#155: Spring Clean up for Dog Trainers, Pt 1: Organizing and Applying Your Hoard of Resources

This week we are starting a “spring cleaning” of sorts for our
training with a decluttering and organizing theme, but I’m not
going to talk about how to store all your platforms and treat
pouches. It has come to my attention that the biggest pile in my
dog training life that is desperate for some attention is made
more of information rather than equipment. I’m talking about all
the information that we have hoarded, particularly over the last
year - training books, classes, webinars, conferences, and even
podcasts like this one!


Sorting it out and hopefully even actually making use of the
knowledge and APPLYING it to actual training.


You know that quote... something about, if more knowledge were
the answer, we’d all be millionaires with 6-pack abs? Ugh.


I am assuming you are here because you are deep enough into dog
training nerddom, that you are probably also sitting on a hoard
of training resources, and can’t pass up the temptation to buy
one more class or webinar, because THIS webinar will totally be
the one that solves all your training problems. And if you are as
bad as me, your “to-watch” webinar stack may be quite tall and
even something of a source of shame.... because you feel you
really SHOULD be reading/watching/doing the things.


So let’s address that learning & information doom box and
apply it to something we actually care about... our training, by
using what we know about learning and behavior.


In this episode we discuss curating your collection and
organizing it into useful categories, steps for processing the
information in your resources so that it gets out of your
computer and into your head, possible obstacles that get in the
way of applying that information, ideas for removing those
obstacles and implementing new training knowledge, and how we
might make use of “accountability” in ways that are reinforcing
and, hopefully, not aversive.


For full show notes,
visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/155
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