clueless
1 month ago
you actually think you have figured out your life and the direction you want to go and then you realize you know nothing! what happened?
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How to write a personal mission statement
It made me
peaceful
 "I always had this goal in the back of my mind, and then recently, I simply found my mission statement, rather than writing it."
How I did it: "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants… have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." Lessons & tips: keep your eyes and ears open. Resources: tumblr
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hazeltov is climbing...
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3 months ago
I’m having a really hard time with this. Maybe I need to do more research, or try the bullet point tactic.
- stand up for what’s right
- defend the defenseless
- protect the dignity of all persons
- equal rights; justice
- fight oppression in all forms
- share
- be a better person and set an example
- love (don’t know if I can manage the “unconditional” variety)
- reason and virtue, truth and justice
- fight lie
My mission seems to involve a lot of fighting and standing up and defending…I still have not gotten this right.
Joe pumpkin everything
Finally making progress
3 months ago
In the form of a “10 commandments”...I always think better in bullet points than prose.
lz_zeitz is making some major self-improvements
this is a goal i've been thinking about for a while
3 months ago
i think a personal mission statement is a very good idea i just need to actually write it now!
hazeltov is climbing...
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4 months ago
My mission is to be authentic, real, honest and help others be likewise. I also know that I do my best to think clearly, and help others to think clearly too.
libby_laf is totally addicted to 43 things
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6 months ago
im not quite sure what all to include
Living with Meaning
6 months ago
I’ve been feeling a call to live with more meaning lately. The feelings of emptiness I have because of my lack of an intimate relationship and children remind me that my meaning needs to come from within, not without. Even if I marry and have a family, they can’t be the source of my meaning – it’s not good for them or for me.
I feel I should be volunteering again, and perhaps considering work that has more meaning for me, even though I’ve only had this job a year and it is a good job. I want to love my job, go to work energized, to have a job that I’d do even if no one was paying me.
It’s scary to think that the result of this process might mean a new job or career, especially since I’m considering buying a house. But this feeling of hopelessness and meaninglessness washes over me with too much frequency. Life is too short to not be living with meaning, with purpose. And maybe the result of this process won’t be a new job, but new volunteer work and a sense of overall meaning and purpose.
What would people say about me at my funeral? What would I like them to say? What kind of work could I be doing that would attract the kind of partner I want to have (like the man I met recently going to work for Doctors Without Borders)? I can help people, love people more than I do now. I think writing a personal mission statement would help me focus on the actions needed to live with meaning.
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is starting .....
7 months ago
im thinking up some ideas for this…
What I want in 10 years?
8 months ago
Finished university, school or college.
Have a good job
Have good friends
Perhaps have a girlfriend but not children, not yet.
Money
Car or motorbike
What I want in 5 years?
8 months ago
I want to be in school – college or university
Healthy
Happy
No relationship
