Mission Statement … care bout em? No seriously?
When I read about it in this book about Seven Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey, what came in my muddled mind … yeah mission statements of all the different organizations, which in my opinion are nothing more than advertising gimmicks and honestly speaking I don’t care much about them.
So what is such big a deal with these mission statements haan? Okay without dragging (Aru tum kab sudhrogi bhai?) let’s come to the point straight, this second habit says; Begin with the End in Mind. Ok now let’s go deeper … ever thought about your own Eulogy yes you read it right your own Eulogy that you would like to listen from your near and dear ones … while sitting cozy in heaven (lets be positive guys). I mean how would you like to be remembered? I am not trying to tell you to live such great a life so that they declare a public holiday all over nation on your Birthday … I am just talking about your priorities … very simple thing Mitra… how would you like to be remembered after your death … As a magnificent Mother, a wonderful wife or as a desirable daughter…As a endearing Entrepreneur, or a spirited Leader … As a Humanitarian, or a wealthy individual … or as a Mix of all of them together haan how bout that?
To Begin with the End in Mind is to Begin thinking what you want to be or to achieve by the end of your life, and start (as early as possible) with that as a reference.
Covey says … everything is created twice, once in somebody’s mind, mentally and than by somebody’s hand, tangibly. And he gives more weight to the first creation, most of the projects that fail … fail because of the blotch in First creation. Flaw in Second creation is always amendable.
We always do this first creation for almost everything other than our very own life! I and all of you out there must have gone through this very demanding Analysis and Design phases of different projects in our career … we understand the cruciality and criticality of these phases … we are all intelligent people.
But somehow I was missing these phases in this very personal project called life … I until now am busy doing developments in this project without any of my own blueprints without any of the Analysis estimates or design drafts… I am living like the second creation of circumstances; I am not living my life based on my own first creation. I am not my own Creator … I am just a creation of some unknown external conditions.
What I want at the End Of My Life! Where s the Mission Statement Of My Life? I am missing this … and this is … so very grave oooohhh!
And this, my dear friend is the Second Habit of some of the very effective people out there.
I am all motivated to write a Mission Statement for my Life and this wont be a usual two or a five year short term goal setter plan I promise. What about you?
You know whats the beauty of this book ... It takes you from a state of Dependence to Independence and eventually to Interdependence, the first three habits will lead you towards personal Victories … from dependence to independence and the remaining ones are supposed to bring interdependence … will lead us towards public victories, a win win for all at the end.
(See you don’t need to go through the whole book I am giving you a kunji to it.. remember those kunji’s during exam times? I will be back with Third Habit very soon … is it boring ... no tell me honestly? I know it is but still I want to share these so that you wont blame me in future ... ki kya sab akele hi seekh liya aur ban gayi one of the highly effective people)
When I read about it in this book about Seven Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey, what came in my muddled mind … yeah mission statements of all the different organizations, which in my opinion are nothing more than advertising gimmicks and honestly speaking I don’t care much about them.
So what is such big a deal with these mission statements haan? Okay without dragging (Aru tum kab sudhrogi bhai?) let’s come to the point straight, this second habit says; Begin with the End in Mind. Ok now let’s go deeper … ever thought about your own Eulogy yes you read it right your own Eulogy that you would like to listen from your near and dear ones … while sitting cozy in heaven (lets be positive guys). I mean how would you like to be remembered? I am not trying to tell you to live such great a life so that they declare a public holiday all over nation on your Birthday … I am just talking about your priorities … very simple thing Mitra… how would you like to be remembered after your death … As a magnificent Mother, a wonderful wife or as a desirable daughter…As a endearing Entrepreneur, or a spirited Leader … As a Humanitarian, or a wealthy individual … or as a Mix of all of them together haan how bout that?
To Begin with the End in Mind is to Begin thinking what you want to be or to achieve by the end of your life, and start (as early as possible) with that as a reference.
Covey says … everything is created twice, once in somebody’s mind, mentally and than by somebody’s hand, tangibly. And he gives more weight to the first creation, most of the projects that fail … fail because of the blotch in First creation. Flaw in Second creation is always amendable.
We always do this first creation for almost everything other than our very own life! I and all of you out there must have gone through this very demanding Analysis and Design phases of different projects in our career … we understand the cruciality and criticality of these phases … we are all intelligent people.
But somehow I was missing these phases in this very personal project called life … I until now am busy doing developments in this project without any of my own blueprints without any of the Analysis estimates or design drafts… I am living like the second creation of circumstances; I am not living my life based on my own first creation. I am not my own Creator … I am just a creation of some unknown external conditions.
What I want at the End Of My Life! Where s the Mission Statement Of My Life? I am missing this … and this is … so very grave oooohhh!
And this, my dear friend is the Second Habit of some of the very effective people out there.
I am all motivated to write a Mission Statement for my Life and this wont be a usual two or a five year short term goal setter plan I promise. What about you?
You know whats the beauty of this book ... It takes you from a state of Dependence to Independence and eventually to Interdependence, the first three habits will lead you towards personal Victories … from dependence to independence and the remaining ones are supposed to bring interdependence … will lead us towards public victories, a win win for all at the end.
(See you don’t need to go through the whole book I am giving you a kunji to it.. remember those kunji’s during exam times? I will be back with Third Habit very soon … is it boring ... no tell me honestly? I know it is but still I want to share these so that you wont blame me in future ... ki kya sab akele hi seekh liya aur ban gayi one of the highly effective people)
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