Writers Lab: Your Mission Part 2
Morning, Lab Coats! Welcome to Part 2 of writing our Mission Statements. If you haven’t read Part 1, where we explore the WHAT and the WHY of a mission statement for your creative life, you can do that here. The Assignment (or, Storybelly Invitation, as I’m calling it for this summer project) is waiting for you there as well. Thank you for being here with me! If you are reading this and want to join us in the Storybelly Summer Writing Lab Project, you can do that at the button below:
I have had Mission Statements on my mind all week. You know how it works: as soon as you are concentrating on something, the universe (or some collective energy) begins to help you find it everywhere?
I want to share a video I first watched over a year ago that is full of mission statements, although I’m quite sure that 97-year-old Dot Fisher-Smith would not have used that phrase to define what she’s talking about in this short film (12 minutes) about aging.
I didn’t think “there’s a mission statement!” when I first watched this video a year ago, but boy, I hear “mission statement” laced all throughout this video now, as I work on mission statements for you.
You can be 96 years old (as Dot is, in this video) and still be making plans for your purpose in life. In writing. In love. Even in death. This is what excites me about having that mission statement as a guide! And why I am excited to hear from you about your own mission statements as you craft them.
I will also share mine.
But first, if you have the time, please watch this short video from Reflections of Life. (Right there on their home page is a mission statement: Exploring the Infinite Beauty of Being Human.) As you watch, think of how many times Dot shares with us her mission statement. Statements.
How many do you notice? Let’s talk about this in Chat. I’ll start a thread listing what feels like mission statements that Dot makes as she casually talks about her life now. Here is the Chat thread.
Next, the Assignment, where I’m also going to bring in the Lillian Smith documentary that I mentioned in Monday’s Digest — you can read a bit more about Lillian Smith in that Digest. For now, though:
THE ASSIGNMENT/INVITATION:
