Essentials: Clarity and vision

“If one does not know which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable” - Seneca.

🚀 Action

Write down your values, principles, mission, and vision. Also, describe a perfect day of your life.

🤔 The Why

Before setting any goals, it’s important to dig a little bit deeper and learn more about yourself. Achieving clarity about who you are, what guides you, what are your principles and values, is probably the most important task for every human being. Once you know your inner system you can use it as a compass for decision making and goal setting. Having more clarity will allow you to focus on the most important things, and overall should make your life better and you will be much happier and content.

🧐 The How

We have prepared a framework and exercises inside MyLife that would guide you through the process of defining values, principles, mission, and vision. All you have to do is to open MyLife in Notion, and head to the “Essentials” list.

📚 References and resources

1. Start With Why - Simon Sinek

2. The Success Principles - Jack Canfield

3. Principles - Ray Dalio

4. Vision Statements, in Business, in Stories, in Life - Andrew Mancini

5. Personal values and leadership effectiveness - ScienceDirect

Personal values and leadership effectiveness

The study sought to evaluate the personal values profile, the predominant leadership styles, the leadership effectiveness, and the relationship between personal values balance and leadership effectiveness of a group of Brazilian executives. In order to evaluate the personal values profile a closed instrument of the rank order type has been developed and applied.

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6. Personal Vision and Mission statement: How do you build them? - GreyCampus

Greycampus

The personal mission and vision statements help you to define the overall essence of what you want to achieve in your personal and professional life.

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7. Five Reasons Why You Need A Personal Vision Statement (And How To Write One) - Forbes

Council Post: Five Reasons Why You Need A Personal Vision Statement (And How To Write One)

Who are you? If you had to answer this question today, could you? If not, you're in the same boat as most of the population. There's no specific time or age in which we as humans magically come to know ourselves.

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8. 7 Reasons Why You Need a Written Personal Vision Statement - Thrive Global

7 Reasons Why You Need a Written Personal Vision Statement

We can spend more time planning a one-week vacation or what we are going to wear a night out on the town than identifying what outcomes we want to see in the major areas of our lives.

thriveglobal.com

9. Organizational Values Are Important. What About Personal Values? - Forbes

Organizational Values Are Important. What About Personal Values?

Brené Brown talked about organizational values in her keynote address at the WorkHuman Conference in April. She articulated three steps for connecting people to an organization's values: 1. Values need to be operationalized 2. Values need to be lived - starting at the top 3.

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10. Power of a Vision - Brad Wolgamott