SELF-DISCOVERY 2.5 Craft a Compelling Personal Mission Statement WHAT'S A MISSION STATEMENT? A mission statement, in the business world, is a statement clarifying the aims, values, and the purpose behind why an organization does what it does. It is used to set the culture and the vision for the main outcomes they hope to see with the work they do. Below are some mission statement examples of some well-known companies: \"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.\" \"To refresh the world in mind, body and spirit. To inspire moments of optimism and happiness through our brands and actions.\" “To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” \"Bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.* *If you have a body, you are an athlete.” sharonkilonhan.com | page 51
SELF-DISCOVERY 2.5 Craft a Compelling Personal Mission Statement CRAFT YOUR OWN PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT If businesses have a mission statement, how much more should we have a mission statement for our life? This worksheet will help you to start thinking about your life's PURPOSE and help you craft your own personal mission statement. Your \"Personal Mission Statement\" should state the \"why\" behind how you want to live your life and what the main outcome you hope to achieve with your life is. This statement should be something that is personally inspiring and feels worthwhile to commit your life to achieving. How would you answer the following questions? Think about examples in your social life, career, finances and even in your closest relationships. 1) What do you believe in? What do you stand for? 2) If you could pick three things that you would like to be remembered for after you die, what would they be? 3) Your life can be outlived by the people you impact. What kind of world do you want to leave behind for the next generation? sharonkilonhan.com | page 52
SELF-DISCOVERY 2.5 Craft a Compelling Personal Mission Statement 4) How would you personally define 'success'? Write a powerful, compelling personal mission statement in one sentence: Looking at the statement you wrote above, ask yourself \"WHY\". Why is this important to you? Why do you want to achieve this? Rewrite your personal mission statement again, clarifying the what and why: sharonkilonhan.com | page 53
2.6 Strength- Value- Job Alignment
SELF-DISCOVERY 2.6 Strength-Value-Job Alignment HOW DOES YOUR STRENGTHS ALIGN WITH A JOB/CAREER? Are you building a career on what you do best? When trying to figure out what career path is the right fit for you, your financial goals, lifestyle goals, passion, and purpose all play an important role. But your play an important role in helping you recognize what job would be something that you are good at with a lot of growth potential. In exploring your strengths-based job options, we will be taking a look at the below 3 areas: 1) Your Top 5 Strengths Here, you want to assess your talents, skills, experiences, and knowledge to come up with what you believe are your top 5 strengths. What are you good at? What are some things that come naturally to you that other people might find a bit more challenging? 2) The Value and Possibilities Take a close look at each of your strengths to see how your strengths can bring value or be of benefit in society or at a workplace. This will help you analyze the possibilities you have on how your strength can be used to meaningfully contribute to the world and in a workplace. 3) Potential Career Options In this area, you want to ask yourself what kind of roles, organizations, or industries would benefit from the value you are able to give with your strength, and how much you would enjoy this career. On the next page, click on the link to the shared Google Doc and save it as your own copy to edit and fill out your own Strenghts-Value-Job Alignment sheet. This will help you clarify and explore your career options based on your strengths. sharonkilonhan.com | page 55
SELF-DISCOVERY 2.6 Strength-Value-Job Alignment STRENGTH- VALUE- JOB ALIGNMENT Strength- Value- Job Alignment Worksheet sharonkilonhan.com | page 56
MODULE 3: LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
MODULE 3: LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING What's My Current Location? How to Do a Life Audit My Greatest Life Vision Long-Term, Mid-Term, Short-Term Goals Take Massive Action Break Through Fear & Become Resilient sharonkilonhan.com | page 58
