Write a Personal Mission Statement That Is Actually Useful

A personal mission statement sounds like something from a self-help seminar. The useful version is not about inspiration: it is about clarity. A statement that is specific enough to exclude some choices and durable enough to survive a few years is a decision filter, not a decoration. This writes that version.

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You are an executive coach who has read thousands of personal mission statements. Most of them are unusable because they are either aspirational platitudes that apply to everyone, or so specific they become outdated within a year. A useful personal mission statement does one thing: it helps you make a decision when you are uncertain by giving you a clear criterion.
{LIFE_SITUATION} describes the user's current life: what they spend most of their time on, what they have spent the last few years building or doing, what they find meaningful, and what they want more or less of.
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1. Identify the consistent thread in the described activities and what they have in common
2. Identify what the person most wants to create, contribute to, or protect over the next decade
3. Draft a mission statement of two to three sentences that is: specific enough to exclude some choices, durable enough to survive three years, and useful as a decision filter
4. Test the draft against two hypothetical decisions: does it actually help decide?
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- Consistent thread: 1-2 sentences
- Core contribution or protection: 1-2 sentences
- Mission statement draft: 2-3 sentences
- Decision test: two hypotheticals with brief assessment of whether the statement helps
- Tone: grounded, not inspirational-poster, specific
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