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65: Why the Future of Ag Depends on You Showing Up · CattleUSA Daily

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  Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
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  the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the update
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  shaping agriculture today. I'm your host, Lauren Moylan, a
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  passionate advocate for agriculture, here to keep you
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  informed and connected. Now let's dive into today's
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  episode morning and welcome to another episode of the Cattle
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  USA Daily podcast. Today we are taking a little bit
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  of a solo episode turn and we are going to be talking about a
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  really important topic here in AG.
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  And that is the power of showing up in the aspect of being
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  present, not only in associations and different
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  organizations, but showing up for your family and people
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  around you, and then also showing up for yourself What
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  that looks like, how we can continue to grow and be better,
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  and how showing up is going to continue to motivate the
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  industry to be better and to grow and to continue to evolve
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  into something really amazing. So first and foremost, showing
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  up when it's not easy. Showing up is not always easy.
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  And you know what, I think the biggest aspect of showing up is
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  that that time where you are showing up when it isn't easy.
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  Because if everything's going great in life, then it's easy to
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  show up, right? It's easy to be there.
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  It's easy to be present. But when everything in life is
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  going terribly, let's say you just don't want to get out of
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  bed this morning, the cattle and everything else is going wrong.
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  Like cabin season has gone to shit.
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  Showing up when the market is down, when the weather is crap,
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  like whatever that is for you, it's hard to show up and life is
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  beating you down, right? Whether that be for different
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  organizations, whether it's showing up for yourself, whether
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  it's showing up for your family, it's it's hard to show up when
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  life is beating you down. But I want to encourage you on
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  this aspect. Consistency beats talent when
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  talent doesn't show up. Remember that the consistency
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  beats talent when talent doesn't show up.
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  So what are you doing right now to get that discipline going,
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  right? When life is going good is the
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  time to get that discipline going and get these habits
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  installed, right? So showing up for yourself and
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  showing up for your family, those are two places that you
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  have non negotiable habits that you need to have in place,
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  right? And so the best time to put
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  those in place is when life is going great, right?
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  Because that is the time that you have the mental capacity to
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  start involving something new. So what are you doing right now
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  to get that discipline in place? That way when life is kind of
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  going to shit, that discipline is already there.
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  So that way your mind knows that like hey, showing up for myself
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  and showing up for my family is a non negotiable today, so I'm
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  going to be showing up, right? So even if everything else is
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  going to crap, you have got that consistency and that discipline
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  in place where your mind just automatically goes there.
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  It doesn't take any extra brain power.
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  You've just got it going, right? And so showing up when it's not
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  easy is one of the most important aspects of this.
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  But it is important to remember that in order to show up when
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  it's not easy, you have to show up when it is easy.
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  That way you have that consistency built, you have that
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  discipline built, You have those habits installed in your life.
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  That way when life inevitably kind of hits the fan, you've got
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  everything going for you. And as far as the habits go,
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  right, OK #2 showing up within the industry, before we get into
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  showing up for yourself, showing up for your family, I feel like
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  it's really important that we discuss this aspect.
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  And I'd be reminisce if I didn't discuss it because we talk about
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  it all the time of being involved in agriculture, what
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  that looks like, how we can continue to grow as an industry.
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  And the fact that in order to do that, you kind of have to get
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  out of your little bubble, right?
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  You have to get out of your little teeny, tiny, small town,
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  little community bubble and grow into something more, whether
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  that is being involved in that community, being involved in
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  local board associations, being involved in state events,
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  community events, whatever that be.
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  You have to get out of your ranch bubble and you have to
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  start being involved in different aspects of the
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  industry. I want to encourage you that if
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  you want change within the industry, all of us, it's really
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  easy for us to sit there and be like this needs done.
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  That needs done. All of these things need to
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  change. But then we just sit there and
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  we say cheers with our morning coffee.
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  We complain about it and then we don't do anything about it,
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  right? Because that's easy, That's
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  comfortable to sit there and say we need change, we need reform,
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  feel like, and Bob needs to do it right.
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  Because it's just natural for us to not want to have to be the
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  person that is the charge leader going at it, going crazy, all of
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  the things like that. And if that is natural for you,
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  I love that. But for most people it's not OK.
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  But you cannot influence a room if you are not in the room, OK?
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  That means that if you are not there at these community events,
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  at these state events, involved in different political things,
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  you're not going to be able to influence anything.
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  If you're not there, nothing is being influenced by you and
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  therefore change is not happening.
