Create a Mission Statement to live your Dreams

This article will teach you how to write a Mission Statement in 6 Steps for daily action.

When is one idea, sentence, or philosophy worth $750 million? When that one sentence is a Mission Statement backed by Core Values and mission-directed action daily! Terry Fox was a 21-year-old Canadian who had his leg amputated due to cancer. Terry wanted to do something about cancer.

He made it his mission to raise awareness and raise money for cancer research. Terry stayed committed to that mission.

He created the “Marathon of Hope” and trained by running 26 miles daily on his prosthetic leg to raise money for cancer.

Terry’s Marathon of Hope goal was to raise $22 million, $1 for every Canadian as Terry ran across Canada.

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For information or to donate to Terry Fox Foundation, go here.

That mission has raised OVER $750 million to fight cancer to date.  Terry Fox completed 3,339 miles or 3/5s across Canada, running a marathon a day for 143 days. Unfortunately, Terry’s cancer returned and he had to stop the run.

Terry survived long enough to see $24 million raised from the marathon to reach his goal. Terry died at the age of 22 on June 28, 1981. Annual Terry Fox runs have raised over $750 million to fight cancer.

Terry Fox’s mission has made a noticeable difference in the cure rates of cancer today.

Write and commit to a powerful and personally motivating mission that drives you to do big things.  A powerful mission means something to you and grabs your enthusiasm to act.

What is the definition of a mission statement?

A mission statement is your why. It is the reason you are here. It is the reason you exist. It is the reason you breathe.

It is the reason corporations breathe. When they have a mission statement, it should describe why they are here. Your mission statement is why you are here. Your mission statement will be described for you after you pass, whether you have described one yourself during life or not.

When people talk about how you lived., they will be describing how you performed your mission or purpose on this earth. 

Use THIS proven process to discover and live your mission daily. You may not raise $750 million for cancer, but you will do a lot of great things with your life with a powerful, motivating mission.

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Here are the steps to build a powerful mission statement:

Step 1 Part A. Journal How I Got Here

To Write a Mission Statement, use your journal, or better yet, put the Live Your Mission Today Fillable Template on your device and you can journal anywhere conveniently. 

Journal about the paths you have taken and the learning you have received up until now. Give yourself a great description of your life up till now. Journaling and thinking lead to insight and gives you a base from which to move forward.

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When you have journaled and given some thought to your current progress, you build your foundation of learning to grow from and identify your Mission in Life.

Step 1 Part B. – Journal to Your Beautiful Life Forward

Take this journaling seriously as you journal your Beautiful Life Today forward.  Journaling your life forward should describe beautiful, exciting goals and dreams for your health, wealth, and happiness.  Paint your future picture 5, 10, 20 years out.  Create your beautiful ideal life and future with this important journaling. Write a Mission Statement that supports your beautiful life forward.

Journal your beautiful life forward to paint a beautiful future.

Describe your ideal picture of how you want to perform in the future. Make sure you are observing how you got here looking forward and how you want to be remembered.  This journaling should help you get ideas about your Mission in Life. 

Step 2. Write About The Value You Want to Provide In The Important Areas of Life

This journaling helps you identify values and goals for your future as well.  You have already been introduced to our Values Powered Success Template. 

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Identify the areas of focus or your life where you will be providing value.

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Balance Life Today has suggestions and exercises to determine the areas of life focus you want. To build a better life, you must use your mission statement to help determine your values.

Here is a blog lesson s about how to create Work-Life Balance.

The “I Provide Value” exercise helps you understand the value you want to provide in your life.

Read this blog article to Identify and practice Core Values to achieve goals

Do the journaling work to identify how you will EXCEL in the future. What do you want to accomplish with your life?

We offer you our Balance Life Today Template for free @ balancelifeFREE.com. If you have completed the template, you will have picked six areas of focus in your life.  Pick six areas of focus and describe what value you want to provide or be known to provide.

Journaling how you provide value will give you some more ideas on how to write a mission statement. the life goal, or a purpose that you are going to generate. 

Before you start to write a mission statement, begin by looking at some examples of mission statements for ideas. 

Examples

• Paul Hinkle: Helping Others Achieve Goals
• DoItNowTemplates.com: Build the Steps and Climb to Dreams
• Coca-Cola: To refresh the world to inspire moments of optimism and happiness create value and make a difference
• Tripp advisor: To help people around the world plan and have the perfect trip
• Walt Disney: To Make People Happy
• Toyota: To attract and attain customers with high valued products and services
• Microsoft: To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize full potential

Notice that these mission statements are easy to remember.  When you write a mission statement, create one that can be remembered and repeated in any situation.  Write a mission statement that is an affirmation or positive statement of what the company or the person does for others.

Step 3. Brainstorm Mission Statements using a Mission Statement Generator Template

Write a mission Statement using a mission statement generator, you can start it simply as a sentence. This Generator should write a mission statement for you with the journaling done.

We ___(What)____for­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____(Who)____ because __(Reasons, Benefits)__.

Brainstorm your Mission in Life and live self-actualized!

Write a mission statement that checks off the boxes.

Brainstorm your mission in life until you find one that checks off all the boxes:

If your Mission Statement checks all the boxes, you are ready to put it into action.

Step 4. Visualize to Actualize Living Your Mission

Write a Mission Statement and Visualize carrying it out.

Visualize yourself acting on your mission in all the important areas of your life.  Typical areas are named are Family, Work, Finances, Spiritual, Physical/Health, and Learning.  Describe your mission-directed future life and your important areas.

Visualize how you live your mission in all important areas of life!

Visualization helps you see yourself carrying out your mission in all areas of life.  When you see yourself doing the right activities, planning and carrying out those activities becomes easier. 

Visualize to actualize your mission.

5. How to Live Your Mission Every Day

This is how your Mission works in your Personal Development Plan.

Make your to-do list each day, keep in mind your mission and how many of the to-dos are mission-directed. Write a mission statement on your daily To-Do List. How is your daily to-do list getting you closer each day to fulfilling your mission statement?

Live Your Mission Today Mission Directed To-Do List

Set up a next-day Mission Directed To-Do List at the end of each day for maximum results.

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Live your mission every day by making a Mission Directed To-Do List.  The Live Your Mission Today Template includes three different to-do list templates. Write a mission statement at the top of each daily to-do list.

Make a to-do list each day at the end of the day and ask yourself the Ben Franklin question “What Good?” 

Find something you did that day that you can praise and encourage yourself for the next day. 

Answering the “What Good?” question reinforces positive movement daily.

Start journaling, find a mission statement, and add Mission Directed To-Dos to your daily life.

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