Path Mapping

The Intent

It is important to be adaptable while translating intrinsic goals into a Path to walk, as there often are multiple routes to achieve one intrinsic goal. Use Path Mapping to create multiple routes, ensuring progress can continue even as plans or circumstances may change.

The Practice

Take your intrinsic drivers and goals and write them down at the top of a page. Beneath it, draw or list two more long-term goals that would lead to the same intrinsic core. Make them be distinct. Different strategies, roles, or sequences. Go through and walk backwards once more, translating your intrinsic drivers into Paths through these long-term goals. Sketch out and outline the first few concrete steps or requirements, and examine how each Path aligns with your values, resources, and circumstances.

The Insight

Rarely is there only one way to move forward. Seeing and knowing multiple Paths to your goals prevents paralysis when your original Path becomes impassable. You are not supposed to try and walk all of the Paths at once. Focus on your main one, but keep the others at hand so you won't feel lost as the ground beneath your original plan falters.