Time back

Once your thinking gets crystallized, rigid, formed, you’ve lost the battle. Once you think that you have all the answers, you might as well hang up your boots. Once you get set in your ways, you’re already part of history.

Now none of this is big stuff and by that I mean I don’t go around with this emblazoned on my forehead -I dedicate my life to… sort of thing. It’s more that, quietly, in my heart, I have something that I can devote my attention to. It’s a yardstick by which I can measure (a) how I’m doing, (b) What I’m doing and (c) where I’m going. You don’t need to trumpet it. You don’t need to tell anyone (See Rule 1). You don’t even need to think it out in too much detail.
A simple internal mission statement will do. Disney’s mission for example is: "To make people happy"