IN BRIEF The Grays Harbor Bowman will host its annual archery tournament Safary clam Shoot on Saturday and Sunday in the Grays Harbor Archery.
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How to Set Objectives and Targets for a Spiritually-Inspired Business
Do you remember the 1980s Robin of Sherwood television series? It’s the one with the Robin Hood who has that gorgeous hair and striking fey quality that fits so well with the mystical retelling of the legend. One episode in particular comes to mind because it contains a perfect metaphor to illustrate the third step of inspired business planning — to identify specific objectives and targets related to your business intentions.
In Robin Hood and the Sorcerer, Robin discovers his higher purpose through Herne the Hunter. Robin’s intentions as an agent of light are to disable the forces of darkness and help the poor and dispossessed. By entering the Sheriff of Nottingham’s archery contest, his objective is to reclaim the silver arrow, a powerful old artefact, for the forces of light. Robin’s target is to hit the middle of the bulls-eye, a feat he accomplishes by splitting an apparent winner’s arrow in half. And so he wins the silver arrow!
Like Robin Hood, once you’ve discerned your business’s higher purpose and set intentions inspired by this purpose, it will be beneficial to create specific objectives and targets for each intention. Doing so will bring much more clarity and focus to your business-building activities and help you to win your own “silver arrow”, whatever that may be.
Becoming a Skilled Archer for Your Business
For some spiritual entrepreneurs, understanding their business purpose and creating intentions are the “easier” steps of the inspired business planning process. Setting objectives and targets seem to be a bit more challenging. This may or may not be the case for you, also.
To facilitate this exercise, it might be helpful to define objectives and targets and distinguish them from intentions. Intentions are the broader goals that will help you fulfil your purpose. Objectives are more narrowly-defined goals that are consistent with your intentions. Targets are the results you’re aiming for with each objective (usually quantifiable, but they can also be unquantifiable or measured by a timeline). You may have several or more objectives and targets for each intention.
Here’s an example:
Intention: I intend to build heart-centered relationships with my target market.
Objective: Find and engage in opportunities to interact and connect with my target market authentically.
Target: Participate in six online and offline relationship-building opportunities each month.
Objective: Create and deliver an inspiring and valuable “signature presentation” geared to my target market.
Target: Complete two speaking engagements monthly.
Some Questions to Get You Started
The place to start is to revisit your intentions and assess whether or not they cover all the areas of your business you want to include. Some categories you may want to consider are:
- business management and administration;
- business support;
- relationship-building with your target market;
- service and product development;
- promotion; and
- financial well-being.
If you were to create an intention for each of these categories, answering the following questions will lead you to your objectives and targets for each intention:
Business Management and Administration
Objective: What planning, financial and administrative systems do I need to have in place to manage my business with ease and enable it to be sustainable?
Target: What am I aiming to accomplish in these areas and by when?
Business Support
Objective: What kind of support do I need in order to grow my business?
Target: How many people will this involve and what roles will they play?
Relationship-Building With Your Target Market
Objective: What are five different ways that I can build heart-centered relationships with my target market?
Target: For each objective or method, how can I measure my progress?
Service and Product Development
Objective: What services and products can I develop as my “signature” offerings that will meet a need for my target market?
Target: How many clients do I want to have and/or how many products do I want to sell monthly and/or yearly?
Promotion
Objective: What are five different ways I can offer these services and products to my target market with integrity and in ways that feel authentic to me?
Target: For each method, how will I measure its effect?
Financial Well-Being
Objective: What will allow me to have financial flow in my business?
Target: How much will it cost me to operate my business? How much money do I want to attract through my business monthly and annually? How much money do I want to attract through each service and product monthly and annually? How will I price each service and product to meet these targets?
Consider using mind-mapping for this exercise to engage both your left and right brain in the process. Use a large sheet of paper for each intention, and write your intention in a circle in the middle of the paper. Write your objectives for that intention in their own respective circles surrounding the intention circle in the middle and attach them to it with lines (or arrows). Then near each objective circle, write your target for that objective and create a circle around it. Connect each target circle to its corresponding objective circle.
Gaining clarity about the details of your successful business and expressing this clarity on paper is a powerful way to activate the law of attraction. Enjoy this process, and allow it to get you excited about your business! It will help you to see more clearly, so that hitting the bulls-eye becomes a predictable outcome for you every time you shoot your arrow.
Copyright 2008 Mary C. Davis
About the Author
Entrepreneur, Coach and Prosperity Guide Mary C. Davis helps spiritually-oriented wellness professionals build prosperous, fulfilling businesses. Get tips on how to build your wellness business, with ease and joy, by subscribing to her FREE e-zine The Prosperous Healer at http://www.anamturas.com
Question on laws concerning a BB gun?
Hello,
I just got a BB gun, and was wondering where I could use it (the laws and such). I live in Arkansas. There is a public outdoor archery range next to a golf course nearby – could I place a paper target on one of the archery targets and practice there? The bows, crossbows, etc. used there are lethal compared to my BB gun, so I’m assuming there will be no problem with practicing there. Any legal advice on this? Thanks.
P.S: Aside from my backyard…it is too small, and I want to use the scope.
Put some aluminum cans in the back yard.
