Be afraid, very afraid...

Are you scared of rejection? Failure? Elimination? Death? Good you should be they are scary things, or can be. It's okay to be scared. It's okay to be nervous, it's actually good. It means you're aware. You are there living it and loving it, if you weren't you wouldn't care enough to be nervous. Every time I go to the line, with any dog, no matter the course, I'm nervous. I'm scared of something. But just because you are scared doesn't mean it should control you. Going to the line shaking because this is a one shot do or die kind of run, good. Going to the line thinking "Don't flub your fronts" or "Watch out for that off course tunnel", bad. You just set yourself up to fail, you think about the bad and all you'll get is bad. I think I've said a million or two "don'ts" and to tell you the honest truth, they didn't help me worth shit. I've started to learn how to catch myself before I start getting negative before my runs and I'll repeat the same thing over and over.  "Let your feet lead the way." It's the one sentence that reminds me exactly how I'm supposed to handle Jenna and it makes me confident that every turn will be tight and every step right on track. Caught myself tonight thinking "don'ts" about the European Open and I figured I'd share.  :)