Using Your Brain for a Mission Statement

Key Points:

We detect rather than invent our missions in life. "Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life... Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it."
A computer metaphor says, Habit 1, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in the writing the program.
The process is as important as the product. There are two unique human endowments that enable us to practice Habit 2- imagination and conscience- they are primary functions of the right side of the brain. Understanding how to tap into that right brain capacity greatly increases our first creation ability.
A great deal of research has been conducted for decades on what has come to be called brain dominance theory.

The left hemisphere is the more logical/verbal one and the right hemisphere the more intuitive, creative one.
Right and left brain people tend to look at things in different ways.

Although people tend to use both sides of the brain, one side or the other tends to be dominant in each individual.

We live in a primary left brain-dominant world.

Expanding Our Perspective:

Sometimes we are knocked out of our left brain environment and thought patterns and into the right brain by an unplanned experience. The death of a loved one, a severe illness, a financial setback, or extreme adversity can cause us to stand back, look at our lives, and ask ourselves hard questions. "What is really important?" "Why am I doing what I am doing?"
But if you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own,
Things are suddenly placed in a different perspective. Values quickly surface that before weren't even recognized.

One of the main things that research showed was that almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with the end in mind.

No involvement, no commitment!

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