IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS WEBSITE - DO NOT SKIP

This website has been designed by Australian farmers to help other Australian farmers cope effectively with life’s challenges and get the most out of every day. It does this by sharing practical ways of coping with difficult circumstances, thoughts and feelings (especially worries about things you can’t control) and helping you to work out where it is most useful for you to put your attention and energy.

You can do this from the privacy of your home, tractor or shed. The site will even send you text message reminders to keep you focused, and it is free!

The website is designed to be useful for BOTH farmers who are currently feeling down or stressed AND those who would simply like some new tools to improve their ability to cope with uncertainty associated with life on the land.

By completing the five short modules on this website you will learn new tools to equip you to take charge and reduce the negative impact that stressful situations have on your life, so that you have more time and energy to focus on the things that make you happy.

If you’d like to take a quick tour, click play on the video below.

Of course, learning these skills requires time and energy, willingness to practise and a commitment to try to incorporate new strategies into your life. However, if you get good at these skills and can master the art of spending less time going over and over things ‘in your head’, in the long run it will save you time, and also possibly a few unfortunate farm mishaps, that often happen when you are doing one activity while being caught up in thoughts about another!

Some farmers have said they like to think of the strategies this website shares as tools to improve their ‘thinking clout’.

There are five modules for you to work through at your leisure:

1. Taking stock of your current wellbeing and some practical strategies to get you started
2. Thoughts are like bullies - how to spend less time ‘in your head'
3. Doing what really matters - how to get the most out of a busy life
4. Training your ‘attention muscle’ and focusing on the ‘here and now’ - a more pleasant, less exhausting place to be
5. Putting it all together and moving forward

Allow 30-40 minutes to do a module. The next module will then be made available to you two weeks later (you will receive a text to let you know). It’s important to give yourself a break before you complete the next module. This will give you time to get good at using your new tools from one module, before learning more in the next. Please be patient and try to complete each module in full. However, if you do have to stop part way through a module, you can use the 'Save and continue later' button and return at a later date.

We think you will find it interesting, and even - at times - fun. By the end of the modules, the aim is for you to be less focused on thoughts and things you can’t control and more focused on your family, friends, farm or whatever it is that matters to you most.

It is important to complete this registration process without exiting the website. It will only take a few minutes to do and completing registration now, will ensure that you don’t have any problems progressing through the website in the future. Once you start Module 1, you will be able to ‘save and exit’ at any time, and easily come back to where you left off, via a link that is emailed to you.

The next set of questions will help you set up your online profile, which we call a ‘toolbox’. Apart from us (the team managing the website), you will be the only person to see your profile.

These details are required because important parts of this program are delivered by text message and we would like to be able to address you by your first name. Sharing your email address means we can email you instructions on how to log back in to the website and how to reset your password. A suitably qualified member of our team may also need to contact you via phone if your answers to some questions suggest you are experiencing very high levels of distress. If you choose to withdraw, we may also phone you to find out why, so we can keep improving the website for the benefit of others. For these reasons, you will not be able to proceed unless you provide your first name, email and mobile phone number. If you have poor reception, please also provide us with your landline. Providing your surname is optional.