I’ve been thinking—a dangerous pastime, I know—about mission and values. I can’t stop thinking about them. I’m going through a course called Work as Worship, and my mind constantly buzzes with thoughts about identity, activities, faith, work, and entrepreneurship. I know I’m a one-woman hurricane, er, team, but…what if…
what if…
…the company grows? What if God’s plan is for Write Right to become not only a source of income but also a refuge for battered creative professionals and professional creatives? What if that dream isn’t of my own making but something God has put on my heart? What if I need to partner with other companies? Hire people? What if this business becomes a large-scale operation that helps people reach the world for Christ? What then?
Dangerous questions. Big ones, perhaps even a little foolish. They need to be asked, though. I need to be prepared for whatever comes next, be that growing the business or becoming an employee, because questions like them aren’t really about company growth. They’re about who God is, who I am, what I stand for, and where I’m aiming, which gets me to the real question—
Have I distilled who I am and what I stand for? Have I taken time to be quiet and evaluate who I am as a daughter of the King and how that transforms, well, everything? Do I have a mission and values? Do they shape my daily life?
I know some of the values, and I’ve maybe even written a sort of mission statement, but I find myself wondering if I could accurately and easily explain them in conversation, if they would guide whom I hire and how I act as an employer. Have I done that? I’m not sure that I have, but I know I will.
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