Habit 2 discusses the importance of beginning with the end in mind. This means starting with an understanding of what is truly important to you. You need to consider what really matters to you and whether you work to live or live to work. Creating a personal mission statement can help you effectively balance work and life according to your core values and principles. Similarly, creating a mission statement for your business or team provides focus and guidance, directing your work priorities and leadership according to the values that are most important.
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Habit 2
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Habit 2 Begin with the End in
Mind
Adapted from
Stephen Covey Seven Habits for
Effective People
Habit 2
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Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind
What Covey means by this is to start with the
understanding of what is important to you.
You may be very busy and very efficient but you
will only be effective when you are working
towards what really matters to you .
Remember our paradigms and perception and
consider how entrenched our own values are.
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Personal Mission Statement
What really does matter to you?
Do you work to live or live to work?
Can you effectively balance your work and life?
What are your values ?
What motivates and drives you?
What principles do you work and live by?
What are the principles/values that drive your
personal leadership
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Mission Statements
A mission statement is a sequence of aims/outcomes based on values. In a
business it describes what business we want to be in, the direction the
business is taking and the actions to get there.
A mission statement is a formal statement from the organisation which
sends out a message to managers, staff and the outside world. Remember
we need to plan to be effective.
Your mission statement can do the same for your business leadership. A
mission statement is a sequence of aims/outcomes based on the values
you hold important to you and your team and environment. This mission
statement gives you focus and guidance for the way you develop and
manage your work priorities and liaise and lead your stakeholders and team
members.
In organisations we set mission statements and goals based on our values
and desired business outcomes. We as individuals and in our teams can
also do the same.