Was wandering around the internet today and I came across a contest that seemed pretty simple. It seemed easy enough so I figured I’d dive right in. The contest is that you think about and write your personal mission statement and the top two responses win a $25 Amazon gift card. After reading the post that the guy made I felt as if it would be an easy task to write up my own mission statement, and I think I really misjudged the depth of thought needed to point your entire life in either a new direction, or an old yet undefined direction.

After thinking about it for a while I came to a few conclusions that helped me shape my mission statement.

1. I’m a thinker and dreamer. I really tend to overthink a lot of what goes on in my every day life, which I think is pretty harmless and can only help me out. I also try as much as possible to be creative minded and to think outside the box - its not always the easiest thing to do but it is very motivating and inspiring to me.

2. I am barely motivated by money (ironic writing this post for a gift card?). I will not deny that money is necessary to live off of, and it is something that is needed. But I will argue that if I’m creating something and having fun with it and there happens to be a sum of money involved - to hell with it do it for the fun. But after doing things just for the money, you find out how quickly you become exhausted, and how much you begin to hate what you do.

With that said my personal mission statement is:

I would like to encourage creative thinking and push peers to be creative, to further inspire us all.