It’s much less painful (in the short term) to skip over the sobering work of defining the mission.
If no one really knows what the mission is its way harder to feel like a failure if it’s not panning out.
It’s risky and scary to dive into defining the mission because of the the UNdefined-ness. And undefined is unknown. Unknown is risky. Risk means everyone might laugh at you.
“If I can’t define or have a hard time defining the mission then maybe I’m not as passionate, smart, talented, thoughtful, deep, committed, in it to win it as I thought I was.”
That’s why you avoid defining the mission.
Defining the mission brings you face to face with whatever you’ve got deep down in there.
And you need to find out what’s there.
A need avoided is not the same as a need met. So stop avoiding it. Stop avoiding defining the mission.
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