Vision and Values

Last update: 30 Oct. 2024

Core Values

Core values are ideals and qualities I hold important. I must incorporate these 6 key values into my everyday actions, regardless of what I’m currently enduring, so that my values turn into an epithet for myself, e.g. Ryne the Upright

1. 🔼 Upright: acting with integrity and maintaining high moral standards, being honest and standing by my principals, even what it’s challenging.
2. 🌻 Modest: staying humble, not boasting above achievements or seeking validation from others, and appreciating simplicity with gratitude
3. 📍 Straightforward: being clear, direct, and honest in my communication and actions, avoiding deceit or hidden motives
4. 🦅 Sane: staying rational, composed, and mentally balanced, making decisions based on reason rather than emotional impulses. [[choices made in anger cannot be undone]]
5. 🤝 Cooperative: valuing teamwork, being willing to collaborate, and working harmoniously with others toward common goals.
6. 🌍 Disinterested: approaching situations without bias or personal gain in mind, making objective decisions that are fair and impartial

Horizons

Horizons are visions for my life, from daily tasks to long-term goals. Horizons of Focus are from “Getting Things Done,” by David Allan, and represents six levels of work, like floors in a building. These horizons align my daily actions with broader life goals. Reflecting on them, especially during my Week Plan, maintains balance and perspective, ensuring my decisions align with overall priorities. This page serves as my reminder to structure decision-making from the ground up. My 6 values (above) need to extend throughout all of my horizons, top-to-bottom.

Horizon 5: Purpose, principles, and motives

These lifelong principles are actionable rules or guidelines derived from my values. These motivators reflect my commitment to personal and professional growth, striving for a balanced and authentic life. Key Question for Horizon 5: Why do I do what I do?

• Self-Improvement: My continuous desire to adopt new systems and integrate them into my routines shows this drive. I’m focused on becoming a better version of myself, through:
  • refining my habits
  • improving my physical health
  • enhancing my personal knowledge management (PKM) system
  • reading and consuming content to continuously learn, expand my knowledge, and challenge my worldview. I choose content that aligns with my values of curiosity, self-improvement, and lifelong learning
• Foster Innovation: My engagement with technologies like computer vision for dairy farms suggest a strong motivation for innovation and leadership.
  • seek efficiency, automation, and long-term success in my work
  • My work at Ever.Ag (e.g., through technologies like Maternity Warden)
• Be Authentic and Positive: I’m committed to being authentically positive; someone who genuinely sees the bright side of situations and eliminates mean-spiritedness from my life. I seek to align my internal values with my outward actions.
• Financial Freedom: My focus on becoming debt-free and managing my finances meticulously, whether through apps like forecasting or long-term financial goals, shows my drive to achieve financial independence and stability.
• Balanced Living: My desire for both city and country living, maintaining a work-life balance with routines that include work, play, and reflection (like meditation and writing) reflects a motivation to create a harmonious and fulfilling lifestyle.
• Meaningful Connections: Meaningful, authentic connections with others is important to me, even if I’m still navigating how those relationships fit into my life

Horizon 4: Vision

My long-term vision (3–5+ years) aligns with my purpose and focuses on where I want to be in the future. Examples are career aspirations, family plans, lifestyle changes. Key Question for Horizon 4: What do you want to achieve in the long term?

• Self-Improvement
  • Create Content Online
    • building a strong online presence through RyneBraun.com
    • Write (blog, books)
    • Video (YouTube, tutorials)
    • Audio (podcast with Charlie)
  • Build a Personal Knowledge Management (PMK) or second brain
  • Consume Content – I want to become a well-rounded individual with expertise in fields like technology, psychology, and personal finance. I also want to have a balanced mix of entertainment and educational content that enhances my critical thinking and creativity.
  • +Dairy, +Fish
  • Beautify my Physical Physique
• Foster Innovation (through Ever.Ag)
  • Replace wearables on-farm
  • Get every farm in the USA on My Dairy Dashboard in someway that is valuable to them
  • Lead my team to victory
  • Create successful (commercially viable) BU out of on-farm
• Be Authentic and Positive
  • Observe my thoughts
  • Be grateful
• Financial Freedom
  • Salary – 180k+
  • Passive Income (that matches salary) – passive income streams don’t require constant presence but require time to maintain.
    • Apps (explore development or collaboration)
    • Gas station? not really passive
    • Wolfgang dairy (not passive)
    • Explore new investment opportunities to expand wealth (e.g. real estate)
    • have $1MM+ in investment portfolio
      • IRA
      • Stocks
      • 401K
  • Be Consumer Debt Free
• Balanced Living
  • Country and City homes
    • Owning both a city and a country home
    • Weekdays in the city, weekends in the country
    • Own a home (country) – Whitelaw, WI
    • Rent an apartment (city) – Chicago, IL
  • Multiple vehicles
    • Buy a sports car… mustang, v8 manual, convertible with carplay
    • Ford Explorer and a truck for commuting between homes and maintaining your rural life vision
  • Time Blocking
    • focus on calendar time blocking and sticking to non-work activities just as ardently as I do for wok
  • Visit new places
    • Egypt
    • Australia
    • Japan
• Meaningful Connections
  • Be closer to family
  • create dependable friendships
  • Inspire coworkers
  • Built industry network of peers
  • Have a Romantic Companion – husband
  • Family – kids?
  • Learn from Mentees
  • Symbiotic Pets – who rescued who

Horizon 3: Areas of accountability

This horizon addresses key areas of my life that I need to maintain regularly. These include job responsibilities, family commitments, health maintenance. Key Question for Horizon 3: What areas do you need to maintain to ensure stability and progress? Areas of Responsibility or focus:

• Work (Ever.Ag):
  • Ever.Ag Corporate
  • My Dairy Dashboard
  • Producer Portals
  • Dalex
  • Feed King
  • Maternity Warden
• Health:
  • Body
  • Mind
• Side Projects:
  • RyneBraun.com
  • Second Brain
  • Content
  • Digital
• Personal Life
  • Home
  • Social
  • Travel

Horizon 2: Milestones

These are my mid-term goals, usually spanning 1-2 years, that contribute to fulfilling your vision. Launching a new product, saving for a major purchase, achieving a fitness goal. Key Question for Horizon 2: What milestones do you need to hit in the next 1-2 years?

Milestones are located inside my specific areas.

Horizon 1: Projects

Projects are short-term outcomes (typically within 1 year) that require multiple steps to complete. Completing a work assignment, organizing an event, developing a new skills. Key Question: What are the current projects you’re working on?

Projects are located inside my specific areas.

Ground: Tasks

Definition: The immediate next actions you need to take to move a project or task forward. Examples: Sending an email, scheduling a meeting, making a phone call. Key Question for Ground: What is the next physical action I need to take?

Tasks are located inside one of my specific systems:

• ⏰ Due: a wonderful app that reminds you until you complete it
• 🔂 Streaks: a beautiful habit tracker app that encourages me to repeat the same activities everyday until they are engrained into my routine
• 🔁 Notion intervals: a way to know when recurring tasks are ready to be done without nagging me; I do when i have time
• ✅ Tasks: one-time, non-recurring tasks, this is the majority of my work
• 🗓️ Calendar: scheduled on my calendar to be done, whether that is an important task or a meeting

Week Activities: 8 categories my grount tasks need to fit in that relate back to Horizon 1:

• Health Goals
• Health Goals
• Contributions
• Relationships
• Debt-free
• Earn Revenue
• Create & Learn
• Fix & Clean