Happy New Year 2009

I don´t see any better way to express these wishes than publishing out the map from Philippe Boukobza, which is extremely good.

1 year timelife

One year ago, I began this experience as a way to show how mindmapping is helping me in either my professional or my personal life. It was also a way to show many people who were asking me about how I was gathering up information in these kind of "spiders" and what was the use of such a figure.
The main goals were helping to develop (from a modest point of view) mindmapping, showing how it can contribute to improve performance and also as a meeting point to receive suggestions, comments and ideas to go further.
Throughtout this blog I have met quite interesting people from many different world locations sharing experiences and with a fascinating wisdom and promoting free ideas interchange.
Talking about the blog, these are the main figures that we all have achieved.
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To me these figures are a success and I am really keen on developing on this blog with your help and with your inputs, from my point of view I am currently working on new contents to be posted.
Thanks so much for your support.

Mindmapping learning ENglish (II)

I do also try to get new verbs, nouns, expression and so forth coming from the different books, I am reading.

Mindmapping improving my English

I am always trying to keep up improving my English and normally mindmapping is a very good technique to support this learning.
The picture shows how I use it with the phrasal verbs.

Interviewing my collaborators at work

I am in this part of year when one must evaluate and, as a result of that, interview every person of my team. Every time this team gets even greater, so I needed to find out a way to reduce time (I am pretty much focused on high performance in every task in my job).
Creatting a pattern, so that every interview is consistent with the other ones could be a way to simplify, nevertheless every interview is unique, because every person and her work are unique as well.
Hereby it is the model I wrote on the plane in order to get these interviews´ framework.
Excuses in advance because it is in Spanish, in the following posts I will publish it up in English, if you are interested in the content as well.

Analyzing two alternatives

Whenever I have to decide between to alternatives, I use Mindmapping as a way to get a visual clue about the possibilities, pros and cons, in order to achieve a consistent decission, from different perspectives.
This weekend I have been involved in such a situation about changing the house where a friend of mine lives in.

A mindmapping reflection

During these weeks I have a reflection in my head related to mindmapping.
Is mindmapping either a suitable tool for structured minds (optimizing menthal processes outcomes) or a tool helping to get minds structured?
I think there is not one answer and three ones are possible depending on the case and the use.
For an structured mind can be a suitable tool to get deeper on different kinds of analysis that with any other format could be achieved.
For a pseudo-chaotic mind could be a great tool to get further taking the most out and to take this chaos far beyond to a consistant conclusion.
For same type of minds in different moments the two ansmwers could be possible enough.