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Happy Friday everyone! I hope you are excited about all the holiday content I have coming your way in the next few weeks. I know that not everyone is a Christmas fanatic, so I want to keep mixing in my normal content during the next month and a half, but still tie it into the season.
Today, I'm sharing about my experience working on a personal mission statement. I'll admit that I haven't devoted too much time to this yet because I know that it is a huge undertaking. I first discovered the idea of doing this through the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book, and I think that this is a perfect exercise to prepare for a new year.
The Franklin Covey Company was created based on Steven Covey's leadership center, as he is the author of the 7 Habits book. On the website, you can take free assessments that help you narrow down your goals, values, and write your very own mission statement.
Because I was hesitant about jumping into the deep end of this project, I started by 'discovering my values,' which is like a small-scale version of the full Mission Statement Builder. This assessment asks you a set of short answer questions and then has you reconstruct your responses into full sentences to make a mock mission statement. Through answering the questions, I was able to pick out key themes in my values, such as:
Today, I'm sharing about my experience working on a personal mission statement. I'll admit that I haven't devoted too much time to this yet because I know that it is a huge undertaking. I first discovered the idea of doing this through the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book, and I think that this is a perfect exercise to prepare for a new year.
The Franklin Covey Company was created based on Steven Covey's leadership center, as he is the author of the 7 Habits book. On the website, you can take free assessments that help you narrow down your goals, values, and write your very own mission statement.
Because I was hesitant about jumping into the deep end of this project, I started by 'discovering my values,' which is like a small-scale version of the full Mission Statement Builder. This assessment asks you a set of short answer questions and then has you reconstruct your responses into full sentences to make a mock mission statement. Through answering the questions, I was able to pick out key themes in my values, such as:
- commitment to family
- developing strong ethics and practicing them in my daily life
- loyalty to friends and the expectation of the same in return
- understanding success as a product of intangible goals, rather than material possessions
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