Agenda
• What’s your mission?• How’s your attitude?• Happiness• Goals• Define your own success.• Help others accomplish their mission• Enjoy the ride - “Liming”
What’s a mission?
• Mis-sion state-ment:
A summary of the aims and values of a company, organization, or individual.
Examples
“To be the world’s leading producers and providers of entertainment and information – we seek to develop the most creative, innovate , and profitable entertainment experiences in the world.”
“Our mission is our guiding compass and now more than ever we need it to be clear and precise.” - General T. Michael Moseley
Examples
“Our mission is to win battles.” – The Marines
“Our mission is to win battles” - the Marines
An argument for a mission!
• If you can’t articulate your mission, that is your mission, to discover it.
Happiness
Study: “Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? 1978
-New Republic, 2011-Forbes.com, 2012
Happiness is a choice
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl
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