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Benjamin Franklin’s Mission Statement
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Mission statements come in many shapes, sizes and colors. They can be speeches or can be poems, they can even be long essays on what you want to achieve in life and how you will go about doing it.
Few days back, I came across mission statement of Benjamin Franklin on www.franklincovey.com. Mr. Franklin’s mission statement is not a speech, its not even a essay, neither is it a poem. It’s much simpler than that. It’s his set of values statements. This post present Benjamin Franklin’s mission statement.
The Mission Statement
Mr. Franklin’s mission statement is a very simple set of
More >Why You Don’t Live Your Personal Values and How to Change That
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Almost everyone wants to grow, everyone wants to be successful. In an ideal world people like to live their personal values. They would like to be truthful and honest in all the dealings. They would like to work hard, they want to do the “right thing.” Unfortunately, most people don’t.
Why People Don’t Live Their Personal Values
Although everyone would like to have great values, most people don’t live them because of following reasons:
1. SacrificePeople want to be called for having great values but they do not want to sacrifice their comfort. If you want to live your core values, be
More >Personal Vision and Core Values – A Kaleidoscope
0A mosaic or a chemical mixture or a kaleidoscope, whatever you may want to call, this post is exactly that. I wanted to look at how other bloggers see personal vision and values and add a little different flavor to Chat at the Cooler. Tell us how do you like this experiment in the comments below.
Picture Source: Lynn (Gracie’s mom)
Personal Vision and Personal Values – Different Shades
- How to Define Your Personal Values, Vision and Goals – This is a great article by Rachel Walker. Rachel talks about discovering values, pairing it up with vision and setting up goals. However, I do not
Develop and Form Your Personal Values
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In the previous posts, we talked about how to discover your personal and core values in less than 10 minutes and how to write a value statement. In this post I am going to talk about developing your personal values.
Developing Your Personal Values
Developing your personal values is a three step process. You need to define the value clearly and then clarify it further. After that, create value-based guidelines to support your personal values. Once you have the guidelines, start the 30 day roll-out. This is a really quick summary of development process. Lets look at the process in More >
Values Statements – An Important Missing Piece of Your Success Puzzle
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So you discovered your personal values by using the two methods or vision exercises, what next? Will knowing your personal values help you succeed? Nope. Knowing your personal values is a start, and the next thing you need is to define and clarify these values and develop these values. In this post, we will define the values by using values statements.
So What the Heck is Values Statement?
I am sure you have heard of vision statements and mission statement, but values statement? What is that? Out of 1000 people out there, only 50 people seriously think about planning for success, only
More >Discover Your Personal Values with Your Personal Vision
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You can create your personal vision in less than 15 minutes by using vision exercises and by asking vision questions. You can use the same exercises and questions to discover your personal values. Previously, we have talked vision exercises and vision questions, in this post we’ll use these two tools to discover your personal values.
Vision Exercises
Vision exercises are great tools for creating a personal vision. These vision exercises can be used to discover personal and core values too. Vision exercises mentioned in Create Vision Statements with Vision Exercises – Part 1 and Part 2 can
More >List of Personal Values
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There are many lists for personal values that can be found on internet. Some of them are long, some are very long and some are short. In this post I have tried to put together few lists available out there to help those who are searching for a perfect list.
Here are the few lists of personal values:
- List 1 – This is the list we have used for discovering your personal values in past. I think this list is sufficient and covers almost all the required values.
- List 2 – Steve Pavlina gives a huge list of personal values. I think that list is unnecessary and is redundant. However, some may
How to Discover Your Personal Values in Less Than 10 minutes
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What is 10 minutes worth for you? How about changing your life by knowing what is important to you? You think you already know what’s important to you? This post may prove you wrong. A majority of people don’t know what their core values are, they do not give enough time to figure out how they want to live their life.
How much time it takes? Less than 10 minutes. That is how quickly you can start discovering your personal values. Read this post and discover what guiding principles or personal values are important to you.
Discovering Your Personal Values
A set of personal values is like a
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