Comments on: Nightingale Conant’s Free Mission Statement Builder is So-So http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/ Goal Setting and Productivity for People Who Like Technology Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:54:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Professor Co Hutchison http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-48870 Professor Co Hutchison Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:27:49 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-48870 I do not like how you address and start this. My students LOVE: http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx and we use it in our STUDENT SUCCESS courses. Our students do this and enjoy it, then do their GOALS paper, PASSIONS paper, lifeline to age 100 with an outlook to the goodness of the world because of their productiveness to when they would have been age 150 [past their birth], time monitoring, 75th birthday party celebrating how they want to be known and loved, and their CAREER EXPLORATION paper. In my course, they get to fully examine their life [self-centered, selfish course, YES]. Every person should examine his /her life purpose. Each one of us should have a mission, just like companies. One of the last tasks my students do is to take all of the above and make a VISION DREAM BOARD or interviewing PORTFOLIO - it makes all of their work and goals come to 'In Living Color' and it is SUPER. If more would do these tasks, college or not, we would have more success; and less crime and low self-esteem. There are life coaches out here to help persons with their success life journey. Thanks and take care. I do not like how you address and start this. My students LOVE: http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx and we use it in our STUDENT SUCCESS courses. Our students do this and enjoy it, then do their GOALS paper, PASSIONS paper, lifeline to age 100 with an outlook to the goodness of the world because of their productiveness to when they would have been age 150 [past their birth], time monitoring, 75th birthday party celebrating how they want to be known and loved, and their CAREER EXPLORATION paper. In my course, they get to fully examine their life [self-centered, selfish course, YES]. Every person should examine his /her life purpose. Each one of us should have a mission, just like companies. One of the last tasks my students do is to take all of the above and make a VISION DREAM BOARD or interviewing PORTFOLIO – it makes all of their work and goals come to ‘In Living Color’ and it is SUPER. If more would do these tasks, college or not, we would have more success; and less crime and low self-esteem. There are life coaches out here to help persons with their success life journey. Thanks and take care.

]]> By: Productivity Zen - Today’s Top Blog Posts on Productivity - Powered by SocialRank http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-26122 Productivity Zen - Today’s Top Blog Posts on Productivity - Powered by SocialRank Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:58:16 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-26122 [...] Nightingale Conant's Free Mission Statement Builder is So-So [...] [...] Nightingale Conant’s Free Mission Statement Builder is So-So [...]

]]> By: Gordon http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-26053 Gordon Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:14:20 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-26053 Long ago I worked for a company that suddenly required personal mission statements for each tech in my department. I went to www.dilbert.com, which has a mission statement generator in the games section, and printed one out for everyone in my dept. We laminated and posted them. The VP we were supposed to impress was actually impressed. Mission statements have a use but that wasn't it. Long ago I worked for a company that suddenly required personal mission statements for each tech in my department. I went to http://www.dilbert.com, which has a mission statement generator in the games section, and printed one out for everyone in my dept. We laminated and posted them. The VP we were supposed to impress was actually impressed.
Mission statements have a use but that wasn’t it.

]]> By: Lucy Mauterer http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-26045 Lucy Mauterer Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:44:00 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-26045 Mission statement. I guess we do have a mission, but highly simplified, it is to serve mankind. Now, that can be broken down into sub-categories, but primarily we do not serve ourselves. We are served, without a doubt, and are paid generously by our clients, but that is not the primary purpose for being in business. We are here to provide our clients with something they can't, or would rather not do for themselves; something that adds quality to their lives, something that brings them to a higher level of being. That's very general. And a little Zen, but specifics would take a lot longer and wouldn't qualify as a mission statement. I guess this is something that is playing in the background of everything we do as a business. Mission statement. I guess we do have a mission, but highly simplified, it is to serve mankind. Now, that can be broken down into sub-categories, but primarily we do not serve ourselves. We are served, without a doubt, and are paid generously by our clients, but that is not the primary purpose for being in business. We are here to provide our clients with something they can’t, or would rather not do for themselves; something that adds quality to their lives, something that brings them to a higher level of being. That’s very general. And a little Zen, but specifics would take a lot longer and wouldn’t qualify as a mission statement. I guess this is something that is playing in the background of everything we do as a business.

]]> By: Daryl Q. http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-26044 Daryl Q. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:33:09 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-26044 Er, what ??? Er, what ???

]]> By: Guntar http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/comment-page-1/#comment-26011 Guntar Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:20:27 +0000 http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2007/08/nightingale-conants-free-mission-statement-builder-is-so-so/#comment-26011 The challenge is how to define positive characteristics which are indeed our best talents or indeed our current self. Not all of us can really read ourselves in precise manner. Thus, we could end up trying to achieve something by not being our best self. The second issue is how to define goals and action steps which are very vivid so we can literally taste them upfront. Its not simply about the what; but more than that, it's about how good we could sense our goal & action steps in practical way. That way, the predefined action steps will dictate our upcoming action unconsciously. The challenge is how to define positive characteristics which are indeed our best talents or indeed our current self. Not all of us can really read ourselves in precise manner. Thus, we could end up trying to achieve something by not being our best self.

The second issue is how to define goals and action steps which are very vivid so we can literally taste them upfront. Its not simply about the what; but more than that, it’s about how good we could sense our goal & action steps in practical way. That way, the predefined action steps will dictate our upcoming action unconsciously.

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