Defining Your North Star: How Your Past Can Lead to Your Future

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a North Star? Sometimes understanding and defining your North Star can be a challenge. For most, it’s easier to define your professional North Star but in reality, your North Star should be an extension of who you are and should embody the person you are at work AND at home. That’s what today’s guest, Amy, has been struggling with. She was feeling a disconnect between her mission statement for her work and home life. We dove into her life and had her reflect back on her childhood because often times we have to look back on the past fondly to move us forward optimistically. We discuss how to move from what she calls having a “north-ish light bulb” to a true North Star and how to dig deeper into the breadcrumbs to discover your North Star.

What’s In This Episode:

How Amy hit a professional development crisis and wanted to discover her North Star

Creating a personal mission statement that feels more intimate to you

Doing a life map exercise and reflecting on high points in your life

Digging deeper into the breadcrumbs to discover your North Star

Shifting, evolving, and changing your North Star to fit who you are

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on finding true happiness through productivity.
0:11.7	Season 12 is different for many she's done before with real conversations, with real women,
0:16.7	applying strategies and concepts explored in the joy of missing out.
0:20.6	This season, you'll learn how to live more by doing less.
0:24.5	And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:28.3	Hello, hello, everyone.
0:30.1	Welcome to Productivity Paradox.
0:32.0	I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 145.
0:37.4	Just to remind you, this season of the podcast is very different from anything we've ever done.
0:42.9	We're exploring the concepts of the joy of missing out.
0:46.5	And throughout this entire season, we're having real conversations with real women about what their stumbling blocks are.
0:53.4	What are the things they struggle with,
0:55.0	how can we apply a lot of those concepts into their lives? I'm really excited because this is
1:00.1	our very first episode that we're doing this. And today, I have Amy on the show. And I'm excited
1:07.2	because she's dealing with something, or shall I say struggling with something,
1:11.6	that I know many other people struggle with as well.
1:15.1	Dealing with understanding and defining her North Star.
1:19.4	I don't think this is uncommon at all.
1:22.1	In fact, I think for many people, when we talk in that first section of the book, which is all about discovery,
1:29.0	I can sense people stressing out about this North Star. So it's not uncommon to feel like
1:36.0	it's this big, gigantic thing, but it doesn't have to be. I promise it really doesn't have to be so
1:42.7	daunting. And I want you to listen to the conversation that Amy and I have where we talk about her
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