In Part Two of my book Tomorrow is a Matter of Choice, I develop an Eight-Step Action Plan that I feel is critical for anyone who desires to develop and strengthen their gifts and abilities and to achieve all that they are capable of becoming.
The third step in that plan is "Establish Your Priorities." This step is critical because it is the foundation that you build on. Given the frantic pace of life today and the countless distractions that influence us daily, it is no wonder that a majority of people haven't taken the time to establish what are the major priorities of their lives.
One of the best ways I recommend is to invest the time to go through an exercise of developing a personal mission statement and committing it to a formal written document which you review often and polish or revise as time passes.
Here are a few helpful hints on this exercise:
1. Start by asking yourself what are the things that are most important to you in this life.
2. What is it that you most want to accomplish based on the answer to the question above?
3. Keep it short and concise.
4. Start by making some brief notes and then organize those thoughts.
5. Do this over the course of several weeks and allow time to pray and reflect.
6. Do a rough draft and then revise it.
7. Once you feel comfortable with your statement, commit it to a formal typed document.
8. Use it to routinely evaluate your daily activities.
9. Every few months take time to assess how well you are progressing towards fulfillment of
your mission statement.
10. Commit to do a yearly revision if necessary because we do change with time.
"You can thoughtfully chose what you want to do, have, and be during your
life, or you can leave it to chance. The difference between chance and choice
lies largely in your level of commitment to creating the future."
- Dave Ellis
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