Farming Mentality
October 17th, 2024 by Diane Conklin under Business - General, Business Strategy. No Comments.
It’s harvest season in farm country – we call it “picking”.
The picture is of a field across from my sister’s house in Ohio where they’re picking corn. The red thing in the field (below the arrow) is a combine (not like the one the NFL rookies go to… lol) farmer’s use to harvest the crops.
What does this have to do with business, marketing or your business?
Everything…
As I look at that picture and remembering the wide-open spaces and the feeling of fall in the air in Ohio, and all the scenes I don’t see today, living in metro Atlanta, it struck me that farmers work when they have to, when the weather is right and the crops are prime for picking…
Not when they feel like it.
So many times I hear clients and business owners say things like “I don’t want to do that”, or “I don’t feel like it”.
There is always something to do on the farm, just like in our businesses.
I often tell my clients, you’re never going to feel like you’re “done” when you own a business because there is always something more that you can do.
Farmers put in long hours. Most of the time, it’s sunup until sundown – or very close. Most business owners and entrepreneurs start their business lives this way. Hopefully, over time using leverage, the long hours and the stress lessens – at least a little.
Years ago, I had a coach tell me it was time for me to lose the farm mentality. Now, I realize a lot of who I have become in my life and the reason I’ve had the success I’ve had is my work ethic and the values I learned growing up on the farm.
Do what it takes to get the job done. Rest when there’s less to do and you’re not “in season”.
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