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Writing Mission Statements
In writing a personal mission statement, you are creating a brief description of what you want to focus on and what you want to accomplish in a particular area of your life over a period of time. It’s a way to focus your energy, actions, behaviors and decisions – what motivates you - towards the things that are important to you.
Noted author Stephen Covey refers to writing mission statements as “connecting with your own unique purpose and the profound satisfaction that comes in fulfilling it.”
Covey says writing a personal mission statement is an important principle to success. The idea is that if you live by a personal mission statement of what’s really important to you, you can make better decisions and focus efforts towards a specific objective.
While writing mission statements may be valuable, but how do you go about creating yours?
Finding A Life Of Purpose
In his book, Man’s Search For Meaning Victor Frankl gives us a clear connection between finding our purpose in life and goal setting. Frankl, an Austrian Psychiatrist, was a prisoner in the German concentration camps during World War 2. In his book that has reached over 18 million copies, he details the psychological trauma of the camps and how those who survived attempted to deal with the inhumane conditions.
In his award winning book, he states:
“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future, and setting goals, even if he doesn’t achieve them. It orients his efforts, and brings meaning to his suffering. It creates purpose. This is what brings him his salvation in the most difficult of moments of his existence, although sometimes he has to force his mind to the task.”
Frankl also provides another example of the connection between orienting one’s life towards a future goal, and the loss of faith in the future:
“Prisoners who had held out hope for the end of the war or to be freed by a certain date either though prediction, prophecy or dreams, often succumbed to illness, disease, and death soon after the named date had passed.”
This stark contrast gives us a clear understanding of the connection between our need to set goals and purpose. When we have a purpose, a goal, it gives us a reason, a cause for our actions.
So how do you set goals and achieve your goals in life?
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