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Knowing what you want is the first step in getting it. ~Louise Hart

Your Personal Mission Statement.

In Day One, you spent some time thinking about who you are, what is important to you, and what you want to accomplish in your life. Today we’ll add some clarity and pull it all together in a Personal Mission Statement.

Don’t be afraid of this, we’ll share some helpful tools. A Personal Mission Statement is simply a written statement that points you toward your goals. Even thought it’s relatively simple, it is an important step because the things you’ll do for the next several days are built on this. By taking the time to clarify your focus now, you will identify the things that are most important to you, which will make it much easier to say ‘no’ to the unimportant things in the future.

It can be boiled down to this:

My purpose is to use [my skills/abilities/passion] to achieve [big picture goals- both personal and professional], based on [my values].

There are many tools available to help you draft your Personal Mission Statement. Here are two on-line versions. For both options you simply answer several questions and the program turns your answers into a Mission Statement.

Mission Statement Builder- by Nightingale- http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx This one takes a big picture approach. It takes less than 10 minutes to complete and your finished product will be one paragraph.

Mission Statement Builder- by Franklin Covey. http://www.franklincovey.com/msb/ This one is a little more detailed. It takes a little longer to complete, and when it’s done, the finished product is several paragraphs, and could be as long as one page. However, a lot of what this program develops can be used when you get in to goal setting tomorrow.

Here’s an example: To live my life with integrity, honesty and prayerful intent (values) and use my creativity and focus (skills) to make a positive difference in my family, my community and my country (personal goals) and inspire others to do the same. (professional goals).