Two deliverables

I had two deliverables due this week that were significant to me. The first deliverable was the completion of the first milestone for Phase III in my OSEB program - Mission Statement and Company Profile. The second deliverable was my participation in the Team Dynamics Training event held by MDI.

I completed my milestone assignment on Thursday evening and handed it in on Friday morning. I took the night off from rehearsal to have more time to complete it.

The Team Dynamics Training event was an all-day event yesterday, Saturday. I think the training went well and I feel good about how I did in my part.

Getting my first milestone completed in my OSEB program and delivering a successful TDT training are my top two accomplishments of this week and both are events worth celebrating.

Mission Statement

My first assignment for the OSEB program is due next week. My assignment is to write the Mission Statement and Company Profile section of my business plan. This is what I have come up with for my mission statement: To create and shape new and better realities.

How well does this work as a mission statement for my business? For it to work it has to be more than a mission statement for my business, it has to be a mission statement for my life.

I've decided to operate under the premise that, whether or not I know my mission statement, I am living it out in my life. So to test this MS I would look at different parts of my life and ask "How does this MS show up in this area of my life?"

How does this MS show up in my music? When I write music, the song that I create becomes a new reality.

How does this MS show up in my writing? When I write for my novel, the characters and situations that I create become a new reality.

How does this MS show up when I participate on the training team for the Legacy Discovery weekend with my men's division? When I train a man or give a man my truth and he makes a different choice and improves his life, then I have shaped a new and better reality.

So I think that my mission statement lines up well with my personal mission and is close to my personal ideology, if not bang on.

OSEB application accepted

I got the word last week. Congratulations! You've been accepted. I'm about to start a new chapter in my life - the OSEB chapter. It's ironic that I got that call because the same morning, perhaps two hours earlier, I had a dream that they told me no.

Friday was contract signing day. I won't say that I've signed my life away, because I have already signed my life away several times. I will say though that I've signed the next 52 weeks of my life away.

Tomorrow is my first day at school.

A new prayer

I have stopped praying for God to find me a wife. Instead I pray for God to make me be the kind of man that a woman would want for a husband.

I have stopped praying for God to give me a family. Instead I pray for God to make me be the kind of man that children would want for a father.