Asks readers to consider the feelings they hope to experience as a result of achieving goals, and offers guidance on creating a desire map to cover such topics as wellness, creativity, relationships, and spirituality.
The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms. Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, in The Fire Starter Sessions she reframes popular self-help and success concepts, including: - Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself. - Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone. - Screw your principles (they might be holding you back). - We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It's the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it's what leads to true fulfillment.
This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. The contributors ring different interests and approaches to bear on theoretical and empirical material from a wide range of sources. The book is divided into four sections: cartographies/identities; sexualised spaces: global/local; sexualised spaces: local/global; sites of resistance. Each section is separately introduced. Beyond the bibliography, an annotated guide to further reading is also provided to help the reader map their own way through the literature.
Has your self-help become self-criticism? A wise and often hilarious exploration of the conflicts between spiritual aspiration and the compulsion to improve, from Oprah Super Soul 100 member, Danielle LaPorte.Like a wise girlfriend you can totally relate to, Danielle cheerleads you to own your wisdom and self-worth by having a good laugh (and maybe a good cry) at the ways you've been trying to improve on your self-improvement. Rooted in compassion, feminism, and spiritual activism White Hot Truth is an intimate and (hilariously) relatable account of self-help tales gone wrong, and very right.If you love Brene Brown and Liz Gilbert's authenticity, and Marianne Williamson's strong spirit, you'll adore how Danielle lays bare "Boundaries for spiritual people"; the "Discipleshit" that happens when we give our power away; a "Soul-perspective" on suffering; "over tolerance" and "foolish compassion" in relationships, sneaky self-loathing; spiritual glamour. And in her poetic and brazen way, she brings it home with the hottest truth of all: You are your own guru.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I began to speak about the Desired Feelings Thing, as it became known, onstage at my speaking gigs. I gave the theory a name: The Strategy of Desire. I wrote about it in session 3 of my book, The Fire Starter Sessions, and it proved to be the most meaningfully discussed chapter of the book. #2 We typically come up with our todo lists, our bucket lists, and our strategic plans. But what if we designed our todo lists, goals, and bucket lists from a different perspective. #3 We have the power to choose what we want in our lives. We can choose to be angry, resentful, and filled with clutter, or we can choose compassion, tenderness, and resilience. #4 When you want things to be different, when you're in pain, when you've got a great idea to act on, when you want to make stuff, you'll have your desired feelings in mind. Your desired feelings are how you create your reality.
Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals—no matter what. Except ... You're not chasing the goal itself, you're actually chasing the feeling that you hope achieving that goal will give you. Which means we have the procedures of achievement upside down. We go after the stuff we want to have, get, or accomplish, and we hope that we'll be fulfilled when we get there. It's backwards. And it's burning us out. So what if you first got clear on how you actually wanted to feel in your life, and then created some "Goals with Soul"? With The Desire Map, Danielle LaPorte brings you a holistic life-planning tool that will revolutionize the way you go after what you want in life. Unapologetically passionate and with plenty of warm wit, LaPorte turns the concept of ambition inside out and offers an inspired, refreshingly practical workbook for using the Desire Map process: Identify your "core desired feelings" in every life domain: livelihood & lifestyle, body & wellness, creativity & learning, relationships & society, and essence & spiritualityCreate practical "Goals with Soul" to generate your core desired feelingsWhy easing up on your expectations actually liberates you to reach your goalsSelf-assessment quizzes, worksheets, and complete Desire Mapping tools for creating the life you truly long for Goal-setting just got a makeover. There are more than 10,000 "Desire Mappers" who have worked through this system. "Every day I get stories about inner clarity, quitting jobs, dumping the chump, renewing vows, pole-dancing classes, writing memoirs, moving on," says Danielle. "This is about liberation. And pleasure. And self-determination. This is about doing much less proving, and way more living." If you've had enough of trying to trick yourself into happiness through affirmations or bucket-listing your hopes into some distant future, then you're ready for The Desire Map—a dream-fulfilling system that harnesses your soul-deep desire to feel good.
“This is such a pleasure to read. Unlike most books with writing prompts, this one goes in depth with sensitizing you to ground yourself in awareness of where you are and why. Grazie, Linda, for this marvelous work.”—Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun In this engaging creative writing workbook, novelist and poet Linda Lappin presents a series of insightful exercises to help writers of all genres—literary travel writing, memoir, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction—discover imagery and inspiration in the places they love. Lappin departs from the classical concept of the Genius Loci, the indwelling spirit residing in every landscape, house, city, or forest—to argue that by entering into contact with the unique energy and identity of a place, writers can access an inexhaustible source of creative power. The Soul of Place provides instruction on how to evoke that power. The writing exercises are drawn from many fields—architecture, painting, cuisine, literature and literary criticism, geography and deep maps, Jungian psychology, fairy tales, mythology, theater and performance art, metaphysics—all of which offer surprising perspectives on our writing and may help us uncover raw materials for fiction, essays, and poetry hidden in our environment. An essential resource book for the writer’s library, this book is ideal for creative writing courses, with stimulating exercises adaptable to all genres. For writers or travelers about to set out on a trip abroad, The Soul of Place is the perfect road trip companion, attuning our senses to a deeper awareness of place.
