hey everyone you're here with Mark Boutwell at perfectgardens.com so today we're going to talk
about one aspect of the mindset of a master grower i go back to the movie the karate kid
right where the sensei for maybe 20 30 of the movie all they're doing is
wax on wax off and at a certain part of the movie the kid gets so frustrated with his training
that he comes up to the master and says what the heck's going on you know i i didn't come here to
wash your windows i came here to learn karate and the sensei says you have been learning karate and
the kid says no i haven't all i've been doing is washing your floors and washing your windows
what do you mean i've been learning karate and the sensei says put down your bucket and then he
puts down his bucket he puts the hands up and he says okay when i punch wash on or wash off
and the kid says okay and the sensei goes to punch and what do you know he defends the punch so often
the person that has the knowledge ends up being put in a position as the guy where everyone goes
to him and he continues to keep putting himself in a position where he doesn't teach other people
but he it needs to be the guy where in many levels there is a psychological ego that needs to shift
for the master grower and also for the people that don't know a lot they need to shift their mindset
on wanting to take more responsibility and comprehend the understanding of why
certain things are happening within the grow room even if your employees are just your kids it's
absolutely essential if you're the head guy and you kind of have a vision of what to do
to plan out what you want to do the day before so that you have a plan of attack than that following
day when you start to pull the cumulative energy into the room so that everyone begins
to work together make sure to have a plan of attack for the kids for anyone that walks in
even a new stranger that walks in and productions going there's so often someone stops at the house
just to say hello to be friendly while everyone's getting to work and that one person that comes by
just up interrupting the work pattern everyone else don't be afraid to say hey how you doing
come on out let me show you what we're doing so you can help so often we are concerned and afraid
of what other people might feel and what other people might think when at the end they you just
gotta get put something in their hands and ask them just can start helping and they will but the
key to that so it is organized structured guided energy versus chaotic energy is that you have a
plan of attack where you get something going then you quickly teach one person how to do it and then
you instruct them to teach the next couple people how to do it then you move on to the next task you
start working on it you work out an efficient way to get it done then you come back you get
your net person that's second in charge you teach them the new thing that's getting done and then
you teach her that when the her or him or whoever even your six or seven or eight ten-year-old kid
whoever is capable of receiving instruction and is capable of following through to the best of their
ability and remember one of the key things to not destroy the energy is to not micromanage so often
we want to adjust and fix what other people are doing because they're not doing it the way we ask
them to do it i'm the same way i am guilty of the same issues and the most important thing is that
when you teach them something that you give them a little bit room to improve what you've already
thought about and worked on and if for some reason it is slowing down production or interrupting the
flow of energy then step in then come in re-teach re-educate what you're asking to get done
maybe explain the why a little bit more in detail and then give them a little bit room from there
be happy that works being accomplished without you getting it done because remember even if
work is getting done 60 80 percent gets done even if it's not exactly the way you want to get done
because you're the head grower you should have no issues going back behind them a little later
on and adjusting what work they did so that the in outcome of what you are envisioning gets done you
gotta ask yourself if all you know how to do is manage your own energy do you really think you're
the master at anything so if you think you're a great girl or you think you grow the best
potatoes the best flowers the best bud what best whatever you think you're the best at if you can't
teach someone else to do what you did are you sure you have confidence in your skill the process of
being a teacher and being a student is absolutely essential for growth throughout your entire life
and the more times you put yourself through experiences that will challenge you that will
only create a growing experience which later in life when those same or similar pressures come up
you'll be able to handle them with grace you'll be able to teach your kids how to handle those
problems with grace versus with chaos the reasons why things escalate into war or battle or arguing
or fighting those things normally accumulate because of lower level energy and normally they
don't start off with the most extreme of lower level energies like greed or things like that
normally they just start off as miscommunication and because that miscommunication happens before
you know it all of your communication begins to break down and then all those other negative seeds
begin to get planning your mind wondering hey is this guy going to take advantage of me am i going
to be taken advantage of do my kids do my kids even care about what we're doing as a family why
am i even doing it if no one else cares why should i even take the time to teach them why should i go
through the process and the frustration of trying to pass forward information when no one cares
all of those mindsets all those stumbling blocks is the path to becoming a master grower
and getting through those roadblocks is the path to becoming a master grower so don't ever think
that you are there my father he's 70 years old and he still goes out there and he's still improving
and that man is a master grower in my viewpoint my mother and father have taught tens of thousands
of people in industrial agriculture how to do something specific and encourage them to do it
to the best of their ability and still yet he goes out and he grows food for himself and for
the family every year today we're going to be screening rocks in our garden and what i want
to do is i want to fluff it up my soil and i want to add a little bit of pro mix which is some peat
moss and a little bit of mycorrhizing although i don't want to put it into my soil and end up
really wasting my money especially when all i have to do is just go through my soil one year try to
get out as many rocks as possible and then throw down my nice soil before you know it next year
my soil is going to be even more enriched it's not going to be hard and when i say hard i don't
mind having clay soil or sandy soil what i don't like though is when the soil compacts so hard to
the point it feels like concrete and at that point it's just makes it difficult for a lot of plants
to grow and water to drain today i'm going to fix that problem and i'm here i'm going to actually be
solving a problem to help speed up the production of this process before i go and get the kids
the ex-wife and the rest of the team members to jump on board and help out i'm going to make sure
i have a system and process set in place so that they can follow it so that i can then move on to
the next task on hand because i know for a fact if all of us attack this greenhouse today we'll be
able to go through this entire 12 foot by 20 foot bed within four or five hours probably screening
out anywhere from two to three buckets of rocks is it going to be perfect no although will it have
improved it would have did i spend time with the family today i did did my kids learn how
to work hard today they did and it's important to expose your family your teams and other people to
a healthy example of how to get something done on a daily basis to the best of your ability
and if you think you're that person then get it done have a great grow see you later guys