

“I will seek to balance career and family as best I can since both are important to me. Concentrate all abilities and efforts on the task at hand, not worrying about the next job or promotion.” Do not fear mistakes –fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes. I would very much like to share these completely different kinds of philosophies with you here as example 1 and 2 respectively: One of my role models, Stephen Covey, included in his magnum opus The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a friend’s personal creed as well as the personal mission of a woman searching to balance work and family values. Your creation of a mission statement does not have to measure up to every detail of it! This will kill your creativity! You will perhaps, and I sincerely hope you will, come up with something creative and unique that can’t be described beforehand by somebody else! Remember, those ideas are just man-made guidelines. You can also try to identify the process that each person followed by looking again at the what, why and how of a personal mission statement.īy doing this you will become aware of to what extend the ideas expressed in the first article, are reflected in and by the examples. Now you are going to do exactly the same with the examples that are included in this article.

see what you can learn about the characteristics, vocational interests, principles and values, of the people behind the statements?.try to identify the differences between the statements and.When you received the personal mission statements of the other people that you encouraged to create their statements, as recommended in the previous article, did you: Just read through the examples in your own time, get the real feeling of a personal mission statement, become comfortable with it, and flow gently at your own pace with the idea of developing your own unique mission statement. Let us start demonstrating the creation of a personal mission statement now by looking together at examples of a personal mission statement. In the previous article “12 Tips to Develop a Personal Mission Statement” I have explained the what, why and how of such a statement.
