Leadership and Character Defined in Personal Mission and Vision Statements

Wherever you turn today there are businesses, colleges and even churches looking seriously at their "mission" in their selected fields and the "vision" of success they hold. Folks are also inundated with the "mission" of new releases, services, entrepreneurs and legislators. Varsities too are requiring candidates to submit their personal "mission statement" and "vision statement."

It becomes clear that mission and vision statements help guide us in vital and everyday choices if it's a product, service or establishment. Similarly necessary to most is that these statements reflect the personality of the person one is working with. "It is about identifying your purpose in the present and your focus for your desired future. It's a worthwhile effort which will help you with defining the "why" of you in a way that your folks, varsity, business or clients can simply understand" writes Don Midgett, writer of Mission and Vision Statements : Your Trail to a profitable business Future. "The real pay off is in the freedom that develops due to this clarification.

It becomes a tough tool for success in any selected use." As Susan Oslin, owner of MMM Creative, a graphic Internet and multimedia design firm, expounded after completing her mission statement, "It was a revelation. When I was finished I was effervescent with joy and pride about my business and its direction. I was so happy about what I had achieved with the method I proceeded to split it with everybody close to me." Good call making is another by- product of a well outlined personal mission statement and vision statement. An example is this personal firefighter mission statement : "We meet the fire at its weak points, knocking it out, not giving it an opportunity. We know the fire and use the understanding of its behavior patterns to snuff it out.

We are troublesome and don't waste our strength. We plan our strategies and predict the fire's moves. We use proved strategies and dodge bad ones. We engage the fire when we think we know we may overcome over the fire.

We don't repeat the mistakes of other encounters.".