Barn Talk - How To Stay Determined And Execute Your Plan

Episode Date: January 8, 2022

Welcome To Barn Talk!. Today we are going to talk about Determination! Don’t throw in the towel, roll that towel up and snap your problems right in the ass! Get back on the horse and keep going. Let’s talk about it. Barn Talk Merch! 👇🏻 https://www.thislldo.co/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ➱ https://bit.ly/3a7r3nR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS’LL DO FARM ➱ https://bit.ly/2X8g45c SUBSCRIBE TO BARN TALK CLIPS ➱ https://bit.ly/3BlZnqq LISTEN ON: SPOTIFY ➱ https://open.spotify.com/show/3icVr4KWq4eUDl7Oy60YMY ITUNES ➱ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/barn-talk/id1574395049 ADD US ON: INSTAGRAM ➱ https://bit.ly/3gaobdN TIKTOK ➱ https://bit.ly/3eJfftr ------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE*** Barn Talk is a significant break from the typical content viewers have come to expect from This’ll Do Farm. Please be advised that we will be exploring a wide variety of topics (some adult-themed) and our younger viewers (and their parents) should be advised that some topics will be for mature audiences only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perfect example. Shout out to Larson Farms. They have an amazing operation, amazing YouTube channel. They're big grain farmers. An amazing operation. I love their videos. They do a great job.

And they have great farming equipment. And they have the acres to have the need of that farming equipment. And everybody that watches that is a farm kid at heart that loves it and eats it up. I do. I love it. But at the same time, I'm like, God, I want that. How do I get that?

want that for our operation, you know? And it kind of, it can kind of put you, for some reason, sometimes I can watch that stuff and it can kind of put me in a bad, in a negative mindset like, what am I not, why don't we have that? Why don't I have that yet? Why am I not put it? Damn it, dad. What have you been doing? Yeah, but that's just one example of, you know, it's supposed to be entertaining, but sometimes you can, you can flip that on a dime and internalize it and make it a negative. So, and then I rationalize it and I just say, well, if I had a tractor that big, I'd have to widen all the driveways. I couldn't even get into the field because I still got my fences in and it's better. I just don't have any of that stuff.

All of the food we eat and much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. Deep freezer, deep freeze edition, because it's freaking freezing out. Side, winter has just came in and knocked us on our ass because it's cold out there. I'm getting to the point where I have to walk out to the bins anytime the feed hangs up, and my ball's shrinking into me, and it's just one of those things that I don't like doing, and it's come with a little bit of a bite. We're at sub-zero weather around here, but there's plenty of hot air in the garage, so I think we'll,

I think we'll be okay in here. I like to stay in the garage as much as I possibly can or the house during the winter or even the hog barn because guess what? It's nice and nice and warm in the hog barn. Pigs love it.

They do. They love it too. Hope the New Year is going great for everyone. All those plans for 2020 are off and running like a switch botch, right? Wrong, maybe? I don't know. It's only day five, or is it day six?

I think it might be day six. Day six. We're day six into that, and, you know, I'm sure there's a few of you that have got off your plan. I've gotten off my plan a little bit, and it happens. So today we're going to talk about, you know, just don't throw that towel in yet. Don't give up. Don't get discouraged. We're going to talk about how to be determined and get back on your plan so you can continue to execute.

Because it happens to the best of us, you know? That's why I purposely haven't even started my plan. Oh. I wait until the following week. Vacation. The first week, you're just warming up. Well, right, because I think expectations are so high. Why put yourself through that?

Just wait. Just let that pass and then hit it hard. Beer curls. Just get beer curls and whiskey curls. Hit that hard going into the next week. So I'm... And you also don't want to go to the pack gym with all the New Year's resolution people where, you know, they're not going to be there the next week anyway. So you might as well just wait it out so you can get back into the gym.

It's back to where it was. I don't want to look needy. Yeah, right. Right. You just want to avoid that crap. That's right. Well, why don't you give them the good? Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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It's available. People wanted it. Had a few sales. Just going to keep plugging it for more people to get some more stuff because it's good. Do I have to buy my own? We got a few coming in. that we're going to show off and sample, but yeah. I've been waiting thinking that, well, surely somebody will just like...

Surely, Sawyer will just pay for it. Yeah, he'll just get me some merch. So maybe next week, we'll see if Torque gets a... I want a black Barn Talk sweatshirt. Well, it's coming. I like that barn talk logo. It's coming. Awesome.

Get it in white or black. I think that's pretty nice. I think that's pretty nice. Yeah, it's all looking pretty good. Okay. Well, as Sawyer said, the winner has come. come back with a vengeance so everybody that was all giddy over warm temperatures and mild conditions they've realized that yet again the law of averages will bite you in the ass every time because

somehow we have to get back to average and we're doing a good job of dragging that average down in the last few days and you know today we're going to talk about determination and and when that wind started blowing and I went up to the hog barn and I saw all the snow that had blown back in and I got to blade it out the second time. That kind of started away on me. I wish I could look at winter with the giddy enthusiasm that I used to as a kidd because now it just looks like work to me. Yeah, we need a snowblower. Yeah, we got a really long lane. to my hog barn and it is a pain in the butt. Yeah, that's probably on the list.

I'm on the hunt for one. I'll get the merch and you just get the snowblower. Is that fair? Probably not, but that's probably about how it's going to go. So we'll just go with that. Here is the market update. And these numbers are hot off the press from Katz Green website. Shout out to Katz Green in Washington, Iowa.

