I’ve been developing, writing about and evangelising about Crystal Mapping for a few years now. I’ve focussed mainly on how it can be used in business to communicate organisational level vision and team goals and objectives and how it can be used in education to help revision and learning. One thing that consistently comes up in conversation is that people use crystal maps as a natural way of setting personal goals and creating their own life maps. This was one of the first applications we ever developed back in 2003 when I first started Crystal Mapping and was one of the prime objectives driving our development. With this in mind here’s how to create ‘life maps’ and ’self development maps’ using crystal mapping.

Below is an example of a Personal Dashboard created in crystal mapping and our Think it, Map it, See it, Do it process to help people create them.

Among the many theories, teachings and techniques in the area of personal development there are two features which are common to all and critical to success:

• you have to know where you are going and
• you have to know how you’re going to get there.

The first point is pretty much a given in that it is vital that you know what you’re trying to achieve and where you want to get to. Otherwise how would you know if / when you’d arrived?

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