"It matters not what goal you seek
Its secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses." — Edgar Guest

Issue: December, 2002

Publisher & Editor: Diane Peters Mayer
Co-editor: Vanessa Klapper

A. A Word from the Coaches

This is a good time to look back at your 2002 training and ring experiences:

• What did you set out to achieve this year?
• What goals did you attain?
• What did not work out?
• What needs work?
• How do you feel about what happened in 2002?

Please don't judge or negatively rate what happened or what didn't happen, what you did, or did not do. Just examine each instance as part of the learning process, as steps toward reaching your goals.

Now look ahead to the new year, 2003:

• Envision and define the goals you wish to achieve.
• Rate them in order of importance and difficulty.
• Write down what you can reasonably accomplish in: one month; three months; six months; one year.
• How are you going to fulfill your objectives?
• What are the barriers to doing so?
• When you read over what you have written, how do you feel about it?

So, think about what you want for yourself and your dog. Write it all down. Plan how to go about getting it. Prepare to start really living your dreams.

2003 is going to be a great year!!

You can become the handler of your dreams. Your dog will thank you!

We wish you happy and peaceful holidays.

Diane & Vanessa

B. Announcements & Coming Events

Seminar - COMBATING RING NERVES FOR ALL DOG SPORTS
For Handlers and Their Dogs

Saturday March 1, 2003 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Blairstown, NJ

Make plans to join us and learn to:

• Break the cycle of negative thinking
• Relax and focus with exercises that work
• Move smoothly in the ring
• Stop standing in your own way
• Channel those "nerves" into a great performance
• Practice with your dog in simulated show situations

We've added great new techniques to help you beat "ring nerves"!

Register now and see the difference a day makes!

$135.00 for seminar and materials.

Click here to register
or call Diane at 215-348-8836

Can't make the Seminar?

STOP "RING NERVES" FROM HOME with our Audio Ring Nerve Program for All Dog Sports, with Training Manual.

• Great Exercises & Techniques
• A Super Quickie Stress-Buster
• Guided Imagery to mentally rehearse your perfect performance
• Terrific Training Tips.

This program will help you do it!

The Audio Program & Manual is $29.95 plus $6.00 S&H in US. (PA residents add $1.80 sales tax). International add $10.00 S&H.

To read more about it or purchase by check or secure credit card, please click here.

or call Diane at 215-348-8836.

C. Invitations

We invite you to submit your questions to Ask the Coaches, comments, replies, ISO and stories to Handlers' Tales and Second Chances.

Please share your experiences and questions with your fellow readers, to help make PeakNews a dynamic arena in which to talk about the various aspects of "ring nerves" with handlers from all over the world.

We'd also love to hear from you with topics you want to see covered in future issues, and any comments you have about PeakNews. Please write to us at CAYPNews@aol.com

If you enjoyed PeakNews we invite you to forward it, intact please, to other handlers who might benefit from it.

Thank you and —

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