Sheena Walker

So let's look at the steps to create that mind map and then I'll share some other ways that I've used the mind map.

Let's break it down into simple steps that you can try for yourself.

I'm not about complexity and in social media and everywhere I go I can feel my like a red rag to a bull when I see people with complex structures pages and pages up to 60 or 70 pages of notes then they try to explain to me what they're thinking

And what I've been doing this year is introducing them to mind maps so that when they are challenged, they feel they've hit a boulder in the middle of the road, they can do a mind map.

So let me take you through the steps and I'll try and be as simple as I can so that you can understand how this works.

actually works so let's start with a central idea so you've got your a4 page or you have an a4 page on your computer and your idea word starts right in the middle of your page and this could be

a goal, a topic or a problem that you want to solve.

The A4 page and you've got one idea in the middle.

Are you with me?

Next, I want you to draw branches from that central word.

And these would be your main themes or categories.

Then underneath, expand those branches into smaller subtopics.

And this is where your idea really starts to grow.

So can you picture

My trees and the giant trees in the large forest.

Picture it, the thick stump, the big long stump and then the branches coming out from the left and the right with the key topics.

And that way your brain will remember intentional words.

So if it's only one or two words on the first branch, your brain will remember it.

And then when you go down to the next branch, you'll write another couple of words of the idea from that initial thought.

I want you to think about this.