Cornclothes is 604 today, and locally you can get about 602 is the highest that I found around our area. Beans were 1377, and if you want to haul them to Quincy across the river, you can get better than board price. I want to say they had 1383, but from here it'll cost you 30 cents to get there, so it's not as good a deal as what you'd think. 1341 local and hogs are $83. I don't know, this hog market can't seem to get over the hump. Summer hogs are about $100, but I think they should probably be about $120, and I'm not biased at all in that thought. Cattle 137, cattle seem to be always 130-something.

Bitcoin, what's happened to Bitcoin? $43,000. I don't know. You got to get Grant back on here. I don't know. What's going on? He thinks it's probably going to get hit and go into a bull run again. Who knows?

Yeah, well, we've been thinking that for a while, so I don't know. I don't know where it's going to go. I kind of feel like that it's just been stuck in this range for quite a while. I think the cheapest, it didn't get down below 40, I don't think. Yeah, I think it did. Did it get at one point? 39. 39, maybe.

Yeah. Well, if it breaks out again, then. Keep buying more. Yep. Just keep buying more. Tesla, $168. It's been down the last three days, but it announced their deliveries,

and they were way off the chart, way better than everybody predicted. And they... And they went up, it was up, well, better than $200, I think. And almost to its all-time high, because $1,200, I can't remember if it's $1240 maybe, is the all-time high, and it got close.

I think $199,000,000,000 was as high as it got. So I don't know. It's just hanging out here. So we'll see what happens. Are you still going to stick to your $1,800 prediction? Yes, definitely. Or are you going to go higher? You like that 1800? I like 1800. I think it will, I think it'll hit, I think it'll hit $2,000, but I'm not going to stick my neck out on that. Here's, here's the thing. What that really hinges on is, so it will, it'll, they'll have their year-end, their annual report. and their full year earnings are going to be excellent.

And the thing that everybody's looking at is what their gross margin is. So with as many deliveries as they had in the fourth quarter, it's probably going to push their gross margin higher because there's a big difference between the amount of money they make per car in the ones that are made in China versus the ones that are made in Fremont, California, because their cost production is higher in California. And most of those extra deliveries that they made in Q4 came from China.

So that's going to give them a better margin. So then their year-end margin will be bigger. So that'll drive the price up. And then you get into first quarter, and they're bringing on the plant in Austin, Texas. I think they're actually making cars there probably as we speak, because the story that I've heard is that everything was ready to go, and they were basically waiting for some cars that they pre-built down there,

and they had to take those and get them tested as far as safety, make sure that everything crumpled the same as the cars made everywhere else and get them certified, and I don't know what all that entails, but I think that is all done. And so they're going to start ramp in production. and so and then Germany that's just a that's just a mess over there as far as the regulation and getting the actual operating permit the plant is ready to go they are making cars there but they haven't been given a permit to start basically full production so anyway both those plants will come on and probably in the first quarter and so the the determination of what the price is going to be is all going to to become it's all going to come down to how fast can they ramp that production but i think one point i think one point five million cars in 2022 is not out of the realm of possibility i think

one point two is where a lot of people were at and they almost hit they almost hit a million in in 21 so so 900 yeah nine 36 or something like that so doing one 1.2, that doesn't, I mean, that's like nothing. I don't think that there's any reason that that is out of the realm to hit. So 1.5, I think that's doable. And so then you just do the math from there, and it kind of becomes a juggernaut. And to put that in perspective, Ford Motor Company makes about 2.

Oh, they make about 2 million cars. It's either, yeah, it's about 2 million cars, and GM makes about 2.4. So you're looking at Tesla getting to the point easily by 23 that they're producing more cars than GM or Ford. And so next time you hear Mary Barra yapping about GM being a leader, they just got their ass handed to them by Toyota because now then, for the first time in 90 years, did you know this? First time in 90 years, GM is not the best-selling automobile in the United States.

Toyota beat them out last quarter. Now, granted, there's a lot of things that went into that, and they could get that back, but I don't think they will. I think you've seen the peak of what GM will ever be, and I think from here it's just all just a death of a thousand cuts. Wow. Well, I do. Ford's in a lot better shape than GM is.

Analysts were kind of blown away by Tesla's Q4. They kind of are like, oh, crap. They were dumbfounded. This is a jiggernaut. this is because you said that they were really uh they like undervalued what they could do and then and that happened in Q3 too I think right or was it Q2 this year it happened it happened once and then it happened again in Q4 well and Elon is a master manipulator if you remember halfway through the quarter Elon somebody leaked an email a company email where he said to everybody

that this quarter we were going to focus on being consistent in our deliveries, and we weren't going to just go crazy the last few weeks of the month, trying to get every last car we could, because what happens is when you do that, it always screws you up for the start of the next quarter. And now that their production, their goal is total production, his email was basically saying, we need to just strive for consistency.

