My Treasure Map

“All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.”

- Earl Nightingale - (US motivational writer and author, 1921-1989)

For the past few weeks, I have been searching magazines and the web for phrases, words and pictures that inspire me or just make me feel happy. This was part of an exercise to create my "Treasure Map to Riches". I got the idea from one of the blogs I read and decided to give it a try.

My holiday gift to myself was to take the images and words I had found and create a collage. The idea is that this will help me to visualize my goals. As a wise person once said: "If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?" Lewis Carroll said something similar: "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there" I feel sometimes I am wandering aimlessly, so this exercise helped me to see where it is I want to go.

I read about one person who did this exercise and had cut out a picture of their dream home from a magazine. Several years later, when looking for a home, the writer ended up buying the exact home that they had identified years earlier. It wasn't until they had moved in and were unpacking that they realized what had happened.

Here is the picture of my treasure map. I must say it is not the piece of art that I had imagined - but it is very me - an orderly presentation of ideas. I really need to let go of that structure and learn to be more creative - but that is for another post. There were some surprises for me in this exercise. In my next post, I will let you know some of the insights that I got from this exercise.

If you want to do this exercise yourself - here is a link to the blog post that I read that inspired me to give the exercise a try. This wasn't the first time I had read about the exercise. This was just the catalyst to get me to actually try it. The post has the detailed instructions, more information on the purpose of the exercise and what to do once you are finished. Treasure Map Instructions

The blogger has since moved her blog to http://millionairemommynextdoor.com/ after her original blog was hacked. You can still get to some of the posts, but the pictures are all gone. Hopefully she will post something similar on her new blog in the near future.

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