Life Map: A Goal Setting System

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 🙂