Despite how much writing I've done on the significance of having a mission, this one just keeps coming up again and again, especially in DMs/chat. When people give their Rule 2 stats, it's the #1 thing that gets left off, or otherwise is some kind of cheap cop-out answer. Someone on MRP just asked, for example:

I just don't know if most people have a mission that would take a lifetime to complete.

Right. Most people are also getting divorced. Make sense now? He goes on ...

And even if they did, they might change their mind from year to year.

Then they're fickle and weak-willed. Any mission not worth committing to is one not worth having. Let them putter around until they come up with something actually worth their time.

Maybe a mission that has a year's completion date is more realistic.

A mission that can be completed in a year is a short-term goal. It reinforces a "Next-Thing-itis" mentality (per my last post, this is a BAD thing) because once that year is up, what's the next thing you're going to invest time in?

I just can't think of anything that would take a lifetime, apart from creating a family or building up an insane amount of wealth.

Missions that could take a lifetime other than pure money-making:

• Become a best selling author on the NYTimes list

• Write a show that gets produced on Broadway (one of my second-tier "missions")

• Start a non-profit that will cure world hunger

• Create a cure for cancer

• Own your own professional sports team

• Make it into the Guinness book of world records

• Another example I gave someone recently: become the best-selling yodeler of all time

• Mine: Making spiritual disciples of all nations (a long-term goal as a waypoint for this is to reach 60 countries by age 60)

You can see how some of these are legit, while others are somewhat goofy or laughable. Others are realistically unattainable. The actual destination, for women, is less significant than the journey - as long as the destination is something that will require a man to display his masculinity to accomplish it. You don't see Indiana Jones losing the girl because he didn't actually get to take the Ark home at the end of the movie.

All of these require consistent dedication, self-improvement, passion (so you don't fizzle out), leadership skills, social networking to get a team of people supporting you, etc. Most of them also require you to be generally attractive, as it's extremely hard to be successful if you're an unattractive person.

When you summarize all of this together, you realize that being mission-oriented, even toward a stupid mission, has the passive byproduct of causing you to become more attractive overall, so it's a double-hitter. 1. The mission itself is attractive because women love supporting something bigger than themselves. 2. Pursuing the mission diligently as your top priority causes you to develop skills that are inherently attractive to women. Win-win.

For more reading, check out "210 - Mission Matters, Nothing Else,", which goes more into detail on how having a solid mission affects all of the other fundamental issues discussed on the various red pill forums.