The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.
To fulfill this mission:
I have charity:
I seek out and love the one—each one—regardless of his situation.
I sacrifice:
I devote my time, talents, and resources to my mission.
I inspire:
I teach by example that we are all children of a loving Heavenly Father and that
every Goliath can be overcome.
I am impactful:
What I do makes a difference in the lives of others.
These roles take priority in achieving my mission:
Husband
—My partner is the most important person in my life. Together we contribute the
fruits of harmony, industry, charity, and thrift.
Father
—I help my children experience progressively greater joy in their lives.
Son/Brother
—I am frequently “there” for support and love.
Christian
—God can count on me to keep my covenants and to serve his other children.
Neighbor
—The love of Christ is visible through my actions toward others.
Change Agent
—I am a catalyst for developing high performance in large organizations.
Scholar
—I learn important new things every day.
Writing your mission in terms of the important roles in your life gives you
balance and harmony. It keeps each role clearly before you. You can review
your roles frequently to make sure that you don’t get totally absorbed by
one role to the exclusion of others that are equally or even more important
in your life.
After you identify your various roles, then you can think about the long-
term goals you want to accomplish in each of those roles. We’re into the
right brain again, using imagination, creativity, conscience, and inspiration.
If these goals are the extension of a mission statement based on correct
principles, they will be vitally different from the goals people normally set.
They will be in harmony with correct principles, with natural laws, which
gives you greater power to achieve them. They are not someone else’s goals
you have absorbed. They are your goals. They reflect your deepest values,
your unique talent, your sense of mission. And they grow out of your
chosen roles in life.

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An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It
identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine
where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and
it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It
gives meaning and purpose to all you do. And it can finally translate itself
into daily activities so that you are proactive, you are in charge of your life,
you are making happen each day the things that will enable you to fulfill
your personal mission statement.
Roles and goals give structure and organized direction to your personal
mission. If you don’t yet have a personal mission state ment, it’s a good
place to begin. Just identifying the various areas of your life and the two or
three important results you feel you should accomplish in each area to move
ahead gives you an overall perspective of your life and a sense of direction.
As we move into Habit 3, we’ll go into greater depth in the area of short-
term goals. The important application at this point is to identify roles and
long-term goals as they relate to your personal mission statement. These
roles and goals will provide the founda tion for effective goal setting and
achieving when we get to the Habit 3 day-to-day management of life and
time.