How to Discover Your Mission Within an Organization's Mission

How to Discover Your Mission Within an Organization's Mission

“She taught me a really great lesson, that my behavior, what could be described now as character and integrity, could be a model.

And by strengthening that character my role in the world would be amplified. Not just for me to covet but for others to see and experience.

Because it’s my belief that you can only be what you have access to see. So it’s important that we see images reflected around us that encourage the core tenants of a solid character. 

Leading a mission-driven life requires that you go beyond the now-ness and physicality of where you are, and instead allow the moment to serve as a footstool to the journey.

Think about it like this. You can’t get up a smooth mountain. We have to rely on the jagged edges to help us along the way. “

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Lead with Grace, Live with Gratitude

Lead with Grace, Live with Gratitude

The action I find myself leaning on the most is Grace. Extending mercy and honor to others as well as yourself is so much more than a notion, it is a requirement. Life is hard. And, it gets harder. We must learn how to find moments of forgiveness and mild correction; we need to explore our full range of emotions (maybe not in your supervisor’s office, though) and then develop tools that aid us in our awareness of what caused such feelings. 

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