You can't be everything to everybody

It has been one of those weeks on FB were so many posts brought out mixed emotions in me. You know the feeling, as you scrolled down and something catchers your eye only to reveal utter disappointment and even anger when you read it. Or you click on the video hoping to find some inspiration only to let down by the progress of our working dog industry.
These moments don't happen often but for some reason this week it seem to bring out this desire in me to make things right, to have my say, to correct the misrepresentation of dog training. I knew the old days were not better as I was there and they were filled with cruel moments, I knew the 8 month old pup was not on his first run it had a lot of training under its belt and what we were looking at was not natural instinct at all, I knew it was over training or over commanding that was hurting our working dogs, I knew that UK dogs were just as good as Aussie's and visa versa, but as I took to my key board and started to types how wrong so many things were I hesitated.
When I learnt how to become an Instructor, when I studied dog behaviour, concept training and various other courses one thing always stuck out to me. You can not be everything to everybody. As much as i have had to accept much criticism for my new age methods I have also received many thanks and seen students go from strength to strength.
It is not about me righting the wrongs as what i teach may not suit every-one and that is OK. It is all about offering a way, believing in myself and what I teach and letting people make their own mind up.   It is about excepting some-one else right to choice but staying true to my beliefs. People are smart and they know in the end what is fact and what is fiction. If they don't well maybe they are happy not knowing. 
I nearly became a keyboard warrior, I kidded myself it was for a good cause, I, Denise was in defence of the great working dogs of Australia but really I just wanted to prove my point which was not the way to go. Thank goodness I remember the teachings of my course and took my fingers off the keys to rethink my beliefs. To make sure I was doing what I was doing for the right reasons. To access my successes and once again be happy in the methods I use.
​I may not be everything to every-body but I know I am everything to somebody, and that is enough for me!