When you prepare for your own mission statement, ask the deeper questions. What are your unique gifts? Listen to those who see the potential in you. Listen and sense their affirmation of you. Study the lives of people who’ve inspired you—your heroes and what it is that you admire about them—so you can get a sense of the principles on which you want to build. You want to write a mission statement that is timeless, that will not change. It may in fact change, but you want to write it as if it will never change. You want to act upon it by exercising your will, your independent will, to live by
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