When I started following the prompts for the Desire Map For Life, I was hoping they would be a regular addition to Danielle LaPorte's blog, then they stopped as quickly as they started. I sent a note and was disappointed to have it confirmed that they were indeed finished at seven prompts! The good news is that though there are to be no more formal "prompts" there is still plenty of fodder for thought to be found on her website on which I can reflect here on the blog. So, though it may not be designed, I will be making my own Desire Map For Life inspired by the incomparable Danielle LaPorte.
What is the one thing you would like to revolutionize in your life?
This was a difficult prompt. With all of the incredible positive and fulfilling changes in my life of late, I don't find much dissatisfaction - just opportunitites to re-evaluate, with which I either accept or deal.
I am pretty adept at taking a negative situation and have it yield a positive result. I call it "turning shit into sunshine" but there are plenty of other phrases. You get the idea :)
Revolutionary change?
I suppose if there were a battle I'd take on, it would be to convert the "mean girls" - which is to say, I'd find a way to make the mean mums not raise mean girls. I suppose, in order to accomplish that, I would have to engage and interact with a group of insecure adults and somehow make them feel whole and valued again. But, like all things, I'd have to invent a way to recognize they have an issue they are passing down to their children.
Can you imagine? A world where women who feel whole, valued, secure, content, fierce and confident raising children to be the same? What if everyone simply treated people the way they themselves want to be treated?
I am in my seventh consecutive year in middle school and I have to say it has not been a pretty experience. Some years have been better than others, but in the main it is a stressful time and I am more than a little done with the whole experience. Happy to move on. The "mean" does not necessarily improve in the higher grades, but the kids become so busy with their school work and seemingly manage to find contentment within their friend group with less judgment of others.
What about you? What dissatisfies you? What can you make it revolutionize for you?
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