Mission Coach Newsletter August 2005 (Vol. 8)
Welcome to the August Mission Coach newsletter.
This month’s article is part 2 of creating a “Mission Sheet”. Last month we looked at creating a personal Mission Statement. Now we are going to put that statement onto a Mission Sheet along with other writings that are meaningful to you. Included in this article are numerous examples (that’s why this newsletter is so long!) to help you get started. In the “What’s On? What’s New?” section there’s some information about NLP Techniques coming (back) soon to the Mission Coach web site. Are you ready to get “jazzed” about your Mission?
Let’s see what we can do to help the process by creating a Mission Sheet .....
This Month's Article
Putting your life on the (written) line!
Creating A Mission Sheet Part 2
Outcomes for this Article - Define what a Mission Sheet is.
- Recap on the benefits of creating one.
- To present some ideas for your own Mission Sheet.
What is a Mission Sheet?
A Mission Sheet is simply a sheet of paper on which you have written your Mission Statement and other writings that inspire and support you and your Mission Statement.
Last month I suggested you collect writing and quotes that inspire you and could be included in your Mission sheet. In addition to what you already have outlined in this article are some further suggestions. Quick Recap on the Benefits of a Mission Sheet - It is a tool you can use to connect to what is truly important to you every day.
- It becomes a symbol or anchor for what is important to you.
- You can keep it with you.
- Your Mission Sheet and Mission Statement become a “filter” through which you make day-to-day decisions.
Your Mission Sheet is something you will “engage” with every day. Making it part of your morning routine can be very beneficial because it helps to both prepare and “vaccinate” you against the inevitable challenges and “distractions” of the day. (We will looking at distractions next month.) Some Suggestions for your Mission Sheet
Please accept the material presented here as being suggestions, a starting point for your Mission Sheet. As with your Mission Statement the most important thing is for you to create one; it really doesn’t have to be perfect. It is helpful to think of your Mission Statement and Mission Sheet as being “work in progress”; if they no-longer “work” for you it means you are making “progress”! Your Mission Sheet should be in a constant state of change to reflect the changes in you. It can be helpful to read your Mission Sheet with a pen nearby. If you decide you want to change something – change it! Make it messy! When the paper is covered in changes you can create a new version that includes the changes, then you start all over again. What follows is a smorgasbord of ideas and suggestions. I strongly urge you to personalise these and other ideas. (If you share any of the ideas presented here publicly please quote the source). By personalising inspiration from whatever source you, not the source, become responsible for your own inspiration. Hopefully you will see what I mean as we continue by looking at what your Mission Sheet could include ... An Opening Statement
This is a statement that sets the mood and anchors you into your Mission statement: I release, I let go of all energy, thoughts and emotions that do not serve me now. [1]
Take the time you need to become “present”. Allow yourself to Be, here. Your Mission Statement
Please see last month’s article for suggestions on how to create a Mission Statement (a link to the newsletter archive is at the bottom of this newsletter. A Mission Statement “Re-enforcer”
This could be something which drives your Mission statement, makes it more important or more urgent: “My playing small with my Mission does not serve the world, my playing BIG does.”[2]
A “Thank You” Section
This section is good if you feel able to express genuine gratitude for something or someone. There are times for all of us when this can be a stretch!
Thank you for my courage and creativity that come with knowing I am guided.
Thank you for my health and fitness.
Thank you for my deepening insights into my Mission and who I really am.
A “Creed”
A Creed is defined as being a “set of beliefs”; in the context of this article the word “Creed” has no religious connections.
The purpose of this section is to create a way of understanding, a “bridge” if you like between the 3rd dimension (planet Earth, physical body and physical objects) and the 4th dimension (Source of all creation, Creator, God, Universe etc).
The example given here is “pseudo scientific”. Your way of understanding how life and the universe “works” could be different.
The following started out as a passage from “The Science of Getting Rich” and has evolved through the teachings of Conversations with God, the Sedona Method and the teachings of Thomas Troward![3]:
There is a Field from which, through which, by which, of which all things become manifest.
The Field is God’s potential to experience being God through me and all of the manifest world.
God the Field is omnipresent, there is no place the Field is not.
God the Field is in all things, there is no thing the Field is not.
God the Field is omnipotent there are no accidents, mistakes or coincidences.
The Field’s natural inclination is always towards the expansion and more effulgent and joyful expression and experience of life.
I am in the Field and the Field is in me. I am the Field.
My thought seeds planted in the Field make manifest the events and objects envisioned by the seeds.
My thought seeds are powerfully creative and serve my Mission.
I create and hold clear images of the things I desire knowing the images are Spiritual prototypes that will manifest in my experience of the physical world when I allow myself to receive them.
To receive and experience these things in my physical world I engage with the Universe by taking authentic action that serves my Mission.
I am ready and open to receive and experience all my desires.
Meaningful Writing Section
This is any writing (or could be a drawing) that touches you in a significant way and is supportive of you and your Mission. What follows is Marianne Williamson’s “Deepest Fear” passage. I hope Marianne will forgive me (unconditional love and all that stuff) for what I am going to suggest you do with it!
If you like this passage I suggest you put it on your Mission sheet as it is below (taken from her book “A Return to Love”). As you read it put it into the 1st person i.e. the opening lines become: My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate.
My deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure.
With this passage it works really well especially when you change phrases like: Your playing small doesn’t serve the world .... to
My playing small doesn’t serve the world ....
The latter accepts no excuses! Try it. It’s so good it hurts! Here is the complete passage from “A Return to Love”: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.
