Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge
and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills,
crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.
We each have a number of different roles in our lives -- different areas or
capacities in which we have responsibility. I may, for example, have a role as an
individual, a husband, a father, a teacher, a church member, and a businessman.
And each of these roles is important.
One of the major problems that arises when people work to become more
effective in life is that they don't think broadly enough. They lose the sense of
proportion, the balance, the natural ecology necessary to effective living. They
may get consumed by work and neglect personal health. In the name of
professional success, they may neglect the most precious relationships in their
lives.
You may find that your mission statement will be much more balanced,
much easier to work with, if you break it down into the specific role areas of
your life and the goals you want to accomplish in each area. Look at your
professional role. You might be a salesperson, or a manager, or a product
developer. What are you about in that area? What are the values that should
guide you? Think of your personal roles -- husband, wife, father, mother,
neighbor, friend. What are you about in those roles? What's important to you?
Think of community roles -- the political area, public service, volunteer
organizations.
One executive has used the idea of roles and goals to create the following
mission statement:
My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of
others.
To fulfill this mission:
I have charity: I seek out and love the one -- each one -- regardless of his
situation.
I sacrifice: I devote my time, talents, and resources to my mission.
I inspire: I teach by example that we are all children of a loving Heavenly
Father and that every Goliath can be overcome.
I am impactful: What I do makes a difference in the lives of others.
These roles take priority in achieving my mission:
Husband -- my partner is the most important person in my life. Together we
contribute the fruits of harmony, industry, charity, and thrift.
Father -- I help my children experience progressively greater joy in their
lives.
Son/Brother -- I am frequently “there” for support and love.