How to Create Your Own Life Journey Map

The metaphor that life is a journey is a popular one. Many of our favourite stories, from historical literature such as The Odyssey and The Canterbury Tales, through to modern classics including The Lord of the Rings and The Alchemist, use this premise.

We are naturally drawn to such adventures and can relate to the idea of travelling and challenges in life (even if not faced with actual sirens or orcs!)

When we thread together the events in our past, and the hopes for our futures, we can picture a path joining these moments together; a road that we travel along.

Making a physical map of your own life journey is a fun reflective exercise that can be done easily.

It helps to pull together the core questions of:

1. Past: Where have you come from?
2. Present: Where are you now?
3. Future: Where are you going?

Capturing these things visually can be powerful and inspirational, as well as very satisfying. Just follow the 5 easy steps in this podcast to make your own.

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https://therightquestions.co/life-is-a-journey-what-is-the-map-of-yours/

What is a CV or résumé?

A résumé is a document that summarises your professional experience including your work history and qualifications. 'CV' stands for the Latin ‘Curriculum Vitae’ meaning ‘the course of my life’, and a resume is effectively a concise version of your work life.

To create your own CV or resume, just follow these 5 steps:

1. Content. Write out your CV in full.
2. Tailor. Adjust your content for the specific application.
3. Edit. Reduce the resume to under two pages of text.
4. Format. Make the document smart and easy to read.
5. Review. Check for errors and get someone else to check too.

In the podcast episode, each step is explained in more detail.

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https://therightquestions.co/how-to-write-a-cv/

The Hero’s Journey is a structured story arc, and common template, used by storytellers, from authors of ancient mythology through to Hollywood screenwriters. If you think of tales of heroes, be that Odysseus or Luke Skywalker, Perseus or Katniss Everdeen, you can see the underlying similarities.

A 17-step structure was proposed by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces (1949) and this was refined into a 12-step process by Christopher Vogler in The Writers Journey (2007). But both templates are based on a three-act structure of:

1. Departure. The beginning, where the hero leaves their ordinary life.
2. Initiation. The middle, where the hero overcomes adversity to get a prize.
3. Return. The end, where the hero returns home but with new wisdom.

The podcast outlines the full twelve steps that make up the 3 acts of the hero’s journey with some examples from well-known stories, taken from books and movies.

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https://therightquestions.co/how-to-better-understand-your-character-using-the-heros-journey/