My personal mission statement

I wrote a personal mission statement early in 2007 and then my world fell apart. At least that is the way it appeared to me at the time, any way I am still recovering from the 2007 experience. Earlier this year I made two entries about a personal mission statement. They are Writing a personal mission statement and Time to recharge my spiritual batteries.

I wrote the personal mission state and recently reviewed that statement. After reviewing the statement, I realized that it does not inspire me; therefore, I am rewriting that statement. I am going to start at the beginning and rewrite the entire mission statement from scratch. I think that is the only way I am going to write something that will inspire me.

I have figured out what I did wrong in the first mission statement. I know I did not identify three core values in my life. In addition, I did not identify who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do. There were other mistakes in that mission statement. As I write this, I am starting to suspect that the events of 2007 changed me; change me so much that the mission statement I wrote before "my life fell apart" is no longer inspiring.

It does not matter at present whether the original mission statement was inspiring or whether it no long inspires me because I have change. It is time I wrote a new mission statement that inspires me and reflects both "who I want to be" and "what I want to do".

I am giving myself until Labor Day to complete this new statement. Between now and then, I am going to pray and meditate concerning each ingredient in the mission statement. Once I have completed the questions concerning what I want in the statement, then I will write the statement.

NOTE: I know I was supposed to rewrite the mission statement before March 21, 2008. I can only find the original mission statement, which means either I did not rewrite it or I rewrote it, but did not save it. The third possibility is that I need to reorganize my hard drive and clean it up.