When you live with purpose and true to your values you set about on a mission to engage with the world and accomplish tasks that advance your cause. This sense of mission, driven by purpose and informed by strong values, greatly enhances your productivity as well as your sense of worth and accomplishment. It also gives you resilience to overcome barriers that may obstruct your ends. Your mission may change over time. In fact, you may undertake many missions over the course of your lifetime. Nonetheless, your mission is the action you take to carry out your purpose. Your purpose helps you in determining the mission and your values help guide how to accomplish it.
Using work as a means of accomplishing your mission is a powerful tool to make use of your time effective and rewarding. If your work aligns with purpose and values, it will motivate you to continue, particularly as you see the results of your efforts. You can also align some of your free time toward mission focused tasks. Whether it be volunteering, artistic endeavors, charitable works, creative pursuits or other forms of action and behavior that give you a sense of accomplishment, mission directed endeavors, particularly in conjunction with other people, are highly rewarding. The power of teamwork and collective action is particularly effective in getting things done. Learning how to work together with other people, group dynamics and leadership, allow you to use leverage and synergy to accomplish more tasks and get better results.