{"id":1664,"date":"2012-07-15T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T06:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.renando.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2015-02-15T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:57:23","slug":"mapping-your-character-trajectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/mapping-your-character-trajectory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping your character trajectory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1665\" title=\"Mapping your character trajectory\" alt=\"Mapping your character trajectory\" src=\"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mapping_your_character_trajectory1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What will my character be like in 10 years given my current trajectory?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Challenging question to ask for daily\u00a0reflection.<\/p>\n<p>To respond, we:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Place ourselves in <strong>a future-state<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>based on an honest and accurate reflective perspective of who we are in <strong>the past<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>to make change decisions in <strong>the present<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Character&#8221; can be replaced with other attributes or aspects of our lives, but character is a good core to start the process with.<\/p>\n<p>The value in the question applied as a daily exercise is that the trajectory is defined by the\u00a0decisions\u00a0of each day. \u00a0Routine personal reflection has proven value, and this question adds an interesting element of structure.<\/p>\n<p>Is it one you ask already? If not, perhaps it is one to try for two weeks and assess the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will my character be like in 10 years given my current trajectory? Challenging question to ask for daily\u00a0reflection. To respond, we: Place ourselves in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/mapping-your-character-trajectory\/\" class=\"bwp-excerpt-more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[29,61,69,201,99,100,143],"ecosystem_role":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-you","tag-change-management","tag-goal-setting","tag-identity","tag-leadership","tag-personal-development","tag-personal-potential","tag-vision","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"ecosystem_role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidewaysthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecosystem_role?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}