We have the procedures of achievement upside down.

Typically, we come up with our to-do lists, our bucket lists, and our strategic plans—all the stuff we want to have, get, accomplish, and experience outside of ourselves. All of those aspirations are being driven by an innate desire to feel a certain way.

So what if, first, we got clear on how we actually wanted to feel within ourselves, and then we designed our to-do lists, set our goals, and wrote out our bucket lists?

How do you want to feel when you look at your schedule for the week?
When you get dressed in the morning?
When you walk through the door of your studio or your office?
When you pick up the phone?
When you cash the check, accept the award, finish your masterpiece, make the sale, or fall in love?

How do you want to feel?

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life.


A Note from Eric Handler, Publisher & Co-Founder of Positively Positive

The Desire Map is the soulful, shoot-from-the-hip insight that I’ve come to expect from Danielle LaPorte, but she’s done something really extraordinary with this. Danielle will get you to rethink the way you’ve been going after what you want in life. Like, stop you in your tracks. Each page of this had me nodding with relief. The audio contemplations soothed my soul. Every worksheet gave me at least one personal a-ha.

This is what people are looking for—a new way to plan their lives—an inside-out approach.

Click here to get The Desire Map in hand today.


Danielle LaPorte is the creator of The Desire Map, author of The Fire Starter Sessions (Random House/Crown), and co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan. An inspirational speaker, former think tank exec, and business strategist, she writes weekly at DanielleLaPorte.com, where over a million visitors have gone for her straight-up advice—a site that’s been deemed “the best place on-line for kick-ass spirituality” and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes.

You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter @daniellelaporte.

*Photo by LiLauraLu.