The Plan

This is the plan I want to present to the Farmyard Four tomorrow and I told them today that I was working on our Next Steps together and yes I have used capital letters for a reason because that is how important these Next Steps are.

How To Be Organized In Five Easy Steps

Step One: Identify our main goal and I think our main goal should be to educate people about the unsustainability of eating so much meat in their diets. I do not think our goal should be to eliminate meat eating altogether because I do not think we will ever be able to achieve that but I do think we can make an impact. This goal needs to be decided by the Farmyard Four before we can move to Step Two.

Step Two: Make our messaging simple and easy to understand and repeat.

In this step we need to take all the confusing numbers out of my stump speech and make our message one that can easily be repeated around the farmyard.

Step Three: Create a symbol for our message that we easily scratch in the dirt or find ways to have it around the farmyard so that when people see our symbol they are reminded of our simple message because we need to repeat it and repeat it and repeat it so that they remember it.

Step Four: We need to make ourselves available to talk to any of the animals on the farm who want to talk and so we should open up our Lunch and Learn to whoever wants to attend and we make sure to always meet regularly so that the animals can rely on us and know that we are animals of our words and yes that means if it is raining.

Step Five: We need to collect the opinions of the animals and share them with the people of the Internet and fortunately I already have this weblog and my twitter as a platform for us to do this but maybe there are other ways to share this message as well?

I must say I am feeling much better than I was yesterday about all of this and even though we have not even officially started Step One yet of the Next Steps just even seeing it all written down like this has given me some confidence.

If Barry and the chickens can be organized, we need to be even more organized and I think we already are with having this plan all written down because, to the best of my knowledge, I do not believe the chickens are educated enough to read.