So here’s my challenge: Redraw your Life Map on purpose!

You have been drawing your Life Map since you were very young. Part of its structure is genetic, your neurological inheritance. Most of it, though, you picked up through your perceptions and experiences, through what you saw around you, how you interpreted it, which learnings you took in and what you chose to keep or discard.

People are always working on their Map, consciously or unconsciously. Those who are just xeroxing their xeroxes tend to go in circles, looping back to where they’ve already been, often dismayed.

So here’s my challenge: Redraw your Life Map on purpose! Make it truly relevant to your current life or business circumstance, and ideal for arriving at your future goals.

Pack light.
Choose your strategies.
Build in some rest, play, and joy.
Give everyone a break, including yourself.

 

Hey, it’s your Map! You can do anything you want to with it. You have rewrite rights as long as you live.

While you’re at it, try writing yourself as a Hero. And remember, the Hero can be male or female.

The Hero’s Journey, in all its aspects through many cultures, has certain elements:

·         The Hero is on a quest of aspiration, to acquire something cherished or solve a difficult impasse.

·         The Hero will encounter many obstacles that must be overcome through courage, ingenuity, and changed awareness.

·         A Wise Advisor gives the Hero tools, talismans, and counsel. Some of them are immediately useful to the Hero. Some s/he does not understand until the need arises to use them, but there they are, close at hand.

·         Often the Hero must rewrite the map to fit changing terrain and circumstances, or get around unexpected challenges.

·         The Hero may take companions along on the quest. Some will be there from the outset, and others will appear on the journey. Each has a contribution to make.

·         The Hero will emerge triumphant in the end, transformed, with a life made more meaningful and satisfying.

 

So, redraw your Treasure Map to take yourself where you want to go�"past obstacles, over hurdles, across the Sea of Discouragement, to the life you really, really want.

 

Roz Van Meter is a lifelong storyteller. Her psychology career has included psychotherapist, marriage counselor, certified sex therapist, life coach and corporate consultant. For over thirty years she has told stories to inspire clients to grow up, handle life, and laugh with affection at themselves and life in general.

Roz Van Meter is a licensed relationship counselor, certified sex therapist. She is the author of Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It and Sizzling Sex In 30 Days.