MIND MAP FOR ACHIEVING A PERSONAL GOAL: MARATHON TRAINING
If you have a tendency to put other peoples’ needs ahead of your own, you are
likely to find goal-setting Mind Mapping especially helpful. Perhaps you’d love
to run a marathon but you always end up being too busy rushing around on
behalf of others – getting the kids to football matches, picking up your partner
from the gym – to do any exercise of your own at all (never mind training for a
marathon!). If so, creating a Mind Map is a great way to ensure your own goal
becomes a priority in the everyday routine of you and your family. Hang your
finished Mind Map on the wall to remind you and everyone else of your dream
ambition, and make sure striving to achieve it really does become part of your
daily life.
Plan Your Week
Setting aside your big life goals for a moment, what do you need to achieve this
week? How about tomorrow or even later on today?
Mind Maps make great personal organizers and planners. Rather than clicking
on individual dates on a computer screen, leafing through diary pages or flicking
endlessly through a calendar, a Mind Map of your weekly activities enables you
to digest in one go what lies ahead. Forewarned is forearmed, and when you can
you see at a glance what the week holds, you will be prepared and know how to
allocate your time and energy most productively.
For your central image, choose a symbol that represents your thoughts about the
week, or the most important aspect of it. Alternatively, you could simply draw a
picture of your home, or represent the date in some way, such as with a 3D
version of “Week XX” (it’s Week 26 in our example). Moving clockwise around
the central image, use different colours to create seven main branches, one for
each day of the week. Write the day above the branch, then fill the subbranches
with things you would like to remember, or scheduled activities. Use connecting
arrows to link similar activities on different days, or add some chunking if there
is a set of activities that is particularly important on one of the days.
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