Lesson Summary

Plotting life-shaping events along borrowed familiar story plots can help structure one's journey:

• Your Once Upon a Time...
• Your Beatific Vision, Your Obsession
• Your Call to Action, Leaving Ordinary
• Chief Emotion: Glad, Mad, Sad, Afraid
• But Then, It Happened
• After That, I Was Never the Same...
• Refusals, Repeats, Resentments
• Tests of Powers, Making of Vows
• Your Kind of People
• Voices from Beyond
• Heroes & Guides
• Villains & Fools
• The Defining Moment, The Ordeal
• Your Conflict Traps
• Mastery of __, Being Mastered by __
• Returning with the Formula, Solution
• Your Commandments
• Your Avoidance Syndromes
• Your Growing Reputation for...
• After This… Happily Ever After.

Plotting conditions persisting between now and the 100-year segment is like weather forecasting:

• Meteorologists do not cause weather; they study it and make forecasts.
• Looking historically for lasting trends, offering degrees of certainty, and monitoring modifying factors are essential.
• Based on the assumption of continuity in nature's laws, slight changes in personality and life conditions are expected.

Plotting priorities for the remaining segments of the 100-year life map (personal, physical, spiritual, social, familial, vocational, financial) involves:

• Plan the “No List” to understand the known conditions shaping life.
• Identify strengths for the future, including mission and mentoring implications.
• Consider professional positions to prepare for based on past similarities.
• Initiate preparations to move toward these roles and determine readiness.
• Identify needs for the future and set targets for gaining or losing aspects of life.
• Cultivate necessary disciplines and habits for a successful future.