OK, by now I hope you started to use your mindmaps (a little bit more).
As you know, your mindmap will be serving as your personal or professional assistant. I prefer to view my mindmaps as my personal assistants, even when used in a business environment.
The reason for this view is simple: Most of my mindmap are showing my interpretation of a certain topic. It doesn’t matter if this is a personal, academic or business situation or topic. It is my personal view which is expressed via the map. Therefore, I consider most of my mindmaps as personal assistants.
OK, you have this mindmap which helps you. You ‘feed’ it with information. You manage the content.
BUT…
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The Mindmaps Unleashed Membership Program
Do you make mindmaps?
Are you ready to start using them to move forward?
Would you believe me if I told you that nearly all people who know how to mindmap just create mindmaps (and not really use them)? I am sure you believe me.
I trained many people in the art and science of mind mapping and visual thinking, both online as well as offline. During these training courses I always made sure to keep my eye on the result I wanted to accomplish.
Where most people create mindmaps, a lot less also use their mindmaps. While attending other training courses, I’ve never seen much (if any) focus on this part. In fact… this is the most important part of mind mapping.
This made me create the Mindmaps Unleashed website. I wanted to share some of my knowledge, thoughts and ideas with as many people as possible.
There are however people, just like yourself, who read the articles on the website but who want more.
They really want to start becoming more visual thinkers again.
They want and sometimes even need more focus and clarity in their lives.
It is for you that I created the Mindmaps Unleashed Membership Program.
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Mind Mapping is a technique which gives you a visual overview on a certain topic.
Today I would like to share with you thoughts on the top 5 how you should not practice mind mapping. Hopefully this makes sure that you won’t make these mistakes ever again and we can move forward to using mindmaps
Here they are:
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There are a lot of people who stop using mindmaps, conceptmaps and visual maps in general because they get stressed when creating the maps. This is of course very sad and should be prevented. After all… your brain enjoys mind mapping and you should continue using the brain friendly and practical technique.
Therefore I would like to confront you with 6 causes of stress people experience when mind mapping. Here we go:
- You are not yet confident in mind mapping and feel you are not using it correctly
- You are feeling overwhelmed by the information you receive and feel you miss something
- You can’t find the right images fast enough which makes you lose track of new information
- You are afraid you won’t be able to understand your map content next time
- You feel you lose track of all the content of the map because of the huge amount of data you added
- You (no matter what) use mind mapping or your mindmap tool, and have the feeling you are limited because of the tool
(how many of these are you familiar with?)
These are the most common causes of stress people experience when creating mindmaps. I have to tell you that I experienced all of them. Sometimes I have the same feelings again when I look at the maps people create.
As you can see, all these causes are starting with one word, which is YOU!
You are the cause of the stress. The mind mapping technique itself will do wonders for you… if you know how to use it. Since you are the cause, it is YOU who is the solution to reducing or removing stress.
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The goal of this website is not making you work to create mindmaps. You and I are interested in letting our mindmaps work for us. Still, in order to get them to work for you, you may have to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the basic process of mind mapping. That’s why I created this practical tutorial.
I will not discuss things like the orientation of your paper, details of creating branches, images & words, why the mindmap is so nice for your brain, and the numbers of colors you can/should/must use. All of this is discussed and explained in my e-book and by other people as well.
Having said that, here we go! Let’s have a look at the Process of Mind Mapping.
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Again, we return in these Mindmap Circle articles to our childhood. Besides the fact that ‘everything was better’ when we were young and time wasn’t going this fast as it is nowadays, there is something else important to learn from when we were young.
Who told you how to start drawing pictures and creating these stories you told yourself and others?
Did you have or need a lot of guidance in playing games with your friends?
I assume you didn’t need advice. Even more so… you probably didn’t even know why you did things and yet… it worked out fine (most of the time).
Then you had to learn how to follow the rules of the people who knew it all. You had to color in between the lines, you could not believe people can fly (this might be a good thing…) and your drawings had to be a clear representation of the ‘real’ world.
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