Creating a Personal Mission Statement with Anna Lundberg
/Anna Lundberg is a success coach and business strategist who helps people create businesses and build a lifestyle that allows them an unimagined sense of freedom, flexibility and fulfillment. She works individually with a select number of clients to help them reimagine success in their personal and professional lives and runs a group program that helps people take their ‘One Step Outside the 9 to 5’.
Here are a few of the big topics we talked about:
Kelly introduces Anna, and asks Anna to share how she came to be a coach and how she learned what her mission was.
Kelly shares a story about her family’s mission statement.
Part of being successful is taking risks, but these don’t have to be crazy risks, simply stepping outside your comfort zone is enough.
Kelly shares the quote, “Your comfort zone is rarely comfortable.”
There’s a pain or a feeling of discomfort when you refuse to step outside your comfort zone.
Anna shares how she starts the process of creating her mission statement.
Man's Search for Meaning- by Viktor E. Frankl
Defining the meaning or purpose in our life is up to us, and it’s important because we often get so caught up in other’s definitions.
Anna provides tips and exercises that can help cut down on the overwhelm of finding the value / meaning of your life.
The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying - by Bronnie Ware
The Future Self Exercise
Timeline of Your Life Exercise
You do your best work when you are working on something that you’re good at and enjoy.
Kelly shares how she feels freer and more connected with herself as she gets older.
Anna shares the elements of her Guiding Star.
Kelly asks Anna to share what her Inner Voice is asking her to do.
In Anna’s Voice:
“I feel like I’ve reached a lovely balance of using my experience in ways that I really enjoy, but also having more freedom to explore these new areas to help people in these areas.”
“Even though we talk about risk when you have your own business, it doesn’t mean that we’re taking all these crazy risks. It’s accepting that there’s a level of uncertainty because we can never know. But us being okay with it, being okay with being a little bit uncomfortable.”
“Some people find it quite overwhelming to define your purpose - it feels very big. It’s like you’re trying to find the meaning of life. And that can be quite scary and uncomfortable actually.”
“It’s up to you to define what that aim or purpose is. And I think the reason why it’s so important is because we get caught up in other people’s definitions.”
“Your mission statement is a beautifully crafted sentence or it’s some kind of visual tool like a vision board or some other format.”
“Looking back at your past experiences, looking at how you feel now, and looking into the future can be a great way to identify what you need more of and perhaps what you need less of as well.”