If you are new to The Five Rings methodology, it might be helpful to review some of the basic concepts, such as the purpose of missions and how to create a mission statement, presented in the accompanying book Piloting Through Chaos—Wise Leadership and Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century.
Presented below is a brief overview of the concepts you need to understand before using the Mission Builder mode.
Missions are the negotiator's navigational compass—a basic discovery tool and means to allocate scare resources. In Artful Navigator, a mission is a definition of how you can earn what you want. (See the tutorial for more information).
When you define a mission, you also decide how much of your resources you want to put into that mission by defining a budget for it. In Artful Navigator, budgets are measured using Integrity Budget Units (IBUs). (see Understanding IBUs for more information).
The Life Pie is a tool for defining the relative importance of the four major quadrants of your life: Personal, Professional, Physical, and Spiritual. You do this by:
The relative importance of the quadrants of the Life Pie is also measured in IBUs. (See also Missions - Getting Started).
You can organize your missions into categories using the mission tree. Think of categories as file folders: the folders simply hold related missions. In this hierarchy of missions you can have folders within folders to further organize your mission statements.
TIP: Since categories themselves are not actually missions, it is sometimes useful to define an "overall" or general mission for larger categories. For example, in your BUSINESS category, you may want to have an overall mission statement then sub-categories for other activities:
BUSINESS
OVERALL - my overall business mission statement
BANKX - Category for my work as employee of BANKX
PROJECT1 - mission for project 1
PROJECT2 - mission for project 2
CONSULTING - Category of consulting
COMPANY1 - mission for company 1
COMPANY2 - mission for company 2
PERSONAL
etc...
You can define budgets for both categories and missions. Budgets define the amount of your resources you want to allocate to categories and missions.
The buttons in the Mission Builder window mean the following:
| Help | To view this Help topic |
| New Category | To create a new category in the mission tree. |
| New Mission | To create a new mission in the mission tree. |
| Delete | To delete the highlighted category or mission. |
| Show Matters | To view a list of matters (Action Logs) related to the highlighted mission. |
| Print Mission | To print a mission statement. |
| Set Budget | To set a budget which defines the amount of resources you want to allocate to a category or mission. |
| Show Budget Left | To show the amount to budget you have spent for a mission. |
| Main Menu | To return to Artful Navigator's main menu. |
See the User's Guide for procedures on setting your life pie budgets, creating new categories, defining missions, reviewing budget allocations and amounts spent, and deleting missions, subcategories, and categories.
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