Episode 698 - Choose Your Focus with #My3Things

Today we discuss how to apply the SWOT method to your own life plan, cover our usual Monday segments on pantry management and financial progress, and cover a question from a listener about erosion.

 

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• Tuesday Live with Many Awesome Folks, 12:30 Central

• Wednesday Live Interview with Thecia Ellis, 1pm Central

• Thursday Evening Live for SRF, 7pm Central

• Friday Homestead Happenings, 9:30am Central

 

A word on schedule.

 

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Redoing the storage system with bins due to putting off the prepper pantry roof replacement

• Venison Story

• Spotted the first dandelion bloom

• Comfrey tea

• Canned good update

• About to pack up the whole kitchen

 

Weekly Shopping Report: 02/11/2023

 

Dollar Tree was first. I'm beginning to see some thinning in the main food aisle, although there are more products in the drink aisle, and the drink coolers are a little better stocked than last week. The frozen-food coolers in the back remain mostly empty. The store was pretty busy today, with two cashiers open, both with lines.

 

Next was Home Depot. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.35. They were rather busy around the contractor entrance, but I did not look around the rest of the store, as Sonia was waiting outside while I checked.

 

Our final stop was Aldi. We found what we wanted. There were at least two cases of heavy cream. I noticed that flour had gone up, and is now $2.18. Our careful buying habits caught up to us this week in a good way, and we escaped the store for less than $50.

 

Untainted regular at $3.999/gallon. Sonia commented that she saw more people with fuller carts.

 

Frugality Tip: Keto Friendly Cheese Snack from Dylan

Cheese squares baked at 350F for 10 minutes makes darn good cheese crackers. Perfect keto snacks and salad toppers!

Dylan

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Operation Independence

• Repairing the joists in the kitchen in advance of a countertop redo and bar build - keeping the existing cabinets

• Book larnin’

 

Main topic of the Show: Choose Your Focus with #My3Things

 

Let’s review what we have already done: 

1. Defined your Vision https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/02/establishing-your-vision-my3things-step-one/

2. Defined you Purpose https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2023/01/30/develop-your-purpose-with-my3things/

3. Updated and adjusted both with feedback

 

Today, we use the SWOT method to prioritize three areas of focus.

 

What is SWOT?

 

Internal:

Strengths 

• What are you good at?

• What do you have of value in your household?

• What would your mom say are your best talents?

 

Weaknesses

• What are you bad at?

• What are your weaknesses?

• Where are you vulnerable if things go wrong (like a job loss, etc)

• What limitations do you have?

 

External

Opportunities

• What trends do you see in the big wide world that can create opportunity?

• What external factors provide opportunities for you/your family?

 

Threats

• What trends in the big wide world do you see that are threats?

• What external factors limit your opportunities?

 

Choosing 3 priorities - 

• Clump and Bump

• Finding Connections

• Identifying 3 in each category

• Reduce to three total areas to address with goals

 

Creating goals from your SWOT

BHAG - bigger picture - timeline 3-5 years or even evergreen

 

Example: Create enough local, ongoing revenue that we are able to support the vision of the Holler Homestead.

 

Annual SMART goals: LFTN Podcast Monetization

• Book 6 paid speaking engagements in 2023 in networks that are new to LFTN resulting in 150 leads each entering our sales funnel for the podcast.

• Specific: increase funnel entrants 

• Measurable: by 900

• Achievable: