Consider purpose

I’vealways felt this is a good time of year for reflection.

Christmas and New Year celebrations are behind us, for most of the croppers the harvest is done, and many people have had, or are having, that precious beach time.

You naturally think about the season that was.

What did you do well? Where can you improve?

You’re thinking about the year ahead. Fine-tuning the cropping plan. Ordering fertiliser. Getting seed requirements lined up. All the operational stuff.

But what do you see when you look further out?

Where are you taking your farm business, your family, yourself? We’re all so busy with the day-to-day operations, it takes deliberate effort to lift the eyes to the horizon.

I have great respect for a man called Rob Hunt.

He was managing director of Bendigo Bank and took that business from a small Victorian-based building society to a national ASX 100 company.

He was the architect of the Community Bank model, which is now probably the