[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8240: A Proper Mission Statement Can Drive Your Life Forward ###

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #8240: A Proper Mission Statement Can Drive Your Life Forward ###
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-05 02:34:47

#8240: A Proper Mission Statement Can Drive Your Life Forward ###
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 Reporter:  lectledquehor1971  |        Type:  Bugs            
   Status:  new                |   Milestone:  To Be Determined
Component:  None               |     Version:  Boost 1.52.0    
 Severity:  Problem            |    Keywords:                  
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 A lot of people measure us by our achievements -- what weve done. In my
 experience, most people make their track record of achievements BY
 MISTAKE; that is, we dont have an agenda, we just respond to opportunities
 because they occur. Put simply, our successes are externally motivated,
 not internally driven. What this argues for, obviously, is a consciousness
 of vision -- what your lives is truly about. Thats what this short article
 will discuss -- your Own Personal Mission Statement. An Individual Mission
 Statement will help you to prepare your whole life -- your time, your
 ideas, your goals. Actually, a personal mission statement, conscientiously
 produced, may change the manner in which you view everything in your life.

 Your own personal mission statement will force you to constantly re-
 evaluate who you are, what youre about, and what youre doing. As only look
 at the Constitution of the Usa, an example. A more perfect union is
 created by the essential mission statement there is...to. Where could we
 be as a nation today should they hadn't defined the goals and hopes of a
 fresh nation in those conditions?

 The basics of a vision statement are as follows:

 1. Make to and it short the point. Nelson Mandelas vision statement,
 created over his 27 years in jail in South Africa, says only this: End
 Apartheid. Yet another good mission statement originated by Abraham
 Lincoln upon his inauguration as President. Preserve the Union. Note that
 goal statements can change. Perhaps a goal is accomplished. Franklin
 Roosevelt began his presidency with a goal to Finish the Depression. By
 the full time which was almost done another threat had arisen and the Usa
 had become involved in World War II. Today the mission statement was End
 the War.

 2. Hold your mission statement small, to the point, easy. Use direct
 language. Make sure that a 12-year-old can comprehend the statement and
 youll become more or less on course.

 3. So it can be burned in to your awareness make it unique. The rule of
 thumb here is that in the event that you cant read it from memory, its too
 long and too complicated. Remedy: simplify, reduce, laser your thought
 process until youve said everything you need to say in the least and best
 possible words.

 4. Remove excuses. Before you can create an effective mission statement
 you must clear away the reasons that prevent many people from writing one
 in the very first place. Dont make the mistake of convinced that your work
 CAN be your vision. Their only part of it...or not. In either case,
 understand that a mission is bigger than work. Your task may change, but
 your goal may maybe not. In fact, solutions that a job MUST change so as
 that a goal be accomplished. So dont lock yourself in a that says that
 you're your projects. Youre much more than that. Still another
 trap...excuse...is My position is my mission. If youre a guy you may think
 of one's role as breadwinner.

 For a female this might be wife or mother. The operating principle here's
 your part, too, might change. In fact, as your life, changes your part
 will almost certainly change. The third reason -- usually the one most of
 us dont want to cop to -- is that we possibly may think that were not
 important enough to truly have a mission statement. Certain, its great for
 a huge business to have one, or for a nation to have one, but Im just one
 of the little people, so I dont DESERVE one. Parenthetically, we hardly
 ever say this aloud. What we do say, at the very least to ourselves, is
 that we dont NEED one. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!! Eliminate all that silly
 thinking. Emphasis. Youll be glad you did.

 Eventually, drive out influences which have influenced you before. A
 mission statement isnt by what you think you must be doing. Its in what
 EXCITES you. So instead of hearing all those voices from the past...the
 ones that told you you werent worth any such thing, that youd never
 succeed, and so forth. Concentrate on your gifts, your dreams.

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