| We have all heard the saying, "A picture is worth a | | | | With Places We Love highlighted work that insert key, |
| thousand words." The sentence seems to convey | | | | Maui, London, New York, San Francisco, Santa Monica, |
| some idea of equality. Mind mapping gives the like to | | | | any beach, and on and on. Highlight Maui - road to |
| that thought. A good mind mapping picture is worth far | | | | Hana, north shore big wave surfers, whale watching, |
| more than a thousand words. The mind map itself will | | | | surfing, Paia Fish Company, local musicians, the banyan |
| generate many more possibilities than a few pages of | | | | tree, Maui marathon, etc. In a minute or so we have |
| writing. It's easy to show how to generate a mind map. | | | | generated a couple of days of writing. |
| In less than a minute we can demonstrate the | | | | If you become addicted to this process, you may find |
| technique and the many possible uses. | | | | yourself with a large diagram which might be |
| Having made this claim, let us write a description of the | | | | interesting as a piece of art (especially if you have |
| beginning of the creation of our map, visualize the | | | | used a lot of colors!) but not too productive about |
| creation, and see how the methods compare. | | | | specific projects. One by one, highlight the items that |
| Open the mind mapping software or get a set of | | | | really appeal to you. Look at the icons in the upper tool |
| colored felt tip pens and lets begin. In the center we | | | | bar. By clicking on a check mark, a heart, or a smiley |
| see a small rectangle with the words - 'New Map'. Not | | | | face you can make a visual notation of where you |
| very descriptive. Hit the return key and we get an edit | | | | want to concentrate for the next few days. |
| box. Type in the words Article Ideas. Now we have | | | | Probably not a good idea to introduce negativity into |
| something to work with. | | | | the creative process but you may have come up with |
| Hit the insert key. Type in the old favorite, 10 Tips, and | | | | some ideas that you just plan don't like, maybe even |
| hit return. This is already giving us ideas but lets stick | | | | hate them. Mark them with an X, a sad face, a thumbs |
| with the main subject. What other thoughts do we | | | | down. Think about why you don't like them and use |
| have for articles we would like to write? How about | | | | that to trigger some more good ideas. Certainly more |
| Places We Love? Hit the insert key. We just learned | | | | productive than a simple delete. |
| something from a mistake. 10 Tips was highlighted so | | | | Well, we have used half a thousand words and |
| Places was added as a child to this branch but we | | | | maybe covered one twentieth of our picture. The |
| wanted it as a separate branch from the center. | | | | good news is that maybe all these words will convince |
| Highlight Article Ideas and insert again. Now enter | | | | you to give mind mapping a try. |
| Places We Love. | | | | |