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Since the beginning of this year, when this podcast became a daily podcast, I had been consistently coming here and saying that this is a coaching podcast. So if you’re looking for some ways and means to improve your life or improve your situation, you want to create a new reality, and you have some dreams that you want to accomplish. You have some goals, you have some passions that you want to pursue, and all you need is some daily coaching. And this podcast is supposed to do that. That is my intent every time I record. And if you go back and play all the previous podcast episodes, all the daily podcast episodes, you see me talk about productivity, taking accountability, daily actions, defining purpose, and so many different concepts. But then, this morning, I was thinking, maybe I’m missing something. Maybe there is something else I need to mention here, I need to talk here that I think that I have not done it. And then I think that I’m doing a disservice. So if you keep on talking about goals, you keep on talking about productivity, accountability, and all the different aspects of self-improvement.
Eventually, I think a good listener will kind of glue everything together to the outcome. But then there should be a way to glue all these things from my side, I need to glue it for the listener. And I don’t think I’ve done a good job gluing all these individual standalone topics that I talk about every day here. So I was going through this, and I said, Okay, how, as a listener, I should be able to glue all this, if I’m a listener of Srini podcast, and I hear Srini. So what, how do I do all these things? For example, if you are a career professional, you have no interest in the business. You’re trying to recover a relationship, you have no interest in how to make money. Now, from a bigger conceptual standpoint, all these things may be interrelated. But at the moment, right now, you are only focused on that one thing that you’re trying to solve. So you happen to listen. And every day, you see me come here and talk about disparate topics, and they don’t glue together. How do I do this? Now it is hard. It’s difficult for me personally. So I put myself in the listener shoes. And I started listening to my podcast, I heard about 17 days of my own episodes hard, it isn’t easy to listen to me speaking. But I went through and I started to realize that, yes, this has to be there is something that I’m missing. So this morning, I finally discovered what I’m missing, I will share it with you. And the reason why I did not share it earlier is that I was missing it in myself. So if I’m not doing something, how can I come here and talk about it? Very simple. So I’m not doing it myself. And I realized that I need to do it myself.
So this comes to having a mission statement in place, a mission statement that clearly states, what I want to do with my time, what I want to do with my actions, what I want to do with everything that I’ve got going, what I want to experience, how and what I want to feel, which places I want to see who I want to talk to all these things, they are there, but they’re not there on the people. And this is something that I learned many, many years ago, and I had been creating mission statements for myself for a long time. And this is something that companies do, when multiple people come together and they start a company, a club, or an organization, they put together a mission.
So, when you define the mission, you will now get clarity into the goals and the agendas and the things that as an entity you will be pursuing. And this concept has been around for a long time sit there is nothing new about this. But several many, many years ago, sometime in mid-2006 2007. I came across an incredible book by an incredible man. The Principle-Centered Leadership was authored by the legendary Dr. Stephen Covey, God bless his soul. Dr. Covey talks about this concept called the power of mission statement and he gives an example he says Every entity has a mission statement. But within that entity, different people have different responsibilities, they play different roles. Now, each individual, whoever is whatever role that individual is playing at a role level, needs to have a mission statement, they need to have a personal mission statement. So he gives an example where he says, you walk into a hotel, and you go to the counter, you see that individual, the person who is helping at the counter, has a manager, that manager has a director, the director has probably a vice president and vice president has a CEO. And there are so many such people, all of them reporting him to the CEO. And he gives this example where each individual on the floor of the hotel, each individual has to have their own mission statement apart from the company’s mission statement. So the company has a mission statement as a company where they are going, and as an individual, also, as an employee, taking on whatever responsibility he or she is taking on and the role that this employee is playing.
They need to have a personal mission statement. I took that principle, I took that concept. And, and I started writing mission statements for myself. And I’ll tell you from the time 2006 to 2010. And during the time I did not have a mission statement, I think I really started doing this in 2011. And my business and whatever things that I was doing. As a result of that mission statement, I started to do well, I’ll tell you why. Because that mission statement started giving me clarity into the goals that I was setting for myself, even though I was not a good goal setter myself at that point in time. This mission statement started giving me clarity. And it started to teach me the difference between what is essential and what is unimportant. And as years went by, I kept on modifying the mission statement, because there are so many different life events that were happening. And each life event started defining me differently. So this mission statement kept on changing to a point where I started, making it a ritual. But I’ll do I’ll create a mission statement every year. Something happened this year, at the beginning of this year, I did not create that mission statement. And I did not as a result of that even though this podcast became a daily podcast, I didn’t talk about it at all. Maybe sometime last year, I talked about the mission statement, but at least not this year, on this podcast. So if you are setting goals, making yourself accountable, taking action, studying yourself exploring yourself. And then some best part of you doing all these things, things are not falling in place. The biggest takeaway from today’s podcast episode and my biggest ask for you is to create a mission statement. And it doesn’t need to be complex, very simple. You can write like four lines today and say, my purpose in life is this.
My goal for the next three months is this. I want to explore I want to experience I want to discover I want to do whatever you want to one more line describing what you want to just two or three lines, my goal, my purpose, my experience that I want to have people who I want to meet people who I want to have a conversation with just three, four lines. And then read that mission statement. keep on changing it if you want to. And read the mission statement, start your day with a mission statement. And I have said this multiple times here. Also, on the podcast. I said listen, you got to affirm, you need to have a bunch of affirmations. But the mission statement makes it very easy. You don’t need to really read your affirmations. And after keep on reading your affirmations, how long can you read, because it’s set? Right? You already know what you’re affirming what the mission statement gives you kind of brings everything together your affirmations, your actions, your goals, your ambitions, your actions, or everything together into this one beautifully created encapsulated thing that you can roll now you’re all wet.
Now, do that for a few days. And then eventually at one point, you should print your mission statement and you should have it in your wallet and this is why many companies to make at least back in the day used to force their employees or not really for sports but then they used to print and give it to the employees and employees need to have them as a part of their access card or something so they companies wanted to somehow figure this out, that people should read the mission statement. So print your mission statement and see what you know, just carry it along with you. And when you meet random people on the street, like, let’s say, I’m going to go to have a meet a friend of mine on over coffee next week. So I’m going to have my mission statement. And I will randomly at some point, take out and show my mission statement to him. He’s not asking for it, he’s not expecting it, but I will show it to him. Why? Because that way, I stay accountable for who I am, my purpose my goals, and my dreams, whatever they are. So this should bring everything together. And I’ve been thinking about it, I have not done it this year. So I’m doing it now. So I wanted to come here and share this with you. I’ll let you know how all this will pan out on my side. But I wanted to do this because I’ve seen this do incredible things for me in my life. And I’m sure that’s going to do something great for you. So if you have dreams, and you want your dreams to become reality, you do everything you study, every book, we follow every author, every concept, every idea, every thought leader, but then this is also an essential element, which is to create a personal mission statement and apply that statement. So that becomes your guiding force and stays as a force behind every action that you’re going to take the fall for now. Have a wonderful Tuesday. I’ll catch up with you tomorrow. Stay tuned. Thank you.