#13 Mind Map Your Ideas

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If you have never done a mind map, today is a good day to learn. It will simplify your life, allow more colour and help you plan more effectively.

I use this FREE software - FreeMind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

But my favourite tools for mind mapping are coloured pencils and a BIG sheet of paper.

One advantage of a mind map is to help you think. Most people do not think linearly. We seldom think of  one sentence then another sentence and  then another sentence. We think in words and pictures and one thought often gives rise to several other thoughts.

Mind mapping allows you to capture all those different thoughts.  A mind map allows you to add more information later or easily update information when you learn more information.

Over the last 12 days, you have looked at a lot of information. This time is critical to your business future so before you start another week, let the mind map show you what you have discovered and thought.

Take each section and write the key points as a separate string. That means you will have at least 12 events coming off the central bubble called “My Business“. The number of strings that come off each node will vary with your thought processes. Feel free to add more thoughts too. Put down words or concepts, grammar is unimportant in a mind map.

Once you have created your mind map you will start to see relationships between the different areas. Now you can start to look at your next action steps.

Highlight or underline your key words, words that matter to you.

Tomorrow you will be using all the words you highlighted so be colourful.

Have fun.

Roberta

Simplifier, Presenter, Mentor

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