| There is nothing so satisfying than recognizing | | | | county enabled him to realize a new position as |
| your real passion in life. From that moment on | | | | well. |
| you can authentically attract those opportunities | | | | As the Coordinator/Instructor for C.E.R.T. |
| to fulfill that personal passion. Maybe it is | | | | (Community Emergency Response Team), a |
| volunteering or expanding your existing activities. | | | | 17-20 hour class training for citizens, Lazenby has |
| If you have worked discovering your own | | | | in 5 years taught over 1500 citizens to take their |
| personal mission, you may find it may lead you to | | | | place helping themselves and others in the event |
| actualize that newly found information taking your | | | | of a disaster in their community. His commitment |
| life in a whole new direction. | | | | to his personal passion now blends with his career |
| This is the work of each of us in this life, to find | | | | mission and vision. |
| our mission, define it and build our vision on it. | | | | Successful small business owners Les and Alice |
| Sometimes our personal and career mission and | | | | Gardner of the Attitude Shoppe in Ojai, CA |
| vision statements meet. In fact, it happens more | | | | believe strongly in their community and are active |
| often than most think. | | | | Rotarians. The success of their personal mission |
| Margaret Casto Phillips, professor of mathematics | | | | and the blending of their business mission and |
| and computer science at Old Dominion University | | | | vision statements extend to hiring employees that |
| (ODU) in Virginia had found her passion. She had | | | | share in their strong ideas of service, customer |
| joined the ODU faculty in 1945 and taught until | | | | satisfaction and longevity in their community. One |
| her retirement thirty four years later in 1979. She | | | | happy customer recalls having driven four hours |
| had also served as the university liaison for the | | | | away for an important business meeting then |
| American Association of University Women. At | | | | discovering he had left his computer at home...the |
| her death at the age of 94, Phillips assured her | | | | last thing needed was to have to turn around and |
| passion for students and teaching for years to | | | | drive home to retrieve it. Employees handled the |
| come by a bequest of $150,000 to the ODU | | | | problem with customary efficiency, a friend was |
| Faculty Emeriti Association for its student | | | | able to bring it to the store and the computer |
| scholarship endowment fund. She personifies the | | | | was then packed and on its way the same day. |
| meeting of her personal and career mission and | | | | When the Gardner's personal mission met their |
| vision statements. Looking around us we may see | | | | business mission and vision, people who aligned |
| this reflected by many in our community. | | | | themselves with the same values were attracted |
| Captain Steve Lazenby of the Santa Paula (CA) | | | | to becoming employees. |
| Fire Department is passionate about preparing | | | | With these examples come the realization that |
| citizens for emergency preparedness. His | | | | not only does the person gain from the meeting |
| firefighting position is captain of Santa Paula Engine | | | | of their personal and career mission and vision but |
| company but his ability to communicate a | | | | also, society. |
| emergency preparedness mission throughout the | | | | |