Productivity

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3 Techniques For The Summer

It’s 5 pm on Sunday and I’m just sitting down to write. It’s been a busy month over here at the Dirty house, I’m sure y’all can relate. Seems to me everybody’s feeling a little worn down. Burned out. Too much trying to keep up and not enough signs saying “keep out.” Each week, I set out to write an article or story loosely based on the question,“What can we learn from our dogs?” Sometimes, the lessons come fairly easily, while others are a stretch at best.

Create A Problem Then Create The Solution

WHY IS MOVING dishes from the sink to the dishwasher the most grueling task on the planet? Because we invented a dishwasher, that’s why. These types of conundrums cause my brain to blow a fuse. I completely black out—a total grid failure. Do you want to hear a phrase that’s caused more damage to vocal chords than cheap red wine and Marlboro lights? – “Will you please put your dirty dishes in the dishwasher!?” Why aren’t we all suing the heavy cycle off of these appliance manufacturers for false

Obvious, Attractive, Easy, and Satisfying

In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear outlines his Four Laws for Behavior Change, which we can use to build better habits. While James knows his stuff regarding human behavior concerning habit change, I thought it might be fun to take a stab at how these laws appear in our canine buddies and what they can teach us. The Obvious We humans love to complicate things, especially things that are known for their simplicity, such as communication. Humans are empathetic creatures for the most part, so w

Doing Work

REFILLING MY BLUE five-gallon water jug takes roughly three minutes and forty seconds. It takes seven minutes to fold and put away an average pile of laundry (not including a fitted sheet because who the heck knows). Unloading the dishwasher – two minutes and a half. Getting my bachelor's degree… dang, forgot my timer! SUNSET WAS IN eight hours. I had to leave for two weeks the following day, so it was the last night for us to capture an image of Dirt pushing a lawn mower I’d been wanting to get

Keep It Simple

Stonnie Dennis operates his dog kennel with a Montessori approach – a learning-by-doing modality. He ‌believes there’s a direct correlation between good behavior and meeting the daily minimum of your specific dog's mental and physical requirements.