Your Personal Mission Statement Should You Choose To Accept It Is...

A personal mission statement is map that encompasses your whole journey. This can focus on your career, another area, or your entire life. It is a map that concisely expresses who you are, where you are going and how you to reach your destination.

Through this process you are effectively finding life purpose.

To get a feel for this, it can be useful to see a sample mission statement.

Finding the right synthesis of values, skills and goals into a unified vision is important since it is possible to express your values in many different ways.

For instance Love can be expressed as an aid worker, and a billionaire who gives away their wealth. If you try to be them all at the same time you are unlikely to succeed at any of them.

Your mission is a map to finding the right role, right now, for you to express your top careers values in a way that brings you closer to your vision.

Contribution

The importance of a mission statement goes beyond just being a decision making tool for your personal use.

It is about what you want to give rather than what you want to get. It is larger than you. What you do in your career and life is a collection of facts.

Your purpose and mission are what is left when you and your personal successes are taken out of the equation. However, this is not about being self-sacrificing.

"You can get everything in life you want -
if you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

Your mission outlines what you provide to others in return for everything you want. Rather than being self-ish it is most fulfilling to be self-full!

By being who you are, doing what you love to your full potential, your inner fulfilment will overflow in a way that is inspiring. This is both your greatest service to others and reward to yourself.

Your personal mission statement is a practical map that unifies the bigger picture of your vision and purpose with honest application. It contains the ‘who’, the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of your journey. To express this clearly and concisely is difficult. By answering the challenges to finding your purpose you will build a bridge between who you are and the fulfilling results you wish to achieve. Then all that remains is walk across!

Step 1: Start Writing a Mission Statement.
Step 2: Developing a Mission Statement.

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