Taking on too much? How prioritizing your time helps ease the burden

Prioritizing what you have time for and letting somebody else do the rest can go a long way to improving your business and personal life.

“You don’t need to be everything, and you don’t need to do everything,” Aimée Ferré Stang says in a recent FCC podcast. “There are only 24 hours in a day. What can you do in that 24 hours that’s going to be enough and that’s going to have a contribution to the farm?”

Living on a Saskatchewan farm near the Alberta border with her husband and kids, Ferré Stang also works at FCC as a social media consultant.

She learned to find the right mix of what makes sense for not only her family, but also her personal growth and objectives as well.

For example, while women often make meals for crews during busy times on the farm, Ferré Stang points out there’s nothing wrong with hiring someone to help ease the workload. Just as an accountant may be brought in to advise on farm finances, someone to help with food preparation and nutrition is just as important.

Ferré Stang says young farm families like hers typically continue to take on too much, as is the nature of many entrepreneurs. But learning to delegate to experts is an important skill, to help ease stress at home and with the farm operation. That’s especially true when a partner chooses to work off the farm, not for the income, but for the outlet it provides.