Book cover of The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

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Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals-no matter what. Except ...

You're not chasing the goal itself, you're actually chasing the feeling that you hope achieving that goal will give you.

Which means we have the procedures of…

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3 authors picked The Desire Map as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book changed my life. This is the book that taught me the power of journaling.

I found the journal prompts that the book offers to be useful and appreciate that they provided a guide that helped me define my core beliefs and taught me to listen to my inner voice in a way that brought about an easy method to figure out not only what is truly important to me but this method also helped me to define my goals and purpose in a no-fuss bare bones way.

This book was the catalyst that eventually led me to my…

The old gem made me want to shout, “Yes, yes! I hear you!” as I read it.

LaPorte unpacks the power of our emotions as the tools we fabricate our lives with and pushes us with loving yet spicy language to figure out not what we want to have, but who we want to be. 

Danielle’s process for identifying how we want to feel, and infusing values into the process of creating goals with soul is a breath of fresh air.

Tapping into our feelings is vital to being who we are meant to be but often we are on auto-pilot and suppress or repress our feelings. I revisit this process each year and it’s made a huge difference in how I show up for myself and those in my life.

I think it’s also important to note that feeling is the first step to manifesting what we want and truly embodying The Law…

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