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Loving Your New Career

Sample Mission Statement
In the seminars I teach, participants write their own mission
statements. I’d like you to do the same, because no job is per-
fect all of the time. You are sure to have ups and downs in your
career, but when you’ve committed to a mission—to something
greater than any one of the individual tasks you perform
daily—even unpleasant tasks seem worthwhile. You’ll be
reminded, by recalling your mission, that even the darkest of
times cannot endure when your higher purpose is guiding your
efforts.

Writing your mission statement may very well be the
most important fearless career change exercise,
one that will shape the long-term character
of both your career and your life.

Here are some examples of mission statements:

1. To provide exceptional quality ergonomic devices and train-
ing by maintaining the highest manufacturing standards
and teaching methods so that people at work will experi-
ence less stress, more ease, greater efficiency, and better
health and will live longer, more productive lives.
2. To give back to the community by creating a corporation
that sells discount goods and services on the Internet and
contributes 30 percent of all profits to charities and com-
munity concerns so that customers get items and services
at fair prices and needy, sick, undereducated, and disad-
vantaged people can lead more happy and successful
lives.
3. To lead my company to be the No. 1 manufacturer of
routers in the world by practicing the highest of human
ethics and morals in all of my personal and business affairs
so that all of my employees will experience a safe, secure,
equitable, and harmonious workplace, and the company
will make profits of over $200 million annually.

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