| Personal Resource Category | Examples of… | | | |
| Strengths | Weaknesses | Opportunities | Threats | |
| Financial | Have accumulated/saved enough money to put a down payment on a property and buy some assets. | Do not have enough money to buy all of the assets and tools needed to make my dreams come true. | Can ask my neighbor to hay my fields with his tractor for a small fee/percentage of yield and sell to market as clean hay/straw. Can sell produce to a market, and once established enough run workshops for a fee. | Will be in debt in order to cover my asset/tool purchases. |
| Material | Aside from some key things, I have all the things I need to get started. | Far too many things that are unused and unnecessarily attached too. | Inventory everything and sort into sell, donate, recycle, or keep in order to make more space and financial capital. | Potential to become completely overwhelmed with storing unused things, and inhibits use of productive space for more regenerative purposes. |
| Social | Make friends easily, adaptable in a wide Range of social situations; a lot of friends to ask for help when needed | Friends are far away and tend to not visit | Forge new friendships and build new guilds with them whereby we all learn from each other and share tools. | Will be a transition period that may be hard between moving to new property and could result in lost productivity. |
| Living | Health is fairly in order with no major life-threatening ailments | At times have inflammation in the joints that makes work harder than other times | Chance to grow nutrient dense food that nourishes/regenerates my body and do exercises that facilitate strength and antifragility in these regions. | Sometimes the pain is bad enough that work is impossible and nothing will get done. |
| Experiential | I have strong research and analytical skills as per many years of pursuing what I believe to be the right way to live. | Have limited gardening and farming experience whatsoever | Book tours with farmers around me (will also help with social capital), reach out to experts, read books in the evening when work is done. | Possibility of overwhelm due to lack of experience and practical knowledge. Furthermore, could potentially make expensive mistakes, or worse, harm myself. |
| Intellectual | Have a great deal of intellectual property that helps me to generate passive income | No experience writing, speaking or sharing my ideas in any way. | Begin writing and producing content as a means to track my own learning process as I build my permaculture property | I have a contract with my current employer locking up all of my inventions and ideas. |
| Spiritual | Open-minded and experience with meditation, art-making, journalling, and other outward forms of expression. Have an incredible drive to change the world around me and make it better for future generations. | Outward forms of expression (art, journaling) and inward reflection (meditation) tend to take a place on the back burner when things get busy and there is a lot to do. | Establish a routine for art-making, journalling, and meditation. | If frequently ignored and not addressed, mental-well being and creativity diminishes, and suffering ensues. |
| Cultural | Am well travelled and have visited with many regeneratively minded folk, have a strong sense of community and cherish the stories that people bring to the table. | I have no current connection to my surrounding community. | Host or attend potlucks, research local community groups that you would consider joining. | A lack of community cohesion can make me feel that I am working all alone and am not sharing my rewards with anyone/for anything, and suffering ensues. |