No, I’m not speaking of those kinds of thoughts…I’m talking about all those ideas spinning around inside you skull and being fired up with even more as you go wondering about the interenet and reading emails etc.

I don’t know about you, but it gets kind of noisy up in my “Creative” department and the “Get down and doing it” department ends up screaming “hey keep it down in there…” and nothing gets done!

That’s kind of a scary picture of your mind yelling at itself. If you are a shrink reading this, I’m fine, the pills are working great!

But seriously, it’s very easy to get distracted and have ideas etc bouncing around which is nice, but then they get forgotten and nothing is completed and I may as well not have bothered and just gone to bed.

So this post is one way I’ve recently discovered to let the “Creative” Department go wild when it needs to and put in writing what it’s on about ( that’s me actually paying attention and taking heed of those guys which makes them quiet again) which then let’s the “Action” Department sit down and do their thing.

Or it could be about, how to go crazy and start giving parts of your mind names….. But that’s for another time…

FreeMind – no it’s not a mental state, it’s a very neat software package that will let your “Creative” Department Yell out what they are on about and let you keep up and write it all down.

Then the more sane departments can put the mess into some order and do something with it…

And if you don’t know yet… It’s a program that let’s you create Mind Maps.

NOW before you go all “Mindmaps… those are weird things” on me let me just say, that being able to splurge your thoughts and more importantly – organise them afterwards is a Huge Time Saver AND a great way to get organised and if you are like me and have big dreams and never get too far in achieving them, well this is for you.

Now I must also say here, that this is a program that you’ll install and look at and have a play with and probably go – oh that’s nice and run off and do something else….

DON’T!!!!!! It can be a bit hard to see how this program can be helpful , until you learn how to use it and See it in action.

Which is an item on my projects Mindmap, create some videos on using this software, because, as others already have, you’ll thank me for bring this to your attention.

AND IT’s FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus it runs on any operating system.

Some good things that won’t be obvious the first time you use it.
1. You can insert Hyperlinks to websites. Think of a node called Research and have a bunch of links with some notes added….
2. You can link to other mindmaps. Think of having a central mindmap – much like a Home page on a website, to all of your other mindmaps ( mindmap organisation)
3. Go absolutley crazy and just start creating nodes without worrying about the mess. Just blast away…. Then drag things around on the screen. Create more meanignful node and group things together… (brainstorming)
4. Create To Do lists and be able to mark them off when they are done…(Wow I’ve been organised and done something)
5. Be able to see the BIG Picture at a glance…

Now I’ve used this to create my 1 year plan, and broken those down into months, weeks and days….All accessible from my central Mindmap…

It’s called Freemind and you should get it and install it and have a play with it ( it has help built in that shows what it can do ) and I’ll get to making those videos.

All the best to you and happy “Getting organised”
Tim

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