Ask yourself these questions to help write your mission statement…
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What do I want out of life?
- What do I really want out of life?
- What would I really like to be and do in my life?
- If I had unlimited time and resources, and knew I could not fail, what would I choose to do?
- What would I regret not fully doing, being or having in my life?
- Imagine my life as an epic journey with me as the hero/heroine of the story. What do I imagine my journey to be about?
- Are there things I feel I really should do or change, even though I may have dismissed such thoughts many times? What are they?
- How do I want to live my life?
- What changes do I need to make so that I can live my best life?
- What do I want most out of life?
- What would I have to achieve to consider my life a success?
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What is most important to me?
- What do I want my life to stand for?
- What are my five core values?
- What do I stand for? What principle, cause, value, or purpose would I be willing to devote my life to?
- What are my strongest beliefs?
- What do I want my life to stand for?
- What are the five most important things in my life? Which one would be the most horrible to have taken away from me?
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Who has influenced me?
- What qualities and values do my role models have?
- Who are the people that have most influenced my life?
- What outstanding characteristics or attributes do I admire in these people?
- Which of these qualities do I value enough to include in my own personal mission statement?
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What do I love to do?
- What do I really love to do at work?
- What do I really love to do in my personal life?
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How can I contribute to the world?
- What am I uniquely put on earth to achieve?
- What do I believe my purpose or mission is in life?
- What are my natural talents and gifts?
- What impact can I make with my uniqueness?
- When am I at my best?
- What do I consider to be my most important future contribution to the most important people in my life?
- Given my talents, passions and values, how could I use these resources to serve, to help, to contribute?
- How do I want to leave the world a better place?
- How do I want to make a difference in the world?
- How do I want to be remembered?
- What kind of legacy do I want to leave behind?
- Who am I? What do I do? Who do I do it for? What do they want or need? How are they changed?
- How do I want people to remember me?
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More questions
- What if you treated your life like a team sport? Every team has a mission that it strives to accomplish. A good team measures itself by something: wins, loses, championships. How do you want your life to be measured? What do you want to be counted? What is a win? What is a loss? Life is a shared experience. And for this reason, the people around you need to be part of the plan. A good mission in life is always about more than just you. James Clear
- Imagine you only have six months to live. How would it change your actions? Michal Stawicki
- Visualise the end of your present career. What contributions, what achievements will you want to have made in your field? Michal Stawicki
- Visualise how your life will be in five, ten and twenty years from now, if you don’t make any significant decisions for all those years. Do you want your life to look like this? Michal Stawicki
- Identify patterns and themes in your life. What have they prepared you to do? What do others come to you for advice about? What comes as easily to you as breathing but is a struggle for others? Mark D. Langford
