Have you ever used a mindmap during a sales pitch? Do you show people you meet for the first time your mindmap? Have you used mindmaps in meetings?
One of the first things people tell me when they learn about mindmaps and mind mapping is that this is something which can be valuable. Still, they would use it for themselves only and not in a group or during a meeting.
I can understand that. You may be a little uncomfortable because you do not completely master the mindmap method… yet.
Fast forward a few week, months or even years. I speak with my successful students and what do many of them tell me about mind mapping in a group? They don’t do it. They are often afraid of what the other person’s response or even thoughts might be.
There is fortunately a cure for this:
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I’ve been writing a lot about mindmaps, mind mapping, visual mapping and related topics. I speak with many people and I write with even more people about how to USE visuals to create clarity in our lives.
I have a very important and serious question for you.
A question that I hope raises many, many new question. Here it is:
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Perhaps you’ve been doing a self-improvement training. You may have received a set of juggling balls. I received one during a training and later on a friend gave me a second set. I learned that juggling helped you in creating more balance between both brain sides.
You see, I never was that much into juggling. Why should I… I have a clear and balanced brain (really 
).
Then, when cleaning the attic, I found these balls again. And some disturbing times started…
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All day long, we are interacting with data and we are producing it. Most of the data is received without our conscious mind playing an active role in this. People usually think they are in control (most of the time) and they are making the decisions (most of the time). Fortunately, we are not.
The reason I write fortunately is because you don’t want to take part in making all the decisions. Can you imagine for example that you have to make the decision to breath, swallow,close your eyes when something almost hits it?
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Mind mapping wherever, whenever. That sounds really interesting. I want to discuss three ways with you to create mindmaps wherever you are.
Here are first four basic guidelines a tool has to offer me to create mindmaps:
1. Create any type of mindmap
2. Easy to carry around and 24×7 at my disposal
3. Allows easy mind mapping
4. Requires hardly any training to use (when you know about mind mapping)
For me, mobile mind mapping is something that helps me to capture my thoughts and ideas. I am not really looking for a tool that lets me mindmap together with others. When I do that, I want to have a nice big computer screen or white board to use.
Here are three types of mindmap solutions that will help you and me in this.
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I would like to take ‘unleashing your mindmaps’ one step further today. In a new series of articles, I will explore the way we can use the knowledge we have of mind mapping to improve our understanding and to create mental mindmaps.
For some hardcore (technical/traditional) mindmappers, today may be one step too far right now . In the end it will all make sense. For the rest of y’all: read it and use it to your advantage. It is the concept which is important.
This weekend, I read a book by H.H. the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan, the Wisdom of Forgiveness. There are very interesting similarities which we can identify when comparing visual mapping/thinking and Tibetan Buddhism.
Perhaps visual mapping in this context is not the correct term to use. Once you start to think beyond the mind/visual mapping techniques, you will see there is a much bigger world. I believe this world shows us how all the data in the world is connected to and with each other.
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