The Path

The Importance of Having a Mission

Having a clearly defined mission is important because it gives you a guiding purpose that helps you initiate, evaluate and refine all your activities. For example, Jesus had a clear mission and all his activities were based on his mission statement, which was not to condemn, but to give life.

Having a mission has helped many people turn their lives around, even when they found themselves in difficult, even life-threatening, situations. A mission can be especially helpful to a CEO. Since the average corporate executive only spends four years with a company, you may find that having a mission can provide a guiding focus if your life changes. It can help you land on your feet again.

The mission statement is a corporation’s most powerful positioning tool. A personal mission statement can be your individual guide to making decisions in your work and personal life. If your mission is clear, any job you hold is no longer an end unto itself. Instead, a job becomes the means of achieving your mission. You can create your mission statement in a few hours. It doesn’t have to take months or years. Think of your personal mission statement...