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Another great workshop today with Tony Buzan that will benefit start-up entrepreneurs

John McKeon with Tony Buzan

John McKeon with Tony Buzan

Today I attended a great workshop with one of the great thinkers of our age Tony Buzan.

His basic principle of mind mapping has enormous cross over to ‘the art of sales’ as well as ‘the science of start-up’.

An outstanding speaker, Tony Buzan, is the creator of Mind Maps, the originator of the concept of Mental Literacy and author of numerous bestselling books on the brain and thinking.
He is the author of over 200 bestselling books on the brain and learning. His classic Use Both Sides of Your Brain, has sold more than two million copies world wide

Tony is a great guy and was great fun to meet and share some entrepreneurship ideas with him after the work shop.

Here are what some pretty important members of the business community are saying about Tony.

Buzan shows corporate executives how to hotwire their creative energies.”
Forbes Magazine

Tony Buzan has done it again… make your mind work better.”
Ken Blanchard, author of the multimillion bestselling book The One Minute Manager

Here are some great tips from Tony on how Mind Mapping can save you time?

One of the simplest and most effective ways to use Mind Mapping and boost your productivity is to begin each week by spending half an hour creating a Mind Map version of a to do list. This will give you a snapshot overview of your tasks that you can prioritise according to deadlines and importance. Having it laid out visually can also help you split your workload into realistic chunks of time.

1. Begin by creating a central idea with the date at the centre.

2. Add on main branches for key tasks or projects that you need to accomplish or work on that week.

3. From these main branches, draw child branches with names, events, sub-tasks, deadlines or other keywords that make up the specific actions needed to complete the bigger task.

4. Look for links between different tasks. Does one task directly impact another? Draw relationship arrows to demonstrate this.

Weekly Task Map

As you build your Mind Map you can get a clear picture of your workload and view each task objectively. You can determine what’s important and what’s not, see how certain projects will relate and impact on other tasks, and block your time to achieve optimum productivity.

The Mind Map format means you can see the whole picture in one glance, which can be invaluable when time is short. Whilst your colleagues are tearing their hair out, lost in the scribbles of their messy To Do List, you can maintain a serene air of calm and control as you know exactly what needs doing and where you are with it.

Now here’s the kicker… If you need to be completely ruthless with your time, follow on with optional steps number 5 and 6…

5. What is the main goal of your job right now? Is it to generate revenue, satisfy customers or ensure product quality? Figure out one key goal and replace the date in the centre of your map with it.

Generate Revenue

6. Review the tasks on your map. How many directly correspond to the goal in the centre?

Any tasks that will not help you achieve that goal, delete them.

It sounds brutal, and it is, but it is also a very good cleansing exercise to help you re-focus and give you more time to spend where it matters. So much time is wasted by just assuming that something has to be done; that it’s important because it is part of the routine.

Get ruthless and take courage from the knowledge that if anyone demands to know why you have decided not to do a certain report, or attend a particular meeting, you can say that you are focusing your time on something far more beneficial for the company.

Have a go at using Mind Mapping instead of your usual To Do List and try making time bend to your will for a change

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