A mission is a purpose behind your daily actions. The WHY we do what we do. It becomes the framework for reaching our goals.
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A statement of values tells your family what is MOST important so you can arrange your goals to that end.
Next week we will go over living a mission-driven life and creating a mission statement, but the mission will be centered around your vision and your values. You need to know where you are going and who you are to be able to accomplish powerful things in your life. The vision statement gives you direction, the values define who you are, and the mission gives you a framework to reach your goals.
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A Vision statement helps you more clearly identify what you are working for and what is most important to you. It elevates your thinking and gives you something aspirational to reach for. Vision is different than dreaming though. It is consciously crafting your life instead of sitting back in fantasy hoping or imagining things to be different. We need to keep the vision fresh in our minds so that we retain hope and excitement about our future and are compelled to push through even when we lack the virtues of our value statement or the will to carry out our mission. How we make our vision or reality…
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As a way of trying to make this Christmas a Family Christmas, I am turning our Christmas tree into a family tree with ornaments celebrating our ancestors. Once a week or so we will have a special family devotional where I will tell them stories about their ancestors then together we will hang an ornament upon the tree to remind us about them year after year. I am hoping that as the years go by the ornaments will take over my tree and my kids will have a strong sense of their heritage.
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