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Hippo Camp // Step 2 // Keep doing, stop doing, start doing

11/23/2019

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This is the super simple second step of Hippo Camp, and can almost be wrapped up into step 1. In this step you will look over your achievements and disappointments and categorize them into the following three categories: Keep Doing, Stop Doing, and Start Doing. This exercise is to help get you started in discussing your successes and frustrations. If you were disappointed in how many chickens were eaten by the local fox population, are you going to Keep Doing your chicken enterprise? Maybe, maybe not, but now is the time to start talking about it. Don't spend too much time on this step, but use it to start thinking of solutions to your frustrations, and to shine light on the things you are doing well. The act of writing them down will help solidify them in your brain. It's science.

Here's a link to a quick printable to get you started.
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Sarah Andrews
11/16/2021 06:47:36 am

Do you just use this list for enterprises? So presumably, with one shaky year under my belt.... I'd probably put everything under keep doing because I'm not sure if it's not going to work for me or I just don't know what I'm doing yet. Or do you include methods in this at all?

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Taylor Mendell
11/19/2021 05:58:06 am

Hi Sarah! Great question. We use this list as a way to flesh out items from our achievements/disappointments list. Sometimes it's a whole enterprise, like one year we had "chickens" as a disappointment and we ended up deciding to put the whole chicken enterprise in "stop doing". The year before we had things like "dirty eggs" and "frozen chicken water" in our disappointments, so we put things like "new roll away nest boxes" and "find new winter chicken water solution" in our "start doing" column.

If this is your first season I would break your enterprises down into smaller components. So with the chicken example, you may not have enough time under your belt to decide if the enterprise as a whole is working for you, so instead think about what were the most frustrating parts of the enterprise, and think of stop/start ideas for those aspects. Similarly, think about the parts that worked best and list those as keep doing. That should help you think about what is and is not working in each enterprise and will help you start zeroing in on what to work on for next season.

Good luck!

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