Your Mind Runs Like an Untrained Puppy — Here's How to Finally Teach It to Stay

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Nov 25, 2025 · 35m

You sit down to focus. Your mind is already three tabs ahead — the email you forgot, the conversation you replayed, the worry that has nothing to do with what is in front of you. That is not a focus problem. That is an untrained mind doing exactly what untrained minds do. Phyllis Coletta is the author of How to Be a Good Dog and she has built an entire mental training system around the one command that changes everything — stay. Not as a meditation concept but as a practical daily skill for emails, meetings, anxiety spirals, and every moment your brain tries to bolt before you are done with…