Short spoken segment from a 2017 YouTube video (Mingenew Farm Business Update) where Speaker A stresses that plans must be nimble and flexible. The speaker draws parallels between farming and athletics: expect challenges, be resilient when things go wrong, adapt plans in real time, and continually find new ways to achieve goals.
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I think whatever happens there are going to be challenges that come along. So you've got to expect that things will go wrong. You've got to be willing to change and I think it's important that and farmers perhaps understand this as well as anybody. Certainly athletes have to learn it. You've got to be resilient when things go wrong. Pick yourself up, find another way to do it, rediscover how to do it, change what you're doing and adjust that plan. I think one of the things we talk about a lot is how you lay down plans for what you're going to do and it's, it's crucial that you have a plan and the process of planning is important but there has to be an understanding that the plan has to be nimble. You have to be flexible just like athletes on the field have to make decisions and judgments and sort things out in real time. When you're on the land you have the same sort of issues.