Last year I attended a seminar in which invited participants to define their mission personal or purpose in one sentence. About a group of about 300 people, fewer than a dozen were able to formulate a mission statement.
Not that life with purpose is a low priority for most of us. Research by Richard J. Leider and David Shapiro, author of repacking your luggage, they found that the greatest fear of most mortal men "lived a meaningless life."
So why write a mission seems to be a difficult task?
I think the main reason is the lack of practical resources. Although you can use the advice of productive writing mission statements by management experts and books, the internet and looking so forth - most of this information is complex and confusing. In addition, most of these companies focus resources and organizations, with little practical advice for anyone who wants to develop a personal mission statement.
If you were a kid who probably learned a fire by focusing sunlight through a magnifying light. Sunlight alone can not ignite the fire, but had to be focused through a magnifying glass. This reflects the basic principle of solar energy - sunlight falls through the earth, the light is scattered. Can be used for solar heating, solar systems must be developed to collect and focus the light to be.
Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer, and every American pioneer of modern dance, once wrote: "Some men have thousands of reasons why they do what they want to be able, if all you need is one reason may be. "We all have one time or another lost the focus of our intention in our lives, our work to achieve our goals. Time passes and some of us remember that we had dreams, I had the time to achieve the desired future. But we have not. Over time we will remember a number of plausible reasons for the loss "of the brand."