1. "It is about leveraging your strengths, outsourcing and partnering where you are weak, focusing on opportunities, and being aware of threats," -Niki Pfeiffer
   1. - See more at: http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4245-swot-analysis.html#sthash.IW2IN5af.dpuf
2. "SWOT's primary objective is to help organizations..." (or people) "develop a full awareness of all the factors, positive and negative, that may affect strategic planning and decision-making" -businessnewsdaily
3. great website
4. Internal
   1. Weakness
      1. new to permaculture and project design
      2. I live in a van: not a lot of space/lack access to a quick meeting space
      3. lacking extensive knowledge of plants/botany
      4. limited cob building experience
      5. limited experience period. ~cob, soil building, rain water catching, designing a site, gathering people together to work-party..
   2. Strengths
      1. Creative, motivated, and passionate
         1. Strength 1a
         2. Strength 1b
      2. connections to many intelligent and talented humans
      3. physically strong for my size
      4. background of sociology, yoga, and nutrition
      5. flexible and willing to learn always
      6. I live in a van: able to move easily!
5. External
   1. Opportunities
      1. PDC with Penny Livingston (currently involved) and projects here
      2. Cob building workshops by Muddbums ?
      3. van permaculture design project
      4. van rainwater catchment system
      5. Bishop community garden
   2. Threats
      1. funding
      2. difficult to get permits for comm. garden use in bishop? BLM restrictions
      3. new to the bishop community
      4. interesting weather patterns in the eastern sierras