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February 27th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Community, The Examined Life |
Welcome back! It's good to see you again. Please note that I am now publishing all new material at my hub site: StephenPSmith.com
Attention!
This is a call for participation.
I am working on collecting Personal Mission Statements from readers and writers, near and far. Benjamin from WOWNDADI and I are collaborating on this project, and it looks to be a lot of fun.
We will be publishing a Carnival of Mission Statements featuring your own submissions and links to other personal development bloggers around the world. Get involved!
Please add your own Personal Mission Statement in the Comments, or e-mail them to stephen [at] hdbizblog [dot] com.
See this post for more info. I’d also like to give a shout-out to Kate at Blog to Discovery for getting this started!
Here are some of the other bloggers that are participating:
gtdfrk at Getting Things Done
Lodewijk at How to Be an Original
Lisa from The 360 Alliance sent this:
This is really me in a nutshell.
My vision: peace.
My mission:
• The peaceful activism of empowered women and men
• The contagious strength of families in aligned relationship
• The breathtaking momentum of inspired young people
• The transformative fire of artists working on purpose
• The globally healing leadership of conscious corporations
Benjamin sent us a pic of how he keeps his personal mission statement handy:
Reading online is one of my passions. It was a great day when I found Google Reader and was able to navigate my way around RSS and Atom feeds! I love reading just about anything on which I can lay my hands.
Being an avid reader, I often throttle myself about the lack of time that I have to read published works: but if you would count the amount of reading I do online, it would amount to about a 500 page book per week!
I am constantly on a journey of self-exploration and growth. All that I read on my daily RSS feeds as well as anywhere else helps me to grow. My latest “spurt” is incorporating both GTD and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with the guidance of Stephen at Productivity in Context. From his blog, I have leapt also to read Christine O’Kelly, who is indeed a very powerful and down-to-earth person.
Creating my own blog at blog.wordswithin.info, I gather things that are of interest to me and I would hope to others as well. I have an eclectic mix of material in which most anyone should be able to find something that they like. I am also happy to accept critiques and suggestions: without them we never learn!
Thanks, I am looking forward to sharing more of these with you. For more information on writing your own Personal Mission Statement, see this post[link]. And you can download a worksheet here [right-click and “Save As”].
UPDATE: A reader has submitted a new mission statement:
“God preserves His order despite our chaos.”
It reminds me that there is order in spite of failure to create, much less
clean out, my in box! ~C
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February 27th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Thanks for the link Stephen.
I now feel bad because I haven’t progressed my statement since I wrote that post. Perhaps I’ll give it ago this evening when I get home from work so I can submit a first draft to you.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:34 am
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February 27th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
A little late with my post, but I got there! Really interesting discussions sparking off!
March 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Here is a link to my personal mission statement and how I developed it: http://jenuinejen.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/develop-a-personal-mission-statement/.
I created my mission statement 10 years ago. While many of my life circumstances have changed, the mission has stayed pretty much the same this whole time. I suppose it could be more eloquent and more beautifully worded but it works for me. At any rate, here is the specific wording for my personal mission statement:
To live my life as an example to others by putting God first, loving my family unconditionally, treating my body with respect, and serving my country and community to make it a better place for future generations.
FYI, I found your site through gtd.marvelz.com.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Hi Jen, and thanks for sharing.
March 6th, 2008 at 4:32 am
@Jen, that is a great mission statement. I think clarity and succinctness wins over eloquence as a priority when it comes to mission statements. Oh that more mission statements were that clearly expressed. Reading your post, it sounds like it has served you well.
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