A Personal Mission Statement

Well I just finished up my second full week of school and I love it!  I'm thinking seriously about going full time or at least 3/4 time after this semester.  One of my classes for the first 7.5 weeks is called FYE or First Year Experience.  It is a great class and the lectures are awesome.  One of the topics this week was writing a personal mission statement.  There were two videos that we could watch.  One was just a random one of young girl writing her personal statement.  The other was the scene from Jerry Maquire where he writes a 25 page personal mission statement.  After reading the text and watching one of the videos, and i didn't watch Tom Cruise, I started thinking about my personal mission statement. 

Writing a personal mission statement is actually a daily tool to be used to keep you focused and on tract to obtain your short and long term goals, as well as keeping what is important in your life, and knowing who and what you want to be.  Using past life experiences and what you see yourself doing in the future are part of writing a mission statement.  So after all week long thinking about what was important, the reason I was doing what I was doing, and who I want to be and where I want to be in the next 1 to 4 years, I wrote a first draft of my personal mission statement.  It is in no way finished or close to where I want it to be, but it did get some of the preliminary things on paper. 

I have been a dreamer all my life, and I guess that is why I like to write.  Writing and dreaming gives me the opportunity to be someone I'm not.  Some of my goals have changed over the years but one thing that has never changed is my goal to be a published writer.  Some of you might wonder than why I'm not going after a degree in journalism or media.  Well writers don't really make that much money to start out with, especially if you don't make it on the best sellers list.  I have to be practical and I can still be a dreamer.  The practical side of me knows that I need to work for us to be able to survive, unless of course we win the lottery.  The dreamer side of me can still strive to be that published writer. 

As a person, I want to be someone that people trust, that is honest, that cares and that wants to help people, but also have family and friends in their life.  My husband and my child are the utmost of importance to me.  God is first in my life, but they come in second, then family, then work.  These are all things we need to consider.  I guess the bottom line here is this, writing this personal mission statement will help me to define short term, long term goals, and the map on how to achieve those. 

What are your long term and short term goals?  ARe you only living day to day with no thought of where you want to be in one, two or four years from now?  I'm 48 years old about to be 49, this has become majorily important to me, to achieve, accomplish and complete this before I'm too old to reap the benefits.

Have a blessed day!

Priorities In Life

Okay after a long talk with God this morning, I've realized that I need to get my priorities straight.  Playing games on Face book, playing solitaire, or doing things that are not productive should not be on that list.  So after a lot of thinking and realizing that money for the next two weeks is going to be very, very tight, I've decided to re-organize things and get a plan together and in place.  Of course, I need God to be at the top of that list, and He is. 

So here are the things I'm trying to accomplish with God at the helm over the next six to seven months.

1.  A closer walk with Jesus and He being first in my life.
2.  An income from my freelance writing and my website to sustain us when Norman doesn't have any work.
3.  To start school.  I had some very unrealistic goals this last week concerning this, so if i don't get enrolled to start by January one, then I'm not going to freak out.
4.  A place to live where, the electricity bill and utilities are not more than the rent.  A place to live where we are not overrun by critters so to speak.  A place to live where the floors don't give when you walk.  A place to live that I can invite my family to spend the night.  A place to live where if I decide to keep kids or provide childcare, I have room.
5.  To plan and pay for our vow renewal ceremony, just the way we want it.

These are currently my priorities.  I have other priorities but these take precedence currently.  Number one will always be a priority no matter what else I have completed or accomplished.  God, husband, work, family, and friends.  Those are the way it is for now. 

May you truly have a blessed and God Filled Day.  love, L

Happy New Year + 3 days

Okay so I'm a little late posting the first blog for the New Year, but I've been sick since 12/27/09. So I've seen some blogs where people have made New Year Resolutions, but no one ever keeps them, so instead of resolutions I have set goals. Of course with goals you should allow for set backs and have a strategy for working around obstacles right? Okay well I'm not sure I have a strategy for working around the obstacles and they have already struck, so I'm just going to state my goals and pray again for divine intervention. I know God hears and its says you just have to claim it for it to be yours! So my cousin and I state our goals in an email on New Years Day and we have both claimed it. Of course now the devil gets to play havoc with our goals. So if you made New Years Resolutions, please feel free to share. If you made goals that is excellent as well. Please register your email address on the link to my blog. Okay and here are my goals:



0. To become more involved with church and make Jesus a bigger part of our lives.

1. To become or to be acknowledge as a published writer/author.

2. To find a income solution other than working as a general contractor for me and my husband.

3. To become debt free(this one will probably take longer than 1 year, but we will start)

4. To find land and build our house free and clear and live off of our land.



Those are not many goals, but it is a start. This is going to be our year and yes it has not started off on a great foot, but it can only get better. May God Bless you in 2010.