**Areas are on-going facets of your life in which you have some standard to maintain.** # More ## Source - [[PARA Method]] # Area Areas are facets of your life you care about. They are different domains in which you have some responsibility (to yourself or to others). You uphold some sort of a _role_ in each area. Areas have **standards to be maintained**. ## Area → Role(s) - Writing → Writer/Critic - Finance → Financial Manger - House → Homeowner Areas do not have an "end point" - although they may come and go. You cannot "achieve" or "complete" an area. Projects have those things. Areas are a logical container for [[Defining Project|project]]s, and for reference [[Note Types#Area Notes]]. Although [[Areas for Metrics May Be Different from Areas for Reference]]. According to Google's Bard - a "typical" amount of areas is in the neighborhood of 5 to 10. I had 19 at the time. I asked because I realized that I really only needed more like ~8. # Area List - Health - Mental - Physical - Relationship - Fatherhood - Ben - Griffin - Friends/Family - Friends - Family - Productivity - Career - Finance - Hobbies - Creating - Learning - Fun/Exploration - Possessions - House - Cars - Everything else ## Related - [[Defining Project ]] - [[KPIs]]