A Sample Mission Statement to
Unlock Your Creativity

A sample mission statement can help inspire you whilst writing your own. The other articles in this section are largely theoretical. Here I make a practical example of Fulfilling-Career Choices.

This project has come together through finding life purpose. You will see how each of the building blocks (being [values], doing [context], and having [result]) interact and contribute to create the whole vision. Understanding the mechanics of this sample mission statement will give you an example work from.

Photo Credit

Sample Mission Statement

Fulfilling-Career-Choices helps people craft the career they really want by discovering who they really are.

It does this with:

• Free articles to raise awareness of the unquestioned structures within society and ourselves. These help readers discover new possibilities for themselves.
• Further resources to provide specific guidance for pursuing an ‘off-road’ career path.
• Coaching to challenge and support the leaders of tomorrow to fulfil their potential to shape a new world around themselves.

The first two lines provide a summary of Fulfilling-Career-Choices’ essence. This is 80% of the purpose and vision. The other 20% is wrapped up in working with the leaders of tomorrow.

Whilst the vision is expressed first, it is the last component to be created. The detais that follow are the practical foundations and methods by which the vision is built. So starting from the ground and working upwards:

Being

Fulfilling-Career-Choices is a vehicle for my top three careers values: self-expression, growth and high quality experiences. These are realised through my talents and skills in the doing section.

Doing

I do self-expression by:

• Being a writer;
• Sharing my experience and insight;
• Being a coach.

I do growth by:

• Developing a business;
• Understanding the technology that makes this website possible;
• Experimenting with different ways of expressing myself;
• Clarifying and focusing all the insights, which until now have been packed into my poor little brain!

I do high quality experiences by:

• Creating something beautiful;
• Being inspired by people moving beyond their former limitations;
• Being of service through fully expressing myself;
• Experiencing the conversations and the people that this project brings into my life;
• Succeeding with my objectives in the Having section.

Having

These are the mixture of life and career objectives that I am seeking to maintain or pursue. They include:

• Co-creating the future with the leaders of tomorrow;
• Attracting an audience to witness my self-expression. It is an incomplete communication when expression is given, but there is nobody to receive it;
• Developing a progressively free and creative lifestyle.

Vision

The vision emerges out of creatively combining the three different building blocks. If you are like me you will initially need hundreds of words to start expressing what you are all about. The process of reducing this to something short and succinct serves to bring your vision into focus so that it can easily be communicated. You know you have got it right when the statement is concise, inspiring and practical.

There is no set way to layout your mission statement. This merely serves as one template of how the being [values], doing [context], and having [result] elements of life purpose fit together. I hope that seeing this ‘live’ sample mission statement dissected, it will help you to create your own.

Return to Personal Mission Statement

Return from Sample Mission Statement to Career Choices Homepage