We all create a narrative about how our day, weeks or years of how our life will go.
It’s as though how our life will turn out, is out of our control.
Things happen to us.
That too is a narrative imposed on you, if you believe you have no control over how you’re life will turn out.
I was talking with a wife, mother and dog lover the other day.
She’s going through a hard point in her life and she was focused on all the things going wrong and not in her favor.
Those things hadn’t happened yet, but her belief in the narrative that it will go south was loud and clear.
This was a moment I chose to offer a different perspective.
I said, “you have as much of a chance for all those terrible things to happen as you do having all the opposite things to come true.”
You can choose to live in the crap you tell yourself or you can step outside the box and envision other possibilities.
When you choose to live in the BS narrative that life is going to turn out not the way you want, you are less empowered to make different choices. You are choosing to have life deliver mediocrity.
When you spend a bit more energy in dreaming of something different. More worthwhile to you, you not only give yourself a break from the stress, tension and fear, but you also invite in a bit of what your heart desires.
Life is truly what you make of it and what you make starts with your dreams.
Katherine Porter is a force free, reward based dog behavior advisor and consultant serving clients and their companion dogs worldwide. Her calm and gentle approach in coaching clients in effectively communicating what they want to their dog blends her MSW background into her dog training and behavior practice.
Katherine was a behavior consultant for Heeling Hounds after graduation. She opened Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC when the military relocated her family to Fort Sill, OK in 2015. During this time, she volunteered with Rainbow Bridge Can Wait where she provided post adoption consultations to new pet parents. She also developed and implemented tailored behavior modification plans for highly reactive dogs residing at the shelter. She also provided educational programs to military children through interactive workshops at the Fort Sill School Age Center.
In 2017, Katherine relocated Four Paws and You Dog Training LLC to Germany. She served the Armed Forces communities in Bavaria. She continued coaching and advising her clients in addressing their companion dog’s fearful and reactive behavioral issues. Katherine takes a Do No Harm approach first and foremost in providing behavioral plans. She is committed in serving clients with gentle and modern science approaches in modifying behavioral concerns such as reactivity, aggression, separation anxiety and fear based responses.
Katherine is a member of the Pet Professional Guild. She is focused on integrating a holistic and modern approach in addressing her client’s pet companion reactive behavior issues.
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