A mission statement is an excellent\u00a0way for a company, a family, a couple, or even a person to set down on paper what is most important, how he or she or they want to live life or conduct their business.\u00a0\u00a0A mission statement writer or a member of an organization with a mission statement\u00a0ought to be able to\u00a0refer to\u00a0the statement and figure out what actions to take, what to schedule for the day, the month, the year or even longer, based on the statement.\u00a0 Conversely, you ought to be able to pause before a decision (should I do ___?) and look at the mission statement and recognize, “Yes, what I’m proposing fits the mission and will lead me or us to the goal.”\u00a0 Further, an outsider ought to be able to look at a group’s\u00a0mission statement and get a quick and accurate idea of what the group or person is about.<\/p>\n
Adopting a mission statement\u00a0has been a trend in business management and\u00a0I think\u00a0companies still use such statements to help direct their activities.\u00a0 Writing a mission statement could be a good idea for anybody.\u00a0 It might be tremendously helpful for a couple to be able to ask each other, “So what’s important to us?\u00a0 How do we want to spend our time, our money, our lives?”\u00a0 Even figuring out the answers can be an excellent process for people to engage in, a good example of how moving toward a point can be as (or more) valuable than the point itself.<\/p>\n
During the record snowfall\u00a0of January 2010, my wife and I were home bound several days in a row.\u00a0 Not only was public transportation barely (or not) running, but our employer had to close because heavy snow and high wind made getting anyplace difficult to impossible.\u00a0 We spent some time making lists, writing goals and ideas on poster paper taped to the wall.\u00a0 Though we didn’t end up writing an actual mission statement, the process of figuring out our goals, hopes, and dreams for the future was valuable and fun.\u00a0 We’re still guided by the things we recognized about who we are and what we want.<\/p>\n
Here’s why I’m mentioning this.\u00a0 Writing a mission statement is a way to live literarily, to incorporate something literary, namely writing, into living.\u00a0 Writing a statement about what’s important to you, to you and your mate, or to your organization, is a way to live and do and be what you want, a way to tie together the pieces into a whole that makes sense, that moves, that guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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