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In my journey at creating a personal mission statement, the next thing is to look at my values and dreams and passions. In 48 Days to the Work You Love, Dan Miller asks his reader to look at the things that we naturally enjoy. “If money were not important, what would you spend your time doing?” He talks about how it could be something we enjoyed as a child and maybe was told that it was “unrealistic or impractical to focus on as a career.”

When going through the book I wrote:

• Hanging out
• Talking with people
• Reading nonfiction books
• Discussing topics
• Having communal goals
• Working with my mind and body (Non sedentary)

Thinking about the words values and dreams and passions a bit more I saw how vast this list could be and how they show a lot about ourselves.  The food I select to put into my body has to do with how I value the quality of food and how I dream to be in a certain shape*  and how passionate I am about that dream.  As the picture shows, I see them as the control paddles for a marionette.  They guide us and as we find balance in our life the strings become less tangled.  Eventually we become a “real boy” like Pinocchio with those values and dreams and passions still there,  but the string are gone.  

It helped me to look at the meaning of value in a dictionary to better distinguish the three paddles.  I noticed some of the things that appeared in What Are Your Skills and Interests? show up below.  The list is in no order of importance, nor is it a complete list. 

• Truth setting
• Promoting common sense
• Business owner
• Gun user
• Boater
• Writer
• Artist – modern
• Home owner
• Teacher
• Bible
• Handy man
• Husband
• Cook more
• Camper/hiker
• Physically fit
• Property owner
• God worshiper
• Debt free life
• Family cohesiveness
• Marketing
• Father
• Grandfather
• Showing people they are blessed
• Ellipsis

*octagonal

Now to combine my skills and abilities along with my personal tendencies with the things I listed here to create a mission statement to better keep my strings from becoming tangled and more balance to be had.

Thank you for participating with me as I release thoughts in my skull.

I love you.

K, bye

What are some things that you would add to this list for yourself?