I recently saw the headline “Be a Mac in a PC world,” and I loved it. Possibly because the first computer I ever bought was a MacIntosh and my husband has never let me live it down. To him, Mac’s were so different - they were their own world. To me, that Mac launched my journalism career.

But another reason I like the idea of being a Mac in a PC world is that it takes guts to be different. Yes it is a risk, but the payoffs can far outweigh the ordinary. Think about your beef operation, are you doing things the same because that is how they’ve always been done? Or are you prodding yourself to aim higher, do better, be different?

I received a piece of mail today with an Eleanor Roosevelt quote that really sums it up. She said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do things you think you cannot do.”