Flawed.

There will always be people in the world who tell you that you can’t. They say you aren't good enough, they remind you of your flaws…but what these people forget to mention is that you can. That you might not be good enough yet, but those flaws you fight are what will make you great. They focus on the negative, not realizing your true potential...and sometimes they can make you forget that you have potential. 

I’d love to say that you should just ignore them, that the words have no truth to them. But realistically I can’t, I can say I’ve been there though. I’ve watched my videos at home, and heard people in the background talking about my handling…or how pathetic my dog is…or wondering why I’m even doing agility with them. This being one of the reason I started putting music to my videos 3 years ago. The funny thing is, after being angry for a bit, it just made me sad. Not because those people said what they did, but because they were so hopelessly focused on my flaws that I doubt they could even see their own…. I knew, at least, that I was working on my problems.

Funny thing about progress, you have to know where to start to make the first step in the right direction.

 I've never claimed to have perfect handling, or to have a perfect dog(s). So of course we have flaws, but we are working on them, constantly improving. And I know that we will never be perfect, and that's okay too. Agility isn't supposed to be perfect, it's messy. There will always be bad runs, or sloppy plans, and there will always be great runs that remind me why I push my handling when I can. Why play it safe every run, when you can learn and grow as a handler? Sure this means a dip in your Q-rate, but I'm sorry, sometimes NQing is just too much fun not to do. 

Two shelties with Q rates well under 100%, and damn proud of it.