Why your personal mission needs to be your number one priority

What’s the point in having a personal mission? Isn’t it all a load of meaningless corporate twaddle anyway?

Well, no, having a personal mission is incredibly important, especially when times are tough.

Here are my top reasons you should put defining your mission at the top of your To-do list:

1)      Having a mission that lights you up brings meaning and purpose to your life – how will you know what fulfilment and success feels like if you haven’t taken the time to work out what it means to you?

2)      It allows you to life live on your terms – otherwise you might find yourself drifting down a well-worn career path, or following somebody else’s dream for you

3)      You get to have much greater impact – by connecting with your mission and its ripple effect, you get to impact not just your career but your family, your community, the world…

4)      We rarely get the opportunity to ask, ‘what do I really want?’ Too often we limit ourselves to the menu of life, to the limited choices of what we think is available to us. A well-thought out mission puts every option on the table.

5)      When times are tough, when you’re feeling lost, when you’ve lost your mojo, if you can bring it back to your mission, this is the best and quickest way to get back on track. Connecting to that big picture, that vision helps reduce massive problems to tiny bumps in the road

6)      Missions make it easy. Missions are not about pushing, and forcing, and making it happen at all costs. When you lean in to your mission instead, and embrace that energy, it becomes easy, and joyful and feels amazing.

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