You either jump without first looking, or you wait until it's too late.
You don't pay attention strictly to what's immediately under your hand, but waste your energy wondering if you can't get rich from something out of your reach.

That's what has been the trouble with you in the sheep business, I imagine.

Here when I offer you a farm for a ranch that's slipping through your fingers, you at once get greedy.
Most of the time you don't know your own mind; you hesitate and speculate and vacillate and worry.

Why, you deserve to lose your ranch and your sheep and everything else.

And your wife suffers for your faults! You're a failure, and you've dragged her down with you.