Do we ever understand the magnitude of how we react to things? Do we ever realize that we and we alone choose how we are going to react to something? We choose whether we want our emotions to react negatively or positively. Now, granted, some events and words force an “uncontrollable” emotional response, but by and large, our emotional response, if practiced enough, can be a controlled response.

Imagine your wheat, soybeans, or corn producing a better than expected yield. Imagine getting the “RIGHT” rain and the “RIGHT” time. Imagine your tractor or combine breaking down? Imagine the commodity pricing going down with no seemingly no rhyme or reason. It is easy to be negative when the actions, events, or words are bad. It is easy to be positive when actions, events or words are good.

Do a little study on yourself – keep track of how you react to events, actions or words through a course of day or over a week. Really pay attention to how you reacted over the course of the day or week. You will be surprised on how often each one of us reacts negatively. You will notice how easy it is to react negatively. How we create drama for ourselves or others that is completely unnecessary.

As you are looking at your emotional reactions study, take a couple of those moments of events or words that produced a negative emotional response, play out hypothetically with some good assumptions, of how the next set of words or actions would occur if your emotional response was positive. Imagine your “little farmer” is watching you, and then react.

Imagine when the wheat, corn, soybeans, sugar beets priced dropped for seemingly no rhyme or reason, rather than reacting negatively, you could say – “ sure prices went down today, but lucky me, I did not sell today” or “sure prices went down, but I have still have a crop to sell” Can you see the difference? Maybe next time, a breakdown occurs, or fertilizer did not work perfectly, a possible response could be, “at least I have my own tractor / combine to fix” or “at least I have wheat, corn, sugar beet, soybean crop that needed fertilizer”.

As tough as it maybe, next time something negative happens, STOP! count to 10 , then try to react positively. Be different than most, try and set an example for others. You may find out over time, how reacting positively becomes a habit. Let us all try and be different!

-Don

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