The illustrated edition · Free book
A Goal of Your Own
Handwritten reading notes and reflections on understanding yourself, choosing a direction and doing the work.
The thread through the book
Understand yourself, choose a goal, notice what pulls you away, and keep learning through action.
Why I’m sharing it
I believe in understanding yourself and giving yourself a goal. Once you choose a goal, distractions appear. Working through them is part of the battle. That is how I see the hero’s journey.
I made these cards to help myself learn. I am sharing them because an idea can be useful to someone else. Take whatever helps you and put it to use.
Inside the illustrated edition
One card. One idea.
A drawing makes the idea visible. The edited note makes it easy to read. The original handwriting and the source credit stay with every card.
Use Next and Back, swipe on your phone, or jump straight to a card. Open the original handwriting whenever you want to see the note it came from.
Read the illustrated cards →The journey
Six chapters to return to.
- 01
Understand yourself
Look at the habits, assumptions and desires that shape your choices.
- 02
Choose a direction
Give yourself an aim. Let action and experience refine it.
- 03
Meet resistance
Recognise the distractions, doubts and explanations that pull you away.
- 04
Do the work
Begin, return and learn through the work itself.
- 05
Live with others
Listen, receive criticism and examine where you seek approval.
- 06
Keep your perspective
Hold ambition alongside uncertainty, pleasure, change and the larger questions.
A few pages inside
Three notes.
A note from the collection
Aim, act and learn
Choose an aim. Find the courage to act. Learn from what happens, then adjust the aim.
Collected note
A note from the collection
Between me and the mission
Resistance stands between me and my mission.
Reading note after Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
A note from the collection
Listen to understand
Listen to understand. Give attention to what is happening in the conversation. Let the present moment guide your response.
Collected note
Each card combines a visual interpretation, an edited reading note and the original handwriting. Source credits and context notes identify borrowed ideas and uncertain attributions. Free to read and download.