Danielle LaPorte - The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

PRAISE FOR THE DESIRE MAP

When I sat down with The Desire Map, I immediately felt my shoulders relax. Within the first few pages I was nodding my head. I felt heard and validated. She did it. She gets it. And now everyone else can too. I WISH that this goldmine of insight and practical guidance had been by my side over the years. I feel blessed to have Danielle in my life, and I cant wait to see the floodgates of bliss, a-has and life-changing shifts burst open as people put their Desire Map into practice. Danielle is a master. Shes part psychic, part dream whisperer, and all fire-starter. If youre ready to awaken and live in alignment with who you truly are, then toss your Type-A to-dos and dive heartfirst into The Desire Map.

KRIS CARR
author of Crazy Sexy Kitchen and Crazy Sexy Diet

The Desire Map has such life, truth, and passion; what could be better than realigning yourself daily with your hearts desire?

GENEEN ROTH
author Women, Food, and God and Lost and Found

With an organic elegance, The Desire Map couples our primal desire-energy with the inborn intelligence of our feelings. The result? Optimizing our time on Earth. LaPortes joie de vivre is contagious. Prepare to catch it!

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
author of Life Visioning

The first time I did a Desire Map, I called Danielle to say, This works! Declaring my core desired feelings uplifted my relationships and the way I work in the world. And nobody puts out poetic motivation like Danielle does. The Desire Map is a hotline to your truth.

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
author of May Cause Miracles and Spirit Junkie

Danielle LaPorte is scary smart, yet so kind and practical that she kindles the fire in you without causing you to feel consumed by the flames. She has the knowledge you need to succeed. Lean in and listen close. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.

MARTHA BECK
author of Finding Your Own North Star and The Joy Diet

Danielle is a yoga-powered champion of YOU-ness. That is you, rocking your mission and brimming with desire. And The Desire Map lays out the roadmap for how to rewire your desire, not stress. She has accomplished something extraordinary.

SARA GOTTFRIED, MD
author of The Hormone Cure

Inspiration, innovation, and self-worth are just some of elements that Danielle LaPorte will fill you up with. The Desire Map discusses how to make your dreams and goals come true in a realistic way guaranteed to wow you.

BELIEFNET.COM

As always, Danielle LaPorte has broken the mold for self-actualization with The Desire Map. This experience will invite, challenge, and even seduce you to get to know the core of who you are. The Desire Map doesnt give you some sort of outside-in prescription to live your dreams and tackle lofty goals like other programs. Instead, youll be guided through a process thats guaranteed to help you craft your life and make decisions based on what will truly make you happy. Forget time-management systems, goal-setting programs, and visioning exercises. The Desire Map is all you need to design a life that will truly work for you.

KATE NORTHRUP
author of Money: A Love Story

The Desire Map has me reeling. Your truth is so laid bare, raw, revealed. Im drop-jawed in awe.

MEGGAN WATTERSON
author of Reveal: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked

Im only on page 11 of The Desire Map and my mind has been blown WIDE OPEN.

GALA DARLING
GalaDarling.com

Ive lived in overdrive. For years. I was a tenacious goal-getter and I drove myself hard to reach those goalsno matter what they were. Until I hit a wall and thought, Theres gotta be another way. The Desire Map is that other way. This is what people are looking fora new way to plan their lives, an inside-out approach.

ERIC HANDLER
PositivelyPositive.com

Most of us are so busy planning that we forget what were planning for. Danielle LaPorte has ignited a reverence for our desires in a way that brings meaning back to our daily actions. The Desire Map is a life-changer.

NISHA MOODLEY
FierceFabulousFree.com

My only mistake was starting to read The Desire Map at night. I couldnt put it down, madly scouring my heart for longing, writing down my desires with clarity I havent felt for years. Its straightforward and yet deeply poetic. Its big and beautiful and generous and profound. I dont say this lightlyit changes everything.

SAMANTHA REYNOLDS
founder and president, Echo Memoirs

The Desire Map. Its a motherload of motivation, inspiration, and transformative triggers to help you start living the life of your dreams as an entrepreneur, a lover, a hero. Under its gorgeous cover, its packed with videos, fantastic music tracks, contemplations, workbooks, and Danielles famed street-smart wisdom.

NAVJIT KANDOLA
TenderLogic.com

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certain wondering lost found here
hungry full of love
waking up down
been around
more than you were yesterday
already new
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scars of knowing
always growing
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As is your desire, so is your will.
As is your will, so is your deed.
As is your deed,
so is your destiny.

The Upanishads

Sounds True, Inc.

Boulder, CO 80306

Copyright 2014 Danielle LaPorte, Inc.

Sounds True is a trademark of Sounds True, Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author and publisher.

Published 2014

Cover design by Danielle LaPorte, Alex Miles Younger, Angie Wheeler, Viewers Like You

Book design by Alex Miles Younger

Printed in Canada

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

LaPorte, Danielle, 1969

The desire map : a guide to creating goals with soul / Danielle LaPorte.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-62203-251-8

1. Goal (Psychology) 2. Self-realization. 3. Satisfaction. I. Title.

BF503.L365 2014

153.85dc23

2013035366

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62203-346-1

Enhanced ebook ISBN: 978-1-62203-377-5

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

About eight years ago, I decided to have a chill New Years Eve at home. The scene: The baby was sleeping (Yay!). Favorite white trashy snackies (Ruffles chips and ranch dip, please). Groove Armada on the speakers. Fireplace blazing. The New Year was wide open and my heart was full of ambition. It was time for some visioning. Goals! Plans! Lots of plans.

I pulled out some poster board and divided it into some life sections, like Home, Love, Money, Work. My former husband and I started writing down goals in each area. Wed write a goal, have a smooch, eat some chips, talk about the next goal. New kitchen table. Pay off credit card. Water Babies swim class. Lose ten pounds. Invest in a great piece of art. Start biking to work. Hawaii for family wedding. Get the garden happening. Down payment. Publishing deal. New Frye boots. Find a church. Find a yoga class.