Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Mind Mapping
We all have many goals we would like to achieve in life whether it's family, friends or work. You'll notice whenever you attend a seminar or a lecture, they'll start saying you should get your goals organized bla bal bla , but just a minute i really need to know what my goals are and then i start organizing them afterwards .. Some people pass through a heartache or grief and they say i really wana move forward but dont know where to start .. Here comes the mind map where you have a central idea and then you start branching them down clearly in a way that your brain can percept ..
You'll say i'll have a to-do list and that's enough to keep me on the right track but that's not an effective way to get both sides of the brain invloved - right hemisphere (thought to be concerned with creativity and imagination, ) and the left hemisphere (responsible for logic and analysis) ... Mind Map can add more quality to our plans and decisions and can make them clearer and more understandable ..
If you are at work and you've been asked to choose between two projects to start with, here you'll have many ideas spring to you mind and you tell yourself i really have to take this and that into account. The more ideas you start to think about, the more your brain dither and you'll be in a dilemma .. so you really need to chart your thoughts and so you can connect your ideas , presented as a network of words .. Here your brain will be more able to process at first and then explore ... that means your brain will break down the ideas and so you are better able to realize things more truthfully ..
How to create your mind map ????
1. Devote yourself for 20 mintues (uninterrupted) to think of pens with different colours at least 3 and start to think how you are gona structure your mind map
2. Decide the goal you wana achieve , whether it's something you wana get over or something you hope to achieve or just getting a sense of where you stand .. This is gona be the starting point of your mind map , it will be the main image where all your thoughts and feelings will start to spring from it ..
3. Draw a few main branches moving out from your main goal , e.g friends, family , work , future ... etc
4. Start with a brain storming mind map - it's like you are having the structure of your mind map , after placing the branches you'll start moving down your feelings under each one of them ..
5. Your mind map contains key words , so if one of your key words is career , you should have related words like salary or promotion , confidence ... note that you can always branch more and more under any word if you want to ..
6. Connect all lines
7. Try to make your map more visual
8. Ordering your ideas can help you prioritize them ..
9. Draw wavy lines ~ it's more memorable than straight
10. Use arrows to link your ideas
Hope that was enlightening =)
Gd Night
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