So all the automotive analysts, they took that to heart like he was saying, okay, well, they're definitely not going to be, they're not going to have breakout numbers. If they can hit the high side of expectations, that'll be really good. Well, I think Elon knew exactly what he was saying. I think he knew the numbers were looking so good that he was just like, oh, I'm just going to lay this out. And then they crushed it. But what's really interesting about it is when you look at numbers across Legacy Auto, most carmakers, their sales are off anywhere from 20% to 40% this year. And they're equating that all as chip shortages, COVID problems, labor problems,

stuff getting backed up as far as parts, supply chain issues. so you've got that and that's a good narrative and they're all using it and then Tesla comes in and they're like here hold my beer and they just crush it they absolutely crush it better than they've ever done and so if you're an automotive analyst you look at that and you're like well wait a minute one of these stories you can't have this both ways so one of these stories is not really what's happening and i will make my bet that what's really happening is the rest of the auto industry one is not executing because they're bogged down in too much old technology and old ways of doing things that aren't productive their overhead's too great their supply chains are stretched they don't

make enough stuff themselves or relying on other people well yeah i think those problems probably do affect them but yeah it's stuff that it's they don't have the control right and they've given it us yeah and tesla does why they're winning and then the other part is i think they're all underestimating the demand for evis yeah i mean definitely are That's the thing. That switch is happening faster than what people want to give them credit. But I think some analysts realized that this year, or this last quarter, and they went, oh, boy. So we'll just see how it plays out.

But I'll stick with my $1,800, but I wouldn't be a darn bit surprised if it doesn't hit $2,000. It's not financial advice. We're just making predictions over here. No. I mean, I'm just greedy. I just hope that it makes that because you're invested in it. I'm invested in it, and I'd like to buy more if I could. Anyway, why is it so hard, dad?

Why is it so hard? Why is it so hard to stay on the plant? Why? What? Why? I don't know. Why is it so hard to get down in the dumps and stay determined? No, why is it so easy to get down the dumps?

Yeah, right. Why is it so easy? Why is it so hard to stay optimistic? Yeah, right. Well, I mean, when we started talking about this, first thing that popped in my head is, is it really that hard? Is it really that hard? Or is part of it the fact that,

as a society and as a country, we have just become so soft that we don't know what hard is. Yeah. I think the first thing when you get down in the dumps about, you know, not staying consistent or being hard on yourself because I'm this way. When I get down in the dumps,

I'm mostly probably down in the dumps about. I didn't execute my plan or something went bad or somewhat haywire on what we're doing, and I get mad and I get upset, and it just puts me down in the dump sometimes, and you feel a little bit like loss and hopeless or frustrated or whatever. And I think the number one fix for that is just perspective.

And it's just like what you just said. We, as a culture, and what we're spoon-fed is just like, you know, you should be, you know, care so much about your feelings and it's okay and coddle us and coddle us and coddle us. And I don't think that's the way we should probably look go about it when you're feeling down. You should probably look at how other people are living in other countries or look back in history and realize, wow. I have a computer in my pocket and I probably got a computer on my desk and I can contact anybody in the world.

and this is probably the easiest time to make money in the entire history of the world. You know, just that kind of stuff. It doesn't have to even be that. Here, I'll give you, this is a... I got food on my table. This is a popular complaint I get. So I bought a Jeep gladiator, and it doesn't have heated seats. And I've had more, I've probably had three people ride in it in this cold snap, and they go,

well, where are the seat heaters? I'm like, it doesn't have any. And they're like, what? What kind of a car doesn't have seat heaters in this day and age? This is brand new. And I'm like, well, the Jeep people didn't figure you needed seat heaters. And they're like, boy, boy, I don't know. I don't know if I would have bought this without seed heaters.

And I'm like, you big wimp. I mean, yeah, I do. I'm not going to say that too hard because my Sequoia has sea heaters in it. And that's pretty nice. Now, seed heaters are nice. I mean, they are nice. They're super nice, but I get what you mean. Yeah.

And so perfect example. I've moved a lot of snow in the last few days. And I have a cab tractor, and I have a cab skid loader, and I complain a lot. And my dad moved a lot of snow with a 40-10 with a heathouser on it, and before that, with a John Deere 60 with a heathouser on it. But before that, he had an 8-N-Ford with a blade with no heat-houser on it, and, you know, had hogs outside,

and they used to have, they used to take 55 gallon oil barrels and cut the top off of them, and they would put blocks in them and sink them in a water tank, and then they'd fill the barrel with coal, and they'd light them and let them burn all night to keep the hog waters from freezing up in the winter.

And you'd go, out there, you know. Check. And you had to haul water. So you had a water tank, and you had to fill the water tank, haul it out there. And you couldn't leave water in the water tank because it'd freeze. You know, the stories. Three and sows.

Three sows in the winter. I mean, it's... But the thing is, the beauty... So the beautiful thing about it was they didn't know any better. That's what my dad always said was, you know, well, it's fine. You didn't know any better. And that's why he always... That's why he always...

He always had trouble with the Amish lifestyle because when people, like when the Amish were building my hog buildings, my dad would be like, you know, being Amish wouldn't be so bad if you didn't know better. Because when we did all that, when I was a kid and we didn't have electricity and we did everything by hand, we didn't know any better. But he goes, that doesn't mean I want to go back there. And I always like, yeah, that's probably right. So those guys, kudos to them.

Yeah, that would be hard. Talk about discipline. They're as discipline as it comes. They are because. If you're pre-or Amish and don't have any. Well, and if you can look at society and you see it and. I think that we're all terrible probably. Yeah.

