Your Personal Mission Statement
Blocking and tackling, X’s and O’s, back to the basics. This is how my clients describe my business. Vision, planning, goals, next steps, organized, accountability and spirituality is my model. It works! We’re going back to the fundamentals of successful living.
Last week we wrote about Thinking BIG. This week we’ll break it down into six steps. Steps One and Two are covered in this weeks blog.
The Six Steps:
1. Write What You Don’t Want
2. Write What You Do Want
3. Complete A Values Clarification Exercise
4. Identify and Break Down the Obstacles
5. Write Your Eulogy and then
6. Write Your Personal Mission Statement
Step One: Write down as many things as you can think of that you don’t want in your life, personally or professionally. Write quickly, don’t over think it and go with your instincts, your intuition.
Note: We don’t spend a lot of time on this because we don’t want to be focusing too long on what we don’t want. This part of the exercise is performed to help us with step two.
Step Two: Now write down as many things as you can think of that you Do Want. Many times that will be the exact opposite of what you don’t want but that fulfills the purpose of step one.
Note: Approach this like a child with a christmas list. Total belief that whatever you write down you can be, do or have. Go for it, no limitations.
Look at your list and now pick out the five things that you do want more than anything else you wrote.
That’s it for today. We’ll just chunk it down into bit size pieces to help you write the most powerful mission statement possible.
Next week: Getting clearer and clearer on your values, also know as, “What are you willing to live for?”
Mark Riesenberg, founder of Human Resources Unlimited since 1987, is a business and spiritual coach, author of How to Stop Whining and Start Winning and a renowned keynote, workshop leader and speaker. His second book, To Provide Guidance to Mankind, will be published in 2009. Click here for a partial client list and for testimonials.