https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/ Helping Your Dog Love The Boat As Much As You Do Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:37:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-74606 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:46:50 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-74606 Have you ever read StrengthsFinder 2.0? The premise is that you find your top 5 strengths and work on further developing those. If I remember right, the book claims that you should spend time developing your strengths because it will get you further than spending all of your time trying to “patch the holes” or fix weaknesses (because developing strengths is easier than trying to “correct” weaknesses). I am like you though, I seem to gravitate toward things that are hard for me.

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73290 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:34:36 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73290 Bandit and Honey sure look like they are having fun. How nice that they get along so well. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73254 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:47:09 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73254 Great Fearsome Face!

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73250 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:11:39 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73250 Haha! Cushion is always telling me I like doing things the hard way. Little does he know, I can’t actually see any other way to do it 😉

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73239 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:28:34 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73239 Callie’s like Honey — except right now she’s not supposed to be playing with other dogs so I really have to watch her — very careful about how roughly she plays with Ducky so she doesn’t hurt her. I’m not sure Shadow realizes how much bigger than Ducky she really is (80 lbs vs 25 lbs), especially since Ducky thinks of herself as a big dog.

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73230 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:51:12 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73230 I love this post!! Figuring out what we are really good at and DOING that is what we should be focusing on instead of trying to be “better” at other things. Dogs are so smart. 🙂

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73192 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:15:54 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73192 This is really hard for me. I’m a DIYer. (And a bit of a perfectionist control-freak…) If it’s remotely possible that I can do it myself, then I’ll try. Like, I could have hired someone to do my web site for me, but I knew just enough techy stuff to attempt it myself, so I did. And, yes, it could probably look fancier and more professional, but I kinda like that I was able to do it myself. (Maybe I’m just cheap…) 🙂 Still, I hear what you’re saying. I guess this means I should hire someone to clean my house since I’m not all that good at it…. (then again, there’s the fact that Rita hates strangers in the house, so I know I never will!)

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73187 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:08:53 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73187 Good words of wisdom 🙂

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73175 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:58:59 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73175 I read somewhere that Americans focus so much on shoring up weaknesses instead of building strengths to the detriment of society as a whole. I certainly found that I was happier when I stopped focusing on what I wasn’t good at and started building onto the foundation of my already apparent knacks and skills.

]]> https://www.somethingwagging.com/play-to-your-strengths-good-for-the-dog-good-for-you/#comment-73174 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:34:23 +0000 https://www.somethingwagging.com/?p=9343#comment-73174 Thanks so much for the book, it arrive today and will post about it on thursday:-)

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