But anyway. You're just going to burn it. And also, what he'd also say is about hog barns. Oh. People would say, we don't, let's go back and raise pigs on pasture. Yeah. He always thought that was the dumbest thing. ever because he did it he did it and then it's just like what you said well he didn't know any better

right there wasn't technology available there wasn't something else yep and then he went inside he built one and he was like oh this is this is great yeah and i mean it wasn't it wasn't it was nothing fancy so he built his first finisher in 1971 year i was born i think is the year he built his first finisher and it was not total slats it was slats in the middle and then it sloped both ways it had 16 foot of solid concrete that sloped to the middle with slats it had a pit in the middle and um you know it the ventilation wasn't great and the the feeders were not very good back then in fact i think the first feeders he had in there were galvanized feeders that they were probably fairfield or something like that but compared to finishing hogs out of

outdoors in the wintertime, it was fantastic. I mean, it was paradise. And it's like injectable iron. You know, when he was a kid, when he was just started, Pharaoh and pigs used to go out in the fall and you'd cut chunks of sod out of the road ditch and you'd keep them. And every time you had a litter of pigs,

you'd throw a chunk of sod in there for the pigs to root in the dirt to get the iron out of the dirt because there was no injectable iron. and all the pigs would end up being anemic because they couldn't root in the dirt because it's frozen and they were in you know whatever and that was how you kept them from getting uh anemic and so you know injectable iron nobody even thinks about that today but that was a big deal when they i mean so it's just you know it's so many things that have happened but when we look back we're we're blessed beyond measure and i think just a lot of times we lose complete perspective of that Oh, 100%. Totally. And I think Americans, I've said, we've said this many times, but America looks in America and we just look at the problems in America.

We look at the challenges we face here in America, and we never get any outside perspective. No one ever looks outside and see what other countries are doing and what if they're up to or what it looks like or how people are living unless you go there. I mean, or less you're involved in some way because there's charities that you could, you know, donate to in Africa and stuff like that, that you see your impact.

but man you go look out how people are living yeah you'll give you you'll give you some real good perspective on oh wow i have i know i'm i'm living here in america and i might have it a little harder than some or maybe most but it's way better than yeah most of the people around the world yeah one of my former bosses told me that the best thing that you can do is or one of the best things that he ever did was travel around the world and go different places because he said the example he gave is that he and his wife always had the opinion that Europeans were very sophisticated and that Europe they were really smart and they had things figured out and that you know the United States should be more like the Europeans and we hear that a lot you know that

we need to be more like other people in different parts of the world and he said that you can say that till you go there. And he goes, once you go there and once you travel around and you see the problems that the rest of the world has, when you come home, you realize why everybody else in the rest of the world wants to come here. And that's, you know, that's perspective. Yeah. And it's not just, it's not just living in America, which, I mean, America is great.

It's greatest country in the world. It's going to stay that way, I hope. It's been like that for a long, long time. But you can go, I mean, you can go inside. of America and you can just say, well, you probably have it better than most people here in America or some people here in America because there's levels to it. And you just got to be happy with what you got and be grateful for what you got. So I guess for this first point, you know, when you get down, when you get down about stuff, just try to get some perspective to help you

because, and that might just be literally sitting down and saying, I'm going to think about the stuff that I'm grateful for and, you know, think about the stuff that I have, the people. people don't have. And just try to think about the good because just take it, because if you're in a crap mood and all you do is just go down the rabbit hole of thinking all the crappy stuff that's happened to you and all the stuff you don't have and all the stuff that you wish you had, but you don't, it's just, you're going to get in a worse spot than where you were to start. We're all very lucky that we have the luxury of complaining about the situation we're in because probably the single greatest attribute of the life in the United States of America is

that if you don't like your situation, it's one of the only places in the world that you have the opportunity that you can change it. And they want to tell you that you can't, they want to tell you that's false. They're trying to tell people that you can't. You can't do that. But I guarantee you, you can look at somebody that can't, from the same background as you, ethnicity, religion,

whatever, skin color, and you can find somebody that made it. Right. That came from what you came from. It's not going to be, there's no guarantee it's going to be easy. No. And that's the other thing about it is it's not easy, but as we've talked about through these podcasts, one thing, one overarching theme to all that is,

so much of your success and success is defined how you want to define it, but so much of that is not based on your situation, it's based on you. Your decisions. It's based on your inside work. Now, it takes a lot of outside work, but the biggest limiting factor to what you can accomplish is all right up here. I mean, it just is.

And that's, that's, That's a fight that everybody has. And if you can conquer that, then you're going to go a long ways. Do we sum everything up in the first question? I feel like I didn't keep my powder dry there. Oh, you're good. So, I don't know. I was going to touch on, I felt like I kind of did touch on, you know,

perspective about the past. But I think a lot of times when things are tough and things aren't going very well, and I think about all the issues that we have with our farming operation and all that, and I think an awful lot about the generations of my family that came before me that, you know, they literally, they packed up, and you go back far enough,

they packed up and they all came here from somewhere else. They came from what was known to what wasn't known. And then when they got here, they came, they started over, but they started over where there was actually society and there was actually infrastructure, for the time, infrastructure, and there were jobs and there was things you could do, and they decided they didn't want that. And they came west, and they,

They did whatever it took to get in a position where they could build a legacy. And I mean, I, if you, you know, if you feel like that, if you feel like you're pretty special or you're pretty good at what you do and that you're, whatever you want to be. Or the opposite, if you feel like a piece of crap or you're feeling down about yourself and where you came from or how hard it is. You think about whatever your family is, know that somebody somewhere made a huge sacrifice for you to be where you are today. And it was a lot harder. A lot harder. Harder than what you got right now. A lot harder and no guarantees, no safety net, no contacts.

