Comments on: The Life Map: Connecting Your Daily Activities And Spending To Your Lifelong Goals And Dreams http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: laura http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-4173 laura Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:56:27 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-4173 This looks like a neat process. A mentor I had years ago had me do an exercise similar to this. The first day he simply asked me write my epitaph. (What do you want people to remember about you when you’re gone? This should be what frames your life’s goals.) The next day he had me create a table where I listed what I wanted to “be, do, achieve, have, and own” in the next “30, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1 years and 6 months, 3 months, 2 months, 1 month, 1 week, and today”.

The table format worked well for me as a linear thinker, but what was missing from it was the “how,” which Trent’s process forces us to look at, and which is an important step in reaching your goals. And although I am terrified of drawing (yes, even circles), it’s easier to see the relationships between/among goals when you break out of the table format.

For me the most important part of the exercise I did was writing my epitaph. It was a little morbid at first, but I probably framed my goals a little differently than I would have if I was just asked where I wanted to be 30 years from now.

]]> By: Oz http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-4013 Oz Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:50:50 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-4013 Free Mind is great for project planning or idea generation as well. Good idea! Provide your free mind as example.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-3894 Elizabeth Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:00:37 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/24/the-life-map-connecting-your-daily-activities-and-spending-to-your-lifelong-goals-and-dreams/#comment-3894 Great idea! I think the visual process of this exercise and actually seeing the steps you need to take to reach a goal would be extremely helpful. It reminds me of an activity from the book “What Color is Your Parachute” where you draw a picture of what you want your life to look like in X number of years (ie maybe there’s a family in front of a house by the ocean). From the picture you can figure out what is important to you.

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