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Mission Statement
I am still drafting a mission statement, but here's a bunch of ideas I've worked on in the past...
Franklin Covey kickstart
http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_and_resources/mission_statement_builder
- Your Kickstart Mission Statement:
- I will be honest to myself, those closest to me, and everyone else, and I will try to make it easy for others to be honest with me.
- I will love and support Gretchen, discover, learn, share, and explore with her, forever.
- I will love and support Shomari, encourage his best, listen to him.
- I will conduct my interactions with people and animals from the loving energy within me.
- I will set ambitious goals, plan and work, then achieve them to improve my life and the lives of others.
- I will provide what I am able to the people closest to me to support their growth to independence, then interdependence, so we all can achieve more.
- I will express my love to those around me, and will unlearn enough predudice to love every person.
- Integrity: I will always do my best, whether work, play, social, study.
- I will incorporate play into my daily life, seeking out others and time alone for fun.
- Fairness: I will be fair and encourage fairness with the people in my life.
- I will bring excellence to everything I do, everything I interact with will be better for it.
- Patience: I will be patient with myself and others when practice and nurturance are required for growth.
- Quality: I will study the systems around me to understand how they can become better and make the desired improvements.
- I will work to bring out the best in others, to increase potential and meet that potential.
Franklin Covey journey
http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_and_resources/mission_statement_builder
- Your Journey Mission Statement:
- If I could not fail, I would make a living as a statistical consultant
- If I could not fail, I would move to a country with strong social support for the neediest
- If I could not fail, I would become flexible, strong, and active for the rest of my life.
- I was last really excited about life when I made extreme research project on my dissertation; I was alone and felt excited, confident, alert because I was using my skills to contribute.
- If I am a hero in an epic journey, I see myself using my skills and desires to help meet the needs of others. I could be exploring the stories of those close to me to help them become more capable so they live more fulfilling lives. I could be a statistical consultant helping researchers answer their questions; I learn by being part of it, and in the end I have done excellent work and the researchers have clarity about their questions.
- patience
- learn until mastery
- happy to teach
- patience: first understand the problem, then collectively develop a plan to solve it; learn until mastery: become a resourceful statistician and consultant; happy to teach: teach students and clients about the best statistical practices
- patience: listen, seek first to understand; learn until mastery: become excellent at nonviolent communication; happy to teach: teach the 7 habits and nvc
- patience: ask the difficult life questions and have them share; learn until mastery: find strategies of being comfortable and outgoing in groups; happy to teach: share the vital experiences of my life
- I would reverse any dishonesties of my past, and I would devote more of my youth to reading.
- I am proudest of my reputation as a loving person who brings excellence to everything he does.
- A charity to help support single parents to allow them time and money for activities with their children.
- Social/emotional: nvc and 7 habits
- Mental: daily study or reading
- Physical: daily exercise and stretching
- Spiritual: evaluate goals and progress towards them
values
http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values.htm
- re: values types, and stress values
Ben Franklin's Virtues
- Franklin placed each of the 13 virtues on a separate page in a little book which he carried with him for more than 50 years. Each day he evaluated his performance with regard to each of them. Every week he selected one of the virtues as a point of special focus, concentrating his attention on the selected trait for seven days.
- Did Ben Franklin feel that this focus on his governing values was helpful? As he wrote in his autobiography, "I always carried my little book with me . . . and it may be well my posterity should be informed that to this little artifice, with the blessing of God, their ancestor owes the constant felicity of his life down to his seventy-ninth year, in which this is written."
- These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:
- TEMPERANCE: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
- SILENCE: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
- ORDER: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
- RESOLUTION: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
- FRUGALITY: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
- INDUSTRY: Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
- SINCERITY: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
- JUSTICE: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
- MODERATION: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
- CLEANLINESS: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
- TRANQUILLITY: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
- CHASTITY: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
- HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
