Your Interior Design Lifestyle Mission Statement
Your lifestyle mission statement is key to the implementation of a successful interior design or interior decorating project. It is the “road map” that identifies where you are, as well as helps you determine how to get to where you are going, or want to go. It is said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” Therefore, don’t be a “wandering generality,” but be a “meaningful specific.” Get ready to set yourself up for success!
What Is a Lifestyle Mission Statement?
Your interior design lifestyle mission statement is very much like the mission statement for a business. It’s a statement or paragraph or two that describes and encapsulates what it is that you want to accomplish. It’s the end result, as well as what you are all about. So, it’s all about the look, the feel, and the ambiance that will be a unique expression of you and your personality, as well as your interests.
Defining Your Vision and Environment
It also includes how you want to see your environment and how you want others to see you in your environment. It clearly states and communicates the intangible aspects that you want to become a reality. It helps you with all your decision-making. It becomes the level, the plumb-bob, the straight-edge, etc. It becomes a path and a guide to all your decision-making. It removes all the ambiguity and brings a great amount of clarity to any size of project. It not only saves, but enhances your time, money, and resources.
Reducing Overwhelm and Increasing Focus
In addition, it prevents information overload. Because of the vast number of choices there are in the marketplace, your lifestyle mission statement helps to cut to the chase, cut through the fog, and becomes a lighthouse that guides you to a safe haven.
Additional Benefits and Clarity
Some other benefits of your interior design lifestyle mission statement are that it helps to put things in their proper order of importance as well as to help you evaluate alternatives for maximum results and alignment with your life and unique personality. It acts as a filter to separate what is important from what is not. It helps to guide you intellectually, as well as emotionally.
The Importance of Proper Planning
Making decisions without proper planning is a fairly common occurrence, and it usually does not end very well. One of my favorite quotes revolves around the six P’s: “Proper-Prior-Planning-Prevents-Poor-Performance!”
Overcoming Paralysis of Analysis
The alleviation of “paralysis of analysis” is another great benefit to be derived from a properly planned and enunciated lifestyle mission statement. This condition causes over-thinking and over-analysis that literally paralyzes any forward action or motion. It is a direct result of having an immense lack of clarity!
Writing Your Mission Statement
The writing of a “mission statement” will help you stimulate your own mind and enable you to dig deeper into being able to express your true self in your interior design and decorating. For example, let’s say a lady wanted a sophisticated living room that showcased her travels and experiences around the world. I would help her come up with some adjectives, as many as possible, to describe the feeling or ambiance she desires. Then we would write a paragraph or “mission statement” to describe the space using the adjectives and descriptive phrases we came up with.
Your Roadmap to Success
Your interior design lifestyle mission statement will now be your roadmap to get you from where you are now to where you want to be. It also helps to get you to your destination in a very satisfying way.
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