For Greater Success in the New Year Try the Miracle of Mind

If you're list of resolutions hasn't been working, try this method!
Production a list of New Year’s resolutions is a grand tradition, but has your list of resolutions worked in the past? If you’re like most of us, it hasn’t. This year, why not try production your resolutions into a mind map instead?

WHAT IS A MIND MAP?

Mind maps are tools that help us think and remember better, creatively solve problems and take action. The mind map encourages creative thinking and flexibility, and you need these to do your resolutions happen! Mind maps help you think outside the box.

If you’ve already ready-made your list, try turning it into a mind map. If you haven’t ready-made your list yet, try this strategy. WHY MIND MAPS Activity

They help you avoid thinking linearly They open you up to creative thinking and new route of thinking They’re much realistic, because most things aren’t orderly to begin with They help you get the big image They naturally hook into your right brain, wherever creative thinking and intuition can help you

Not all ideas organize themselves tidily into an outline format, and linear thinking is limiting. HOW TO DO A MIND MAP

Victimisation an unseamed piece of paper, activity quickly without pausing, decision production or editing. If you pause, judge or edit, you’re encouraging linear thinking and analysis-paralysis and the idea that things have to be perfect before you can begin. The idea behind the mind map is to think creatively in a non-linear manner.

Victimisation the unseamed piece of paper, start with your resolution, the central idea, in the middle. Write it down in the center, and then think up new ideas, action points and strategies that relate to it and can do it happen. Let these radiate out from the central idea. Focus on the key ideas, victimisation your own words, and then look for branches. Victimisation this visual know-how helps you understand and remember better, be open to possibilities, and avoid the restrictions of an outline or list format.

Later on you can modify the information, but 1st simply get every possibility into the mind map. Once you’ve got the central idea down in the middle, use lines, colors, arrows, or branches to complete the idea. You’ll see how achievement it is not to have to worry simply about the “order” they’re in.

After all, once you’re working on a resolution, you’ll most likely be working on several things at the same time. The mind map helps you avoid that paralyzing thought of wherever to begin. Begin anywhere; the point is to begin.

Turn your piece of paper landscape style. This gives you the maximum figure of room to activity with. Leave lots of space so you can go back and add to them. You may want to highlight something, add information or questions later on.

EXAMPLE

You can start with a central idea such as “Personal Development.” Divergent out from this circle in the center could be “Hire A Coach,” “Take College Course,” “ Discover Neuro-linguistic Programming,” and “Study Great Art.”

Then you can take another piece of paper and put one of these peripheral ideas as the central point and do another mind map. For example, divergent out form “Learn Neuro-linguistic Programming” would-be be “Hire a coach,” “Visit Websites,” “Read Books,” and “Actively Practice.”

See how it works?

And “see” is the central point. Do your mind map with illustrations or images for maximum impact. For instance if your want to increase your profits by 15% this year, put a graph on there, showing a 15% increase.

If you want to return to your ideal weight, put in a image of you once you were at your ideal weight or several else inspiring, positive and psychological feature picture.

Makes THIS WORK?

Ed Borasky, of Borasky Research, is a coach who works with neuro-linguistic programming and mind mapping. He’s seen the results with clients, and is so confident of the results, he’s set up his website like a mind map. Want to see what mind mapping looks like? Go here.

Ed uses mind mapping for taking notes in meetings, documenting software, designing Neuro-Semantics training manuals and in managing his activity processes. Ed says, “Since I started victimisation mind mapping, my productivity has nearly doubled!” He now coaches others on how to use this process.

I use it myself and have had great results. Most recently I was thrown a curve – I was supposed to give a presentation, and two days before, the topic was changed to thing I’d ne'er spoken on before. I wanted it to be interactive, playing off comments from the seminar participants, and, if you’ve even as done this, you cognize it doesn’t organize itself linearly. Drawing a mind map was the perfect solution. I put the topic “Stress Management” in the center, and then the points to be covered divergent out like spokes from a wheel: “Causes,” “Remedies,” “Latest Research Findings,” “Attentional Deficit Bandwidth,” etc. This let me see what I wanted to cover, without having to control the way it was presented, or in what order. Then I could start out the seminar not by a lecture, adhering to a strict outline, but by asking participants what they had move to learn, and moving forward from there, keeping in mind the major points I wanted to make. This avoided the constraints of an outline, which isn’t helpful in an interactive presentation.

I’d been deliberating for hours simply about the presentation, and I did the mind map in 5 minutes.

You’ll find if you can’t seem to get thing organized in your mind, it probably of necessity the mind map formula, and you’ll probably agree with me and Ed Borasky – you’ll wonder how you go on without it.

Give it a try to get yourself organized for the New Year and increase your profitability. After all, the point is to ‘get’ the ideas and then take action, not to spend hours outlining and production an unhelpful list you do nothing about. There’s thing simply about the mind map that’s energizing.

For greater profit and success, discover much simply about mind mapping and NLP from Coach Ed Borasky. http://www.borasky-research.net. To subscribe to his free ezine, “Borasky Research Journal,” mailto:znmeb@borasky-research.net.

About the Author

Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach, Worldwide EQ. Emotional intelligence activity to enhance all areas of your life - career, relationships, midlife transition, resilience, self-esteem, parenting. EQ Alive! - excellent, accelerated, inexpensive EQ coach certification. Susan is the author of many ebooks, is wide publicized on the Internet, and a regular speaker for cruise lines. For marketing services go here.