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Productivity

Life Map: A Goal Setting System

Corie Muldoon

Writing down our goals and breaking them down into small, doable tasks is how we get extraordinary results.

Good builders don’t build without a blueprint. They have a vision, write it out on paper, tweak it, and review it over and over again. When their plan is approved by multiple experts, only then do they start to break ground.

Like a good builder, we can visualize our dreams and write up a plan to achieve them. No wishing or wanting, we’re committed to making it happen.

It’s totally doable, ya just have to know what you want. And that’s where the Life Map comes into play!

Getting started


Let’s create a Google spreadsheet:

  • Life categories going down (health, personal, finance, etc)

  • Timeline going across (someday, 5 year, 1 year, 1 month, 1 week, daily)

Or just download a template of mine here 🙂

Choose 3-5 categories

What are your top 3-5 categories that you’d like to focus on?

  • Personal
  • Fitness
  • Health
  • Business
  • Finance
  • Romance
  • Charity
  • Something more specific?

Someday goal

Next, we’re going to come up with a “someday goal” for each category. This is where visualizing what you want your life to look like comes in handy! It’s the perfect time to write out your dream life.

Once you have a someday goal for each category, let’s move on to each category individually:

5 year goal

What’s the one thing I can do in 5 years that will help me accomplish my someday goal?

1 year goal

What’s the one thing I can do this year that will help me accomplish my 5 year goal?

1 month goal

What’s the one thing I can do this month that will help me accomplish my 1 year goal?

1 week goal

What’s the one thing I can do this week that will help me accomplish my 1 month goal?

Daily goal

What’s the one thing I can do today that will help me accomplish my 1 week goal?

BONUS: Who do I have to be?

Who do I have to be to accomplish my daily goal? Choose an adjective: outgoing, dedicated, romantic, curious, eager, consistent, reliable? Define what each word means and imagine yourself living it out.

Wrapping Up

The Life Map will keep you on track toward your goals, and will help you make big and small decisions you’ll be faced with down the road – “will saying yes to this push me toward my goals or away from them?”

The Life Map is a tool, and must be used on an on-going basis to get the best results possible. Yes that means reviewing your sheet daily 🙂

Your Life Map will be ever-evolving as you accomplish goals and replace them with new ones, so don’t get stuck on getting everything written out perfectly before taking action on your daily goals. Goals may change, even categories may change. The key is to keep up on the dailies and adjust along the way.

Take control of what you can control. Small actions lead to big results.

Commit to the Life Map and create the life of your dreams 🙂

Productivity

What I Love Checklist

Corie Muldoon

Undesired states of mind like worry, fear, anxiety, anger, depression…

Come from being too consumed in the past or future.

You may be thinking of all that you have to do tomorrow.

Future thinking = worry / fear / anxiety

Or you may be consumed with guilt or regret about a past situation.

Past thinking = anger / depression

Do not judge when your mind starts to wonder…

Or when you start feeling these negative emotions.

Simply become aware that you are feeling the way you are…

Make a mental note to reflect on it later…

And work through your WHAT I LOVE CHECKLIST to get your joy back 🙂

What’s a What I Love Checklist?

It’s a list of things that make you happy!

Here are some things on my list:

  • Shower / at-home spa time
  • High vibe music
  • Meditate, pray, crystal work
  • 5 deep belly breaths
  • Yoga, mobility, strength training
  • Snack time / cook up a meal
  • Journal, read, online courses
  • Write blogs, create / share content
  • Send love on social media
  • Talking with family and friends
  • Clean / maintain home
  • Plan, do, review goals
  • Dates with Joey
  • Exercise Champ

Take 5 mins now to create your own What I Love Checklist and the next time you feel negative emotions coming on, you’ll be well equipped.

Utilize your list to get out of any funk. The more you practice this, the faster you’ll bounce back.

Productivity

Closing Out the Year and Planning for the New Year

Corie Muldoon

In our household, October is about the time we start closing out the year and planning for the new year.

How have things been going? Any changes needed? What’s next year looking like?

Closing Out The Year

Here is our closing out the year checklist to finish by the end of December:

  1. Jesse Itzler’s Build Your Life Resume workbook
  2. Answer Think & Grow Rich Self Analysis Questions
  3. Review 1 year goals in Life Map. How am I making out? Any adjustments needed to reach the goal? If you don’t have a life map made yet, how do we feel the year is going? Anything we can do to end the year strong?

