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<aside> 📢 To quote our favorite historian George Santayana — 'To know your future you must know your past'. Explore the ups and downs in your past and how these experiences have changed you when you draw your life map.

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Drawing A Life Map

What is a life map?

1. A life map is a visual timeline that tracks important moments in your life from the time you were born until now.

2. There are many uses of doing a life map:

   • To help structure your scholarship application planning;
   • As a form of reflection, to understand how you view life and shape your decisions, so that you can make better decisions in the future;

   

How do I make my own life map?

Step 1️⃣: Draw a timeline and plot all the important moments in your life.

Feel free to include as many moments as you like; these moments do not have to be positive experiences.

• Click here for examples of moments

Step 2️⃣: Link your experiences to skills gained.

For example, (Experience) Being on the debate team and participating in the public speaking competition taught me (skills) good communication and the value of organization.

• Click here for examples of skills

Step 3️⃣: Use your life map to inform you of your future study or career choice.

• “I am not sure what Degree/ Job XYZ I want to do in the future." If this is you, click here to read more.
• “I want to do Degree/ Job XYZ but I am not sure if I will like it.” If this is you, click here to read more.

How (else) can making a life map help me?