My Mission Statement

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What is your mission?

It is our chose to choose the mission. Life will always happen, but how we embrace it will make all the difference. With a mission statement we have a general guidance for our day to day which guides our future. It is something that we can use to focus on all parts of life. If we have a “positive attitude” in our statement, then that applies when we are in traffic and at home and at work and when tragedy strikes and when we are with our loved ones. It filters and focuses what we do so we can have a greater impact.

By having a mission statement we routinely look at it and give ourselves a quick check to see if we are where we want to be. As Zig Ziglar was famous for saying, it may serve as “A checkup from the neck up.” It also allows us set our boundaries. In Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life, by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, they say, “In short, boundaries help us keep the good in and the bad out.” They use boundaries as the analogy of fences and gates on our property. Our statement can often quickly let us when a “yes” or “no” is needed.

If you would like to create your own mission statement you can use this free worksheet from Dan Miller’s 48 Days site. You will find a few examples of mission statements in it. I encourage you to look up your favorite business and read their mission statement and see how they follow it.

My Mission Statement:

My mission is to have a positive attitude in everything I do and to unsparingly sprinkle humor into most dishes. I will continue to grow in knowledge and wisdom. I will strive to love others as I would want to be treated and carry unity and truth into scenes. I will be an ear more than a mouth and lend a helping hand or foot to people whenever possible. My actions and words will be aligned to respect God and my family and friends and strangers and my future family and that of generations to come.

I do not see this as my final mission statement. Extra stuff will be sewn into it and parts cut out and ironed out as time goes by. I wanted to get something down so I could take another step with a firming step. If you want to see how I got to this mission statement you can see the foundation blogs for it here:

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What would be one thing in your mission statement?