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Think about the situations in which your family works at its best—the times when you’re both enjoying each other and working toward a common goal. What tasks do you perform best? What environment works best for you? What role does each family member play best?
Conversely, when do you feel your family struggles the most? What choices or situations hinder your ability to function at your best?
Where there is passion, there is energy. And energy can be harnessed to create the results you seek. What are your family’s great passions—both individually and collectively? When do you feel the most energized, focused, and committed?
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Families exist to nurture everyone in them—and to help them grow and thrive. Families not only serve to meet individuals’ basic needs, but also provide emotional, educational, spiritual, and social nourishment. What can your family do to help each individual within it reach their highest potential?
What mark do you want to leave on the world? What impact do you want your family to have on the people around you? When all is said and done, what will you have made possible for others?
What are you putting off? Sometimes the things we put off because they are too difficult are the things that would strengthen our families the most. What does your family struggle to find time for? Are there things you feel you really should do, even though you’ve put them off? What are they?
What do you want people to honestly say about your family? What is it about your family people admire the most? How is your family different from others? What makes your family remarkable?
Every home has its own character. When you walk into a family’s space it exudes the personality of the people who inhabit it. What would visitors say about your home? How might individual family members remember your home? What emotion fills it?
Principles are rules or laws that are enduring, universal, and self-evident concepts. When followed, they result in better outcomes for individuals and societies and healthier, happier family relationships. Stephen R. Covey explained, “A principle is a natural law like gravity. If you drop something, gravity controls. If I don’t tell you the truth, you won’t trust me; that’s a natural law.”
Let’s think of balance as a state of fulfillment and renewal in each of these four dimensions: Physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. What are the most important things we can do in each of these areas that will have the greatest positive impact on our family and help us achieve a sense of balance?
Imagine ten years in the future. Envision where you hope each member of your family to be. What have you accomplished, how do you see yourselves, and what are you known for?
As a family, assign a value or rank to each idea or theme that was proposed in the previous steps. Which themes are rising to the top?
Try using FranklinCovey’s prioritization method. As a family, start by labeling each idea with an A, B, or C according to its importance. Then, within each letter, rank each idea numerically so you have A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. Then, discuss the top five or seven in greater detail.
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Now that you have your top five to seven ideas or themes, you can start to refine them to shape a mission statement. Work collaboratively to create a draft of the statement, with the end goal of one concise paragraph. Keep refining it until you get closer to consensus.
Reflect on your summary paragraph from the previous step. Continue to refine it until your family reaches a consensus. Then, enter the mission statement here, and continue to the final review.
Thank you for taking the time to build your Mission Statement with FranklinCovey today! We’re glad to be with you on your journey towards focused clarity and purpose.
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