As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A miracle worker is an artist of the soul.
There’s no higher art than living a good life.
An artist informs the world what’s available behind the masks we all wear.
That’s what we’re all here to do.
A Goal Section
Setting goals is the subject of countless books many of which simply copy the other! If you have a goal setting method that works for you it can be very helpful to include your goals on your Mission Sheet. Courtesy of Larry Crane’s version of Sedona I would suggest you use this method [4]. Here is an example: “I allow myself to write and be published with ease.”
Notice the “no pain no gain” factor is missing and there is no date on it (although there could be). The problem with most goal setting is that it is ego based. To give yourself per-mission [5] to allow something to happen “with ease” is a whole different way of “making” things happen. It doesn’t mean it’s not a challenge, it does mean you don’t beat yourself up about it! “My Life” Section
This section describes the “real you”, the person you intend to be, doing the things you intend to do and receiving what you intend to receive. This is you (and me) playing BIG. As with all the suggestion in this article this is shared by way of example, replace the text enclosed by {} with something meaningful to you: My {put Mission your here} is bringing healing, growth and the experience of wealth and well-being to myself and the planet.
My life is nourishing and fulfilling. I have the money and freedom to travel, to create and share new, exciting concepts and techniques. I am constantly and joyfully expanding my Grandest Vision.
I am co-creating with the Universe ideas that are uniting people around the world and giving me an on-going residual income of more than {the amount you intend to receive} every year.
I have the freedom to move, to be my true self, to devote my time, energy and attention to all that I enjoy, that nourishes, interests and empowers me and expands my expression and experience of life.
I know by Living My Grandest Vision to the fullest I serve myself, I serve God and I serve the world.
I serve with the absolute faith I am here to fully express and Experience Who I Really Am.
The wealth of the Universe becomes manifest in my world as in every moment I take action to fully live my Mission, my Purpose for being here in this place at this time.
A Closing Section
This is a fun adaptation of Larry Crane’s Sedona method which could also be used as an opening or closing section for your Mission Sheet. Try saying this to yourself and make up some of your own. As you say these visualise yourself being showered:
Today, for no reason at all, I allow myself to be showered with health and vitality.
Today, for no reason at all, I allow myself to be showered with happiness and joy.
Today, for no reason at all, I allow myself to be showered with wealth and money.
You get the picture. The significant part of the above is the “for no reason at all” bit. I can recommend this too; also from Larry Crane: Today I am letting go of being so smart, I am allowing money to be something other than I think it is.
Today I am letting go of being so smart, I am allowing time to be something other than I think it is.
Change the words “money” and “time” for whatever you like. And a variation on this is: Today I am letting go of being so smart, I am allowing my life to be much more than I think it is.
Today I am letting go of being so smart, I am allowing my Mission to be much more than I think it is.
Conclusion
I hope that buried in the suggestions above you have found something you can make your own. As with writing your Mission Statement the most important thing is that you do it!
Make your Mission Sheet the right length for the time you are willing to devote each day to reading it. It only takes between 5 and 10 minutes each day to fully engage with your Mission and read your Mission Sheet. Can doing this transform your life? Yes! And for the sake of a few minutes every day why not find out for yourself? Next Month
Next month we look at “Distractions”; a distraction is anything that entices you away from your Mission and from being who you really are. Of course I realise this is something that never happens to you but …! Footnotes for this Article
[1] This is based on the teachings of the Sedona method.
[2] This is a modified extract from Marianne Williamson’s “Deepest Fear” passage.
[3] If you would like a real challenge, try reading Thomas Troward’s “Edinburgh & Doré Lectures on Mental Science”. The lectures were given in the early 1900s. The book contains some of the most profound wisdom I have ever come across – it’s also an absolute pig to read! Troward was a judge and the text reads like a legal document. Don’t let that put you off though; it’s brilliant! See the link to Amazon at the bottom of this newsletter.
[4] At some point in the future we will look at goals; although I personally do not believe there is a definitive method for setting them. This method is the most congruent I have yet come across.
[5] “Mission” is such and interesting word when you think about the meanings of the words “per-mission” (allowing something to happen) and “re-mission” (new lease of life).
This Month's Tool Review
This month I had intended to review the software package MindManager X5 Pro - and I haven’t.
There are 2 reasons for this:
1) I have been too busy using MindManager to write my book that I haven’t had the opportunity to write about it!
2) this newsletter is already too long!
I hope to include this review next month.
What's On? What's New? NLP Mission Coaching Techniques on the Web Site
Over the past few years have created some interesting NLP (type) techniques which used to be on the Mission Coach web site. Early this year I removed them with the intention of putting them into an E-Book and selling them. As this is unlikely to happen in the near future I have decided to put them back! Between now and next month there should be a “Techniques” item on the site’s main menu. If deep and highly exoteric techniques turn you on – watch out for them! Links For This Edition of the Mission Coach Newsletter To buy “Edinburgh & Doré Lectures on Mental Science” by Thomas Troward from Amazon UK click here:
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875166148/selfleadershi-21 To buy “Edinburgh & Doré Lectures on Mental Science” by Thomas Troward from Amazon USA click here:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875166148/missioncoach-20 To go to the Mission Coach Newsletter Archive click here:
www.mission-coach.co.uk/pages/mission_coach_newsletter_archive.asp (if the text for this link is on 2 lines the link may not work, in which case click here: www.mission-coach.co.uk and select “Resources” then “Newsletter Archive” from the main menu.
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