sdann;59688 said:
Can someone please define "areas of focus" in relationship to "goals & objectives" and "projects".
Im interested in this too. I combine visions and life purpose as one level. I have a personal statement of purpose that is really the life portion or 50K level that I review on the solstices and equinoxes. I also have well defined goals for the sheep flock and for the farm as a whole some of which are multiple decades long. That is where I sort of combine the 40K and 30K sections into one. The time lines of what the various levels are do not work well for me because I have projects that will take decades or even more than one lifetime.
Below that are the areas of responsibility. For me they are the logical divisions under which projects happen.
My own areas of focus are
Family & Friends
Health
Household (house cleaning type stuff)
Sheep (Specific to the animals themselves)
Poultry (ditto)
Horses (ditto)
Wool (all fleece, roving and yarn stuff)
Hay Barn (projects surrounding hay and winter feeidng including winter corrals)
Red Barn (poultry infrastructure is here)
Shop (being built so has several projects with it)
Sewing
Weaving
Spinning
Knitting and Naalbinding
Quilting
Scrapbooks
Main House
Guest House
I also have areas for each major land division like Main Pasture, West side pasture, Guest House garden, etc. that are part of our overall farm planning document.
An example of all the levels I am using would be:
A statement in my personal purpose is that "I develop & implement sustainable systems to breed rare & endangered livestock & plant species, breeds & bloodlines." That's the 50K or life level
A goal below that is "We maintain at least 4 distinct bloodlines in a sustainable breeding program in our flock. We are using a modified form of the Conservation Breeding Guidelines by ALBC." This is both my 40K and 30K level because the timeframes are long.
That ties into the Sheep category of focus which is the 20K level and then projects under that are things like
"Decide on matings for 2009 lambs to reduce inbreeding in the Gwen line while preserving their lovely wool quality." This is one of the current projects in Sheep.
The next action for that project is to "Calculate inbreeding coefficients on lambs out of Gwenllian, Gwenlliant, Gwenifer, Gwenda et al if mated to Heilyn, Hamish or Jared". It's listed in the context of @computer with a deadline of fall before we sort ewes into breeding groups.
Does that help?