What Is Your Personal Mission In Life?

One of the most important things that leader do is define their purpose, and identify what they ultimately want to achieve.

If purpose missions are so important for leaders, why don’t we spend any time creating them for ourselves?

All of us have different ideas about success. What’s important though is that we send time defining our version of success individually. Otherwise, how will you understand what you should be working toward and how will you if your decisions are helping you move towards your goals.

Mission and vision statements are useful for bringing sharp focus to your most important goal and help you quickly identify where you should start and what you should pursue.

January isn’t over, so this is a good time to begin working on this. I need to get my vision statement figured out and begin working toward my goal for the year. I’ve done this in the past but always get distracted before the close of the year.

Shaping this goal into a mission statement helps to keep it in the front of your mind, and helps to focus your energy and resources on it. Without focus, we can become distracted and causes us to spread out effort too thinly across multiple goals.

There is a difference between a mission statement and a vision statement.

• Mission Statement – This defines your purpose. It’s what you ultimately want to achieve in your life expressed in a specific measurable way.
• Vision Statement – This is a bit more emotional. Here you define your core values, and how you will apply those values to your mission.

Identify what you best. Your unique strengths will point to what you would like to do most with your life.

Think about what success means to you. If you get stuck try making a list of accomplishments that really made you feel like you’ve done something worthwhile. If you make a short list to track your progress.

Take the time to explore what you want to do with your life. Narrow down the goals you want to pursue most.

After doing the first 3 steps, look at your goals, and your unique strengths and then identify one goal that you most want to achieve.

Focus on the goal you have chosen think about it every day. I find that spending a few moments at night to recall where I am with my goal, helps me.

It’s so easy to just push our main goals aside when get busy or distracted by something else that we often forget about our main goal. If you get off track, don’t give up. Pick it back up and start working on that goal.