No, nothing. You couldn't pick up your phone and call. somebody if you were in trouble? No. You couldn't go to the hospital. No blue cross car. No air care. No.

No ambulances. No. Nothing. You are, it was survival of the finish. Let's just say right now that Sam Elliott is a national treasure. Any of you that have started watching 1883. Yeah. He's great.

They're, in my mind today, I don't know how much, I don't know how much longer we got, but today, if you make a Western and you don't get, if he's not part of it, it doesn't count. He's the man. That guy is just so dang good. He is good. Definitely. All right. That's off the subject, but anyway.

I had to throw that out there. You're good. So the other thing that falls into this, I think, is emotion. Just become an emotionless bastard and just be dead inside and you won't have any problems. There's more to life than finding the point. perfect car. But finding the perfect car can help you get the most out of life. Like the SUV that handles everything from drop off to off road and the car that hulls groceries and hockey teams, or the van that's gone from just practical to practically family. Whatever you want,

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That's right. So if you are ever told that you are dead inside. Or emotionalists. Yeah. You might want to work on that a little bit because it is all about balance. It is all about balance. Go ahead with what you were saying. I was just throwing that out there.

It would be a dispeal of them. I appreciate that. The other half, my other half, she likes to, she has an innate need to understand why something happens, even if there might not be a reason. So she and I don't do well watching political commentary, because when something happens politically that is in her mind a bad outcome, a vote that happens on a bill that she doesn't think is good,

She wants to understand why anybody would vote for that. And I have spent a lot of time trying to explain to her that it isn't always have anything to do with the vote that it has to do with politics and that you just got to accept that people sometimes do things that you're not going to understand. That's not how. That's not how it works. We have to spend more time about it and understand the why. Mm-hmm. Ah, anyway, you have to separate, you have to separate yourself from the emotion. When something goes wrong, you can get down on yourself and you can let the embarrassment if, you know,

if it's a situation where someone, you messed up and people know that you messed up and people know that you messed up. or you do something that ends up getting your family involved and they're all down on you or whatever. At the end of the day, all of that emotion isn't going to help propel you or get you through it. Or help you move forward. You've got to learn that, yeah, it's a hurt. It's a hurt.

It doesn't feel good to fail. but what do you say? It's only a failure if you quit and don't keep moving forward. Yeah, you got to just, you got to, and that goes with any, that goes with every emotion, not just failure, not just sadness, not just embarrassment, but the good ones too. Like, because if you're, because I feel like some people, they get happy and they become comfortable and then they don't execute the plan. They backslide.

Yeah, they let their emotions get the best of them there and the fact that they just want to stay comfortable and don't keep doing the things I got them to the place they're at today. And then also can be the same way with negative emotions. People let the negative emotions get them down too and then they don't execute or they get down on themselves and they get depressed or whatever. But the work's got to get done. The plan's got to get done. And if you can learn to separate emotions and I'll let me tell you a far more collect. Pigs raising livestock, being a farmer you'll learn that really quick because pigs got to get chored

livestock's got to get chored the crops got to get picked and put in the bins you know seeds got to get in the ground no matter how you feel it doesn't matter if your wife just chewed your ass 10 minutes ago you still got to like go do it

and it doesn't matter so the building's got to get washed even if even if the switch on the feed system them didn't shut off and all the feeders that are in the room that's empty are full of feed. So you still got to get the room wash. So what do you got to do? You got to flip the feeders even though I was pissed off. Well, you got to clean out all the feeders and get them cleaned out. And then then you can be good, but that takes a lot of time. Yeah. Unnecessary amount of time.

I got wet dries in my hog barn and you're not supposed to, you can't flip those wet dries if you, if you leave feet in there. So we try to strategically get the. pigs so that they will eat the feed out. You know, right when we know, okay, we're going to get ready to dump this bar and pigs are going to all go out, we shut off the feed line. We run the feed line empty, shut the feeders off and make sure that they can just eat that feed that gets ran into the feeder, and then they'll be empty and we'll be good. We'll move them around accordingly.

Yeah, we'll move them around. Get them, get them all empty. And I got the South Room, damn near all empty. I think we only had to clean out four feeders. And I was like, yes, okay, that's a win, because it's very, it's very, hard to get them all eight out every single time and the north room i turned off the it's this is just this is just a story but i turned off the feed line i unplugged it because we have a we have a we have a chore time we have a more time we have a more timer on there so we it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it is a four

feed line timer so in other words all four feed lines run through one more box and it's a slick setup but we also have an edge control that the feed system runs through the edge and then through the moor so that we can get auger runtime and we can get amperage and for whatever reason yeah i unplug the more box and shut the south room off but i came in the next day and all the feeders were full in the north room so i didn't shut the breakers off thinking that okay if i just unplugged the more box were good. I didn't shut off the stuff on the controller because that's really how it's been working ever since I've had the bar. You just unplug the more box and the feed line won't run. But for whatever reason, the north room ran. And so pretty much, the moral of the story is the north room's full of feed.

Dad and I had to, today, we had to dump some feeders. Dump the feeders and get all the feed out of there because they were old. So would you say that that was a situation where? Oh, and I was pissed because I wasn't very happy at all. I was really frustrated. And I was just, I was down about it a little bit, but at the end of the day, did you have to separate yourself from your emotion? I did. I did have to separate myself because at the end of the day, it's like whatever happens happens. Okay, what are we going to do? We've got to move on because if you just sit there and ponder on it, it's just going to make you feel worse.

