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Personal Mission Statements and Vision Statements - Empower
Your Future -
Whether you're a
student, family member, employee, entrepreneur or business
owner -- somewhere along the way you have or will be asked
to focus your interests and goals to define the direction
your life will take. Many have faced this moment more than
once in their lives. A change in education, marital status,
job, or income can bring about real challenges in a person's
life. How to handle this change can be the beginning of
understanding what is important to you, what you are meant
to do, and believing what you are capable of achieving.
Understanding begins with creating a personal mission statement.
“A mission statement
declares why you exist' says Don Midgett, business consultant
and author of Mission and Vision Statements: Your Path to
a Successful Business Future,
“It identifies your
purpose and reason for being as a personal statement that
helps lead you to the work you do on your chosen path.”
Your personal vision
statement will describe your desired future – what you want
to become. Once you have your personal mission statement
defined, you can determine your horizon for the future and
create a personal vision statement that describes your desired
future. Once we have these two statements defined and understood,
how we are going to get there starts to make itself known.
Pablo Picasso, the
famous 20 th century Spanish painter was quoted as having
said ‘our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of
a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which
we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.'
The time, the effort in getting to know yourself will you
create the life you want.
Joanne S. lost her
job she really enjoyed with a major cell phone company.
When asked what she thought her job was she replied, selling
cell phones. Asked what benefit that supplied to another,
Joanne understood that what she actually enjoyed doing was
helping others stay connected. She had liked the job she
had but now had more options. Joanne could now seek out
other jobs or businesses that fulfilled a similar service
for others.
Create your mission and vision statement and empower your
future – start today. Begin to lay the solid foundation for
your strategic plan and planning process. To see better the
importance of a mission statement and vision statement, to
view examples and to read what empowerment people have experienced,
go to www.missionvisionstatement.com . There you will learn
more about creating a mission statement and the development
and use of your vision statement.
Don Midgett, Author
Mission and Vision
Statements: Your Path to a Successful Business Future
Don Midgett is
the managing partner for The Genesis Group, helping organizations
and leaders discover their full potential. E-mail him at
don@missionvisionstatement.com or visit www. missionvisionstatement.com.
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