#139: Navigating Purpose: How Visualization Maps the Way to Achievement
Sep 13, 2023
Thor Challgren
Have you ever found yourself stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless traffic jam, unsure when it will finally clear up? It's a universal frustration we've all experienced.
Of course most of us can check the map on our phones and tell when the traffic will clear up. And that knowing can make all the difference in feeling frustrated.
In today's show, I explore the secret to navigating the route to your dreams and how mapping your journey can give you clarity and peace, even in the face of challenges.
So, if you're tired of feeling stuck and uncertain, and you're ready to navigate life's traffic with confidence, then this episode is for you. Listen in and discover how goal mapping can make all the difference in your journey.
Have you ever found yourself stuck in the middle of a seemingly endless traffic jam, unsure when it will finally clear up? It's a universal frustration we've all experienced.
Of course most of us can check the map on our phones and tell when the traffic will clear up. And that knowing can make all the difference in feeling frustrated.
In today's show, I explore the secret to navigating the route to your dreams and how mapping your journey can give you clarity and peace, even in the face of challenges.
So, if you're tired of feeling stuck and uncertain, and you're ready to navigate life's traffic with confidence, then this episode is for you. Listen in and discover how goal mapping can make all the difference in your journey.
You're driving on a highway and traffic begins to slow down and you can see all around you. You're about to be in a bumper to bumper traffic jam and, if you're like most people, you look around and you start to get frustrated because you have no idea how long this will last. Now, if you could see way ahead, maybe you can tell this is going to go on forever. But when you can't see way ahead, you have no idea how long you're going to be stuck there. Is this a mile? Is it more? Do you need to figure out other options? Today I want to talk about the importance of mapping your journey. Welcome to Every Day A New Thought. I'm Thor Chalgren, and every day I bring you a new thought perspective. Today I want to talk about mapping the process, how having a visual picture in your mind can help make the journey easier. In the beginning I talked about that idea of being in traffic and, of course, now most of us have smartphones so we might be able to see how long this traffic jam will last. But if you don't have your phone with you, or maybe you haven't mapped out the journey or think back to before you had that option, before ways could tell you how long this is going to be. Do you remember what that was like, where you would slow down, come to a stop and you had no idea how long this was going to be. Was it going to be an hour? Was it going to be 10 minutes? Maybe it was only a mile ahead, and then it would speed up again and then you could relax. Do you remember what that felt like if you knew that it was only a half a mile, or you knew it was only a mile, or maybe it was only going to be five minutes? You thought of that time differently than you did when you knew, when you had no idea how long it was going to be. So, before smartphones and smart apps could tell us, we didn't know how long that slow down would be. Our imaginations could run wild like we'd think, oh, this is going to be forever. But now we know, because we have a map of the process, we can do the same thing with whatever we're working on, instead of thinking of a project or a goal or the purpose as being this open-ended thing that could go on indefinitely or forever. Have a map of what it looks like, so that your mind doesn't have the opportunity to play tricks with you. You can create a map, a document that shows what are the major steps along the way of whatever journey you are on. So, whether you're working on a project or something, that's a goal that you want to achieve, when you can create milestones that tell you how long you'll be on that journey, it prevents your mind from thinking this will go on forever, like you feel when you're on the highway.
Speaker 1:
I talk about the idea of a two-month purpose, which is something where you can say I want to, for two months, set a goal to do something that I can start at the beginning and finish and reach a stage of completion. So, for instance, you might say I want to go from sitting on the couch to running a 5K race, so couch potato to 5K, and I'm going to do that in two months. And I can look at a map and say I know that I need to have this many runs and at this point, halfway through, I will have done this. At three quarters of the way through, I will have done this. You see how doing something where you map it out and you have a sense of what it's going to take allows you to feel more relaxed along the journey because you're not thinking like, oh my gosh, I'm going to have to do all of this stuff and when will it ever end?
Speaker 1:
If that sounds interesting to you, I've created a four-part training series that in video four I talk about the two-month purpose in a lot more detail and I give you some examples of two-month purposes that you might consider adopting. This training series is free. I put the link in the show description below, so check that out. You'll get a new video from me every single day. It's a short video, about seven minutes. Watch that and then I've got some exercises that you can do that take you through the process of deciding how to put yourself first, how to decide for yourself what might be a two-month purpose for you.
Speaker 1:
Online, it's easier to start something when you can see the end, so don't be that person stuck in traffic wondering when this will ever end. Map out your journey, know where you're going and be happy on the way getting there. That's the show for today. I hope you liked this episode. If you did, please hit like. If you're watching YouTube, if you're listening to the podcast, please subscribe or follow the show on your favorite podcast app. Until next time. Thanks for listening.