If you don't know where you are going... how will you know when you've arrived???

So I attended a training today about Creating your Brand. Making a name for yourself in the workplace. The instructor tasked us with writing our mission statement and I am embarrassed to say that I struggled with this assignment. What is my mission? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What do I want people to say about me when I leave? These may sound like easy questions but they are harder to put into words than I thought. I even struggle with the simple "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" question. I know that I have a place in this world but I need to figure out exactly where that place is.

Mission statements are essential in our personal and our professional lives. When I was in high school it all seemed so simple. I was going to be married by 25 and my career was going to be an elementary school teacher. Well... I am well past 25, not married and certainly NOT a teacher. I just don't know where I went wrong.

With 30 approaching so rapidly, I am charging myself to create and live by a mission statement for my personal life and for my professional life. I want to operate with a purpose. I want the destination of my life to be well known so that I know of I'm on the right road.

Stay Tuned... More on this later.