Can "the mission" be process?

648262 · 2016-11-21T01:20:24+00:00

Yes, but it needs to contain smaller sub-goals to be relevant.

Goals should be:

Specific – target a specific area for improvement.

Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress.

Assignable – specify who will do it.

Realistic – state what results can realistically be achieved, given available resources.

Time-related – specify when the result(s) can be achieved.

"SMART".

But if you set your main mission goal too low you will achieve it, and then need a new one. Set one that is so high that it's unachievable, so that you can keep becoming better.

Example: Usain Bolt didn't set out to run 100 metres in 9.58s, even though that is a SMART-goal. He set out to run as fast as possible. It's unachievable, yet not a bad idea.

SkorchZang · 2016-11-21T02:08:56+00:00

Not really. A mission is something you can finish and survey the result. You call it done and then might as well die with a smile. It's that important and final to you.

The things you listed are not missions, they're possibly positive self-talk or changes you think you want to make, but this is not your mission.

Again, think about something you want to do and make sure it's done right. Something that's finishable and definite, and probably doesn't have anything to do with how awesome you are going to look doing it (often the opposite).

Hope that clarifies it.

2cingle · 2016-11-21T06:22:47+00:00

Can my mission be the process? Obviously yes but I am asking your relevant experience to argue if that would be feasible and useful.

No. If your mission is the process, and process is becoming, then you must be working on something to become something (e.g., a wealthier person, or a nuclear physicist). So, what is it that you're working on so diligently? So you substitute words and you're right where you started.

I'd be incredibly impressed that you're so well developed financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally that there is no challenge great enough for your efforts, but I think that's not true. If you're not interested enough in anything that you can think of to do, that's another issue.

Focusing on improving your "lot" in life should be giving you the satisfaction of the effort as well as some measure of improvement such that you can allow yourself some down time to relax and enjoy yourself with others. Where this is not true, it's an emotional disease. It's well known that some people cannot function socially or allow themselves to enjoy life due to things that have happened in the past so they bury themselves in their work.

Where are you in all this?

Chasing big missions in past made me someone who cannot relax and live in the moment. I feel guilty when I'm not making money or gaining something tangible.

Everything in moderation. You might want to sort this out.

Title	Can "the mission" be process?
Author	hellnomrrmrm
Upvotes	2
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Date	November 20, 2016 9:50 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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