Personally I had never tried to write a mission statement before but I’ve always wanted to. I am a very goal oriented person. In fact, if you were to ask me, I could show you my periodic and annual goals going way back, the metrics I used to track those goals, and how successful I was at accomplishing them. It is amazing to see how much I have achieved just by simply setting goals and focusing my energy.
What I am missing is the over-arching goal, my life’s mission and purpose. Do I have a core purpose from which all my efforts in life are working to accomplish? Such direction would help me stay on track and focused by aligning my various goals and desires with my larger life mission.
It is interesting to me that organizations of all types and sizes spend enormous amounts of money, time, and energy understanding their purpose and mission in the world. I wonder if people spend enough time determining and achieving their mission.
This exercise could take weeks, months, or even years to complete. However, even after it is finished it will remain a living document that will change as I better understand what I want to achieve in life and who I want to become.
Do you have a personal mission statement? How has it helped you?
2 comments:
I love the living document idea. I need some serious updates to my own personal mission statement. Out-of-date as it may be, however, I often find myself reviewing it and checking myself against it. It's a good little compass to see if I'm headed in the direction I would like to go...the overarching destination never changes, but the milestones along the way do. So a living document is quite handy, I must say. You are a genius--do I tell you that often enough?
I've been thinking about this type of thing a lot lately as well. Your post has given me more things to think about.
Thanks!
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