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Friday, March 05, 2010

The purpose and process of a mission statement

In reading a book that I’ve owned for several years and have already read once before "The 7 habits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey, I’ve decided to create my own personal Mission Statement.
Some points that I want to touch on:
My role as a mother
My role as a sister
My role as a daughter
My role as a member of society and the human race
My role as an employee
My role as a friend
My role as a woman
In addition to the above I also want to use my Mission statement to clearly list my priorities. What’s most important, and what standard will I hold myself to in each area of my life.
One thing that struck me in this book was an exercise that included imagining your funeral. Imaging what the people closest to you would say about you as a person right now. What would they say about how you impacted their life or who you were as a person. Then imagine your funeral and what you would want people to say about you. This exercise is meant to instill the mindset to ‘begin with the end in mind’.
That being said, if I stay on the path I am on, what would people say about me at my funeral? Now I need to think about what I would want people to say or think. What would I want my daughter to say about me? My siblings? My closest friends and family? My co-workers? And what do I need to change to make the two ends meet? To bridge the gap?
What are my priorities?
What do I have control over?
What really matters in the long run?
What kind of person do I want to be remembered as?
What are the things that I need to work on?
-my patience
-my health
-money management
-my basic core principals
-my direction
-my motivation
-my center
I am going to take great care in writing this mission statement. I am not going to take it lightly. This is going to be the Constitution of my life and although I may need to make some amendments in the future I want to make sure my Mission statement reflects the core of my being.

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Monday, March 01, 2010

Update: Dieting

If you have no clue what this update is for please read my last post.


I am seeing results in my diet. I know I’m making progress because I’ve gotten unsolicited comments from co-workers that I look thinner. I really like the path that I’m on now. It feels nice to be going in the right direction! I’ve set up goals for myself in the month of February and I’m sorry to say I didn’t meet those goals. Maybe the goals were set too high, I’m not sure. What I am sure of is that I could have done better. I could have been more dedicated and disciplined. It is still winter and I have 20 days until the first day of spring. The task as a whole equal about 35lbs, but breaking it up seems for feasible and also fun as it gives me the chance to mark my progress and determine what’s working and what isn’t. So I’m resetting some goals here. Giving myself a little challenge. How much weight can I lose in 20 days? Ready, set, GO!!



Posts to come:
SPRING CLEANING: MIND, BODY, SPIRIT
I’ll be setting aside a day of vacation at the end of this month for this purpose alone. Cleaning out my physical space and intern cleaning out my muddled mind!! In a good way though!! I can’t wait!!!

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