your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression…
Page 129 your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by with your measure everything else in your life.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
In the book
Then dare to write it down. Your vision should be put into words and shared with the people who will help you reach it; a written mission becomes a kind of personal constitution, the fixed thing you measure every smaller decision against. A vision statement, at bottom, is just an honest declaration of how you intend to invest your one short life, and the values you hold most deeply are what that vision rests on. […] Watch where your free attention already goes for the clue. Write it down and tie it to something larger than yourself. A vision belongs on paper and in the open, shared with the people who will help you fly it; let it become your constitution, anchored to the values you would not trade. Then aim high — reaching for the large costs no more than reaching for the small. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)