Your Personal Mission Guides Everything
When things inevitably change, come back to what drives you most.
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Back to our regularly scheduled hello 😀. My conversation with this week’s guest Jordan Buckner had me doing a lot of reflecting. And a lot of that was on the startup that I worked on well before TPB and what you see me doing today.
Jordan has also had a few business ideas he’s tried. One, TeaSquares, was a CPG product he really put his all into for a few years. And the hard lesson that every entrepreneur has to learn is that putting your all into your business leaves little to nothing for anything outside of it.
It means you think your worth and entire identity are wrapped up in being the founder of XYZ. And that if things aren’t going how you wanted them to, you’re a failure. And everyone will think the same of you.
If you take a step back though, this isn’t true. You are a whole, complete, worthy person no matter your profession. No matter if your business becomes a unicorn or if you (like over 90% of startups and small businesses) have to say goodbye to it at some point.
Jordan’s story really struck me. I felt the exact same way he did when he had to walk away from his business. What he realized was having a personal mission statement allowed him to have a sense of worth and separation from anything he was working on.
It’s something I also worked on with a CEO coach during my tech years. I dug my statement up from those days and am happy to say that despite my work looking very different than it did in 2019, I’m continuing to work on this personal mission and vision today: To create a massive shift in energy towards good and give others the confidence and opportunities to better themselves.
Now that work looks like sharing the stories of folks in F&B that inspire me the most. To help uplift them and their ethics and work so that others can go out and do the same. I don’t know if I’m doing it on some “massive shift” scale, but I really like helping others learn about good moments and good people, and to help folks realize all they’re really doing for us.
What do you think your personal mission statement is? This is a good journaling prompt for us all!
Thanks so much for being part of The Perfect Bite’s journey and supporting these founders’ stories. Feel free to respond to any of these messages with thoughts on how I can improve my storytelling in the future or if you have any guest ideas!
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