Good morning!! I was
up early this morning and was thinking about the past week. As others find out that we are moving to the
location we will call home the first question everyone wants to know is what about
the barn? You see most know with our
excavation business the equipment we have and maintain takes up a good amount
of garage space on another location. So
most assume that our goal is to turn the main barn into a large shop. No way!!
My husband and I have always shared a common thread of thinking and the entrepreneur
in each of us says explore a new business.
So of course we knew and can envision a working farm with boarding
horses have a horse for myself and the kids as well. A place that has summer camp days and others
will be able to come and ride as well. A
place where private riding lessons are given and show winning horses are
trained. A place we call home but others
will call it home as well. A place when
the kids say I want to have chickens we jump in the truck and make it
happen. So no way will the indoor
ridding arena be turned into our excavation shop. This will be a working farm and we will be opening
up an LLC called Windfall Farms!! Yep
the name is available that was one of the first things I looked into.
As I reflect a bit on life this morning a few things about
the past that even makes myself question how we got here. I really struggled in school I mean for real
learning never came easy I was that student that had a hard time sitting in a traditional
class room and hated learning from a book or someone preaching the material
from the front of the room. There were
two classes that held my attention Math and woodshop. I took the information I found was lifelong
useful and applied it. I know my parents
prayed a lot that I would just graduate and I did however school to me was a
waste of time but that’s what you do growing up. Sorry I said that but it’s true in high
school while others were planning out what party to head to for the weekend I
was planning on what extra shifts to pick up on the weekend as a waitress. In the back of my mind and what I want to encourage
each of you to do is work off of what your strengths are. Mine strengths were not academic but I always
had this really strong work ethic and thought do a little bit more then the
next guy is willing to do. You can have
all the brains in the world and be lazy and never do much with it. Take time each day to reflect on what makes
you get out of bed in the morning and is something that self-motivates you for
me its working. Everyone will be driven
and created in a different way but God doesn’t make mistakes and everyone has a
purpose. It’s taking the time to find it
and then use it.
Last night while recapping the day I also thought about how
cool it was to see my sister and her kids show up as a surprise visit to help
clean out the barn. I little bit about
our family two years ago I was having a hard time losing the baby weight and
found a system that worked amazing and of course sharing it with those closes
to me was important. My sister Jeanette
had this amazing transformation and after a local job with giving riding lesson
and working with horses changed 15 months ago I suggest like 6 times she turn
her story into a business and become a beachbody coach. Here is the really cool thing about what we
do as coaches is yes we help others reach their fitness goals but at the same
time able to create more freedom with time.
If Jeanette was still working a traditional job jumping in the car and
driving 2.5 hours would not be in the cards. There will be opportunities every
day that can change the current situation and become life changing.
Whatever your dreams and goals might be in life know that persistent,
hard work, and taking risk every day will eventually turn into something. Timing is everything as well at any point in
the past four years of working towards this big push goal I would have liked to
call this farm home but it wasn’t in God’s time as hard as it can be to hear it’s
true. I can see how each piece was being
put together to come together. We grew
up on a small farm with 40 acres and it was known by everyone that you can stop
in and visit. This place we will call home as well will be a place others can
stop in and enjoy as well. Stay tuned to
meet our first furry family member over the next few months.
Our little peanut
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