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Life  Mapping: A Vision of Success

Success is more  than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the  aspects of your life. Similar to a map, you need to define  the  following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route.

Origin:  Who you are

A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are  right now. Most people  when asked to introduce  themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jean is; it only tells you her present preoccupation. To gain insights about yourself, you need to look closely at your beliefs, values, and principles aside  from your economic, professional, cultural, and civil status. Moreover, you can also reflect on your experiences to give  you insights on your good and not-so-good traits, skills, knowledge, strengths, and weaknesses. Upon introspection, Jean realized that she  was highly motivated, generous, service-oriented, but impatient. Her inclination was in the  biological-medical field. Furthermore, she  believed that life  must serve  a purpose, and that wars were  destructive  to human dignity.

Destination: A vision of who you want to be

“Who do want to be?” this is your vision. Now it is important that you know yourself so that you would have  a clearer idea of who you want to be; and the  things you want to change  whether they are  attitudes, habits, or points of view. If you hardly know yourself, then your vision and targets for the  future  would also be  unclear. Your destination should cover all the  aspects of your being: the  physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. Continuing Jean’s story, after she  defined her beliefs, values, and principles in life, she  decided that she  wanted to have  a life  dedicated in serving her fellowmen.

Vehicle: Your Mission

A vehicle  is the  means by which you can reach your destination. It can be  analogized to your mission or vocation in life. To a great extent, your mission would depend on what you know about yourself. Bases on Jean’s self-assessment, she  decided that she  was suited to become  a doctor, and that she  wanted to become  one. Her chosen vocation was a medical doctor. Describing her vision-mission fully: it was to live  a life  dedicated to serving her fellowmen as a doctor in conflict-areas.

Travel Bag: Your knowledge, skills, and attitude

Food, drinks, medicines, and other travelling necessities are  contained in a bag. Applying this concept to your life  map, you also bring with you certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These  determine  your competence  and help you in attaining your vision. Given such, there  is a need for you to assess what knowledge, skills, and attitudes you have  at present and what you need to gain along the  way. This two-fold assessment will give  you insights on your landmarks or measures of success. Jean realized that she  needed to gain professional knowledge  and skills on medicine  so that she  could become  a doctor. She  knew that she  was a bit impatient with people  so she  realized that this was something she  wanted to change.

Landmarks and Route: S.M.A.R.T. objectives

Landmarks confirm if you are  on the  right track while  the  route  determines the  travel time. Thus, in planning out your life, you also need to have  landmarks and a route. These  landmarks are  your measures of success. These  measures must be  specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time  bound. Thus you cannot set two major landmarks such as earning a master’s degree  and a doctorate  degree  within a period of three  years, since  the  minimum number of years to complete  a master’s degree  is two years. Going back to Jean as an example, she  identified the  following landmarks in her life  map: completing a bachelor’s degree  in biology by the  age  of 21; completing medicine  by the  age  of 27; earning her specialization in infectious diseases by the  age  of 30; getting deployed in local public hospitals of their town by the  age  of 32; and serving as doctor in war-torn areas by the  age  of 35.

Anticipate  Turns, Detours, and Potholes

The  purpose  of your life  map is to minimize  hasty and spur-of-the-moment decisions that can make  you lose  your way. But oftentimes our plans are  modified along the  way due  to some  inconveniences, delays, and other situations beyond our control. Like  in any path, there  are  turns, detours, and potholes thus; we  must anticipate  them and adjust accordingly.