Get Your Goals “On Purpose”
By Julie Rosset, MA, Editor
© 2006 All Rights Reserved

"Focused mind power is one of the
strongest forces on earth."
~~ Mark Victor Hansen

Setting goals is VERY important. But creating a “Mission Statement” focused around those goals is what can actually pull your goals together for real action!

Creating a mission statement is very different from just writing out a long list of goals. The goal of a mission statement is to combine your goals into one brief statement with measurable outcomes and a definite deadline (such as the end of 2006).

What’s the value of doing this? It helps you decide exactly what your real priorities are ... how they work together ... and what personal attributes you will use to achieve them.

Create a Mission Statement
Get pen and paper.

First – Make a note of your five best personality characteristics. These could be things like: A sense of humor, persistence, open to learning, adventuresome, creative, etc.

Second – Briefly describe how you express each of these positive characteristics on a regular basis. For example, if you listed “open to learning” as one of your best characteristics -– you might write “by being committed to learn from each “failure.” if you wrote “adventuresome” as one of your traits – you might note: “By remembering my goals are an adventure.”

Third – Note the five primary goals you want to achieve by one year from today -– plus a specific financial goal.

Fourth – Review your first three steps -– and circle the three most important in each of those steps.

Fifth – Combine the circled items together as a Mission Statement. Then edit your Mission Statement, making it as short as possible without losing your meaning.

You’ll end up with a paragraph that could reads something like this:

“My mission is to focus my drive, creativity and technical expertise by continually learning from everything I do, by creating unique solutions to my business challenges, and by expanding my ability to create a network that will bring me steady flow of new referral business, and a minimum of $150,000 in gross income by this date one year from today.”

Sixth – Carry this with you in your wallet or daytimer, post it, and best of all -– memorize it and carry it around in your brain all day. A lot of folks find a Mission Statement keeps them “on target” better than just a long list of goals!

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