Planning the New Year

In the spirit of planning the new year, we like to look at the entire year when setting new goals:

  1. Plan Misogi Challenge for the new year
  2. Plan 6 new experiences for the year (Kevin’s Rule)
  3. Tim Ferris’ Fear Setting and Dreamlining exercises
  4. Set next year’s one year goals in Life Map, break down to daily goals
  5. Happiness Project: List 12 habits to work on in 2023 (1 for each month)
  6. Review this year’s finances, set new year’s budget
  7. Review / update yearly health & fitness plan

Have a great new year! Keep on stepping, let’s crush our goals together! Comment below your top 5 goals for the new year! (1 year goals on your Life Map)

✨ Manifesting some good energy ✨

Resources

> download your free checklist here <

Productivity

Daily Reflection Prompts for Personal Growth

Corie Muldoon

At the end of everyday, write down what you did or didn’t do and how you feel about it.

Below are my daily reflection prompts… use them as you please and feel free to customize them to your specific goals:

Golden nugget: What’s one thing I learned today? (Keep it short and sweet; 5 words or less.)

Rate the following 1-5 and take notes:

  • Thoughts
  • Emotions
  • Reactions
  • Communication

Track exercise: What activities did I do today and for how long?

Track meditation: How many minutes of intentional silence / active resting / deep breathing today?

Track sleep: How many hours of sleep did I get last night? How did that affect my day today?

Track meals: How many healthy meals did I have today? How many unhealthy meals?

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Daily Powerlist

Corie Muldoon

A list of 5 things to do today that will get you closer to your goals.

These to-dos aren’t habits, they are additional to your regular routine.

And that’s why the powerlist is a great tool to use if you are looking to better your life.

Each day you write out 5 things to do that day that’ll get you one step closer to your goals.

If you’re familiar with the Life Map System, you’ll have no problem coming up with your daily powerlist 🙂


How to Win at Life

If you complete everything on your powerlist to a T, you win the day.

If you miss even one thing, you lose the day.

Keep track of your days via a print out calendar or Google spreadsheet. W for a win, L for a lose.

Win enough days, you win the week. Win enough weeks, you win the month. Win enough months, you win the year. Win enough years, you win at life.

My powerlist today:

  1. Create personal blog poa sheet
  2. Daily snippet (this!)
  3. Daily mile
  4. Read 10 pages
  5. Weekly meeting prep
Productivity

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Corie Muldoon

Below are the principles of how to win friends and influence people laid out in the classic non-fiction book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

I’ve added in a few of my own notes to further explain some points. A weekly goal I have is to read through this list intently – really trying to understand and apply in my own life the timeless message that is taught. And it truly has changed my life forever, for the better.

Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

  1. Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.
    • Criticize: indicate faults in a disapproving way
    • Condemn: express complete disapproval of, typically publicly
    • Complain: express dissatisfaction or annoyance about something
  2. Give honest and sincere appreciation.
  3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
  4. Never show others that you are not interested in what they have to say.

Six Ways to Make People Like You

  1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
  2. Smile.
  3. Remember that a person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
  4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
  5. Talk in terms of the other person’s interest.
  6. Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking

  1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
  2. Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say “You’re Wrong.”
  3. If you’re wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically (ability to understand and share the feelings of another).
  4. Begin in a friendly way.
  5. Start with questions to which the other person will answer yes.
  6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
  7. Let the other person feel the idea is his or hers.
  8. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view.
  9. Be sympathetic (understanding between people, common feelings) with the other person’s ideas and desires.
  10. Appeal to the nobler (moral) motives.
  11. Dramatize (exaggerate the seriousness or importance) your ideas.
  12. Throw down a challenge.

Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment

  1. Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
  2. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
  3. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
  4. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
  5. Let the other person save face (avoid humiliation).
  6. Praise every improvement.
  7. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
  8. Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
  9. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

Seven Rules For Making Your Home Life Happier

  1. Don’t nag (fault finding or continuous urging).
  2. Don’t try to make your partner over.
  3. Don’t criticize (indicate faults in a disapproving way).
  4. Give honest appreciation.
  5. Pay little attentions (do the small things with no expectation or attention drawn to it).
  6. Be courteous (polite, respectful, considerate in manner).
  7. Read a good book on the sexual side of marriage.


x Corie