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Unlock Your Vision: Mastering Mission Statements for Personal and Professional Growth
Can a single sentence change the course of your personal and professional life? Join Chad Trease and Lacey Moores as they uncover the secrets to crafting mission statements that not only define who you are but also ignite the passion needed to reach your goals. In our latest episode of the Secret Sauce podcast, we promise to equip you with the tools to make mission statements your guiding North Star. Whether you're a seasoned business leader or embarking on a personal growth journey, learn how clarity, passion, and unwavering commitment can transform your aspirations into reality.
We explore the art of self-reflection, helping you identify core values and envision your ideal future through a set of 3 steps. Discover how AI tools like ChatGPT can assist in this introspective process, and hear personal anecdotes that highlight the transformative power of mission statements. We guide you through structuring your mission, prioritizing time away from distractions, and aligning your decisions with your vision. This episode is more than just a discussion; it's an invitation to embark on a transformative journey, sharing your newfound vision with others and paving the way for personal and professional growth.
Welcome back everybody to the Secret Sauce podcast. I'm Chad Treese. Oh, you're going to say your name this time I was going to say it.
Speaker 1:That's Lacey Moores, and today we're going to talk about something. It's the time of year, right where everybody's talking about goal setting right Going into the new year or coming out and New Year's resolutions, all of that and this is a business podcast more than anything. So people are doing goal setting and everybody's going to do their goal setting. So how can we put a different spin on that? And so we're gonna be talking about creating a mission statement, or multiple mission statements, maybe a mission statement for your business, one for your personal life with your spouse, with your kids. Why don't you break? Why don't you get us into it?
Speaker 2:Well, I think we could really focus on business, since that is mainly our podcast. But I love that, when we did this together, you and I, that you decided to take it farther. So I think you can definitely touch on that, because you're like I don't want just a business mission statement, I really want to do this in other realms and why you wanted to go there. But let's really kind of focus on, like, what is the importance of a mission statement? Why is it important that we have a mission statement? And this was a big aha to me.
Speaker 2:So we've both been lending for 22 years, right? Yep, both about the same time and we go through different seasons and our lives have definitely changed from where we're at now than when we started and when we went to the middle of it. I think it's important to really stop sometimes and wonder or really look at, what is your mission statement, and do you even have one? You know what your mission might have been 10 years ago, may not be what your mission is now, and how often do we stop, look at it or redefine it?
Speaker 1:I think that's an important thing to note too is that, like you may have long standing mission statements that you're working on for a while, I think you're always probably best case scenario should have multiple missions that you're working on and maybe a longterm one, maybe 10 years, your whole life, that you like. This is my mission, this is my purpose, and maybe one that my mission for this year or for this next season of my life, like what you want to work on right now, and they are going to be kind of probably constantly changing, tweaking a little bit. Do you want to say anything more about the?
Speaker 2:importance of. I mean, I totally agree, I think, why this was for me like where this hit home is. I love what I do. I've done it for a long time, but I've also felt like I need a new excitement, I need a new mission. I need to define what that looks like for me. What do I want this next season and my career, my business, to look like?
Speaker 1:something that puts like a little fire in your belly something that puts a little fire in your belly, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love it they'll get you excited, right, and so let's kind of talk about that like can I say something about that real quick, because I do like I do want to get into that. So for me, the importance of emissions I mean I agree with that wholeheartedly. Another piece of it to me is something that can keep you grounded or pointed in the right direction. For me it's like your true North Star, right when you're kind of wondering like, am I, am I floundering, am I, am I moving in the right direction? This is your North Star that you can always rely on to keep you on track.
Speaker 2:That's good, that's really good.
Speaker 1:I think I came up with that, but no, I didn't. I think somebody else came up with the North Star. You heard that. Yeah, that's good I like it.
Speaker 2:Whoever came up with? It, that's great, okay, so let's talk about three. Let's give three ingredients to a mission statement. I to a mission statement. I want to talk about how you create one in a minute, but what's? Three ingredients that make a really good mission statement?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I think this is important. We're going to create one. We're going to give you steps on how to create a mission statement. Knowing what is going to make a powerful mission statement is probably a great step to making sure that you craft one that's going to work well. So I think the first ingredient is that it's got to. Your mission needs to be crystal clear, so it needs to be something that you are laser focused on and that you can kind of be mono maniacal about.
