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The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

Guide Creating Soul: The Desire Map is Danielle LaPorte’s life-planning workbook for shaping goals around how you want to feel. It combines self-assessment, worksheets, and tools for identifying desired feelings across life domains and translating them into practical goals.

At a glance

Centers goal setting on identifying desired feelings rather than pursuing achievements alone.
Includes self-assessment quizzes, worksheets, and mapping tools.
Organizes reflection around livelihood and lifestyle, body and wellness, creativity and learning, relationships and society, and essence and spirituality.

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Pros and cons

Pros

Provides a structured process for turning personal priorities into practical goals.
Works across several life domains, rather than focusing only on career or productivity.
The Kindle listing supports screen readers and enhanced typesetting.

Technical specifications

11 specifications

Book details
Publisher	St. Martin's Essentials
Publication date	January 1, 2014
Language	English
Print length	326 pages
ISBN-13	978-1622033461

Kindle edition
File size	11.0 MB
Screen Reader	Supported
Enhanced typesetting	Enabled
X-Ray	Enabled
Word Wise	Enabled
Page Flip	Enabled

Who is it for?

A good fit for

Readers who want a reflective, worksheet-based approach to personal goal setting.
People looking to connect goals with priorities across different areas of life.

Less suited to

Readers seeking a concise, purely tactical productivity manual or a goal-setting approach without self-reflection.

Customer reviews on Amazon

4.4 / 5 · 1,389 ratings

5 stars71%71%
4 stars14%14%
3 stars7%7%
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Customer feedback describes the book as inspirational and useful for clarifying what matters and building a framework for goals. Readers also report motivating writing and engaging, easy reading, though some find it boring and opinions on conciseness are mixed. For anyone considering its worksheet-led approach, the feedback suggests the reflective style may resonate with some readers more than others.

Positive themes

Customers describe it as inspirational and helpful for clarifying priorities and building goals.
The writing is reported as motivating, and many find the book easy to read.

Negative themes

Some customers find the book boring.

Mixed feedback

Opinions about how engaging and concise the book is are mixed.

Frequently asked questions

What approach to goal setting does The Desire Map use?

It begins with identifying how you want to feel, then uses those desired feelings to guide practical goals.

Does the book include exercises?

The listing describes self-assessment quizzes, worksheets, and tools for mapping desired feelings and goals.

Which areas of life does the process cover?

The described domains include livelihood and lifestyle, body and wellness, creativity and learning, relationships and society, and essence and spirituality.

What Kindle accessibility and reading features are listed?

The listing says screen reader support and enhanced typesetting are supported. It also lists X-Ray, Word Wise, and Page Flip as enabled.