Aaron shooting the Bowtech SWAT along the Archery Trail at the range
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An Insight to Mock Scrapes
Deer communicate through many different ways including vocalization, scents, and visually. Utilizing scent and a visual scrape can be a deadly combination.
A scrape is a visual sign post. Unlike rubs, which are seldom revisited once first created, some scrapes are reworked rather frequently. A buck makes a scrape to mark his territory. He leaves his scent behind for other deer to know that he is in the area and this is his ground. By making mock scrapes you’re showing him that there is another buck in the area that thinks the spot is his. Then it’s up to him, whether or not he’s up to the challenge.
To me, mock scrapes are a vastly underused tactic for trying to harvest a whitetail buck. I hunted many years without using them. Every season scrapes would pop up and I would hunt near them, but never with much luck. My first attempts at my own scrapes were rather fruitless as well. My lack of scent control was to blame for that. Once started being more careful about my clothes and what I touched I started to see some results. My first positive experience was five years ago. I entered the timber fully clothed in scent absorbing clothes including a face mask and gloves. I also wore scent free rubber boots. I had remembered a massive scrape that first popped up in the middle of October, about 40 yards outside of a thicket bedding area. This area is directly between that bedding area and a food plot I had planted the year before. It was an ideal staging area that deer will hold up in just before entering the field to feed at dark. I stated the scrape rather small, just larger than a dinner plate. I checked it again 8 days later and was amazed at the amount of use it had received. One of the overhead licking branches had been broke and was hanging limp above the scrape. The area I cleared on the ground had more than doubled in size. Unfortunately, this was before I had a trail camera so I had no idea of the size of the deer that was using the scrape.
I like to start my scrapes early. This way the deer have plenty of time to find and start using them. My target time period is the middle of September. Scrapes this time of year aren’t very numerous, but by making yours be the first ones of the season, your telling that deer that there is a buck in the area. The dominate buck in your hunting spot isn’t going to take well to this. He doesn’t want an intruder coming in and challenging him. At first, there may not be much activity in your scrapes, but the closer the rut gets, the more action you’re going to see. I’ve started scrapes just bigger than a paper plate, by the time November rolled around; they were the size of a small car hood. Nothing gets your blood going more than seeing a freshly worked scrape with some deep hoof gouges and a few broken branches hanging above the scrape.
The most important factor when making a mock scrape is scent control. The purpose of the scrape is to create an area where a buck will visit regularly in order to pattern him. No deer is going to work a scrape that is full of human scent. If you’re careless with scent control that might not even make it down the trail to the scrape. I use the same methods as I would if I were going hunting. Take a scent free shower, dress when I arrive at the site, and then give myself a heavy dose of scent killer on my clothes and boots. I also like to wear a pair of latex surgical gloves. The first thing to focus on is location. Think back where you have seen scrapes in past years. You want the mock scrape to be as natural as possible. Not directly on a trail, preferably not on an edge of a field, and it must have one or more licking branches 4-5 off the ground. I also like to use them on edges of small secluded food plots back in the woods. Once you’ve found the spot, clear out a 1 foot in diameter circle. Make sure no vegetation is left in the scrape. The next step is to use a pre-orbital gland scent on the licking branch. There are a few different manufacturers who have these types of scents. Next, use a generous amount of buck urine in all areas of scrape. Hopefully, a buck will pass by and smell the urine from an intruding buck. As long as he doesn’t smell that you’ve been there, he’s going to try to take over the scrape. I like to freshen my scrapes every 7-10 days. In doing so, you’re telling that buck that there is another buck is trying to take over his area. Each time you freshen it he’s going to come back and leave his scent behind.
The scrape I had mentioned earlier, was one of my most successful I’ve ever had. After hunting it a few times rather unsuccessfully I had almost given up. I decided to give it one final try just before the rut really kicked in and the bucks abandoned the scrapes. About 30 minutes before dark I heard a crack toward the bedding area, then out he stepped. A really nice deer, but need one more year to grow. I don’t know if he was the biggest deer using the scrape, but he was the biggest I had seen over it. He didn’t work it very long while I was watching, but he did walk over to it and thrash his antlers in the over hanging branches. The buck was a good 3.5 year old that would have gone mid 130’s, but knowing the area, I knew he had a good chance to make it through to next season. Unfortunately, I didn’t see him anymore that season, and haven’t seen him since.
Deer communicate in many different manners; in my opinion scrapes are one the best tactics a hunter can use to harvest a buck. It combines two of the ways they communicate. The key to using them to your advantage is to remain scent free and pick a spot that is likely to be used for scraping. Finding the right area and a dominant deer that is willing to protect his territory can lead to some awesome hunting action and possibly a good set of antlers on the wall.
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What is the best way to attach paper archery targets to hay bales?
I’ve tried using spare arrows, but they get in the way. Any archers have suggestions?
The bale strings are tied too tightly to stick the targets under.
try some small branches. just stick them through the corners.
if that doesnt work, wrap the top and bottom around the bale with string.
isnt your bale tied? stick the target underneath the string
or find someone and say “Here, hold this for a moment, yah?”
Aaron shooting the Bowtech SWAT along the Archery Trail at the range