Speaker 1:Okay, explain that Maniacal means kind of like crazy about right, like a maniac about something. And then mono is one thing. You are like laser focus, it's another word for it's just a like big I was just trying to impress people. It's a big word for laser focus it's impressive.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of it before yeah, the monomaniacal so crystal clear right yep needs to be crystal clear, I think. Um, like the second one, means that when you read it, so when you define this mission statement, when you read it, it excites you, it fills you with passion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's back to that fire in your belly a little bit right, like it's something that when you get up in the morning and you're having a bad day, that you're like, but here's my mission, here's my North Star, like I can go focus on this thing right, here's my north star. Like get you going, I can go focus on this thing, right. Um, yeah, it'll always bring you back in the game.
Speaker 2:Um, when you start to go the wrong direction, I think so I like this one because when I'm working and and been doing this as an exercise shot, I've been doing this together, like as I've written one. I go back to these ingredients. Is it crystal clear? Does it fill me with passion? And I had one. And when I went to, answer that question.
Speaker 1:I'm like I know, then it's probably not the right one, and that's okay, this should maybe be an exercise that isn't going to happen in one day. It's going to take some reflection and it's going to take sitting with these ideas, these ingredients and then making sure, does it kind of check all these boxes, and if it doesn't, maybe you're not there yet and that's okay.
Speaker 2:It's good, yeah, but that's where that second one, or that's for me I had to realize it's good, but it can be better. I can keep working on it so that when I read it I'm excited, I am passionate, I want to go.
Speaker 1:You want, am passionate, I want to go. Um, you want to do the third one. I think the third ingredient is just something that you're willing to invest time in daily. Do the work daily, the deep work that it takes um, because your mission is not something that you can just like oh, I created this mission, boom. Checked it off tomorrow, right, this is gonna be something that's you're aiming for for a long time, right? So, um, I think it's something that you Go ahead.
Speaker 2:What you just said is so important. It's not something that's on your to-do list for today and gets checked off.
Speaker 1:And that's your to-do list.
Speaker 2:So many people would. Okay, I'm going to make a mission statement. Moment's done. Checked off Right. Right and it can't be that, and I think sometimes, especially in business, we have so many things we have to do, it becomes part of that checklist.
Speaker 1:Well, let's take it back to the North Star example for a second. Do you ever make it to the North Star, like, do you ever get there? And you're like, oh, like I'm you're not standing on the north star right, so like it's guiding you um, but it's a journey that you're never necessarily going to get to. I don't think a mission is something that you're ever necessarily going to be like mission accomplished. It's not that kind of mission yeah right, totally good, I paused.
Speaker 2:Do you want to keep going, or did I mess up now?
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't even remember where I was, but I think that wrapped it up. I think that you know three ingredients. It's got to be crystal clear when you read it, it's got to fill you with passion and it's got to be something you're willing to do the deep work, something to work on one to three hours a day uh, maybe multiple years at a time multiple years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when we were talking, someone told us you'd be willing to work on it, maybe even three or plus years. Now, obviously it depends on the mission, but that kind of changed you and our thought process of oh okay.
Speaker 1:It's a long-term thing and, yes, your missions may change. That doesn't mean like, oh, you don't abandon that mission, maybe you just adapted a little bit. Or then your season, in that season of life down the road, that's no longer something that you're making your mission anymore. That doesn't mean that it just needs to, right now, be something that you think you're willing to work on, willing for three years, right now, the word is willing and be okay if it takes three years.
Speaker 2:I think that's totally three years or four, the longer right like. Whatever it is, however big that passion is, you have to be willing and be okay that it could be something that that is that long not on a daily list, or that we check off and get done this year. So I like that a lot, so let's. I mean I think it's very clear what the importance is and and the ingredients, but how do we start one? How, if somebody says I want to create a mission statement, like you and I've been going through this process together how would we tell our viewers here's how you create I mean, a really badass mission statement?
