Revise and refine your personal mission statement

Habit 2 Revise and refine your personal mission statement
Ideas to help you revise and refine
- Revise books of quotations, poetry, and other literature for language that inspires you.
- Read biographies or autobiographies of people to spark ideas for personal accomplishments or contributions you’d like to make.
- Look at other’s mission statement
- Keep a personal journal or review a past journal to explore values that are important to you
- Use ideas from the “ Mission Builder” at Franklincovey.com
- Consider creating a visual or audio version of your Personal Mission Statement

Key characteristics of an effective Personal Mission statement
- Express principles of effectiveness that produces quality –of –life results
- Provides direction and purpose
- Challenges and inspires you
- Communicates your vision and values
- Addresses your most important roles and responsibilities
- Addresses all four human needs ( physical/ emotional, mental and spiritual)
- Represents the best within you

“ No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end” - Dan Zadra

Mission statement museum
Mission statements take many forms, long or short, as poetry, art or even music. The most important thing is to make it your own.
- Mission statement – My mission is to give, for giving is what I do best and I can learn to do better. I will seek to learn, for learning is the basic for growth, and growing is the key to living, I will seek first to understand, for understanding is the key to finding value, and value is the basic for respect, decisions, and action. This should be my first act with my wife, my family, and my business. I want to help influence the future development of people and organizations. I want to teach my children and others to love and laugh, to learn and grow beyond their current bounds. I will build personal, business, and civic relationship by giving, in frequent little ways.

Resolution – Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day; I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only GOD.I shall not bear ill will towards anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all sufferings – Mahatma Gandhi-

I live to serve my talents as communicator, artist, and independent businesswoman. I create balance in work, play and community. I inspire those I interact with.
I want to be the kind of person my dog already thinks I am

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; To give one’s self; To leave the world a little better; Whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, Or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exaltation; To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived….. This is to have succeeded – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our mission – The mission of our family is to create a nurturing place of order, love, happiness and relaxation, and to provide opportunities for each person to become responsibly independent, in order to achieve worthwhile purposes.

Care – About the world, About Life, About People, About myself

Love- Myself, My family, My world, Knowledge, Learning, LIFE

Fight- For my beliefs. For my passions, To accomplish, To do good, to be true to myself, Against apathy.

Rock- The boat, don’t le the boat rock me, Be a rock Be remembered.

To be humble. To say thanks to God in some way, every day. To never react to abuse by passing it on. To find the self within that does and can look at all sides without loss. I believe in treating all people with kindness and respect. I believe by knowing what I value, I truly know what I want. To be driven by values and beliefs. I want to experience life’s passions with the newness of a child’s love, the sweetness and joy of young love, and the respect and reverence of mature love. Finally, to go through life with a smile on my face and a twinkle in my eye.