3.1 What's My Current Location?
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.1 What's My Current Location? Where are you right now and where do you want to go? Point B (Where you want to be.) Point A (Where you are at right now.) Life planning is similar to finding your way to your favorite destination on the GPS— You need to know exactly where your Point A (current location) is and where your Point B (desired destination) is. Without these two information, you will not be able to navigate yourself correctly to your desired destination. Before we get to figuring out exactly where your Point B is, in this worksheet, we will take a look at where your Point A is. sharonkilonhan.com | page 60
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.1 What's My Current Location? WHAT'S MY CURRENT LOCATION? To start clarifying where your starting point is, answer the following questions, being fully honest with yourself. 1) Where are you right now in terms of your goals and dreams? 2) What is great about where you are at right now? (If you wanted to be grateful, what can you be grateful for about where you are at right now?) 3) What are you learning from where you are at in life right now? What do you think is the key life lesson you are gaining from this season of life? sharonkilonhan.com | page 61
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.1 What's My Current Location? 4) What is not yet great about your life right now? 5) What are you willing to do to make it the way you want it? REFLECTION- What's your \"current location\" in life? How do you feel about where you are at? sharonkilonhan.com | page 62
3.2 How to Do a Life Audit
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.2 How to Do a Life Audit UNDERSTANDING YOUR 8 CORE LIFE AREAS In today's society, so many of us pride ourselves for being \"busy.\" Being busy is not always a bad thing, but it becomes a problem when you realize that because you were so busy focusing on one area of your life, you have not given enough attention to other areas of your life. Is your life in balance? In order to keep your life in balance, you have to look at your life as a whole and check in with yourself in each area of your life. The life areas most people see as important can be broken down into 8 categories, which I call your \"BMW-ERRRS\": 1) Body/Physical Health 2) Money/Financial Health 3) Work & Career Aspirations 4) Emotional, Mind, & Mental Health 5) Relationships (family, friends/social, & intimate) 6) Routine Responsibilities (daily chores & to-do's) 7) Rest & Fun 8) Spiritual Health It’s important to check-in with yourself in each of these life areas every once in a while. Think of it as going to the doctor's office for a check-up, but for your life! So, how are you doing in each of these life areas? In this worksheet, you will learn how to do a life audit to check-in with yourself in each of the life areas and bring balance back into your life. sharonkilonhan.com | page 64
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.2 How to Do a Life Audit Life Audit (BMW-ERRRS): Instructions: For each life areas, write a quick note on how you are doing in that area and give yourself a score from 1-10, with 1 being 'least satisfied' and 10 being 'most satisfied'. Life Areas Notes Score (1-10) Body / Physical Health Money / Financial Health Work & Career Aspirations Emotional, Mind, & Mental Health Relationships (family, friends/social, & intimate) Routine Responsibilities (daily chores & to-do's) Rest & Fun Spiritual Health Total Average Score: (Add up all the numbers, then divide it by 8.) sharonkilonhan.com | page 65
3.3 My Greatest Life Vision
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.3 My Greatest Life Vision Get a Clear Vision For Your Future If you want to get what you want in life, you have to know what you want. Do you know exactly what you want in life? Do you have a clear vision for your future? In this section, we will be writing down your vision statement for each of your life areas. A life area vision statement is a sentence stating your ideal outcome for each of your life areas. Your vision for each of these life areas should be something that points back to your \"Personal Mission Statement\" from worksheet 2.5 and come together to form your WHAT'S YOUR VISION STATEMENT FOR EACH OF YOUR LIFE AREAS? VISION STATEMENT 1: Body / Physical Health VISION STATEMENT 2: Money / Financial Health VISION STATEMENT 3: Work & Career Aspirations sharonkilonhan.com | page 67
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.3 My Greatest Life Vision VISION STATEMENT 4: Emotional, Mind, & Mental Health VISION STATEMENT 5: Relationships (family, friends/social, & intimate) VISION STATEMENT 6: Routine Responsibilities (daily chores & to-do's) VISION STATEMENT 7: Rest & Fun VISION STATEMENT 8: Spiritual Health sharonkilonhan.com | page AA
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.3 My Greatest Life Vision WHAT'S YOUR GREATEST LIFE VISION? Your is a powerful vision of what your ideal life looks like. This vision should be something that creates feelings of excitement, joy, and a sense of fullness in your heart to think about. Think about an ideal, perfect day in the future where you are living out your personal mission statement and the vision statements for each of your 8 life areas. What does that day look like? Who are you and how do you feel? What time do you wake up? Where do you live? How are you contributing to the world in a meaningful way? Use the space below to write down the details of your What is Your Greatest Life Vision? sharonkilonhan.com | page 69
