Your vision will change with your experience, accomplishments, and stage in life. A vision statement sets down the long-term vision or purpose of an individual or organization. In the family farm context, a vision needs to include more than the farm operation since the farm is only part of the family activities. We work to have that farm be a well-kept attractive homestead. Goals are the objectives that are to be accomplished in order to achieve your defined vision.
Goals differ from plans, which are specific actions needed to accomplish the goals.
Goals focus management action by specifying what, when and where things will be done. Plans Plans are specific actions needed to achieve a defined goal. Planning should occur in a recurring cycle and include how things will be done and who will do it. Visioning ensures that there is a destination to be achieved. If the management team does not have a well-defined vision, goal setting may not be focused.