Last night I went and helped my sister-in-law start building her website for her Equine Therapy business. Just talking and expressing ideas and the end goals is so exciting. I keep pushing her and supporting her, making sure she stays encouraged to move forward and enjoy the experience. The appreciation for her schooling is not easy to get, many people do not know what to think of it or expect amazing differences in their horses. She has a long road ahead of her but I strongly am encouraging her to continue the push and stressing how important marketing and advertising your self is, which we both concluded is the hardest thing about the job. It’s easy if the cliental just shows up at the door step but it’s the in between things of getting those people at your door that is a hard part. For some reason, I have no problem selling her and her business. The horse industry is so big and versatile that as long as she puts herself out there and slowly grows, in 5 years she will be making a great living doing something she loves.
My husband and I are chasing our dream. The dream to build a ranch and own a cow/calf operation. I have attended many conferences and clinics to learn as much as I can and get a good understand of what we will be getting ourselves into. I think once we get going I can depend on the operation to support our family as if I was going to work every day making money to pay the bills, but instead I enjoy being a stay at home mom and spending time with my kids and making supper every night for my family. What a scary thought. Many days I think, is this even possible? How do ranchers make this work? A learning curve in life, the acceptance of debt but the joy of living our dream. Last night I asked my husband, can we even afford to have a kid in the next 5 years if we plan on buying everything to get us started in the cattle business, and of course his answer was of course. The cows will make us lots of money.... this is why women deal with the books and bills... men just hope for the best. I do believe him but know we will never “get rich”. He said, “Don’t you want to do what you love and have a great big ranch?” I said, “of course, people don’t realize it’s as much my dream as it is yours, but if we went to work Monday-Friday we’d be able to have new trucks, trailers, a new house and things that we can see a end day of debt, having cattle is a 24/7/365 a year job. Much more than a full time job with alot less pay”... and reality is money makes the world go round. But I know we will be taking the leap into uncertainly and a cattle roller coaster, but we are chasing our dreams.
A goal to be successful and do something to love to get out of bed to do every day and create a life for our children to grow up with an appreciation for the ranch life and the people that put food on peoples tables around the world, and that is more then I can ask for.
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