How Mind Maps Can Make Your Life Better

Mind maps can make your life better. It’s as simple as that. They can help you to improve things like the relationships that you have with other people. They can help you to create a vision for your life and give it more purpose. They can help you to create the ideal future that you would like to achieve. You can do all of this by using mind maps for creative problem solving.

By using mind maps ( Here is a great website on the subject )you are able to improve your thinking in such a way that allows you to expand your horizons. This allows you to multiply the results of any effort that you put into things. In other words, you are able to have more leverage in the activities that you are engaged in.

You can turn your mind maps into templates to use over and over again. You can use them to better communicate with coworkers and associates. The possible uses for mind maps are just endless, and the sooner that you begin using them in an efficient manner the better things will get for you.

Life Vision and Purpose

There is a mind mapping exercise that you can use to focus more on your life’s vision and to give your life more purpose. You can do this no matter how young or old you are, and no matter how rich or poor you are when you start out. Mind mapping is one of the few things in life that you can do to improve your life without investing any money. All you need is a pen and a piece of paper. So, why not allow it to empower your life?

In order to create your life’s purpose and vision in the form of a mind map, begin by pulling out a piece of paper and start to think about what makes you the person that you are. Think about your strengths and your weaknesses. When you are doing this, try and put more emphasis on what your strengths are. Also, think about how you think other people perceive you. Now, you want to put more emphasis on your strengths so that you can feel more empowerd. You don’t want to think negatively and here is how to change negative attitudes. While you are doing this, but you do want to try and achieve the most truthful outlook possible. So, list all of the things that make you who you are.

Next, you want to list all of the things out that really drive you. List all of the things that you are really passionate about (Here is how to stay motivated ). Then, categorize all of those things. After that, make a list of both your good and bad habits.

Also, make a list of all of the things that make you truly happy. In other words, the things that you like to do for yourself, the things that you like to do when it comes to work, activities, and hobbies, and the things that you like to do with and/or for other people. Finally, make a list of things that you would like to get done in the short term, medium term, and long term. Be as specific as possible. You want to get as much of this kind of information captured as you can. Here are 10 simple ways to live happy

Who do you want to be? What do you want to accomplish? Why do you want to accomplish these things? What are the barriers that are in your way? What is the very next step that you can take for any one of these items that you have written down? What is the very next step that you can take to augment or enhance any of these activities that you enjoy doing? What is the next step that you can take to improve a bad habit that you want to overcome? What can you do to achieve a goal that you’ve had wanted to meet for a long time? These are questions that you should ask yourself during this exercise.

Maybe you would like to earn a college degree, or maybe you want to get promoted at your job. Specify details like how much that promotion should be for, or the amount of time it would take to earn that degree. Figure out what it would take to accomplish that particular goal. From here you just continue writing and brainstorming these things. The mind map will help you to find the solutions that you need.

Understand that there is no end to a life vision mind map. So, even when you are satisfied with what you have figured out for now, save the mind map because you are going to want to come back to it again and again. As your priorities change, you may want to create a new one. However these mind maps are fluid in their dynamics. Your life vision mind map will never reach an end state. This is an ongoing process.

This vision is very much like the horizon. You will never reach that horizon. If one of your goals is to be a millionaire, for example, you may reach that goal, but you will still be looking to move forward. If you keep previous versions of the mind map, you will be able to look back in time and measure your progress. This can be a very encouraging practice. You really can map out map out the most important things about who you are, and the things that allow you to influence your life and the life of others in positive ways. Doing so will help you achieve and continue achieving the visions that you have for your life.

Creating Your Ideal Future

In the previous discussion you learned how to create a vision for your life. In this discussion, you are going to learn how to use a mind map to create your ideal future. It is best if this stems from your life vision mind map, but it doesn’t have to. You may not ever reach all of the goals that you have to create your ideal future, but you will come a lot closer to it if you have these goals written down than if you don’t. In other words, simply identifying what you want will immensely increase your chances of gaining the things you want. Lifehacker also has a good post on this.

You can begin creating your ideal future by creating a list of things that you really want to get out of your life. This should include things that you would like to accomplish and things that you want to do for other people. You can think about where you want to be in one week, one month, one year, two years, five years, ten years, and even twenty years. You can put all of this into a mind map, and then you can also put steps in place for these things that you want to accomplish in these time frames.

Now, you don’t want to be too rigid or too precise, but it is good to map out what the next steps are going to be and try to sort out when you are going to take these steps. You need to think about whom else might be involved in these steps. This is not set in stone, and because it is a mind map you have the opportunity to readjust things as life throws you curve balls and so on. Your priorities may change over time and better opportunities may present themselves. The point is to have a basic outline in place to that will help you to navigate where you want to go.

You want to be positive about all of this. If you put a lot of negativity in your mind map, you are likely to stop yourself short. So, don’t set yourself up for failure. Instead, really focus on and insinuate the positive things, the great things, and the strong things. Figure out what you want to accomplish and what it means to you.

Make sure that you specify why you want these things. Tell yourself “I want to do this because…” and then specify the reason. Whatever the reason is, it’s going to give you more motivation to achieve these things. For example, saying “I want to save back this much money so that my kids have something left over when I pass on.” is going to give you the motivation that you need to take the appropriate steps. Most of us do a lot better when there is a bigger reason than just for our own sake.

Take the time to dream about the things that you want and stay positive as you do. You may not reach the stars, but at least you jumped, right? Don’t stress yourself out, just allow yourself to see all the possibilities you can. Again, just having created this list is going to get you a lot further along than just having a dim dream inside your head.

Creative Problem Solving

It has been established that mind maps can help you to solve problem. However, you need to realize just how powerful a tool this can be for you. You now have the ability to blow up every boulder that falls in your path, instead of just working your way around it or breaking it up slowly.

You can do this with any type of problem. It doesn’t matter if it is in your work life, personal life, social life, etc. When you have a difficult problem staring you in the face, write down everything that you can think of related to that problem in a mind map. You can do this in a very factual, detail oriented manner, starting from the bottom-up. You can also do this from the top-down, and begin by breaking the problem up into smaller, more feasible parts. If you can, continue breaking these problems down until you find solutions for them. Here is a site dedicated to problem solving skills.

Just by capturing this information and going through the process of writing these things out, you will feel better about the problem that you are facing. You will find new ways of looking at the problem, and you will find ways to begin working on the problem. Eventually, you will have the problem solved if you just keep focusing on it, or you will be able to come up with the best solution possible. At the very least, you will have a better understanding of what the problem is, even if you can’t solve the problem yourself. You will have broken down the problem so well that you will at least know what the next step to take will be and be able to identify who can best help you.

As you can see, mind maps can really make your life better. They can help you to create a beautiful picture. They can help you to understand the future. They can help you to break apart concepts that seem overwhelming or tasks that seem too much to handle. You can use these methods to achieve things that you are passionate about or to create a passion for things that you never even knew that you had. Use them to create the big picture of what you should be and what your life should be. You truly are that powerful, you just need something to help you see the way.

So you have read this article. What next? I recommend you read how to live a happy life with a promising career. I’m sure you’ll love the information provided.