3 years. That is how long it has taken one of our members and their family to settle the estate of their father. Their mother had to face and relive the death of her husband every day for 3 years because there was no estate plan in place. So many of us put off the hard conversations because it causes us stress and discomfort, not recognizing the pain and stress we can cause others if we don’t. 

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Over the last few months we have been going to work on the business, with our members, and to make sure all our members are getting the results they want. We are going to be sharing much more from our members here. To really show how Legacy Farmer has impacted not only people’s businesses, but more importantly, their family lives. Legacy Farmer has really become a family.

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How are you spending your time? On important things? Or on $10-$15/hr jobs around your operation. We need to figure out how much our time is worth, and how much we need to value ourselves. If we look in the mirror and see someone worth $12/hr, that is what we will get, and we’ll burn 60-80 hours a week, when in reality we could hire someone else to take care of that work so we can focus on the important tasks.

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The biggest challenge in today’s modern world is shutting things off. Most of the farmers and ranchers coming in through Legacy Farmer Academy are very busy with so many things to do during the day. When we start to focus and double down on our x-factor, we start to take off, and before we know it we are generating amazing results. I talk about this lesson and how I learned it, here in today’s podcast. 

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Your business life and your family life are one in the same, not two separate entities that need to be taken care of on their own. Knowing that you need to change in either aspect of your life is fine, but knowing how you need to change, and what needs to be done is the key to making a real difference. If all aspects of your life aren’t on point you’ll struggle to make any kind of meaningful change. 

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It’s easy to get sucked into a cycle of repetitive arguments if one of you is walking away angry halfway through the argument every time without confronting the underlying issues. We are emotional beings and our emotions can often get in the way of a fruitful argument and send it right into a contest of who can trigger the other one the most. 

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I’ve had female members ask how they can get their husbands to start seeing how bad the problems are and to get them to start moving on them. Simple answer is to start making moves yourself. You’re going to have to start taking control and start doing the things you know need to be done, you can’t wait on your husband. Stop asking for permission and just get it done. This should trigger action in your husband.

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Motivation is great but fades fairly quickly; leverage is a far more long term solution. Without leverage to exert on ourselves, it is very easy to slip back into a place of complacency. Putting up money every month for someone to hold you accountable ensures that you take the process seriously, so you aren’t wasting your money. That money also acts as even more leverage to keep you moving forward.  

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If you grew up on the farm, you are all too familiar with the expectation of completing a task to a very high standard with little to no praise for the job well done. We are trained and conditioned not to celebrate our successes. We, unwittingly, fight against our worthiness of success and dwell on our mistakes and failures. This mindset needs to change.

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We all have many things happen to us throughout our lives and we never think they are all that significant at the time. It can take decades before we realize the weight those events carry or see the set of events that they have set in motion. Consider that I’m in your life for a specific reason.  

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