3.4 Long-Term, Short-Term, & Mid-Term Goals
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.4 Long-Term, Mid-Term, & Short-Term Goals HOW TO SET GOALS FOR YOUR FUTURE There are 3 Types of Goals: Long-Term Goals- These are goals that you want to achieve sometime in the future and require anywhere from 1-10+ years of time and planning to achieve. Mid-Term Goals- These goals are milestone goals that you need to hit in order to get to your long-term goals. These goals can take few months to even few years to achieve. Short-Term Goals- These goals are your mid-term goals broken down into bitesize goals and can be things that you can work on today or within this month to help you get to your mid-term goals. To set goals for your future, it helps to use this diagram called your \"Goals Pyramid\" as shown below: The \"Flag,\" all the way at the top, is your Personal Mission Statement, and all your goals should ultimately point back to this. For each of your goal types, think back to your 8 life areas (BMW-ERRRS) and set goals based on your top priority areas. Personal Mission EXAMPLES: Statement Personal Mission Statement: To make the most out of every opportunity and resources to be a blessing for many and to be generous in every occasion. Long-Term - Work/Career: Publish my first book in 3 years. Goals - Body / Physical Health: Run a full marathon in 2 years. Mid-Term - Work/Career: Write an E-book in 1 year. Goals - Body / Physical Health: Run my first half marathon in 1 year. Short-Term - Work/Career: Sign up for an online class. Goals - Body / Physical Health: Join a neighborhood run club. sharonkilonhan.com | page 71
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.4 Long-Term, Mid-Term, & Short-Term Goals Your goals and your personal mission statement can change over the years so be flexible and come back to this worksheet time and time again to re-assess if you are headed in the right direction. And as you are going after your goals, remember that just being able to achieve the goals in itself is NOT what's the most important, but who you are becoming in the process and the direction you are headed is what's more important. As you get a bigger picture of your life and start taking action on all your beautiful ambitions, you will start to grow into the person you need to be in order to achieve the things you want to achieve. So pursue your goals with a sense of curiosity, a mindset of learning, and have fun! :) There are also two continual goal types that you need to set for yourself: 1. New Skills - You need to set goals on what new skills you need to learn and/or how you can improve your current skills to reach your long-term goals. 2. New Habits- This involves kicking out your bad habits that will hinder your progress and implementing new habits that will move you closer to who you need to be in order to achieve what you want to achieve. Personal Mission Statement New Skills Long-Term New Habits Goals Mid-Term Goals Short-Term Goals Now let's fill out your own Goals Pyramid in the next page! sharonkilonhan.com | page 72
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.4 Long-Term, Mid-Term, & Short-Term Goals Create Your Own Goals Pyramid My Personal Mission Statement is... New Skills Long-Term Goals New Habits To Learn To Implement Mid-Term Goals Short-Term Goals sharonkilonhan.com | page 73
3.5 Take Massive Action
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.5 Take Massive Action PROGRESS > PERFECTION \"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.\" Zig Ziglar “God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.” St. Augustine At this point of the workbook, you've reflected on some things that's been shaping the way you view yourself, broke through some limiting beliefs, and made a conscious decision on who you are committed to be. You've also learned how to take inventory of who you are, uncovered your inner passion, did a full life audit, and created goals for your future! Now, it's time to TAKE ACTION. You can spend all your time planning your way to your dream life, but without action, your plan will remain just as a daydream. Your focus when taking action should always be PROGRESS over perfection: Many people get to this point of life planning and instead of taking action, they freeze because they feel like they don't know the exact, perfect way to go about it, and they think if failure is an option, they would rather not do it. Don't let fear of failure stop you from taking action. As Dale Carnegie put it, \"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” If you want to take your dream and make it into a reality, take those first messy steps, fall down a couple times, and get back up again— Take massive action. How do I take massive action? 1) Know WHAT you want. 2) WHY you want it. 3) HOW you plan to achieve it. Complete your 3 steps for massive action on the next page! sharonkilonhan.com | page 75
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.5 Take Massive Action 3 Steps for Massive Action 1) WHAT- What do you want? Successful people have clarity in knowing exactly what they want. In the space below, write down an outcome you want to see in your life. Make sure your goal is specific, measurable, and has a deadline. For example, instead of \"I want to make more money,\" a specific, measurable goal with a deadline would be, \"I will make $5,000 from my side hustle in 3 months.\" 2) WHY- Why do you want it? Write down what your main reasons are for accomplishing this goal. (Will achieving this goal get you closer toward fulfilling your greatest life vision? Why is this important to you anyways?) 3) HOW - How will you achieve it? Massive action is the accumulation of small actions done with consistent effort over a long period of time. Write down the very first few steps that you can take TODAY toward your goal. Write down the small easy things that you can get started on right away with low resistance to get the momentum going in the right direction. Then, execute. Do that first thing on the list RIGHT NOW. Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: sharonkilonhan.com | page 76
