How to Create a Personal

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How to Create a Personal

• MISSION
• STATEMENT

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BENEFITS OF A MISSION STATEMENT

• 1. Gives meaning and significance to our actions
  and our life
• At the end of our lives we will be able to say,
  I did what I was created to do. I contributed
  to this world in a significant manner.

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2. Clarity for Your Role in Life Circumstances

• Provides a singular focus to all of our different
  roles (parent, employee, friend, spouse, etc.)
• Eliminates confusion and emotional conflicts

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3. A Measuring Stick for Life Decisions

• The best tool to measure any large life choices
• Ask Does it support your mission?

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4. A Magnet for Staying on Track in Life

• Keeps our mission in the front of our minds
• Helps to eliminate unproductive activities
• Puts first things first.

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5. Ability To Communicate Clearly What You Bring
To Personal and Professional Opportunities

• Have a single sentence that states what you are
  here to do (taken from your mission statement)
• Have it memorized
• This allows you clearly tell others what you can
  do for them

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6. Motivation to Do Your Best

• Keeps one centered on their purpose
• Keeps circumstances from distracting us

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7. Maximize your talents

• Calls us to use all of our skills and talents
• Requires that we use them for the benefit of
  others
• Talents grow with us

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8. Strength to Stand Tall in the Fluctuating
Winds of Change

• It provides a rock of stability
• Provides a forward direction that brings peace
  and integrity to changing times

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9. Creates Action Rather than Reaction

• Keeps us from letting others take the steering
  wheel of our lives
• Helps us respond with intention
• Helps us choose the best course of action

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10. Attracts People and Opportunities That
Support Your Life

• The more you live your mission, the more those
  around you will respect and support your actions

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Personal Mission Statement

• Reflects your Key
• Values
• Principles
• Sense of purpose and meaning for your life.
• Your Personal Mission Statement in a sense
  becomes your personal constitution that gives
  you meaning and direction to life.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 1. Reflect on the key values and principles you
  want to use as a guide for your life. Values may
  vary among us, but correct principles are shared
  by all people of good will.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 2. Ponder questions like What do you want your
  life to be about in order to give it purpose and
  meaning? Think about how much better this world
  would be if each person were dedicated to lifting
  the lives of everyone we touch.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 3. Brainstorm with yourself, parents,
  relatives, teachers, religious leaders,
  counselors and friends about your strengths,
  talents, deep-felt values and principles which
  are most important to you.
• Read biographies of people you admire.
• Take personality/aptitude/vocational tests.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 4. View your personal Mission Statement as your
  Personal Constitution Like the Constitution of
  a country, your Personal Mission Statement can be
  amended over time if so inspired. It will always
  reflect your fundamental values, purposes and
  principles which will guide you through the
  thousands of decisions you will make in your
  lifetime.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 5. Find a quiet place, inside or outside where
  you can spend some quality uninterrupted time
  pondering and reflecting in order to write your
  Personal Mission Statement. It need not be too
  long - no more than a page or a few paragraphs.
  It should inspire you and cause you to stretch
  but not break.

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Steps for Writing Personal Mission Statement

• 6. Ask, Does this statement inspire me? While
  it does not totally reflect where you are today,
  it helps you to stretch to become better and is a
  guide as you make it difficult decision. Write
  in the present tense as if you are doing it.
  You will enjoy the power of purpose as a result
  of getting a vision of what you want your life to
  be.

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An Example of a Mission Statement

• The purpose of my life is bringing happiness and
  growth to our family and all within my influence,
  while living a rich and abundant life of
  integrity, which is my definition of success.
  Living correct principles is the center of my
  life, from which I seek solutions to lifes many
  demands.

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An Example of a Mission Statement continued

• I value a career in higher education, being a
  good father and husband, raising a strong family,
  and seeking the truth. I will serve diligently
  in my church-keeping focused on the needs of
  people. Community service when appropriate is
  also valued. Earning sufficient income to
  provide a healthy lifestyle for my family and a
  secure retirement are important as I strive to be
  wise in managing my money.

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An Example of a Mission Statement continued

• With love of others and self as my core
  motivating principle, I want to balance my life
  consistently with the following 30 human needs
  Physical, intellectual, emotional,
  sexual/intimacy, social, spiritual/philosophical,
  achievemental, cultural/aesthetic, leisure,
  creative, understanding/communication,
  agency/self determination, private space, time
  management, humor, perspective, perseverance,
  enthusiasm/motivation