Speaker 1:So I think it has to start with self-reflection. I think that's probably the most important step is it's going to. This is, again, it's going to take a little time, but being very honest with yourself on what your values are, um what's most important to you right now? What are your non-negotiables?
Speaker 2:um oh, the 13 questions. So when we started doing this, we got a list of 13 questions deep yeah like. This isn't something you can just write down the answers to and move on like they're ones that that you are. Oh, I got to think about that. I got to really think what I'm going to put there. They're good and we could totally share that.
Speaker 1:No, I think we should. So we have a list of, yeah, the list of 13 questions, just to get your mind thinking about this, to really define those values, to really put into frame what that North star is, what what means the most to you, what your non-negotiables are, and I think, yes, absolutely we can share that. So if that's something that I think everybody hopefully listening would want, those 13 questions- so how do they get it, this comment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the comment wherever this is showing up on Facebook, instagram, whatever just comment down below or send us a DM. Just put 13 in the comments and we will send it, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And you said core values. We also have the one of the things that you and I did. There's this list of I mean I don't know how many words were on that list, probably 100.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it was At least yeah.
Speaker 2:And it said pick 10. And they're all great words, but pick 10 that really resonate with you and your values.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And that was cool because there's tons of them on there. We can share that too. Yeah, but you go through it and you, you try to get down to 10 and it's hard because you're like I want to be that and then you want 30 of them.
Speaker 1:I want to be all these things and it's okay.
Speaker 2:Now, how do I become, really get it down to 10. So that's it. That really, I think, helped me too. And when I was trying to define that, what does that look like? So we can share that one too, Right? So we have the 13 questions. We can share the core values. You can do the core values on your own, just defining those. But if you want that, we can definitely share that.
Speaker 1:Another idea, like if you're struggling with the self reflection piece or whatever. I mean, I think AI is such a great tool right now, so to chat GPT-IT or Google Gemini or whatever and put in like ask me some questions to help me identify a current life mission or business mission or personal mission with my spouse. I think it's really cool right now with AI, that you can say, like, ask me these questions as though you're like my guide on this to help me identify this thing, and it's a wonderful tool. You can definitely do that. You can. But yeah, so I think core values, what you're really passionate about, that's what you're trying to identify. So it just takes a lot of self-reflection and that's step one. Yep, step two, that's what you're trying to identify.
Speaker 1:So it just takes a lot of self-reflection and that's step one.
Speaker 2:Yep, step two. Well, one other thing that you said, though, that I want to talk about in step one, was envisioning your ideal future. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was really the big part of the the like. The end of the self-reflection is what, what do I want my ideal future to look like? Because I think, if we do all of this and we're not thinking about what when we went through this, we talked about who do I want to be as, or remembered as, or thought of as a loan officer? Who do I want to be as a parent? Who do I want to be as a spouse? What do I want that to look like? What does my ideal future look like? And that's when we started going through our one year vision and our five year vision.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's a, that's a uh. A part of it, of that self reflection, is looking at them.
Speaker 1:I'd never done that before. Um, like I've set goals and all that. But putting together a five year vision was really eye opening for me to really kind of have some fun with. Like what do I want my life to look and feel like five years from now and really take some liberty with it. As far as like knocking goals out of the water, like what, where am I going to be five years from now? And then putting that kind of on display and committing to that thing is really fun to think about because in five years so much can happen. So I love the vision planning thing. I think if that's something I think we can give away, we've got a two pager document, just front and back. That's a five-year vision planning worksheet one and I'm five year.
Speaker 1:I love it. The one year for me is tough because, like how much, especially with this type of thing, we're committing to it long term. I'd be like a one year, but man, the five year was big for me so we can send it if you guys put one year if you want to say five year, but we can definitely send that to anybody that wants it. Um, and it was super, super helpful.
Speaker 2:I am so excited that this was the first time doing your five-year and I cannot wait to read it with you in five years.
Speaker 1:I think it's important. You've got to share it with people, share it with your spouse, share it with people in your office, because now you've got a little accountability, people can see how big your dreams are and making sure that they kind of keep you on track if you're getting sideways.