3.6 Break Through Fear & Become Resilient
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.6 Break Through Fear & Become Resilient BE RESILIENT “Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Nelson Mandela “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” Maya Angelou In this last worksheet of the workbook, I want to provide you with a tool to help you break through fear and become resilient. In this journey, you will run into obstacles and setbacks. When things get hard, remember that things are hard because you are growing. Think of it like training your muscles at the gym; When things get hard, this is your chance to grow your muscles for resilience. In order to walk out in your full potential, you have to learn how to have the courage to persist in the face of fear and adversity. One thing I've learned is that some of the best things in life are on the other side of fear. So come back to this worksheet whenever you feel like fear is stopping you from taking action on something that's important to you. Ready to stop letting fear call the shots in your life? Go through each of the questions on the next page to break through fear and become a more resilient version of you! sharonkilonhan.com | page 78
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.6 Break Through Fear & Become Resilient Questions to Help You Break Through Fear and Become Resilient 1. What's something that I've been wanting to do but fear has been stopping me from taking action? 2. What is stopping me from doing what I want to do? 3. What would it cost me if I were to continue to allow this fear to stop me from taking action? (What dreams would it cost? How would it affect me emotionally, relationally, and financially?) 4. Ultimately, what will I miss out on in life if I continue to allow fear to stop me from taking action? 5. How would I feel about myself at the end of my life if I allowed my dreams, ideas, and talents to never fully develop because of fear? 6. How would I feel about myself if, despite feeling fear, I did what scares me anyways? sharonkilonhan.com | page 79
LIFE-ASSESSMENT & PLANNING 3.6 Break Through Fear & Become Resilient 7. 10 years from now, when I look back at this moment right now, which decision would I feel more proud of? 8. What kind of momentum would I create for my life if I decided to stop letting fear call the shots? 9. Is my dream worth giving it a shot despite the uncertainties and the risk of failure? 10. How many times am I willing to \"fail\" in order to achieve my goal? 11. What obstacles might hinder me from accomplishing the goal? How can I overcome those obstacles? 12. I will not even think about giving up until... sharonkilonhan.com | page 80
Congrats! You've reached the end of the workbook! Hey there, it's Sharon! Congrats on finishing this workbook! Give yourself a pat on the back because you deserve it! :) I hope this workbook has helped you to get to know yourself better, clarify what it is you want in life, why you want it, and what you are going to do about it. It's such an honor for me to be able to serve and contribute something to your life with this workbook. Thank you for your time and for trusting me through this process. It probably wasn't easy, but I hope it was worthwhile. As we are all in this journey of learning more about who we are and how we can walk out in the fullness of it, I hope you feel inspired to dream big, to have the courage to take action, to persevere with hope, and most importantly, to love with everything you've got, because I believe if you want to change the world, you need to know what love is. So be grateful for what you currently have and seek out how you can creatively multiply what you've been given to serve, to love, and to add value to other people's lives. The irony of how life and business seem to work is that the more you give, the more you get back. Give it a try sometime! Also, don't forget to rest, be patient, and to have fun along the way. It's not about how fast you can run, but about the things you'll learn, experience, and the people you'll meet along the way. And when you fall, get back up again. The muscles you'll build by being resilient in the face of adversity will get you to where you need to be. Finally, I just want to say... You've got this! Whatever your beautiful dreams and ambitions are in life, if someone can do it, why not you? Cheering you on, sharonkilonhan.com | page 81
Thank you. Connect with me! Feedback or Questions? Email me at [email protected] Share your success stories and experiences with me by tagging me or sending me a DM on Instagram @sharonkilonhan. Would love to hear and connect with you! Free Resources? Check out my podcast, Millennial Life School, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, or Spotify to listen to an inspiring message or an interview all about encouraging, inspiring, and empowering millennials to know who they are and to walk in it. Wishing you all the best on your journey!
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