A Mom's Guide to Creating a Life Map

A road map for life has three main components. Dreams represent your destination. The activities comprise all the different options you have to reach the destination—different roads, different forms of travel, different resting areas, and different scenery along the way. Finally, goals are your itinerary—the final decisions about how to travel, which road to take, where to stop along the way, how long to take, where to stay, and what to see.

Dreams, activities, and goals are integral components of your life map. Without dreams, we don't have a reason to start. They provide the inspiration and the excitement, but as you know, you can't just do a dream. You have to figure out all the activities that can be done to reach the destination. You then need to take these activities and turn them into small, specific, and achievable goals. As you accomplish these goals, step by step, you are closer to your dream. The following steps will guide you to create your life map.