Steven talks about the value of tracking your time when working in the farming and ranching industry. How easy it is to underpay yourself when you start to work lots of hours. How you can lose touch with loved ones and hobbies. How you can feel that you do not deserve time off because you don't think you're working enough. All these things can be overcome by tracking your time so you can truly know how much you have earned and how much you really put in.

Steven tells a story about how he followed his gut, how it turned out to be the right choice, how the choice led to less problems with a customer and the team.

Steven talks about two different types of employees. How they might think differently, how their mindsets create different types of challenges for them, and how to handle them as a manager seeking to bring the best out of their team.

Steven talks about how living in ignorance can be comfortable and allows you to hide from the issues that you will have to face. He talks about his personal experience with hiding from the truth and the stresses that it caused him. Going into how when he finally did face the truth he found that the issue was not as bad as it seemed and how that was a great relief to him.

Steven tells the story of an old employee who didn't want to grow with the company and how he handled the citation. This story focuses on the importance of cutting quickly and early and how you should always make sure to judge the scale of what you are asking of your team to make sure you are not overloading them without additional compensation.

Steven talks about the value of properly training your team and the benefits of doing so on your free time and ability to tackle other tasks.

Steven talks about his experience tending the sprayer for the first time. Using this experience to reinforce that failure is part of the growing process. How you can't allow your failures to keep you from trying new things. How failure is how you become a master of a skill and not trying will never make you better.

Steven talks about how available one should be for their job. Talking about some tricks and ideas to get home from the perspective of a business owner and employees. Remember that life is meant to be lived.

Steven talks about the way he views discipline. How just because what you're dedicated to doesn't align with others doesn't mean that you lack discipline. It just means that your discipline is focused on something else. It is focused on what matters to you more than what someone else has to say.

Steven talks about how clear communication is important and failure to have clear communication can lead to issues. He shares a story of someone in a group that the Grow Farm Solutions team is part of going through an issue that could have been avoided with clear communication and guidelines to insure such issues don't come about.