Mind Mapping to ensure productivity!
Over the years I’ve learned that creating a mind map can
help ensure productivity when you really don’t want to produce anything. But
then again, a mind map is also to ensure success and to organize myself to
learn more, produce more, and succeed more.
When I was young my Father taught me to do proper research
on any issue by creating a triangle and on each line of the triangle to write
social, economic, and political then in the middle to write the issue I’m researching.
When I did this I knew I’d be able to research the issue properly if I looked
into the economic issues surrounding the research issue, then looked at the
political aspect of who is the strongest political operative involved in the
issue and then how the issue defines the social or community/state arena for
the issue itself. At the end of my research, I could tell you the surrounding
levels of the issue by who was being paid off to sway the political votes to gain financial favor/bribes to harm or help the community at
large. The same goes for a mind map.
You create a triangle and along each side, you note
Education, financial, and social. What education or specialized knowledge will you
need to be successful? Should you go back to school to learn knowledge to succeed? How much financial backing will you need to be successful? Then the social aspect helps to ensure how your
objective will help others or better the community at large. You can also add
another level of the triangle to include your home life, your work ethic, and
your health. This second level means you need to create time for home life, family, and household chores such as laundry, cleaning the house, grocery shopping, etc.
You have to have a good work–home life balance to ensure a healthy balance so
that nothing is lacking your attention. Work ethics is all about learning how
to create a project and breaking it down into what is needed to succeed. Like
do you know how to create a website, how about learning marketing skills, or
simple business management skills, etc. Then what about your health? Do you
have a workout routine? Do you need specialized equipment in your home to work out? What about learning to do yoga? Or how about meditation or
changing your diet to ensure you are healthy enough to endure the hours it will
take to create that new business?
I also add lines coming out of my triangle with specific categories
that are related to my topic in the middle of my triangle. Then, if necessary,
I create branches from the central triangle that represent a to-do list mind
map that I’ve identified that needs to be done. My father used to call these my
success branches. These branches could
be business, learning, personal, hobby, health, home, etc. Then list what needs
to be done for each. I’ve also added doodles to my mind map when I really want
to be creative, kind of like a storyboard for a movie script or story. Personal
could be family finances, vacations, new vehicles, furniture, office supplies,
etc. Get the idea. This way I can look at the mind map and know exactly what I
need to accomplish this month to be a success.
Try not to detract your thoughts with too many items in your
mind map, keep it simple so you can succeed. This concept is like making a long
list of things to do or accomplish to be successful. Just sit with a pen or
pencil and a large piece of paper and begin making your mind map as the example above shows.
Elizabeth Kilbride is a Writer and Editor with forty years of
experience in writing with 12 of those years in the online content sphere.
Graduating with an Associate of Arts from Pheonix University, then a degree in
Mass Communication and Cyber Analysis from Phoenix University, then on to
Walden University for her master’s in criminology with emphasis on Cybercrime
and Identity Theft and is currently studying for her Ph.D. degree in
Criminology, her portfolio includes coverage of politics, current affairs,
elections, history, and true crime. In her spare time, Elizabeth is also a
gourmet cook, life coach, and avid artist, proficient in watercolor, acrylic,
pen and ink Gouache, and pastels. As a political operative having worked on
over 300 campaigns during her career, Elizabeth has turned many life events
into books and movie scripts while using history to weave interesting
storylines. She also runs 6 various blogs from art to life coaching, to food,
to writing, and opinion or history pieces each week.
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