How to Save the World: The Reverse Roadmap Technique

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You can save the world; you can free Palestine; you can end poverty...

Or achieve practically any goal you have as long as you:

1. Figure out a precise step-by-step plan.

2. Take decisive and consistent action at each step.

We all have things keeping us awake at night. Things filling our hearts with fear, anger and worry.

It might be financial worries or concerns about your family's future.

Most of us also carry concerns on a global scale such as poverty, hunger or wars.

With all these worries plaguing our minds it’s little wonder so many of us are feeling helpless.

After all… what can we even do about it?

You will understand a fundamental truth by the end of this guide:

Dealing with these concerns isn’t a question of IF we can do anything—it’s only a matter of HOW.

What this means is we are frustrated by our current state and the state of the world not because we are unable to change it but because we simply do not know how to go about changing it.

And here's the worst part: worrying about what to do is precisely what stops us from doing it.

I’m mentioning global issues to drive the point home. But this is true for any goal you have.

The technique you’ll learn in this guide will become your secret weapon for achieving anything you put your mind to.

How to achieve your most important goals

The Reverse Roadmap Technique is incredibly powerful because it first gives you the ideal scenario (thinking ahead to an ideal future) of your completed goal AFTER it has been achieved:

Your dream outcome.

It then builds a roadmap that begins from the dream outcome—going backwards in time—to where you are right now.

You work like a historian or detective making sense of a sequence of events.

Except you do it in reverse.

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Here’s why it works:

The normal thing to do when persuading people of the effectiveness of your technique (or product or service) is to talk about examples of massive success for those who used it.

But with the Reverse Roadmap Technique the examples are too many to enumerate.

Think about every achievement in human history. The science and technology. The civilisations built and the impactful legacies of individuals. Great companies and charities.

They didn't appear out of thin air.

And they weren’t isolated events without some causation behind them.

Similarly a detective can piece together clues to deduce how a particular incident came to be.

Take the simple example of a successful business. You would never assume it just appeared one day.

Someone had an idea, raised the money, bought supplies, advertised, opened a store...

In other words, you can look at something that exists today and map out how it got there.

Everything to ever occur in history came as the result of a series of events. Nothing ever happens in a vacuum.

The Reverse Roadmap Technique taps into this fundamental truth about human achievement.

It is a universal principle—made easy for you to apply in your life.

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Guess what this means?

Your goals WILL ONLY ever happen following a sequence of events.

**And those events are the things you need to do to achieve your goal.**

They are the checkpoints on your roadmap.

It’s easy to map out the sequence of things that have already occurred. That's the beauty of hindsight.

But what about your goals which have not yet been achieved?

Simple: you visualise the ideal scenario where your goal has been achieved, then you CREATE YOUR HINDSIGHT…

Tracing your steps backwards till you are back to the present day.

This is the Reverse Roadmap Technique.

And you can start applying it right now…

Read till the end of this guide because you will discover:

• How your attention is currently diverted away from your path to success—and how to become laser-focused on your goals.

• Why most people can’t achieve their dreams—and the unconventional way to literally reverse engineer them.

• The step-by-step method to write an unshakable plan to achieve practically anything—and how to implement it the easy way.

• The three success secrets to guarantee results—even if you skip everything else.

• A real-world scenario of the Reverse Roadmap Technique in action—which you can steal reword as your own.

How the Reverse Roadmap Technique works

Think about a time you laid awake at night worrying.

It could have been about something personal like money issues or a frustrating problem in your business. Or wider issues like world hunger.

The first thing to realise is this:

If we want something to happen… this is a goal.

For our purposes we’ll define a goal as something you want in the near or distant future.

Next… regardless of the scale of the goal we must accept all goals require steps to achieve them.

This is where we shift from an IF mindset to a HOW mindset.

We need to stop worrying or complaining and start thinking like people who get things done.

• What is the solution? Literally… what are the steps?

• What does successful achievement of the goal look like?

• What resources would it need?

• Who do I need to know?

• What would you need to do today? Next week? Six months from now?

• When will you reach that goal?

These are real questions we can ask and answer for even global issues. The thing holding us back isn't a lack of motivation... It’s simply a lack of clarity on what to do.

When dealing with issues like these there are two components we must understand to effectively use The Reverse Roadmap Technique:

1. Your circle of influence and circle of concern

2. Visualising the goal then working backwards

1. Your circle of influence and circle of concern

• Your circle of influence are the things (such as people, places, etc) you can directly affect. Everyone has some level of influence in the world. You have some influence over your family, friends, the environment, organisations, etc.

• Your circle of concern are the things you are concerned about but cannot directly affect. They are by definition outside your circle of influence… but they are important to you for one reason or another.

