Sheena Walker

Your thoughts aren't linear, they're connected, they're layered, they're constantly evolving.

And mind maps capture that process visually and the benefits.

And what I really liked about mind maps, and I used this when I went back as a mature student.

Yes, I was a mature student quite a few times.

Not initially, but then I read a book by a gentleman called Tony Bazan, who wrote a whole book on mind mapping.

And I remember reading it and thinking, wow, I wish I'd had this at school.

I wish I'd had it when I first started studying.

I wish I'd had something that condensed how I was thinking.

You see, a mind map will boost your creativity and it actually improves your memory because it helps to turn complex ideas

into something clear and manageable.

What I've described to you, you think of a solid tree with branches and that solid tree in the middle, that thick trunk is your idea.

And the branches are the topics that you're going to speak about within that idea.

And if you're going to expand further, you take another branch from the branch.

I remember when I visited Australia and some of my family took me to, I can't remember the name right now, but it was the forest of tall trees and trees that were so different.

And every tree I saw had this great thick stump.

and then the branches going out from it.

And I remember thinking, if every time I'm planning a new idea and something new,

I thought of the trees in Australia in the forest, walking on the path, seeing this thick tree, looking at how tall it was and looking at the branches coming out from the tree, the topics that I was going to speak about in my presentation or

in a project or something I was working at with a client.

It was incredible.