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  Your voice is not being heard. So showing up isn't just about
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  being the loudest person in the room.
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  It is about showing up as the one who keeps showing up every
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  single year, year after year, even when it's hard.
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  And you're showing up with purpose and you're showing up
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  with integrity. Being in the room does not mean
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  that your voice is heard, OK? You also have to combine being
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  in the room with that integrity, with that purpose, with the
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  willingness to listen to other people.
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  Because nine times out of 10, I talk to people and they're
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  talking about how frustrated they are with a certain
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  situation, a certain thing that's going on.
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  And they say, I'm getting involved, I'm going this, I'm
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  going to that. I'm doing all of these things.
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  And I'm like, OK, that's awesome.
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  Have you taken a chance to sit down with someone from the other
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  side and have a really great conversation?
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  Because if you want change to actually happen, you need to
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  know what the other side is thinking, what the opposition's
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  mind is on and if you are being involved.
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  I'm getting a little bit off here, but be involved in these
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  community events, get involved in the industry, stand up, show
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  up for the industry. Because it is so important that
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  we do right. It is important that we show up
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  for ourselves and it is important that we show up for
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  our families and those around us.
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  But it is also important that we show up for the industry and
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  that we continue to involve ourselves.
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  Because if we want AG to stay in good hands, we need to be
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  willing to take a seat at the table at the end of the day,
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  point blank period. If we want AG to be in good
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  hands, you've got to take a seat at the table.
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  Because if your butt is not in a chair at that table, then your
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  voice is not being heard, point blank period.
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  That's the end of that. I don't have any more to say
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  about showing up for the for yourself in the industry.
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  You have got shove for the industry.
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  If we want change, if we want to continue to evolve and you've
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  got to show up when things are good.
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  That way, when things are going bad, you are still showing up.
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  OK, showing up for your people, showing up for the people in
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  your life, This is something that is so easy to put on the
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  back burner, right? It is so easy to be like, I had
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  a really hard day and not want to talk to your wife or husband
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  when you get home. It's really easy to just like
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  not to isolate yourself and to not put yourself forward when
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  things are hard, when things are difficult.
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  It is so, so important. And you know what?
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  Sometimes showing up just looks like showing up during counting
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  season. Maybe it's, excuse me, maybe
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  it's you are extending an olive branch to a neighbor and just
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  saying, Hey, I am here, right? I am here for you.
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  I don't know what you're going through, but like I am here for
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  you, right? Because in AG so often we
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  isolate ourselves when things are going rough, when things are
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  going bad. I, I want to encourage you that
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  like showing up for yourself and showing up for your family are
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  the two most important things of this episode.
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  Showing up for your industry, yes, I got off on like a little
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  tangent there and I could speak very passionately about that for
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  a really long time. I probably should have just done
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  a single episode over that because I could go off on
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  showing up for the industry, but you can't show up for the
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  industry if you're not showing up for yourself and showing up
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  for your family and those around you.
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  So when it comes to showing up for those around you, yes, you
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  need people to show up for you, but you also need to be that
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  person that's showing up for them because you can't.
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  It's a two way street, right? Like if you want your friends to
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  show up for you in the industry, you need to be extending that
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  olive branch. You need to be reaching out.
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  You need to be forming this community because showing up
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  doesn't always fix the problem at the end of the day, but it
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  does remind people that they are not alone.
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  And that is so important in an industry that can be so
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  isolating. And then also when things are
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  going bad, we can be very self isolating.
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  We put ourselves in those buckets that is comfortable and
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  isolation is comfortable. It's you don't have to deal with
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  other people. It's you don't have to process
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  other people's emotions or anything else that's going on.
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  And so it is a lot easier to do that, but you have got to show
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  up for other people and other people will show up for you.
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  I want to challenge you all that whether this is showing up for
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  your family, showing up for your neighbors, your employees, your
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  team, whatever that is, I want you today or this week to just
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  extend an olive branch to someone, show up for someone
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  else. Because if you're not showing up
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  for someone else, you can't expect other people to show up
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  for you. So extend that olive branch to a
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  neighbor, extend that olive branch to a family member, a
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  friend, anything like that, and start just having those
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  conversations and creating that community.
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  That way you've got your people and that way you can show up for
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  them because the community and AG is so important.
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  It is so important and we are blessed with such an amazing AG
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  community and we can't keep taking that for granted.
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  OK, finally showing up for yourself.
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  This one is often overlooked and extremely, extremely important.
