IBBA Connection Looking to Improve A few days after our meetings in Houston, I received an e-mail from our IBBA office stating I needed to write an article for the Brangus Journal. I know that I personally look for and enjoy reading articles that are both informative and engaging. However, I have never considered myself a writer. Not once in the goals that I have set for myself has there been a dream of becoming a writer. I know better than to ask if I have to write the article. This is the way it has been done for many years, the President always writes a short article for the Journal. Being the current IBBA President, I now have the opportunity to add to my list of goals to become a writer. I will try my hardest to write informative and engaging articles. I can think of many things I would like to see us accomplish as an association. We are in the midst of many opportunities for our Brangus breed and I hope we will always be searching for ways to make our product better. There are things as an association that we do a certain way because we have always done it that way. As I think back over my time as a breeder – and in most other areas of my life – I feel that most things that I do well at this point in my life are done well because I have done them wrong so many times before finally getting it right. Like a lot of other people I have learned the hard way by doing things wrong how to finally do them right. So often when we feel like we are doing things right we have no desire to change or maybe do it wrong again. It is easy to coast along in a comfortable mode doing things in what we believe is the “right way”. The problem is maybe we became comfortable before we really reached the best way of doing cMWQ a\ [Z `TQ NÛST` _UPQ cMWQ a\ [Z `TQ NÛST` _UPQ 5:@8 .>-:3A? .>1101>? -??: I-:3A? Zcfj\ kf Xi\X i\jkXliXekj# j_fggè^ Xe[ .>1101>? \ek\ikXèd\ek m\el\j% -??: IF =LIK?LJ 9I<<;F =LIK?LJ fi ZXcc /''$JC<cfYXc JXc\j DXeX^\i E\n =cXk$GXe\c KMj n`k_ ?; G_fe\1 0.)$,',$+,'. Gclj# fli _fk\cj Xi\ Zfem\e`\ekcp cfZXk\[ gifîXddè^ BXk_\iè\%8cc\e7CXhlèkX%Zfd Zcfj\ kf Xi\X i\jkXliXekj# j_fggè^ Xe[ =`ke\jj :\ek\i C8 HL@EK8 `j i\^`jk\i\[ è k_\ L%J% GXk\ek Xe[ KiX[\dXib F]ÓZ\% )''0 CH DXeX^\d\ek# C%C%:% \ek\ikXèd\ek m\el\j% LJ 9I<<;LJ fi ZXcc /''$JC<