On our AGRONOMY ANSWERS PODCAST, about once a month I get the opportunity to sit down with my dad, Brian, to discuss lessons from his book:

The first time doing this was on episode 7, and it was about the lesson that is also the title of the book. It’s the backbone of every single chapter, and what it always comes back to is time management.

My grandpa passed this lesson to my dad, and he told me the same thing, too: “If you want to be successful in business, you’ve got to find the $100-an-hour jobs. Do those jobs yourself and pay someone else to do the $5-an-hour jobs.” As I got older, I realized I had to do these $5-an-hour jobs when I was growing up – mowing, trimming, or other simple stuff around the farm. They were easy tasks but were very time-consuming and not something that I should prioritize if I could be planting, spraying, or harvesting because those jobs pay you back a lot more. Therefore, it would be better to hire somebody for those other jobs like painting the barn or fixing the fence, etc.

My dad just says, “Every single day you have lots of options of things you could be doing. Now that you are older, you get to decide what YOU want to do. Whenever you come to a decision, just always think about if that’s the best use of your time today.”

These are just a few of the points we discuss in episode 7 of the Agronomy Answers Podcast.

Check it out on YouTube, AcresTV, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify – and here’s one last point I will leave you with that. My dad told me. “One of the biggest problems most people have is they think there is a shortcut to getting rich. There’s not!”

“Get to work!”