Quote Originally Posted by Oogiem View Post
Which is my point, those are projects, they are never really done although I guess you can think of a single set of them being done, but they are not areas of focus, they are projects.
Yep, I largely agree. I just can't handle the idea of a project that never ends, so for me there would be a repeating series of identical projects, whereas for you it's the same project. But functionally, it sounds like essentially the same thing.

I think that it may be about the farming mindset, as I think you suggested in one of your posts. I think that mindset may mean that long, _long_ term goals feel infinitely more natural for you than they do for me.

My maximum comfortable planning unit of time is about a month, maybe less - if a project that I'm actively working on is going to take much longer than that, I'm likely to break it into subprojects. In place of that month, sounds like you're perfectly comfortable with multiple years, and reasonably comfortable with a lifetime.