Most people’s circle of influence is very small. But their circle of concern is often much larger.

We care about global issues and rightly so. But as individuals our level of influence may not affect the wider things we care about.

And this is precisely what is causing stress and the frustration in your personal goals:

The dream outcome—at least for the moment—is floating somewhere in your circle of concern far outside of your circle of influence.

You are probably already beginning to see how this creates conflict in our day to day actions.

When people are reactive they spend time on their circle of concern. They spend time on things they currently can't do anything about.

But because we can’t affect our circle of concern we substitute practical solutions (true influence) with momentary and reactive actions…

E.g. Fighting oppression seems like such a daunting task so we make ourselves feel better by arguing with strangers online.

We do nothing to increase our influence in any real sense and get caught in a loop of reactive behaviour patterns.

As a result our circle of influence shrinks and we just become more and more frustrated and… ultimately ineffective in our lives.

Being effective is about how well you can directly affect two aspects of your goals:

1. The dream outcome of your goal.

2. The steps between now and the dream outcome.

Proactive people spend time on their inner circle. Their circle of influence grows. And guess what?

It eventually starts to affect their circle of concern.

Here’s a simple example to illustrate the point:

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You are concerned about poverty. You don't have a job.

You can make all the noise you want in group chats, protests or talking to your friends about the issue.

But nothing changes because you did nothing to influence the dream outcome or took any identifiable step towards it.

You wasted a lot of time that could have been used on something within your circle of influence: e.g. getting a job.

If you did get a job you could’ve donated money—directly affecting your circle of concern from within your circle of influence.

If you dedicated yourself and worked at what you can influence like gaining skills, building a team, increasing your income… you could affect your circle of concern even more by sponsoring an orphan, fundraising for a clinic, etc.

If you kept going you could start your own non-profit. You could build your own orphanage. You could save millions of lives.

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Unfortunately our focus is usually wasted outside of our circle of influence.

But what if your goal is outside of your circle of influence? For example if your dream is to own a successful restaurant chain…

But you currently work a part-time office job.

Would it be wise to spend your time looking at locations for your second restaurant before you’ve even opened the first one?

Obviously not!

You should be utilising your time to learn about food industry margins and kitchen management. Customer acquisition and marketing.

You make changes to make your road easier such as switching to working in restaurants to gain experience in the industry.

Small things within your circle of influence can have a massive impact on your circle of concern.

Read this carefully:

• Your dream outcome is likely floating somewhere outside of your influence—inside your circle of concern.

• If you work on something you can influence you circle of influence will grow.

• If you keep doing this your circle of influence will eventually reach your dream outcome.

• Each time your circle of influence grew was a step in your journey—your series of events.

• **The steps/milestones/checkpoints can be planned ahead of time.**

Once we understand and commit to working on our circle of influence we can create a roadmap of actions we need to take within our influence to reach the ultimate goal:

Affecting our circle of concern.

2. Visualising the end goal then working backwards

What does this mean?

When we have lofty goals it can seem daunting and frankly impossible to achieve them. But every achievement in history came as a result of events leading up to it.

The way to know what to do today, in a year, in 50 years, is to start with the goal and then work backwards—to list all the things that need to happen first for a goal to be achieved.

When you see a finished skyscraper you know it didn't just get there in one day.

There was a day when the paint wasn't there. A day when the windows weren't installed. A day when there were no bricks.

You can think backwards in this manner all the way to the first moment when someone made the INTENTION to build the skyscraper.

The intention is the moment the goal was set. And this is the moment people get stuck in because they don’t know what to do next.

The last thing you thought of before the person’s intention (working backwards) was his next step. For example buying the plot of land.

But also think about the steps it took TO BE ABLE TO buy that land.

The money needed. How was the money raised? How much? What was done to earn it?

Get it? So these become like sub-steps.

The steps you visualise are the checkpoints on your roadmap.

And all the little sub-steps needed to reach the checkpoint are your tasks.

Think about it:

With this technique you can list all the things you need to do within your circle of influence to reach any goal.

You can analyse any achievement in history with this technique.

And it works for anything you want to achieve in the future.

Why it’s so difficult to figure out what to do next

You know what you want to achieve.

You even wrote down a clear description of what you want to achieve using goal setting.

But your end goal might be a year or more away.

What must you do in the meantime to reach your goal?

What do you work on first?

This is where most people stop short.

So many dreams are abandoned not because we don’t know what we want…

But simply because we don’t know how to take the first step.

It’s difficult to know how your actions today will impact your results in the future. And you become so mentally drained trying to figure out what to do you may end up never even starting at all.

Here’s the solution:

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