1. Chris Dallin American Society of Military Comptrollers March 23, 2013 How Darth Vader changed my life!

3. Agenda What’s your mission? How’s your attitude? Happiness Goals Define your own success. Help others accomplish their mission Enjoy the ride - “Liming”

4. What’s a mission? Mis-sion state-ment: A summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual.

5. Examples “To be the world’s leading producers and providers of entertainment and information – we seek to develop the most creative, innovate, and profitable entertainment experiences in the world.”

6. Examples “Excellence in the provision of healthcare.”

7. “Our mission is our guiding compass and now more than ever we need it to be clear and precise.” - General T. Michael Moseley

8. Examples “The company that helps mothers and fathers raise happy, healthy babies.”

9. Examples “Our mission is to win battles.” – The Marines “Our mission is to win battles” - the Marines

10. An argument for a mission! If you can’t articulate your mission, that is your mission, to discover it.

11. My mission: “I, Chris Dallin, will be happy!

14. Happiness Study: “Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? 1978 -New Republic, 2011 -Forbes.com, 2012

15. Happiness is a choice “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl

16. Define your own success

17. King George VI. “The King’s Speech”

18. Define your own success (Martha Hughes Cannon)

21. Me Pick of James Earl Jones

22. Two changes I made: “Mud Bug” hunting Fleas in a bottle

23. “Liming”

24. Thank you