No I didn’t choose to have multiple crop disasters in a row to start my farming career and I didn’t choose for my husband’s business to continue to grow while we added kids to our family.
I don’t choose to have early frosts, down markets, or droughts.
But I do choose to keep my focus on opportunity.
Which doesn’t mean it’s not hard for me. It is. But keeping my mind focused on the opportunity means I don’t live my days in the trenches of hard.
When I’m trying to focus on combining thick oats swats that are wet, laid in piles waiting to plug the combine and my kids decide they need to disagree about whose turn it is to open the fridge for the snacks next — ya that’s hard. Hard to keep my focus, hard to keep my composure, hard to keep my patience.
So we work through it and move on.
Then I think and plan on what’s great, what’s an opportunity, and what can I improve.
No dwelling on how hard my life is — mainly because I chose to make it this hard. And I continue to keep it hard because iron sharpens iron. 😉
This is a throwback video from last fall when I wasn’t showing you all my giant baby bump. Pregnancy is hard for me. Having a newborn along has actually been easier than pregnancy and easier than an almost mobile baby.
Mindset really is everything — here’s to choosing our hard ❤️