The Casual Cattle Conversations Podcast: How to Reduce Overwhelm on the Ranch

How to Reduce Overwhelm on the Ranch

Overwhelm and ranching go hand in hand, right? Actually, they don’t have to. There are simple strategies to implement that can make all the difference in not only how ranchers feel but what their bottom line looks like too.

Jasper Oeltjen is a rancher in southwest Minnesota who is an educator by trade. Her experiences in ranching, education and the IT space led her to start Heritage and Horizons – a business that specializes in teaching ranchers to manage intentionally instead of in reaction mode.

“We hit a place where we finally grew to where we wanted to be. Then we kept hustling and kept hustling, but our operation wasn't going anywhere and we plateaued,” says Oeltjen.

This is when she decided enough was enough and applied the same strategies she used in previous careers to move their own operation forward.

“Five years ago, we started reassessing our strategy and I started pulling elements from previous strategy conversations with businesses,” says Jasper. “These elements helped us form what our goals were, how we wanted to move our operation forward and to pull ourselves out of reacting constantly.”

Managing in a state of reaction versus intention makes all the difference in reducing overwhelm....



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