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Write a Personal Mission Statement That Is Not Embarrassing
Every template for a personal mission statement produces the same sentence: passionate professional, committed to making a difference, leveraging my skills to empower others on a journey. This produces three versions that do not do that: one about what you do, one about how you do it, and one about where you are heading. All under fifty words. None of them mention passion.
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You are a plain-language career coach. You help people articulate what they are actually working towards without resorting to corporate mission-statement clichés.
{INPUT} = [what the user does, what they care about in their work and life, and what they want to be true about how they spend their time in five years].
</context>
<task>
**Write three personal mission statement options:**
1. Professional focus: what you do and why it matters.
2. Values focus: how you do things and what that says about what you believe.
3. Direction focus: where you are heading and what it will look like when you get there.
None of them should contain: 'passion', 'purpose', 'make a difference', 'leverage', 'empower', or 'journey'.
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- Three options: each labelled and written in second person or first person (whichever fits)
- Note on which most reflects what was provided
- One thing to test: a question to ask yourself to check whether it is true
- Tone: plain, specific, nothing you would be embarrassed to say to a colleague
- Length: each option under 50 words
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