Mind mapping is a great tool to gain clarity to your desires and design a perfect roadmap to your destination or goals. Apart from SMART Goal setting, a knack for creating mind-maps can support your journey to your desires. Sometimes the daunting task of where to start or take the next step becomes a block for us. Whether you are working on a project dealing with matrixed organization, facing writer’s block, competition, low NPS, etc, this tool can help you make great leaps.
Interestingly every innovator -creator sometimes has to become an investigator while designing their perfect product-service or solution! If you look at series like Mentalist -Castle or even Holmes they all thrive on clues…Mind mapping helps you put the board work around the clues and milestones that you want to create while moving ahead.
The use of mind mapping started with philosphers like Aristotle, Ramon Llull etc however Buzan brought the simplified tool that coul be leveraged by all.
People used mind maps informally throughout the 20th century, but it was Tony Buzan who coined the term and brought the concept into the mainstream. Tony’s mind map begins with a central image. To this, he adds branches to depict the basic ordering of ideas. He then adds a network of smaller branches (color-coded for clarity) to depict ideas related to each BOI. This is the purest form of a mind map, and it’s known as The Burzam Method.
Tony, was inspired by Da Vinci and Einstein among others. Mind mapping creates a visual display of information. It details the relationships between different components and can be drawn by hand or by using software programs. This tool can help you create your treasure map to all your desires and goals.
My first goal of creating a Youtube program started with an idea and a desire to support many, however, to make it happen mind mapping helped me. Mind mapping allowed me to “chunk down” every aspect of the core idea. From budgeting -the target audience -personas who can be part of it, to the audience support everything came alive!
Mind mapping can help you handle one chunk at a time. It starts with a core (center of action and purpose) vision or a goal that you would like to achieve, offshoots or branches are the areas that need to be addressed to reach the core. And finally, the spokes indicate the tasks that you need to do to deal with every area. The tool promotes creativity, boosts productivity, clarity of vision, areas to be dealt with, action items for immediate attention. Our minds can bombard us with infinite information that needs to be organized on the board before we take the leap of faith. The mind map structures and stores vast amounts of information shows relationships and gives you a 45,000-foot view of the goal-vision-purpose. Mind mapping works because it taps into all the knowledge, instincts, and insights that are stored in our gray matter. It helps us create our personalized GPS with the realities of the terrain.
6Cs for Simple Ways to use Mind Mapping for transitioning from chaos to order in all domains –
- Core Focus- To get started with mind mapping you need to start with a core focus area of your life this could be personal -professional-purpose or project you want to fine-tune or have definitive desires that you want to accomplish.
- Clarity Exercise -Investigating tools, role models, research for evidence of successful methods and solutions that can augment the journey to destiny or victory podium.
- Chunking Areas of Action -Clarity exercise would chunk out the action areas for the goal to be accomplished in terms of people -process, etc.
- Commitment -Explore the WHY! Define the reason for your need. ‘Why’ of our journey is what gives us greater commitment. A steady relationship with the core is rooted in our reason for the need.
- Celebration of Milestones -Early endorsements and small milestones need to be celebrated for the team to keep going. Going back to the board to update the mind map to cherish the win is an important impetus to the journey.
- Calculate Growth Gaps and Address -Along with progress the reported pitfalls also need to be analyzed and calculated to bridge gaps and further enhance the mind map if need be. Periodic introspection to understand the gaps helps to know that your Mind map is a live document and a redundant tool.
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Do you ever get caught in ambiguity? How do you define your WHY? What are the tools that are helping you gain clarity on your goals? How simple is it to accomplish goals without research on what is your treasure hunt? Do share with us what tools you use to demystify YOUR DESIRED PATHS OF LIFE.
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