1. Personal Mission Statement
Advanced Career Readiness

2. What is a mission statement?
A personal mission statement is a brief description of what you want to focus on, what you want to accomplish and who you want to become in a particular area of your life over the next one to three years.
Mission statements are based on your current situation and what you need to focus on in the next one to three years to move you closer to your long-term vision.
It is a way to focus your energy, actions, behaviors and decisions towards the things that are most important to you.
Writing a personal mission statement offers the opportunity to establish what's important and perhaps make a decision to stick to it before we even start a career.
It enables us to chart a new course when we're at a crossroads.

3. WHO ARE YOU?
What are your attitude, beliefs, values, feelings, & reputation?
How will YOU be remembered?

4. Five Steps Toward Writing a Personal Mission Statement
Step 1: Identify Strengths
Step 2: Identify Core Values
 Step 3: Identify Contributions
Step 4: Identify Goals
Step 5: Write Mission Statement
D R A F T

5. Step 1: Identify Strengths
Spend some time identifying four or five examples where you have had personal success in recent years. These successes could be at work, in your community, at home, etc. Write them down.  
Try to identify whether there is a common theme -- or themes -- to these examples. Write them down.

6. Strengths: Helped with a school fundraiser that was very successful
Helped with production of the school play
Themes: Successes all relate to creative problem solving and execution of a solution.

7. Step 2: Identify Core Values.
Develop a list of attributes that you believe identify who you are and what your priorities are. The list can be as long as you need.  
Once your list is complete, see if you can narrow your values to five or six most important values.  
Finally, see if you can choose the one or two values that are most important to you.  

8. Most important values:
Problem-Solving
Compassionate
Decision-maker

9. Step 3: Identify Contributions.
Make a list of the ways you could make a difference. In an ideal situation, how could you contribute best to:
the world in general
your family
your friends
your community
your future employers

10. Contributions:
the world in general: To have a lasting impact on the way people live their lives.
my family: to maintain a good ethical code; to be a good mother and a loving wife; to leave the world a better place for my children and their children.
my future employers: to lead by example.
my friends: for them to know they can always come to me with any problem.
my community: to use my talents in such a way as to give back to my community.

11. Step 4: Identify Goals.
Spend some time thinking about your priorities in life and the goals you have for yourself.  
Make a list of your personal goals perhaps in the short-term (up to three years) and the long-term (beyond three years).

12. Goals:
Short-term: To pull up my GPA and graduate high school in two years.  
Long-term: To pursue a successful career after high school.

13. Step 5: Write Mission Statement
. Based on the first four steps and a better understanding of yourself, begin writing your personal mission statement.

14. 5. Mission Statement:  
To live life completely, honestly, and compassionately, with a healthy dose of realism mixed with the imagination and dreams that all things are possible if one sets their mind to finding an answer.

15. Northshore High School
A challenging and caring community encouraging lifelong learning for all students.
Mission Statement: Northshore High School enables every student to reach their highest potential by establishing a curriculum that meets or exceeds government standards for education; providing extracurricular programs that develop children’s’ mental, physical and social skills; and partnering with parents and the community to create an environment geared to the success of all students.

16. Zachary High School Mission Statement
The mission of Zachary High School is to provide each student a safe environment that fosters academic excellence, self worth, and a commitment to lifelong learning.

17. What is your mission statement?
Consider your principles.
Values
Morals
Beliefs
Begin with the end in mind.
My Mission Statement is…
…To be the best I can be.
…To continue to be a role model to my younger cousins.
…To graduate from high school and college.
…To continue to help people with their situations.
…To be a good student.
…To be a wife and mother later in life.
…To be a successful business woman/owner.
…To one day save a lot of money and help the needy.
…To donate my organs to someone who needs them when I die.
D R A F T

18. Example…
To continuously promote and foster a cooperative environment wherever I go, making everyone feel welcome in my presence, and yet retain my strength and individuality.
To use my talents as a communicator to teach others and use my social skills to bring people closer together.
To forgive but not forget, so as to learn from each experience and find my inner strength while I overcome obstacles that hide my goals.
To be guided by my values and beliefs and give thanks in some measurable way each day.
To laugh every day and act as if I have nothing to lose, because in reality, there truly is nothing to lose.
To strive to be loyal to my friends and family, lead a successful career that I will enjoy, stay healthy, and take on any challenges that come my way.

19. Your Mission Statement
Using the worksheet, write a mission statement for yourself.
Must be at least 3 lines
Create an animoto presentation for your mission statement.
Include your name and mission statement in your animoto.
your animoto to your teacher.
D R A F T

20. Guidelines: Keep it simple, clear and brief.
The best mission statements tend to be three to five sentences long.
Your mission statement should touch upon what you want to focus on and who you want to become as a person.
Make sure your mission statement is positive.
Instead of saying what you don't want to do or don't want to be, say what you do want to do or become.
Find the positive alternatives to any negative statements.
Include positive behaviors, character traits and values that you consider particularly important and want to develop further.
Think about how your actions, habits, behavior and character traits in this area affect the important relationships in your life.
Make it emotional. Including an emotional payoff in your mission statement infuses it with passion and will make it even more compelling, inspiring and energizing.