So try to separate your emotions best you can. And I know that's harder, that's harder to do than say. Yeah. Yeah, and we're all guilty of it. But it's one of those things. If you can do that, the more you can master that, the less time you'll spend worrying about emotion and worry about feeling sorry for yourself. And you know what? That's the other thing about it is it doesn't matter because it's not going to change your reality. The other people around you don't care. I mean, they care if you're down down in the dumps or whatever, but not enough to come

flip your feeters for you. Right. I mean, other people around you don't. Well, you did help me a little bit, so I appreciate it. But people don't care if you're down. If you're a boss or if you're an employee, the people at your job don't care what's happening at home because you just got to show up and do your job. And that's how it is.

So, and I know that's a hard reality to face. But yeah, like you said, if you can master that, you'll be better off in your performance of how you want to execute your plan or whatever that looks like for you because there's nothing. You got to just keep moving on the plan. And I think also people like, this is just kind of off the subject, but people want to think that emotions, like happiness is a destination.

Happiness is an emotion. It is 100%. And it comes and goes. Like people say, if I get this, I'll be happy. If I get this lifestyle, I'll be happy.

It's a freaking emotion. It comes and goes just like anger, frustration, being down on yourself, all that stuff. And I don't know, I just want to throw that in there too because, you know,

you're not going to be depressed, you're not going to be down on your, yourself forever for the rest of your life and you're also not going to be happy and comfortable the rest of your life either so being able to just say screw the emotions i got to execute my plan because they come and go different ways all the time you'll be good if you can do that what will end up happening is you'll find joy you'll find happiness in knowing that situations you can depart your emotions and you can just execute right the more it's it's all it's like a it's like a it's like a It is. It trains you and it hones you because I feel like the more that you are able to deal with both highs and lows and things that go wrong and not let them steal your joy because you are able to, you're able to disconnect from that and say, well, okay, you know, this is something we have to take care of.

and there's no use moping around about it, and it's just got to be done. The more you can do that, the happier you'll be. So it's like one feeds the other. So, and then the other thing is you screwed up. You didn't, you didn't read your 10 pages. You didn't, you had that Snickers bar or that almond joy. Whatever it is.

You didn't go to the gym. You didn't get up at five. You hit the stews button. Well, that's fine. but that was yesterday. And there's no use in beating yourself up about yesterday. If you can get up today, if you can walk past the snack counter today,

if you can get up today, that's what you need to strive for. And if you can put together a string of today's, if you can do tomorrow what you did today, or if you didn't do what you wanted to do today, if you can make tomorrow better, that's what you got to strive for. And forget,

we all spend too much time thinking about yesterday and beating ourselves up over what we have done or what we have not done and not nearly enough time thinking about what we will do or what we won't do yeah right well depending on what the i mean and it's it's that's just a switch and you know what it's not well it takes pressure it takes your energy away it if you just think about yesterday or what happened a few hours ago or I didn't do this because it was a part of my morning routine and I didn't get it done so I'm a failure. It's just it just takes away from you emotionally and mentally and it just makes you feel like crap and it just it just affects you in a negative way. So try your best to and we're all guilty of it. I'm guilty of it too.

But if you can try your best to just and I here's here's a thing where I struggle. I'm kind of like my mom and the fact that I'm an all in all or nothing person. So if I have a morning routine written out, written out and I'm going to do these things and I don't, I don't do all those things, I kind of feel crappy about it. And I'm like, well, I might as well just not do it. If I can't do all of them, I just don't want to do any of them. And that's, that's something I got to, I've been trying to really work on because guess what? At the end of the day, if I were to do three things on the morning routine versus the five, those three are better than zero. And if you say, okay, well, tomorrow I'm going to do four or tomorrow I'm going to do five and get all five of them in your morning

routine, whatever, that's still better than yesterday was. So just if you have more days where you execute the five or whatever, then not, that's a good year. You know, you can't, we're so, we're so want to be, I'm so want to be perfect all the time because, but that's not reality. That's not life. Right. You can try and you can be, you can try to be the hardest mofo on the planet, but it's, it's, you got to be kind of, you got to have, you got to be in reality a little bit. Well, no, you realize that you can totally want that. Right. But when you don't achieve it, you can't beat yourself up about it. You can try to be that the next day. Don't be afraid to spend, you got to spend some time as far as when you know that you screwed up, you got to understand why you screwed up. You got to look at it and say, okay, well, why, why did it? that? Why'd that happen? You know, what can I do? What can I do to make it either easier for me to succeed or what can I do to put myself in a position that I'm less likely to fail? And we were talking before we got on here. Yeah, Sawyer is 100% like his mom because Trisha is, she is black and white

and she is, if she decides that she's going to do something and she misses one thing, then, oh, done, done. It's all or nothing. But I am not nearly enough that way in the fact that if I start something, and I was half joking, you know, talking about not starting any of my stuff until a second week of January. But, you know, if I miss it, I am a big rap. I rationalize everything. I can rationalize anything.

It's the used car salesman in me. And I can be like, well, it's all right. You know, it'll be, I'll start tomorrow. Only tomorrow ends up being four days from now. So it's, there again, it's all about balance because you can be really, really rigid. Or you can be so laxadaisical. Now, that's a good word. That's a $5 word.

