Your life mission is at once both narrowly focused and yet sweepingly broad. Think of it as the profound theme that permeates your life.
My own mission, for example, can best be summed up by a single word: inclusion.
Your
life mission is what your life stands for. It's what you're all about,
not what you're trying to do. That's why I can sum up my life's mission
in a single word. I'm all about inclusion. If you
want to know what you're all about, think about the most profound
moments of your life. Think about what you do for people every single
day. Think about the times you have stood up for people - the times you
have stuck your neck out for people. Think about the pattern that
emerges. Paradoxically,
your life mission is often hard to pinpoint because it is so glaringly
obvious. The ways in which you already express your life mission come
so easily for you that you might very well take them for granted. And
yet through these simple gestures you have a profound effect on the
world around you - probably to a far greater extent than you realize. Next up, we'll explore the broad scope of a life mission and some of the many ways in which it can be expressed... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Articles in the Life Mission series:
