Mission Possible

Focus on Success:

During my many years in sports, business, sales, and coaching, I’ve learned a lot about how to effectively achieve my objectives in life. Whenever the topic of achievement comes up, these 2 fundamental, all-effecting life lessons typically comes to mind:

Lesson 1 - You’ve got to be clear about what you want.

Accordingly, having a top-of-mind goal—i.e., a specific end result, along with a deadline for achieving it—is one of the keys to success. Also of crucial importance, your process (the action steps you take) must align with the goals you set. Plus, having a powerful mission statement will play an invaluable role. A mission statement is a summary that highlights the aims and values for a company, organization, team, or person. Through experience, I’ve come to know the positively life-shaping effect of spotlighting my path to success through the thoughtful composition and regular review of a mission statement. On occasion, I’ve participated in seminars on how to structure and write one. Books detailing the subject abound. I’ve even taught classes on the topic. But born of my experiences as both a lifetime practitioner and longtime coach, for our purposes here I recommend you adopt a simple yet life-aligning activity which I cover in lesson 2 below.

Lesson 2 - Write a mission statement in exactly seven words.

You may think that’s an unworkably small number, and that you’ll need to go bigger. What I’ve found, however, is that seven words works well because that number is large enough to make a precise and accurate declaration but small enough to cause thorough contemplation and refinement about what you say. And, whether personal or professional, write a separate, standalone mission statement for the various core aspects of your life. One that accurately depicts how you want to be and what you want to accomplish in each direction you focus. Brevity and variety – it’s a proven approach that’s worked great for me. Happily, as I look back at the series of mission statements I wrote over 20 years ago, for the most part they’ve been fully realized. Indeed, the following examples from the professional side of my life still hold true. Although living up to them has been the work of my life, each has been a guiding light in my life…

Let's Build Your Mission Statement

Writing a concise mission statement that accurately represents a specific facet of your life is a challenging yet beneficial exercise. Doing that in different areas of your life will, over time, work to compound the relative gains you generally come to experience. If you review and reconfirm them regularly, they will lift you up and carry you forward in the direction of your dreams…

Fred's Examples

Fred Wilson

"Tapping my potential to be my best."

ProNet Partners, Inc.

"Developing income streams to create financial independence"

Capitis Real Estate

"Providing the environment in which agents prosper."

Agent Fred

"Averaging one deal a week, or more."

Fred Wilson Coaching, Inc.

"Bringing the tools of success to everyone."

Coach Fred

"Helping people be well and do well."

Exercise:

Use the editor below to write and edit your own mission statement(s). Click update to save your mission statement here. For each statement write down an aspect of your personal and/or professional life along with a 7 word sentence that truly reflects what you want to be and/or do in each of those areas. Use Fred’s examples as a guide.

My Mission Statement(s):

Mission Possible