Yeah, put it in the jar. I should put that, save that for my Scrabble game. I don't know if you can get that many tiles or not. But anyway, so it's all about balance and none of us are perfect. No. So we all have our... Just try your best to do what's in front of you and focus on today. If you messed up, you're today that you're in now, forget what you messed up.

You know, execute what you got left for the day and think about tomorrow and try to do tomorrow better. That's all you can do. look back, you can't go back. So just go forward because that's all you can do. And it'll help you in the long run because small wins add up. And don't let others shape your view of your progress. Yeah, this is probably the hardest. This is probably one of the hardest things. Don't let, don't let other people shape your your progress, shape your view of your progress. Because social media, I'll just say social media is hard. You don't feel good. If you scroll for too long on there sometimes and you've come across somebody that you want their lifestyle or

you want their like a perfect example shout out to larson farms they have an amazing operation amazing youtube channel they're big grain farmers an amazing operation i love their videos they do a great job and they have great farming equipment and they have the acres to have have have the need of that farming equipment and everybody that watches that is a farm kid at heart that loves it and eats it up. I do. I love it. But at the same time, I'm like, God, I want that. How do I get that? I want that for our operation, you know. And it kind of, it can kind of put you, for some reason, sometimes I can watch that stuff and it can kind of put me in a bad, in a negative mindset like, what am I not? Why don't we have that? Why don't I have that yet?

Why am I not? Damn it, dad. What have you been doing? Yeah, but that's just one example of, you know, It's supposed to be entertaining, but sometimes you can flip that on a dime and internalize it and make it a negative. And then I rationalize it and I just say, well, if I had a tractor that big, I'd have to widen all the driveways. I couldn't even get into the field because I still got my fences in. It's better. I just don't have any of that stuff. That's where being rationalizing yourself is good. Well, a little bit. Yeah, and I mean, that's with everything.

That's with people making a certain amount of money, people flex on. on social media and all social media is well i'd say it's turning a little bit now that we're heading getting longer in social media agent in social media people are becoming way more authentic and showing you the real and not showing you the highlight reel but most of the time if you're a personal profile or something it's a highlight reel you're showing your highlights you're showing your engagement pictures you're showing your great house that you bought your great car that you bought you know whatever and you can look at people. Short form social media will always be in your boom, boom, boom, boom, dopamine hit.

And it can make you feel like crap. Yeah. But, I mean, it also is, if your New Year's resolution was to eat clean and lose weight, I will guarantee you that by this weekend, you'll have at least one friend or family member that will just call you out of the blue and want you to go to Mexican. Mexican restaurant. And when you say no, what are they going to say?

Come on. You're not on a diet, are you? Oh, come on. Just eat the salsa. Just eat the salsa. That's healthy. You know, who cares you ate the entire bag of chips to have said salsa. But it's like when people talk about establishing a rainy day fund and then the first week that you save money, the water heater breaks.

It's the same way when you try to better yourself. It's unbelievable how quickly, whatever the thing is. that you're trying to do, someone will come into your life to stick their thumb in it and give you that. Well, and the sad part is most people don't want, most people don't want you to be better than they are. Oh, 100%.

They don't. They don't want you. And that doesn't mean, that can mean in any way of your life, fitness, your health. People don't like you to be skinnier and trimmer than they are. People don't like you to be more successful or more have more money people don't want that you know and that's it's sad and it's hard to find

people that aren't that way but that you know you can but most for the most part people internalize it and they start thinking about them well it's like you've said before because you're gonna okay let's say you let's say you do go to mexican and you said i'm not eating the chips i'll just come here and talk with you right right let's say if you did do that what if you're somebody that did do that if you did that, it would make them feel like shit because they're sitting across from you and you're not eating anything while they're eating all this stuff and then they're going to start thinking about themselves. That's the truth. You'd never do that to me. No, I wouldn't. I'm not skipping out on Mexican. I love Mexican. But I'm just saying, I'm just saying you went that example.

That's something that I'm, that's just how it is though. Yeah, that's right. Unfortunately, that's how most people are. So, uh, yeah, I, uh, I, the best thing you could ever do is not value other people's opinions. Don't let other people's opinions get you down and get you off your plan. Unless it involves personal hygiene. If someone offers you a stick of gum, you should always take it. Or a stick of deodorant. True.

If someone offers you a stick of deodorant, you better just take it. I've never had that happen, but there's times where you want to give that person a stick of deodorant. That's true. But yeah, anyway, yeah, just. That was one thing that I, that was one of the first things I think I really let go. I mean, it's definitely starting this. We have to. Especially starting something like this with social media.

People will judge. People will. I mean, you go look at our TikTok and we get negative comments just as much as we get positive comments. And the people here in our, in our little town, they probably think we're freaking nuts that we're doing this kind of stuff. But we've let that go. We don't let that affect us because we got a plan and we're going to execute it. So it's kind of fun.

It's kind of fun because I love, I love, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I totally want to get to the point that when someone asked me what I do, so today, if somebody says, so what do you do, my go-to answer is that I'm just a poor dirt farmer, uh, north of town, because most people know, people who casually know me know where I've worked, and there's still a lot of people that just assume, you know, because people assume that when you work somewhere, you're going to work, somewhere if it's a good company you're just going to work there till you die like you know and so you'll randomly run into people and say oh are you still working so and so and i'll say no no i'm i just i farm with my son north of town and they're just you know they're like really you know they're dumbfounded but i want to get to the point where and i usually don't bring up anything to do with the social media because hey i don't want to see their head flip clear around but i do want to get to the point where when i they go you know what are you doing now Oh, I'm a podcaster.

