Like with any conquest, there is an end goal in sight. This thinking is based upon your prejudice that you already know what the world needs and you will do anything in your power to make it happen. To have a mission implies that you have been sent by a higher presence to contort the world into your vision. Coming from New Zealand, I understand the brutality and long-lasting pain that this dominating and colonialist mindset has brought. They believe they were sent into the world on a ‘mission’ to bring god to the ‘savage’ populations of the world. If you think for example of missionaries, you will see what I mean. The word ‘mission’ is derived from the Latin word mittere, meaning to send, and was primarily a religious term of specifically sending the holy spirit into the world. This should be the cornerstone upon which you build your house. This is because before you can set any of these things, you need a clearly defined and collectively agreed purpose.
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Unfortunately, many companies set these statements without the full and collective understanding of how they work. These words have been brewed in as standard operating process. Many organisations use terms like ‘mission statement’, ‘vision’, and ‘strategy’. But leaders who don’t use it, well… they aren’t really leaders are they, instead perhaps they are merely managers.
A successful and talented leader will use purpose as their central pillar to winning the hearts and minds of those they are leading. Not only this, but purpose is even more powerful when multiple people rally behind them. It is the single reason why we do what we do.īut purpose is not given, it must be sought.Įveryone experiences purpose differently and could be motivated by many different purposes. It is more like a lens, or a filter that we apply to everything we do. It’s like some kind of psychological fuel that steers every action and every behaviour. It is the motivation that keeps us going. This formation of identity paved the path for purpose, the thing that gives us an intrinsic sense of reason. It enabled us to join the dots of who we are within our world. One of these tools, storytelling, enabled us to make sense of what it was we were experiencing.
We have developed in such a strange and complex way, all in the name of survival, yet with the tools we learned to survive, we began to develop a range of experiential sensations.
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