Vision Map: Charting a Step-by-Step Course for Your Biggest Hopes and Dreams
By Joel Malm
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Is there a gap between you and your dream?
A few years back, Joël Malm had the idea to lead people on outdoor expeditions with a spiritual, God-centered focus. Following God’s lead, he created a vision map, started his organization, and made it happen.
This book is a response to the question he often gets: How do you do something like that?
Whether you want to start a business, raise a family, run a marathon, plant a church, restore a relationship, or climb a mountain, you can take practical steps to see your vision come to be.
Vision Map is not a formula for overnight success, but it is a template to start anyone on the path to envisioning a God-given dream. God often gives us a difficult problem to solve, and we just need a push in the right direction to find the answer.
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Vision Map - Joel Malm
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INTRODUCTION
THE CONVERSATION USUALLY goes one of two ways. I meet a new person and at some point they ask me: So, where do you work?
Well … I lead outdoor expeditions with a spiritual focus.
At that moment the person either:
A) Smiles and says, That’s nice.
B) Lights up. A fire comes to their eyes, and I can see they are one of those people. If they are, the inevitable next question is, How do you get into that line of work?
I tell them I started the organization. The fire gets brighter and they immediately ask, How do you start something like that?
My usual answer is, Well. Just start.
I realize that answer is unhelpful, and it may seem a bit cocky, but people rarely have time to hear me explain the circuitous, confusing, often frustrating, but fun-filled journey it’s been getting to this point.
This book describes that journey. It’s a response to the question, How do you start something like that?
It’s for those people. You people. (More on that later.)
I believe God wants to make the dream in your heart a reality—even if it seems far-fetched. You aren’t crazy. You are a visionary.
I hope this book helps you navigate the waters of getting something started. I’ll guide you through the process, step-by-step.
There’s nothing more rewarding than watching God accomplish the goals He placed in your heart. I wish I could give you a simple answer for how to do this, but there isn’t one. It requires time, hard work, and total dependence on Him.
There are no overnight success stories. Let me repeat that. There are no overnight success stories.
Every story is different. I’m convinced God does it that way on purpose. Otherwise we’d try to find a formula.
There is no formula. Let me repeat that too. There is no formula.
I’ve read tons of books by folks I would consider outliers.
Their stories are outside the bell curve of how things normally happen. They experience incredible, larger-than-life events. God has done truly unique things for them. Those stories are the exception. Most of us aren’t going to fit into that outlier category. God will do miracles to bring your dream to pass, but in truth, I found the stories of outliers discouraging.
I’ve seen some pretty consistent things God uses to bring your dream to pass. I always found it encouraging to read the stories of how normal people like me got where they are today.
Here’s my story and some of the important lessons I learned along the way. I hope you find it helpful.
SO YOU’VE GOT AN IDEA?
IT ALL STARTED FOR ME ON a mountain in Russia. In a blizzard. At 16,000 feet. I could’ve written it off to oxygen deprivation, but something within me said it was more. God placed something big in my heart that day.
The blizzard pummeling our side of Mount Elbrus made our attempt to summit the highest peak in Europe an exercise in futility. We gave up for the day. Secretly, I was relieved. I realized earlier that morning when we pulled out the ice axes and roped our team together that I was in way over my head. This was above my climbing level; I had no experience ice climbing and only basic knowledge of how to use the axe in my hand. I was still loving it, but the situation made me remember there was some real danger involved.
On the way back down, we discovered that the blizzard was causing a whiteout that covered the trail markers. We stopped to reorient.
Wait here. I find trail,
my Ukrainian guide, Oksana, said in her flat Russian accent.
I nodded and knelt down in the deep snow. Ahead there was a break in the storm. Through the clouds I could see the Cheget Valley far below us—an encouraging sign.
I looked at my watch. It was noon. I thought of my family, soundly asleep back in Texas. They had no idea how dangerous conditions had become.
In that instant something hit me. It was one of those moments of transcendence. I felt alive and alert. I realized just how much I loved this kind of thing. I loved the thrill of climbing mountains. It was a spiritual experience for me, a way of deepening my sense of dependence on God and feeling connected to the sheer power of the vast world He