Personal Mission Statements

[7Wannabe5]

What is your personal mission statement?

Here are examples:http://www.fastcompany.com/3026791/dial ... te-one-too

I have decided that mine is : Facilitate creative organic growth. Maintain cheerful, curious outlook. Clean up as I go.

[Dragline]

The first thing that comes to mind is "Get on with it."

[ether]

Not personal, but my personal favorite is Enron's: "Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence"

[Ego]

Leave it better than I found it.
Find the lesson and the fun in every challenge.

[JamesR]

"Always ask questions"
my old motto "Burn bridges" but not sure I buy that anymore
"try anything at least once" (dangerous! )

"live fast and die young" <- never had that one, but people that do are kinda interesting (or suicidal!)

[7Wannabe5]

Dragline said: The first thing that comes to mind is "Get on with it."

lol- But, first send one of your 5 offspring to fetch you some coffee, right?

@ether: Maybe the subtext is something like "Let them eat RICE."

@Ego: Obviously, we are extremely non-identical twins separated at birth.


@JamesR: I dated a man who has, at this point, made it until the age of 73 with the "live fast and die young" motto. He had an arm shot off at 19, but that didn't stop him. He ended up in recovery at mid-life, but that didn't stop him. He is rather baffled by his survival and success. I think it is due to the fact that if the "fast" doesn't kill you outright, it serves as a sort of invigorating exercise. He once won $30,000 on a Pick 6 while in my company and was visibly disappointed when he realized that it would make no material difference in his lifestyle. Iggy Pop still jumping all around the stage might be another example of survivor of this strategy.

[stand@desk]

One of my favorites is from George Bernard Shaw..and it has been used off and on as my personal mission statement:

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

He has many great quotes..

I also find with personal mission statements or quotes to live by, they don't hang around forever and if you try and hold on too tightly, they become stale or even annoying, so I find I need to keep searching and be on the outlook for renewed wisdom semi-regularly..

[wood]

"I'm dying relatively soon"

[FBeyer]

...keep searching and be on the outlook for renewed wisdom semi-regularly..

Well. There you go. Your mission statement!

[jennypenny]

Learn to work with what you've got.

[IlliniDave]

It's not a mission statement, but a motto of sorts:

Start from the place your feet hit the floor when you get out of bed, and each day do the best you can from there.

[leeholsen]

It's not a mission statement, but a motto of sorts:

Start from the place your feet hit the floor when you get out of bed, and each day do the best you can from there.

I would agree, I do not have a mission statement; but I do have a motto:

Think before you put it in your head.

This can apply to food/nutrition, drugs, thoughts, knowledge, beliefs and what you watch. Most everything that you let affect you went thru your head in some capacity first.

If I have a mission statement it would probably be something like try to exceed your expectations.

[FBeyer]

Go to bed smarter than I was when I woke up.

[cmonkey]

Find peace in imperfection.

[tonyedgecombe]

To get through life without a personal mission statement.

[Tyler9000]

After working at a big company that was all about mission statements (every project had one), I find them depressingly and hopelessly corporate. That said, I do have a mantra that I seem to fall back on pretty often -- "Everything happens for a reason."

While the meaning certainly will have religious connotations for other believers, the interpretation I most use is relatively secular. Every experience, good or bad, is an opportunity to learn something.

[jacob]

As far as I understand (from reading MBA primers some years ago as part of the non-profit startup I was part of), mission statements are supposed to summarize how you get things done i.e. how to get from where you are to your "vision statement" i.e. where you want to go. IOW, it's a summary of your operational methods and nothing else. Not to be confused with mottoes, slogans, or favourite quotes.

I suppose mine is something like "I solve hard problems by knowing more than you do but I usually fail to make the sell".

Motto: "Epitomizing the Cassandra Complex"

Slogan: "I told you so."

Vision statement: "To save the world from stupid."

[Ego]

Vision statement: "To save the world from stupid."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_statement

Creating and implementing vision statements presents challenges to organizations. They can be challenging to write because they must balance being forward-looking and describing an ideal state without becoming so idealistic that the vision is unattainable.

[jacob]

Yeah, I know ;-P I fall within the Cipolla naives. Three sigma likelihood, eh?

IOW - incremental steps according to the current [stagnant] paradigm.

[JamesR]

Another good one.. "This too shall pass" it's scary powerful so use it sparingly.