Some could be scheduled team meetings, and others could be alone time set aside for yourself. Create many situations to revisit the search for ideas. Try to give yourself and the team as much time as possible to find the right idea. Slow down the overall process: You should not rush the overall idea release process. Maintaining a relaxed state-of-mind so that your thoughts and ideas can freely flow.Speed up individual “idea release” events.Slow down the overall “idea release” process.There are three general strategies I want to mention here. Panic is an extreme reaction to this kind of stress.
This will happen when we are rushed to deliver the solution NOW. And when you are stressed, it is hard to think of anything other than what is stressing you out.
We aren’t in a relaxed enough state to let our thoughts freely flow. This is something most of us do, and we don't even realize it. We try to do too many things simultaneously: generate new ideas, evaluate their merit, and organize them. There are two general reasons why we run into this and similar problems: We try to get our thoughts down on paper, but many times it just produces unsatisfactory results. Or we are cursed with a frustrating case of writer’s block. The solution to that vexing problem just keeps eluding us. We are all familiar with those situations where we can’t seem to get our thoughts together in a clear, organized, and useful way. In this post, I will discuss how we inadvertently trap our great ideas in our mind strategies for getting out of our own way and finally how mind maps can help. I want to refer to this as the “idea release” process, rather than the idea generation process.Ī very useful tool in the idea release process is mind mapping. The real effort in coming up with a great idea, is all about getting out of your own way so that your great idea can reveal itself. It's seems like leasing a car - you always have a payment.That great idea you are looking for is already somewhere in your mind or in the collective mind of your team. Many of these have a subscription business model-not sure I like that, but more software companies may move in this direction. Mindjet is way too pricey but looks good and has a very minimal iPad component. Popplet is cute - and fairly functional and has an iPad component. But, no iPad component, a bit pricey, but I love the paradigm. One of the really cool products is called Personal Brain. SimpleMind is, well, simple - a bit too simple. Does a real cool Powerpoint presentation. IMindMap - a Buzan product is neat but a bit pricey. The caveat is the file may open, but the map may not look quite the same.Įdraw has a freebie - but no way to open on iPad. There is a way to open it on the iPad - an app called iThoughtsHD, which reads many mind-mapping file formats. They have talked about it, but nothing has yet materialized. XMind is very good, but it does not have an iPad component. It also has a web component - very polished. It has an iPad component, but transfer is not seamless. 
It will open and export to many formats including MS Office components. But, I really want one that I can move files back and forth from my iPad to the laptop- seamlessly. I like to use a mind map to take notes from lectures and sermons and in personal study and sermon prep.Īll the software packages have some advantages. Some are prohibitively expensive, others are reasonable - some are free. I am very interested in mind mapping software. I had heard of this one, but there might be some difficulties with translation.
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