1. How to Create a Personal
MISSION
STATEMENT

2. Steps to Write a Mission Statement
Identify Past Successes: Make a list of your past successes and identify a common theme.
Identify Core Values: Make a list of values that are important. Choose 5 or 6 core values that are most important to you.
Identify Contributions: Make a list that you could or would like to make a contribution to your family, friends, the community or even the world.
Identify Goals
Long Term: Goals that can be completed in a 1-2 year period
Short Term: Goals you want to complete after high school

3. BEN FRANKLIN'S GOVERNING VALUES
Sometimes a mission statement can be a concise list of values, defined in your own words. Here are a few of Benjamin Franklin’s values and definitions to see if they spark any ideas for your own mission statement.
Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
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.
Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

4. Identify Core Values:
Make a list of values that are important. Choose 5 or 6 core values that are most important to you.

5. Identify Contributions:
Make a list that you could or would like to make a contribution to your family, friends, the community or even the world.

6. Identify Goals
Long Term: Goals that can be completed in a 1-2 year period
Short Term: Goals you want to complete after high school

7. Write your Mission Statement
Past Successes =
Most Important Core Value(s) =
Contributions Theme=
Goals=

8. An Example of a Mission Statement
The purpose of my life is bringing happiness and growth to my family and all within my influence, while living a rich and abundant life of integrity, which is my definition of success. Living correct principles is the center of my life, from which I seek solutions to life’s many demands.

9. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life
He/she cannot be replaced
Nor can his/her life be repeated
Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
We detect rather than invent our missions in life
Each of us has an internal monitor that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and contributions that we can make.
Victor Frankl