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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart Radio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to make a moonshot dot -to -dot map.
If you have big goals that are not currently achievable, brainstorm the various intermediate steps that might bring you there.
Seeing these steps and what they might require can help make a big goal feel more doable.
Today's tip comes from Elizabeth Sharpe Makata's new book, Edit Your Life, which is about living with intention in a messy world.
Elizabeth explains that a moonshot dot to dot map is a prompt for brainstorming how to move toward any currently unachievable goal.
That is, it is a moonshot.
When President Kennedy talked about going to the Moon in the early 1960s, the technology to go there wasn't ready for prime time, but it got there with a lot of work.
Similarly, just because something isn't currently achievable doesn't mean it never will be.
You just have to figure out the intermediate steps.
So, Elizabeth tells us to draw a dot for your life as it is today.
Then draw a dot for your What steps could you set up to succeed in getting there?
Brainstorm a bunch of dots that might go in the middle.
For example, Elizabeth says if your dream is to be a lawyer and you currently work in customer service, one of those dots would need to be going to law school.
You could then think about other aspects of that, like that there might be night classes, so maybe you could keep your day job.
Another dot would be prioritizing regular study time, and another might be finding mentors and allies in the legal field.
Be creative, and be specific, she says.
Which is the simplest dot -to -dot path between your now life and your ideal life?
Which steps feel easy, and which feel daunting?
Break your dot -to -dot map into smaller steps if you need to, she says, until each dot feels, if not easy, at least achievable.
I like this idea. Many big goals are about layering on bits of progress.
What isn't doable now might be doable in a year with consistent motion.
When I first moved into my new house about a year ago, Having all the renovations finished, and having everything unpacked, and getting any needed furniture, and making things look nice seemed almost overwhelming.
And it would have been overwhelming to do in a week or two.
But in a year or two, it's not so bad.
And I could map out various steps in the middle.
First, unpack the kitchen boxes.
Later, get curtains.
Later yet, unpack the boxes in the closet.
I am working on revising a novel now, and the finished product seems far in the future.
But I mapped out a chapter outline.
And I wrote the flap copy.
And now I am following a revision schedule that has me doing one to three short chapters worth of edits each week.
Then I will work through the whole book at once.
and then I will get test readers, and so forth.
What big goals are you currently pursuing?
Getting a handle on the various steps might seem daunting, but I think it makes big goals feel more doable to know those steps.
Sure, there might be a lot of steps but each individual step isn't so much.
If you give yourself enough time, probably you can get there.
After all, getting to the moon took less than a decade.
You can do a lot in that time.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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