Personal Mission Statement

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Personal Mission Statement Overview

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Personal Mission Statement Overview

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What is a personal mission statement?

Personal mission statement defines your purpose and things that matter to you, giving you the path for life planning.

Three things that go into a personal mission statement are

  • Short summary of your purpose
  • List of core values you would like to see in yourself
  • List of life goals and achievements
Why is the personal mission statement important?

Every historical figure studied during this research had a specific personal mission they were pursuing.

Having a personal mission statement sets a clear direction for your work, your family, and your life.

Creating a personal mission statement is the first step to goal achievement.

How to create a personal mission statement?

Personal mission/ purpose can be found in:

What goes into a personal mission statement.

Further Reading on This Page:

Read through the recommendations and Insights from Historical Figures. 

Review the importance of setting a personal mission statement via Personal Mission Statement Quotes from different historical figures studied.  

Insights from Historical Figures

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Pythagoras – Core Values
  • Focus on spiritual growth and development
  • Maintain healthy family relationships
  • Have a strong network of friends
  • Develop emotional intelligence and self-respect
  • Be purpose-driven and set goals
  • ‘Memento Mori’ remember your mortality
  • Embrace uncertainty
  • Respect the opinions of others but think for yourself
  • Take deliberate actions
  • Be a continuous learner
  • Take care of your physical health
  • Avoid excessive spending
  • Practice generous giving
  • Practice regular retrospection
Benjamin Franklin – Core Values
  • 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 employed 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.
  • Tranquility: 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.
Viktor Frankl – Where to Find Purpose
  • Doing something significant
  • Caring for others
  • Overcoming adversity and finding courage during difficult times

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Personal Mission Statement Quotes

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The masterpiece of man is to live to the purpose.

Benjamin Franklin

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Benjamin Franklin

Let us, then, be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;
so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Benjamin Franklin

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Viktor Frankl

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Viktor Frankl

In a word, each man is questioned by life;
and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life;
to life, he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Viktor Frankl

The meaning of life, differs from man to man, and from moment to moment.
Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way.

Viktor Frankl

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment.
Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.

Viktor Frankl

Everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Viktor Frankl

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