Christmas in August?
That’s what it felt like when the email arrived letting me know it was time to order my 2017 Desire Map day planner.
Since it launched a couple of years ago, the Desire Map planner has been my daily guide, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say the time I spend with it every morning has transformed my life.
Instead of focusing on the endless tasks and to-do lists, I now focus on how I most want to feel. Every single day.
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
The Desire Map planner has made it easy for me to not only create a life I love, but more importantly, feel good while doing so.
Once upon a time I was an obsessive planner.
Believe me when I say I tried them all: the systems, the styles, and of course, the beautiful leather binders. All designed to hold my schedule, and to-do lists.
I loved my planner.
I remember saying things like, “If it’s not in my planner, it’s not going to happen” and friends learned to ask, “Is it in your planner?”
And then along came the iPhone and Google calendar, and as happens with a new love, I was swept off my feet.
I tried to keep my paper planner going, but things began to slip through the cracks, and by the end of that year, my long love affair with day planners came to an end.
Until the Desire Map planner.
I was doubtful I could return to paper as I’d gotten so used to doing everything digitally, but I said yes because I intuitively knew it would help me integrate my core desired feelings.
As a Desire Map facilitator, it was important for me to connect committedly to my CDFs until they were strong enough to act as a powerful and reliable guidance system. Think GPS for the soul.
Right away, it became clear that I wouldn’t use this new planner in the way I’d used my planners in the past.
It felt different somehow, special, and this helped me create a new morning practice to start my day.
What had once been a race to complete a list of tasks, appointments, and endless lists, became an opportunity to really consider how I wanted to feel given what was on my schedule.
That awareness changed everything.
Life slowed down and a new spaciousness appeared.
My emotions were fuller, more aligned, and I felt more myself than ever before.
My creativity began to flow in a way that left me crying tears of gratitude.
Because of a day planner.
That first Desire Map planner still holds a special place in my heart because it had such a direct impact on the quality of my life.
As much as I loved the planners of my past, a connection to my feelings had always been missing, and discovering a daily structure to plug me into my core desired feelings was like plugging me right into source energy.
The Desire Map planner puts your desires on the map, and helps you plan your days based on how you most want to feel.
Based on Danielle LaPorte’s much loved book, The Desire Map, this planner incorporates your emotions and your to-do list; your gratitude and your goals; your deepest desires with your day-to-day life.
While most of my schedule still lives on Google calendar, the rest of me comes to life in my Desire Map planner.
Part planner, part journal, it is the way I focus myself each day and choose how I want to feel about anything and everything in my life.
It has become my GPS to feeling good.
The 2017 planner comes in Daily and Weekly editions with two gorgeous covers:
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The DAILY planner for the highly scheduled, detailed thinkers, and awesome A-types who love keeping track of all the big and little things.
This is the one I use which takes you through the year day by day, with unique soul prompts to limber up your mind before you write, scheduling space, #Truthbombs, a Stop Doing list, and a super condensed list called 3 Things, so you can get your most important to-dos done.
The WEEKLY planner is for the big dreamers, Creatives, and entrepreneurs — the planner-types who want a bird’s eye view of their week.
Sprinkled with prompts for positive declarations and #Truthbombs, the weekly spread also has space for your Core Desired Feelings, daily to-do’s, and a list of 3 Things. This planner also has an End of Week Check-in with unique Soul Prompts from Danielle and space for reflecting on life as you move through it week by week.
When you’re clear on how you want to feel, it’s so much easier to make decisions that feel good; choices that are aligned with who you really are.
That’s what this planner has done for me.
Buy yours today and start planning, and living a life you love.
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