You want it and you want it bad. Aspiring. Hoping. Plotting. Recurring. Reaching. Bubbling beneath your surface. You crave it — and it craves you.

So you make a plan to get it. A to-do list. The bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategy. Accountability. The goal. Except . . .

You’re not chasing the goal itself, you’re actually chasing a feeling.

We have the procedures of achievement upside down. We go after the stuff we want to have, get, accomplish, and experience outside of ourselves. And we hope, yearn, pray that we’ll be fulfilled when we get there. It’s backwards. It’s outside in. And it’s running us in circles.

What if, first, we got clear on how we actually wanted to feel in our life, and then we laid out our intentions? What if your most desired feelings consciously informed how you plan your day, your year, your career, your holidays — your life?

You know what will happen with that kind of inner clarity and outer action? You’ll feel the way you want to feel more often than not. Decisions will be easier to make: You’ll know what to say no, thank you to and what to say hell yes! to. I bet you’ll complain less. You’ll be more optimistic, more open-hearted. It will be easier for you to return to your center in the midst of a challenge — I promise.

You will do much less proving, and way more living.

And you will have more to give to the world.

For starters.

Welcome to The Desire Map.

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.

And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.

The Purpose of The Desire Map Program

Most life-planning tools focus on external attainment and results. Which is valuable. Getting results is what moves your life forward. Except that most goal-setting systems fail to harness the most powerful driver behind any aspiration: your preferred feelings; and they foster an uptight determination that can keep us from the vitality we crave.

The Desire Map program is changing all of that. You could call it holistic life-planning. The inner meets the outer. The spirit drives the material.

The purpose of The Desire Map is

• Ultimately, to help you remember your light, your true nature, your source.
• To show you your heart’s longing — your core desired feelings.
• To help you use your core desired feelings as a guidance system for making choices.
• To help you use your desired feelings as a way to access comfort and clarity during painful times.
• To help you accentuate the positive aspects of your life, while still honouring, and not invalidating, the negative parts that you want to change.
• To help you regard your feelings as road signs to your Soul.
• So that you can
• Plan your day, your week, your month, your year and…
• Feel great, making a lot of awesome things happen in every area your life.

The Desire Map program is just that — a program.
It’s $170 USD. Shipping included everywhere.
If you need to, you can pay in 3 installments. Yep.
$5 from every program goes to charity — which will be decided by a public vote twice a year.

Here’s everything:

• The Desire Map Book One & Book Two. Book One is the philosophy, Book Two is your Workbook.
• in digital format (which is readable on all devices, including Kindles and other e-readers.)
• in audio format. That’s six+ hours of sonic love, read by moi (it was James Earl Jones or me. I thought I was better suited.)
• a gorgeous print book that’s both Book One & Two together, shipped to you the day you order.

• 3 months of email inspiration to help you make desire mapping a practice in your life — weekly, digital, high-substance motivation and tips available only to Desire Map owners. (The first email will hit your inbox one month after you order The Desire Map to give you time to dig into the program itself.)
• 9 audio contemplations & motivationals. These are cool. I’ve put a new twist on meditation audios and pep talks with tracks like, Cosmic Radio, Just Listen, May all beings…, Light Scanning, plus a handful of pump-you-up poems and declarations.
• 17 worksheets, like: Sensations of Positivity, Gratitude & Dissatisfaction, Core Desired Feelings, Brutal Facts & Fears, How will you give of yourself? . . . Every digital worksheet is accessible in the private online portal, and typable — so you can use them on your own computer and save them to your hard drive.
• Action sheets for syncing your core desired feelings with your weekly, monthly and yearly planning, in various printable sizes so that they fit into your own calendar system.
• A web app for creating your own stylized digital wallpapers for your phone or computer of your core desired feelings, your gratitude list, and a list of what you want to change in your life — all shareable on Pinterest & Facebook.
• A series of short how-to videos to walk you through the desire mapping workbook
• And … all of this is available for you in a private online “portal” where you can grab the worksheets, audios, come back as often as you like and access from any computer with your password.
• 4 music playlists — because everything’s better with some sweet tunes.

Some back story

About seven years ago, on a New Year’s eve by the fire, I mapped out my goals — and had an epiphany that I had goal-setting all wrong. Over time I created my own system that helped me get clear on my core desired feelings and helped me match those up with my everyday practical plans and my big dreams. Then I made up “desire binders” for friends. Then I started talking about the “desired feelings stuff” on stage. Then I wrote about it in The Fire Starter Sessions. Then the emails started rolling in.

And then it was clearer than ever: We were onto something. Something real, effectual and needed. Something divinely practical.

The Desire Map is not sugar-coated new age’ism, or hard core ambition tacticals —
both of which I rile against, both of which led me to a lot of personal insight, relief, and success (Thank you, hard lessons. Hello, freedom!) That said . . .

• when to let go of goals that no longer serve you
• why we need to look (briefly) at brutal facts and fears about getting what you want
• and how affirmations can mess you up … and what to say to yourself instead

• your relationship to prayer and universal support, petitioning life for what you want
• self worth and being of service

All of which leads up to the whole, awesome cosmic exercise of

• You . . . desire mapping your life. You’re going to identify your core desired feelings, match them to intentions in the outer world, and anchor them to weekly and monthly actions. You’re going to more intentionally create your life.

This is soul practicality. The day-to-day sacred. Getting the right stuff done, without delay. Getting straight to what we all want: to feel good, of course.

Desire is the engine of creation.
Feelings are your road signs.
Desire mapping is how to get where you want to go.

• Desire Mapping – Lehanne Fox

“The best part of it all, is I am getting to dive with one of my beloved friends… It is so special doing this work with a friend to reflect with while drinking tea or spiced cider, and I can’t wait for future collaborative mapping sessions.” Read More

• Beauty Tuesday: On William Blake, Desire Mapping, and Pinterest – Lauren Bacon

“I’ve also started a Pinterest board for each, with an eye to assembling a set of visual cues that will help me tap into those feelings whenever I need to. If you’re Desire Mapping, consider doing the same. They are works in progress, but already they are inspiring me with their wordless dimensionality.” Read More

• The Desire Map (Part Two) – Renee Bell

“I want [need] to understand aspects of my health that have alluded me till now. I want [need] to stop being so rushed from place to place and task to task. I want [need] more time to relax and enjoy life.” Read More

• Patience & letting go (a new way of being) – Corrine Bowen

“I’m not my job (although I’m grateful for it and I love it), my worth isn’t attached to the next thing I publish, and my value doesn’t depend on what someone else thinks of my productivity or what kind of mother/wife/friend I am. I’m just here to be a human being.” Read More