Speaker 2:It also teaches you that you can do the hard things. Yeah, and when you write this so we did it years ago and I had to write a letter to myself and what that life looks like in five years and I had to say, you know, my, I have two boys and I had to say Austin would be this age and why it would be this age, and they'll be doing this and me and Sean, my Sean, my husband, will be doing this and this is what our life looks like and like it was kind of like a love letter to myself in the future of what that looks like. And when you open it back up after five years, like to go through it and see what you thought about or what you envisioned then and really what came with fruition from it.
Speaker 2:Right and it shows you like, wow, this is so powerful.
Speaker 1:How much you can accomplish too, because a lot of times you're checking off like man, I did that, I got that done. I did that in two years I did that in three years.
Speaker 2:And then it kind of makes you stop and think like, did I think too small?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So then you get to do it again and again and it's just neat, you know. So then you're gonna do it again and again and it's just neat. So, dep, I'll stop with that. But, yes, definitely, envisioning, envisioning your ideal future, is such a big part in this of what you want that to look like when we're doing the self-reflection to create this mission statement.
Speaker 1:I think that's perfect. We can wrap that with yeah, step. Step one is just all those things, self-reflection, um. So two is actually crafting the statement. You take all of that input and now we're creating the output, right? So all of that self-reflection creates something that now, okay, I can get behind this mission, um, and just make it pretty simple, like to the simple, to the point, um, that you're writing out, like, my mission is this thing and this is how I'm going to do it, right.
Speaker 2:And again, it has to be clear, it has to fill you with passion and excitement. You gotta be willing to work on it. So those are the things you got to keep thinking when you're crafting it. And you may do one and be like, like I said, it's good but it doesn't get me excited. So you just keep working on it. You have to keep working on it. You have to keep working on it, um, and getting it there when let me ask this really quick and we both can answer it, just so people can see different sides of it when you were working on this, when, like, how long, what kind of process did you set it? Set aside time, like for me, I did it in the mornings, so I would work on 20 minutes in the morning, this little bitty section at a time, and I'm still like I'm two weeks in and I'm still like finishing this up and I'm the person who rushes through everything. But I've actually been trying to slow down and craft it and not just hurry it and make it.
Speaker 1:Right, that's going to make it way more impactful.
Speaker 1:So I think it is something that you need to put on the calendar, probably outside of work hours, because we're going to have so many distractions with work and the phone's going to ring and a fire is going to come up that we got to put out and we'll do all these other things.
Speaker 1:So, you know, probably I think a great idea for crafting a mission statement would be you know, get away for a little bit, like go even if it's stay vacation style, like go to a hotel for a weekend and just really get kind of lost in your thoughts a little bit at the self-reflection piece of it. Um, because this is like kind of deep work. You need to be in the zone on it and it's going to be way more impactful for you. So, whether you've got a place to go away to or even just get away to you know a hotel somewhere or whatever, I don't think anybody if you tell your spouse I need a night away to work on this and I'm working on me, I'm working on being a best version of myself for you, for the kids, that should be something I would think that everybody would get behind and then give them the opportunity. Share it with your spouse and give them an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1:Well, we're kind of moving into step into step three was a great transition, wasn't it that?
Speaker 2:was not planned, so step three is implement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you indicated yeah, yeah, put it out in the universe, right, and that's gonna be with the people closest to you to start. Definitely share with your spouse, share it with the people in your office. Share it with if you're a leader. Share with the people who follow you um your coach, if you've got a coach, um friends, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Just communicate with it. And then what's really fun at this point is now we know it. We we have this beautiful mission statement, that that fills us with passion and excitement, and we've spent this time, but now we get to make our choices around this mission statement, and this is something that you and I heard and we just absolutely love it and it's so impactful. So I hope you guys really love this as much as we did. But all your choices now are made here. So if somebody asks you to do something or hey, do you want to go? I mean, we were just talking about a trip that we got asked to do and does it go along with my mission statement, and the answer either needs to be I'm doing or you want me to do it uh, I go ahead, yeah yeah, it either needs to be hell no or hell yes, and the reason that needs to, like everything, needs to be when we decide what we're going to do.
