Crafting My Mission Statement

I am currently reading Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership.   This is an incredible book for any of you leaders or future leaders.  The purpose of this book is to tell what he has learned from his years in business and from leading others.  He basically is sharing his most trusted practices and concepts he uses daily!  Dave is pretty successful and loves Jesus, so it can’t hurt to read it right??!!!


One of the first things he talks about in the book is creating a Mission Statement.  He says,

I can work all day long trying to help and inspire others, but if I am not operating with a very specific purpose and central mission, then I am really just spinning my wheels!


I have discovered through coaching that I want to be very intentional in all that I do.  Not just with my challengers and other coaches, but in my life in general.  In marriage, motherhood, service, my job, etc.  I want it all to be centralized around a set of core values.  For when that is true, I know my actions are not meaningless.  They will most definitely accomplish something!


I began with some worksheets Dave provides on his website.  You can find those HERE.  First I focused on my skills and abilities, then my personality traits.  Next I thought about 4-5 people I really admired and wrote down their personality traits!  This was all very thought-provoking, and I began to write…pages of my thoughts. This is what I came up with!

my thoughts on paper

Health and fitness have always interested me.  I ran in high school and college, even though I didn’t eat very clean.  God really got my attention in regards to my health before I had children with my high cholesterol and my PMDD.  I was a runner and ate healthy most of the time, but by the time I was 25, my cholesterol was through the roof!!! This is a hereditary condition for me, and I knew that I did not want to spend my life on Zocor, so things had to change.  Of course, while I was pregnant and nursing, I kind of put it at the back of my mind.  But after I was finished having children, and my cholesterol was in the 200s, I knew something had to change!  Health and fitness definitely needed to be part of my mission statement.


Then I began to think about my character traits and those I wanted to improve.  I have never really felt like I was using all of the gifts God has given me – Encouragement has always been a prominent one for me.  By coupling this with health, my eyes were opened to what being a Beachbody coach has done for me!  God has opened a door for me to put my passions and gifts to use. I have uncovered so much hidden potential within myself that my negative thoughts and insecurities had hidden for 30+ years!  It is exciting to realize that I am capable of so much more than I ever gave myself credit for:

• self-control
• setting and reaching goals
• getting back up and dusting myself off when I fall short of those goals
• helping others
• leading by example