvantegde like dogs we can do either of "Fight or flight" with fight being the affermative.
Chester knew this and also knew that there is much more to fighting than latching on the throat of your adversary. If it were as simple as that and as one dimensional we could call it "Fight or bite".
Chester is a fighter and contained within this Fighting mentality are many positive strength based factors.
1.Chester has has a positive attitude
2.He always recognises what resources he has, knowing that they will always outway the challenge
3.Chester never loses sight of the things that he wants. More correctly Chester never loses dight or doubts the things he knows he can and will attain.
These mental factors were already apparent but produced fruit or evidence when dealing with his introduction to the pack.
Stay tuned to see how Chester rose to the top and became Alpha Dog.
Copyright Jeremy Reynolds 2011
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