Speaker 2:does it go along with my mission statement? Hell yeah, it does, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1:Does it further me to my mission, right, yeah, like, does this get me further closer to my mission? Is it in line with my goals and my values? And it becomes your kind of decision tree, right, absolutely, yeah. It becomes very easy to make very binary decisions. It's either hell yes or hell no. It's not, maybe. Oh, that sounds like that would be kind of cool. Yeah, maybe I will do that thing. Once you have that mission, it's very easy to then make decisions based off of that. Or you can just say I'm not doing that thing. That does sound fun, but you know what? It's not getting me closer to any of my three missions that I have home as a father, as a husband, in my business, and it's a hell no for me.
Speaker 2:That's right, and I think too, when you have this mission, you recognize all the things that I'm doing at this point that don't point to my mission.
Speaker 1:Totally.
Speaker 2:You can start really looking at all the things you're currently doing and involved in. And we all are currently doing so many things and involved in so many things and we wonder why we're so tired or why we have no time in the day. It's because we are doing all of this and people haven't defined really what their mission is, and so when we say those hell yeses, it's because it is to the mission in which we're trying to accomplish, say those hell yeses, it's because it is to the mission in which we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're just chasing so many things that we're checking boxes instead of like looking further down the road, looking at that North Star and making decisions that way. I think it's a beautiful thing, and I have not just self admittedly, have not lived my life this way intentionally for a long time. I don't think many people do.
Speaker 2:I don't think many people get challenged to do it. I think if people are challenged to do it or they hear something like that, all this stuff makes sense when you hear it. I think it's very common to be unintentional about this. Hopefully you hear this and hopefully you take this and it gets you a little bit excited to want to do it, make a change. We have all the resources. If you want them, please reach out. We'd be happy to share them with you.
Speaker 1:They are, they were great, I mean they were great helping us, I agree, but do you have a mission? You have one right now you want to share. No you don't.
Speaker 2:I told you no.
Speaker 1:I right now you want to share? No, you don't. I told you. No, I'm not ready to say it because you're still working on it. You didn't, I knew, I didn't know if you had any that were there yet, or oh I have one that's really stinking close okay, but I can tell you.
Speaker 2:I have one more person that like, so I read it to todd. He said do you have the passion? You have the excitement. And I'm like, and he goes, you don't. You can't answer that right there and I'm like it's good, it's not there yeah and there's a piece that I have to wrap up with on.
Speaker 2:I have a meeting with somebody that's on. I told you about on my board of directors that why I think I have a missing piece to it the the fire piece that I need. So that's what I'm perfecting right now, but I'm okay with that. That's why I said I don't think it's something that we have to rush through and just be done like if you're not solid, that this is it you got to keep working on until you're there right.
Speaker 1:Okay, just to share, right, I think, just give an idea, like I have one that I feel maybe need a little bit of tweaking, but I'm close enough that I'm willing to share it. That so, business wise, I want to operationalize the relentless pursuit of delivering impact or receiving impact to be of impact, I guess just operationalize. So I want to make it systematic and have a process to it, because that is where I feel like I'm in my zone the most is when I'm sitting belly to belly with people engaged in the human experience, not being too busy and distracted with things that I can make an impact, or getting myself into rooms that I can be allow myself to be impacted more often. So operationalize a relentless pursuit of impact.
Speaker 2:What's this? Explain that and be in rooms that you can be impacted in.
Speaker 1:Well, you know it goes back to the whole theory that, like you're a product of the five people you hang around in most, or if you walk into a room and you're not inspired, if you're not moved, or you got to find a bigger room, you got to find a better room, Just more opportunities to be impacted by people. There's so many great people out there that are. People that are would make a great mentor and just giving my allowing myself to be in those situations where I can impact or be impacted.
Speaker 2:I like it.
Speaker 1:All right, I think, on that note, the challenge right is to everybody out there is to take the time to do this. I promise it's worth it. If you have any questions, please reach out to us. But we'd love to hear it. Share it. Let us know when you're going to share it. Share it with us. Yeah, we'd love to help. Good luck on that journey. I appreciate you listening If you love to help. Yeah, good luck on that journey. I appreciate you listening. If you love this, please share it with somebody. We will see you next time. Bye, bye, bye.
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