Everyone has a purpose in life.
Amazingly, very few people know what their purpose in life is.
Stop and think about it for a moment.
Do you know what your purpose in life is?
Do you really need one?!

By defining your own Personal Mission Statement, you are consciously
and deliberately adding direction and movement towards your success.
It will guide you through life and help you make important decisions,
helping you stay focused on your dreams and desires.

To help you get started in defining your own mission statement,
Stephen R. Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
suggests to ask yourself the following questions:

• What would I really like to be and do in my life?
• What do I feel are my greatest strengths?
• How do I want to be remembered?
• Who is the one person who has made the greatest
  positive impact in my life?
• What have been my happiest moments in life?
• If I had unlimited time and resources, what would I do?
• What are the three or four most important things to me?
• How can I best contribute to the world?

"An effective mission statement may consist of a few words or several
pages. Mission statements can be written in poetry, prose, music,
or art, and writen for individuals, couples, families, or organizations.
Writing an empowering mission statement is not a "to do" to be checked
off. To be empowering, it has to become a living, breathing document.
You must ponder it, memorize it, review it, update it, and
write it into your heart and mind.

• represents the deepest and best within you.
  It comes out of a solid connection with your deep inner life.
• is the fulfillment of your own unique gifts. It's the
  expression of your unique capacity to contribute.
• addresses and integrates the four fundamental
  human needs and capacities
  in the physical, social/emotional, mental, and
  spiritual dimensions.
• deals with all the significant roles in your life.
  It represents a lifetime balance of personal, family, work, community-
  whatever roles you feel are yours to fill.
• is written to inspire you - not to impress anyone else.
  It communicates to you and inspires you on the most essential level."