Businesses and organizations have mission statements to help guide them and ensure that they stay on track and accomplish what they were created to accomplish.

Why don’t you?

I was talking to a friend recently who noted that her mom has a personal mission statement hanging on her wall. After she said this, I was astonished. How is this not the rule of human existence? Rather it seems to be the exception – I have yet to find another person that does this.

One of my favorite books is A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. The big idea behind the book is that human stories easily become boring unless one adopts a sort of intentionality of living a good life; similar to how a good book has intentional conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution. What better way to introduce a healthy conflict in your life than a personal mission statement, calling you to action?