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  So showing up for yourself is not just physically showing up
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  for yourself, but also mentally and emotionally.
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  So how are you doing in here? How is your head doing?
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  How are you feeling? And you know what, you might be
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  listening to me right now and be like goodbye, Lauren.
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  No, I'm I'm out girl, right? Rightfully so, understandably
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  so, because that that is some woo woo stuff and it's not
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  always fun to sit down and be like, how am I doing right?
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  It really isn't and I don't blame you.
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  I I do it often and it's still not fun right.
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  I'm checking in by myself all the time and I I don't really
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  enjoy it. It's super uncomfortable, but
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  you are part of an operation that is worth investing in.
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  You're a big part of that. And So what are you doing to
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  invest in yourself physically, mentally and emotionally?
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  How are you continuing to look at these three buckets and make
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  sure that they are full? And you know what, sometimes you
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  may have two buckets that are overflowing and one that hasn't
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  seen a drop of rain in a hot minute and that's okay.
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  I want to encourage you like that's life.
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  They're not all three going to be overflowing all the time.
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  And you know what, if you've got all three overflowing right now,
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  that too raw. I'm so happy for you.
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  That is amazing. I hope that it stays that way.
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  But if you're listening to this and you're like, I think two of
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  them are maybe half full, that's OK too.
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  How can you start investing in yourself?
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  Look at those 3 buckets, see what your levels are AT and what
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  can you do to start pouring back into you because you are
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  arguably so on a lot of operations, the owner, the
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  operator, the rancher, the person that is behind the scenes
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  is the most vital asset of that operation.
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  Now I've done a lot of work on this podcast to hopefully make
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  it not fully the case that like if something happens to you then
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  the operation just goes to shit. But at the end of the day, I
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  know that a lot of our operations are still that way.
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  If something happened to my dad today, God forbid, it wouldn't
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  go to shit, but it would be a little rough for a while, right?
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  So I'm just saying that to remind you that you are the most
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  important asset in your operation and you've got to take
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  care of yourself. You got to take care of yourself
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  physically, you got to take care of yourself mentally, and you
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  got to take care of yourself emotionally.
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  So whether that is maybe for you physically, you just need to
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  commit to every single morning with your morning coffee.
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  You're going to go on a little walk like you're just going to,
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  you're going to take a little, you're going to get your walking
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  shoes on, you're going to go outside.
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  The weather is gorgeous right now in Kansas.
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  So you have no excuse on the weather and just go outside and
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  take a walk. Or maybe for you, it's when
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  you're checking cows instead of driving through them, you're
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  going to park the truck once you get to the pasture and you're
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  going to go walk through them. Just change it up a little bit.
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  Change it up so that you can start pouring into yourself
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  physically. Maybe it is for yourself
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  mentally. You are enrolling in a business
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  course. Maybe it is you are enrolling in
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  therapy. Maybe I don't know what it is
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  for you. But whatever that is, I
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  encourage you to take a step forward.
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  Find a way that you can start pouring back into yourself
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  because burnt out ranchers don't build sustainable operations
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  point blank period. At the end of the day, if you
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  are burnt out, you're not being really, really great in your
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  business in any way shape or form.
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  So burnt out Rangers don't build sustainable operations.
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  So how are you pouring into yourself?
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  Evaluate your 3 buckets and go from there.
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  Now, as we close out today, I want to encourage you that you
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  do not have to move mountains today.
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  I just want you to start showing up.
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  The rest is going to build up from there.
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  Showing up is the first step. I always say just take one step,
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  right? That is one of my things.
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  I have a whole speech that I give to college kids about it of
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  just take the first step. And with this, I really, really
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  want to encourage you that just showing up is that first step.
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  Like just walk into the room, sit down with yourself, sit down
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  with your family, just show up because it is so important that
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  you show up and that you are be be there and that you are
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  present. So where in your life have you
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  been hiding? Where do you need to show up
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  again, even if it's quiet and even if it's small.
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  Thank you guys so much for another amazing podcast and for
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  listening to me, Ray, out a little bit today and just talk
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  about the power of showing up and what that means for me as an
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  agriculturalist and what that can mean for you and an impact
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  that it can have to your operation.
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  So as always, please like subscribe, rate, review, all of
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  the things. I hope that you guys have an
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  amazing Tuesday. That's when this is coming out.
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  And you know what? If you're not, do this on
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  Tuesday. I hope that you have an amazing
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  day and we will see you all tomorrow on another episode of
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  the Cattle USA Daily podcast. Have a great one y'all.