Jen at the Seven Sisters Conference: Your Personal Mission

This Saturday, I’ll be back at Barnard’s Athena Center to present on the topic of personal mission statements, this time to a conference of the Seven Sisters universities.

This post currently hosts a few links I want to share with the attendees (hi!)

On Mission Statements:

• What’s Your Personal Mission Statement – Forbes

On Life in General:

• Bullish: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18
• Bullish: Using Your College Skills to Succeed After College
• Four Ways to Figure Out What You Really Want to Do With Your Life  – “It doesn’t matter where you think you’ll be in five years…think about what you want to learn in the next five years”
• The 10-Minute Exercise That Will Help You Decide What to Do With Your Life – “It’s more useful to start thinking of our futures in terms of the skills we want to develop.”
• How I Figured Out What I Wanted To Do With My Life – Student/entrepreneur Jennifer Turliuk on Forbes
• 91-Year-Old Is Living Her Dream As A Tech Designer At Silicon Valley Firm – “When Barbara Beskind was a child, she wanted to become an inventor. At 91 years old, she’s living that dream as a tech designer.”
• Book: How to Find Fulfilling Work
• Book: 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
• Book: Stumbling on Happiness