If businesses have mission statements, shouldn’t we have them for our personal lives, too? This is a concept that Franklin Covey has taught for a while now.

I think this is a great idea because we have to know who we are to know where we want to go.

What are you here to do?
Who do you want to influence?
What are your goals?
Who do you want to become?

These are just some questions that will help guide you to an exciting mission statement.
It needs to be exciting so you want to read it everyday.
It should make you want to become that person.

Think about it…

If you had to come up with a personal mission statement, what would it be?

Adam Kirk Smith
Adam Smith
25 Years in Retail, Restaurants & Hospitality · Author · Speaker · Coach

Adam spent 25 years in retail, restaurant, and hospitality leadership — managing teams of 60, growing a store from $600K to $2M+, and overseeing guest experience at a corporate level. Author of The Bravest You (endorsed by Seth Godin). Host of two podcasts. 170K monthly readers. Grimes, Iowa.

5 responses to “personal mission statement”

  1. I think I have some of these in my head but should probably be more intentional. u00a0Different note, but we have written a family mission statement in the past and find ourselves wanting to give our kids goals that are gospel-centered. u00a0That doesn’t answer your question at all.

  2. I think I have some of these in my head but should probably be more intentional.  Different note, but we have written a family mission statement in the past and find ourselves wanting to give our kids goals that are gospel-centered.  That doesn’t answer your question at all.

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