A life mission statement


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Once you have decided to recreate yourself into someone that could start the next renaissance age, how and where could you do this? Generally, companies consider this to be their mission statement, which asks,

Who are the company’s customers?

What are the company’s major products and services?

Where does the company compete?
What is the company’s basic technology?
What is the company’s commitment towards economic objectives?
What are the basic beliefs, values, aspirations, and philosophical priorities of the company?
What are the company’s major strengths and competitive advantages?
What are the company’s responses to social, community and environmental concerns?
Are employees considered to be a valuable asset of the company?


A company would then try to incorporate the answers to these questions by developing a mission statement to include these criteria.


Let’s look at Microsoft for a moment at the time of this writing.
Microsoft's mission: To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential.
This is an admirable goal. Using technology to help people become actualized or individualized. Their website goes into further detail as to how this would be accomplished and addresses a number of the criteria listed above.


We now have to make the leap in using the same type of criteria to develop a personal Vision and Mission Statement. Using Leonardo as an example once again, we can see from his history that he illustrated several of these criteria.


He had an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.  He had a further commitment to adaptive management to test his knowledge through experience, and to learn from his mistakes. A great advocate of change management, he willing embraced ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty. He recognized the connectedness of all things and phenomena through systems thinking.

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