How often do you ask yourself hard questions?

If you're like I was, questions like: who am I really? or what do I REALLY want out of life? were topics I rarely thought about before beginning to reconstruct my personal narrative.

They were simply too big. Too messy to think through. So I never made time for them.

That will change in this book.

Big questions lead the way

In Intracartography, you'll have an over-the-shoulder view as I construct and analyze my inner world map by asking and answering various questions.

While this might seem like an odd way to structure a book (let alone a memoir), the questions serve two fundamental purposes:

1) They will force me to consider my deepest ideals, lessons learned, skills I've mastered, and help provide direction for bigger decisions in my life

2) They will lead to you developing similar insight about yourself

As I ask and answer more questions, the resulting mental exercise will transform into the various locations and features of the world map. What will mine look like when it reaches an exportable level of completeness?

What will yours look like?

We'll find out together.

Resistance

You'll no doubt encounter resistance when answering the questions posed in the book. I know I have when I've done this type of work in the past.

This is to be expected. The resistance will come in the form of challenging scenarios, past trauma, or the result of a monumental decision that lead to permanent shifts in the landscape of your inner world.

Remember, you don't have to make big changes in your life suddenly.

In fact you shouldn't! That's the easiest way to hurt yourself even more as you walk the path of a map maker.

While you should anticipate resistance, also remain hopeful that you will be a better and stronger person on the other side of your adventure.

That thought alone helps me keep moving when things get tough.