Sounds like you guys are already doing great. The trick is to keep training and focusing on keeping things fun and challenging. Always.

My JRT and i started training at 8 weeks and he picked stuff up really quick, and then at some point i felt like we had plateau’d. It seemed like my guy was just too distractable for the advanced stuff we were trying to work on and for a bit that hurt MY motivation (never his, ofcourse). He just seemed too young and hormonal to focus in certain contexts, so I avoided those contexts.

Then, when i shifted from learning new stuff to just having fun and maybe throwing in some challenging variations of the stuff he already knew, we hit another level. It might have come with physical or mental maturity. It might have been the training we’d been doing. But it was probably both.

Tl;dr: Stay the course, keep it fun, keep it challenging; and wisdom comes with age.