If you’ve no vision, you’re living without purpose.

And without purpose, there’s no point in getting out of bed – you may as well just curl up and watch daytime TV.

Not having a sense of the type of person you want to become, or what you want to accomplish in life, guarantees only two things – wavering character and a bumpy ride to destination nowhere.

So having a mission statement for your life is important if you’re to discover and fulfil your purpose.

The question is, where do we start?

Well, we start by considering what’s most important in our lives; what we value, the things we’d miss and wouldn’t want to live without. Things like our health, family, friends and personal achievements.

And don’t rush it – your life mission statement will be the thing that shapes every decision you make in the future.

It helps to know that lots has been written about life mission statements and how we can go about writing one – Stephen Covey gives us a helpful guideline.

So, once we’ve decided on what’s most important in our lives, the task of creating our life mission statement gets easier, and we’re able to begin the journey of taking steps towards making it a reality.

That’s it – we decide what’s most important, consider how to get there, and make a start.

Simple?!