“AWESOME! What a fabulous resource. Not all of us can be so lucky to have Beth and Jim in person for life’s important decisions. If I hadn’t had the privilege of having them help me along through so many important life milestones and decisions, I would have been happy to have this book! I really like the mission and vision portions of each chapter of life. It is so important to make and keep goals so that there is something that is pushing you to continually reach for your dreams. This book helps people ask themselves the hard life questions, and ground themselves so that they can really be able to achieve their goals. Great!”

Shannon Maureen Hickey
5th grade English International teacher
American School of Puebla, Mexico
Current Masters student in Administration of Educational Organizations

"Beth and Jim are two of those incredible people who have been lucky enough to realize their life's passion. In Where's the Map? they help everyone else do the same. By sharing their stories and life goals, they empower the reader to pursue their own personal life mission, whatever that may be. I wish I would have had this book when I was graduating high school!"

Cathleen Daly, age 23
Graduate of University of St. in International Studies

Links from Where's the Map?

These are links that we referred to throughout Where's the Map? Create Your OWN Guide to Life after Graduation. For gap year links, click here. For links to our favorite authors, click here.

Intro

To learn more about our friend, John Goddard, the “World’s Greatest Goal Achiever” and his “Life List,” go to www.johngoddard.info

To buy a copy of John’s latest book, The Survivor, click here

Chapter 2: What do you want to know?

If you are looking for a comprehensive list of pretty much anything you could possibly study while in college, you have found it! The CIP 2000 (Classification of Instructional Programs), compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics is the most comprehensive list of subjects available at the college level available today. If you want to browse the entire list to see all of your possibilities click here: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/cip2000/

If you have an idea of what or where you want to study, but aren’t sure where the programs you are looking for are available, check out the National Center for Education Statistics interactive “College Navigator” at: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator

Petersons.com is one of the most popular education search sites on the Web! They offer a broad range of information on education search, financial aid, and test prep. Affiliate link on its way!

Chapter 3: Need some time to sort all this out?

Any links from this chapter can be found at Gap year links

Chapter 4: How do you want to make a living?

Do you want to try out our Yellow Pages exercise from p. 81 of Where’s the Map? http://www.allpages.com/category.html is the best online directory we have seen!

Interested in looking through the OOH (Occupational Outlook Handbook) mentioned on p. 84 of Where’s the Map? It can be found here: http://www.bls.gov/OCO/

For more information about the Rockport Institute and Nicholas Lore, check out: www.rockportinstitute.com Click here to buy books by Nicholas Lore!

For more information about Roadtrip Nation, check out: www.roadtripnation.com

For more information about Living Land and Waters or Chad Pregracke, check out: www.livinglandsandwaters.org

Chapter 5: Where in the world do you fit in?

Looking for the perfect city or town to call home? Check out www.findyourspot.com Take their quiz, and the site will make recommendations of places to live based on your preferences.

Chapter 7: What keeps you going?

Looking for a place to learn about or discuss your interests, hobbies, or anything else that “keeps you going?” Check out http://groups.yahoo.com

Want to share where you have traveled and compare your travels with those of your friends? If you are on the Facebook social network, install the “Travel Brain” application and enter all of the places you have been! If you want to show off the countries you have visited, have lived in, or would like to visit, install “Where I’ve Been”. To join the Where’s the Map Friends Group on facebook click here

Think you want to travel, but not sure where to go? Check out the web site for the most comprehensive travel book you could ever want, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: http://www.1000beforeyoudie.com

To buy 1,000 Places to See Before You Die click here