How to Do a Mind Map in List Form

Do you know how to do a mind map--or what that is? Check out this link if you have no idea what I am talking about or how to do it: 

http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/make-mind-map.htm

This blog post is on how to do the lazy person's version. It's the mind map simplified  you might say. 

It's like doing a SOC (Stream of Consciousness) Journaling, or Free Association,  but it's in list form. 

MIND MAP LIST: HOW TO DO ONE

* Figure out a word you want to focus on and journal more about at this time. It can be anything really. 

* Write the word at the top of a page in your journal. 

* Then, write any word or short phrase that comes to mind after that word. 

* Keep writing words or short phrases as they come to mind, as long as it applies to the original word.

* When you get stuck and cannot figure out what else to write, re-read your original word.

* Do this for ten minutes or more. 

* Then, pick another word from this original list and do a Mind Map List of it.

* Make sure to journal about each of the words you used in this list. There is a reason why they came to mind and why they came to mind when they did. 

SAMPLE:

2012

Old year

New Year is 2013

Tough year was 2012

Lots of news

Summer Olympics

Elections

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Jamestown 

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Andy Griffith died

Kate Middleton is pregnant

2012

Whitney Houston died--shocker, but not

2012

12 months

2012

Vacation

2 visits

Busy year

Recommitted to journaling

Hurricane Sandy

TV Shows Revenge, Grimm, Once Upon a Time

Neil Armstrong died

Felix Baumgartner and his jump (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner)

Kindle Fire HD 4G

Samsung iii

Tim Tebow

Payton Manning

Denver Broncos

Storykeeper 2121 blog

Family Tree

You get the idea. That's how to do a mind map list. 

LISTS TO JOURNALING ENTRIES JOURNALING EXERCISE (FROM: FUTURE JOURNALING AND MEMORIES TO MINE LISTS)

Jot down lists, sentences, paragraphs, snapshots--and anything and everything that comes to mind that you want to explore throughout your day every day.

After all, this is where you get the material to mine your memories. It can also be called your Future Journaling Lists.

Jot down memories, thoughts, questions, ideas, dreams, goals, experiences, challenges, happy times, questions, challenges, lessons learned, people, places, things/objects, etc. Get it all down on the page in a form of a list or in paragraphs.. 

Later, you will go back to them and write more about them--as you are led. 

Make sure to mark these as Memories to Mine Lists or as Future Journaling Lists.

Then, every couple days (and at the very least once a week), go through these lists and do a longer journal entry on at least three items from the Memories to Mine or Your Future Journaling Lists. SEE THE MINING YOUR MEMORIES WITH LISTS JOURNALING EXERCISE here: 

http://storykeeper2121.blogspot.com/2012/11/mining-your-memories-with-lists.html

Do the previous journaling exercise--again--once every couple days (ideally) to once a week (at the least). 

~ Stacy Duplease

(Image Credit: Stacy Duplease 2012.)