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This is important for anybody that's starting anything. And that is you may have started this year, and you might have had a goal in mind that you wanted to save some money, you wanted to learn something, you wanted to lose weight. It doesn't matter what it is. But I feel like few people spend the time

when they make a goal like that, they don't start with the end in mind. And by that I mean, if your goal was to, let's just say your goal is to lose weight, because that's an easy one that everybody needs to, me included, sit down and think, really think, about what that's going to feel like

when you're 30 pounds lighter or whatever, what that's going to feel like, what that's going to look like. What you have to do to get that. Well, and like all, you know, you're going to have to get rid all your clothes and you're going to have to get rid of the snacks out of the snack drawer and you're going to have to do,

don't just say, I'm going to do this, and I'm determined, and spend the time to think about what that means, and I'll challenge you to this, write it down, write it down, write down what that means to me, what that looks like, you know, what X number of months from now or this time next year, we're going to be, we're going to have a celebration because I'm going to be this. And people are reluctant to do that because it's much easier to say that goal today. Well, they don't really mean it. Right.

They don't. They don't really mean it. Well, that's kind of harsh. Well, that's true. You say that, but you don't really mean it, because if you really mean it, you do that kind of stuff. So that's the thing. When you write it down,

it's on paper. It's on paper. And it's a much more physical representation than when you just say it to yourself, or when you tell your significant other that, hey, this is what I'm going to do. I reverse engineer is what, that's what a term they throw out there when they think about that. Find what your end all be all is. and whatever area you're trying to improve in, and then just reverse engineer from there

and figure out how you're going to do it, what you're going to do it, why you're going to do it, all that stuff. And then if you do that, you'll have all the steps laid out or all the things you've got to do to get to your goal. Always start with the end,

because once you know the end, you can kind of work backwards a little bit. Yep. You know, and figure out how you get there. And, you know, that's the best way. That's really how I've done most of my goals. I mean, you kind of do that. by nature anyway, you think of your goal,

but I don't think very many people think backwards in steps of how to do it. That's just kind of our thoughts on, you know, we thought about what is going to keep us on track this year to achieve our goals, and that's kind of why we shared with you what we're thinking today. And I'll just tell you, we're about done here, and we're going to go, tonight we're going to go, because we're working on one of the goals that I had for this year, um my wife told me that if anything happens to me that she wants she does not want to be responsible

for any of it because she feels like uh trying to manage the hog buildings the farm uh the trust the social media all the stuff that we're in that she doesn't that's just she if anything happens to me she just wants she wants my son to take over everything. And you think about, it doesn't matter what age you are, you don't feel like you're that old. So I'm 50 years old,

and I sure don't feel 50. I might look 60, I might look 40, I don't know. But, so one of my goals for this year is to actually have a real succession plan, a real estate plan, so that, when I'm dead and gone, because I will be dead and gone. It's just a matter of whether or not Sawyer hits me with a shovel,

or I die in my sleep, or I fall out of the Jeep, you know, whatever. And, you know, you can be upset about that, or you can be depressed about that. But, you know, I've... Happened into all of this. I've chosen that I'm going to make this year, the year that we get the ball run. and get things squared away so that we know what's going to happen and everybody knows

what's what and everybody's on the same page. And I feel like that's going to just eliminate a lot of stress. I mean, I really wasn't that stress about it until I started thinking about it and then I kind of got stressed. And I was like, well, geez, maybe I better. Talk about starting with the end in mind. I mean, that's the ultimate end. That's the ultimate end right there. So that's kind of the tie-in for the so we're going to a we're going to a meeting tonight that the iowa farm bureau puts on and it and it's basically i'm sure they're trying to sell you insurance is what they're trying to do but they're talking about trust versus wills and and you know trust kind of went away uh people started doing lcc's and doing corpse and um i feel like trusts are kind of starting to

come back because people have figured out some problems with structuring your farming operation through a corp and what that all looks like. And I sure don't know what is going to be the right way for us to do what we're doing. But anyway, we're going to go listen to these guys tonight. And I'm starting a journey to figure out what we need to do. And, you know, the plan is if you do croak dad, we're going to just have to, we're going to have to interview some potential hosts. So we'll have to figure that plan out too.

to figure out some hosts so maybe one of you guys well so yeah co-hosts there so tie and i'm just going to put the pressure on him right now so i'm going to send him this clip so my first vote is jerome vitito so i'm trying to get jerome to uh be on the podcast and you know i think that we could probably tee him up and then we could just go get a beer and come back and he wouldn't even know that you guys would love it and you guys would love every minute of it we're trying to get him on he'll he's probably going to potentially be our next guess. So we're hoping that we can get that going. Unless he's, unless he's

hog hunting, duck hunting, Lord only knows what he's doing. Trucking, buying some tractor somewhere, who knows. Anyway, stay determined. Stay on your plan. Don't let people get you down. Get some perspective. Don't let your emotions get the best of you.

And think about your heritage a little bit and let that motivate you to get some more perspective too. So stay warm. Stay warm. spring's coming but not for not for a while yeah so munker down and just get get through it and brace the suck so we'll see you guys back here next friday and pay the fee if you guys got any value from this i forgot to say that in the beginning of this pay the fee share it out with your friends family co-workers you know the drill guys if you've been listening and uh we'll

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