A Personal Mission Statement: Your Road Map to Happiness by Michal Stawicki

Author:Michal Stawicki [Stawicki, Michal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

I Have It, What’s Next?

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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your personal mission statement is not a certificate of accomplishment to be put into the drawer. It is supposed to be your lens, starting point, the source of focus. Use it.

Beware of feeling like you're lying when you say the words of your mission statement like: "I help people all over the world to deal with their obesity problem." Stephen King hasn't been an author for all of his life. Anthony Robbins wasn't born a millionaire. Rome wasn't built in a day. If it's your destiny, it is going to happen. It is just a matter of time. And you can always "soften" the message in such a way that it will be 100-percent true: "I'm becoming a person who helps people all over the world ..."

Word of caution: don't expect your personal mission statement to come true within days, weeks or months (unless you designed it in such way - everyone is unique). Remember: it is your mission for the rest of your life, as you see it today. And you don't really mean to end your life within days or months, do you?

The purpose of all the techniques in this chapter is to assimilate your personal mission statement into your life. To soak your mind in it. Which of them you use will depend fully upon your decisions. You may have no time for meditation. No technical skills to create a movie. You may be deaf, so using an audio recording is out of the question. Some people are more susceptible to words, some to sounds, some to images. Choose and build your own strategy in accordance with your occupation, circumstances and temperament.

a) Read it every day. Or even better - read it several times a day. If you are more sensible than me, your mission statement is compressed into a few hundred words and reading will take you just a couple of minutes. Create a ritual for it. Compose it into the routine of your day. The best time for this is early morning, when you wake up and/or late evening just before going to sleep.

Always carry your mission statement with you. Skim it once in a while. Read it before making an important decision. Read it before making a minor decision, if it's one which could potentially compromise your values.

b) Meditate upon it. It's the same story as with reading - make it a ritual and compose it into your schedule. Take a comfortable position. Clear your mind. Breathe deeply. Let it be just you and the words of the mission statement inside your head.

I really have trouble with the multitude of words in my statement. But they are dear to me, so I won't resign from any part. The simple act of repeating the whole mission statement in my mind, touching particular sentences with my thought, takes me about 20 minutes. It's not a small chunk of time for me - working and commuting consume 12 hours from my day.

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