The Desire Map Weekly Planner is a holistic planner that incorporates your feelings and intentions in the same place as your schedule -- it's the soulful way to plan your week. Based on the bestselling book The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte, this planner has space for notes, prompts for positive declarations and actions, and your intentions and goals for the week and year. Even if you have not read The Desire Map, this weekly planner is the perfect companion for people that are ready to infuse soul into the traditional weekly planning structure. This planner is for folks who prefer a high-level view of their whole week. Great for creatives, entrepreneurs, and big dreamers.The weekly pages take an overview of what you want to accomplish for the week, sprinkled with prompts for positive declarations and #truthbombs. Each week has space for your Core Desired Feelings -- the way you most want to feel every day. Plus daily to-dos and a list of 3 Things to accomplish for the week -- because once you finish your priorities, everything else is gravy.
Created by Danielle LaPorte, bestselling author and member of Oprah''s Super Soul 100, The Desire Map Planner is for women who want to put their soul on the agenda. What I will do to feel the way I want to feel...is the daily declaration you make with this planner. And with fresh daily Soul Prompts like, "What do you want to revolutionize?" "How do you want to feel in your body?" and sections for Gratitude notes and a weekly Stop Doing List -- this planner is where inner attunement meets outer attainment. And it''s unlike anything on the market. Over five million people a month head to DanielleLaPorte.com for her advice and daily #Truthbombs. The Desire Map Planner Collection already has a raving fan base of women who want an agenda that includes all of who they are, not just another to-do list. The planner collection is based on The Desire Map book which sold over 140K copies in US & Canada, is translated into eight languages, and evolved into a journal series, a top 10 iTunes app, and a workshop curriculum with hundreds of licensed facilitators in fifteen countries. Like the popular Day Designer, The Desire Map Planner is lush, well-designed, and intuitively laid out to maximize efficiency, organization, and intentional time management. Both the Daily & Weekly editions come in simple charcoal or bright abstract art covers, both with gold foil accents. It''s for the busy person who knows that a rich life is as much about being tuned-in as it is about checking off to-dos, who values positivity as much as productivity."THE DESIRE MAP PLANNERS REVIEWS:"The Desire Map Planner has ignited a part of my Soul that has been dormant my feelings, it''s a constant reminder to live NOW and know that it''s because we are human we need to seek out wisdom that only introspection and quiet times give us the guidance that only we can source from inside because no one knows us better. It reminds me that I started my journey as an entrepreneur because I love what I do and that changing lives is my why there is nothing better than guiding someone to their worth. It becomes a part of you and not just another planner because you put so much of yourself in it with the weekly prompts and gentle reminders and a year down the line, you can see how you have grown." -- Darlene Bayley"The Desire Map Planner has not only influenced my life, it absolutely has changed it. I use the planner each day at work and find that when I make even 10 or 15 minutes to complete that day''s page, it "frames" my day so positively. I focus far, far more on the things that are most important (for work and pleasure) and that contribute to my Core Desired Feelings. Each day, I actively list my CDFs and jot down what I hope to do to achieve them that day. I love considering the soul prompts and things I''m grateful for. This planner is so much more than a calendar and to-do list. Instead, it puts me in a soul-feeding, creative, zen frame of mind that carries throughout my day." -- Karen Stensrud"The Desire Map Planner has helped me focus each day on my Core Desired Feelings from a high level and also kept me on track with daily to-dos and weekly tasks. I love the blank space at the end of each week to capture inspiration, ideas, and new biz concepts so they are all in one convenient place. Basically, in nutshell, the planner is holistic -- I call myself a Holistic Lawyer & Legal Coach and I love that it encompasses my WHOLE life -- not just my personal life, not just my business life, but ALL of me. It''s a one-stop planner. LOVE." -- Lisa Fraley"When I use the planner, I feel less self-judgment and more joy. I feel the blessings of my humanity and give myself permission to feel *what I want* instead of what I should want. Writing it down somehow makes it more possible. This planner keeps me accountable in a loving way, without the self-criticism. And then I can look back and think ''Whoa! Look how much I''ve accomplished! It was so worth it!'' Or ''Wow, that was a powerful lesson to learn!''" -- Jennifer Schmid