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Bubble Map Basics

Get Control Now. You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, kids' soccer practice, a dozen bills to pay, fifty-five e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels and magazines on the nightstand you’d love to read, and no free time. You can’t add more hours to the day, but you can make the most of the time you have and get things done.

How it Works. Let’s say that you want to invite the Henderson’s out to dinner for a couple’s night out. Simply add a Phone Call Action to today with the relevant information. Since it is a couple’s night out, you need someone to care for the kids. Draw a line to the next bubble as a reminder to call your babysitter if Bob and Tina accept.

Keep it Positive. When you complete a task, you can either cross it out or highlight it (highlighting maintains readability and acts as a positive reinforcement). My Daily Bubble is intended to be flexible. There are many ways to do everything. The only limit is your imagination.

CHOP it Down. One of the best ways to get control of your life is to break it down into manageable pieces. CHOP is an acronym for the contexts of your life: Computer Actions, Home Actions, Office Actions, and Phone Calls. When you subdivide your projects by defining the next physical action, you begin to take control. Having a sense of control will make you happier.

It’s Flexible. You can move pages around, as easily as you would refile a Rolodex card. One gentle tug, and the notches release from the rings. To add more paper or replace a page, just press the notches around the rings.

My Daily Bubble helps you gain control and have more time for yourself. Whether you need help on just a few things or feel like your life is totally out of control, it will help you organize your life so you’ll have more time to enjoy. The Bubble Planner combines powerful brainstorming techniques with life management principles. This combination recruits both the creative and logical sides of the brain. This tool allows you to capture ideas at the speed of thought and arrange them in pictures.

Why Bubble Maps Work

1. Improves Communication with the Brain. The Mind Communicates in Images. Bubble Maps use the language of the mind, which is pictures that are converted into words. The organizing ability of the Bubble Map allows a more natural conversation with the brain than a list.
2. Engages Memory. Memory is naturally associative, not linear. Bubble Maps allow associations and links to be recorded and reinforced due to the location of the bubbles on the page. Themethod of loci technique, which was taught by Aristotle, uses the associative properties of your memory to connect new information to locations (or loci) that you already know.
3. Converts Energy into Action. Thoughts are energy. However, to be useful, this energy must be directed. Writing things down takes this energy and makes it tangible. In the process, what you want is clarified, thus, actionable. It’s similar to what a windmill does with wind. It takes the invisible and makes it visible.
4. Offloads Mental Processes. Through a process known as Distributed Cognition, Bubble Maps take the burden off of the brain for certain tasks. Often people experience mental exhaustion because they are constantly thinking about what needs to be done. Bubble Maps provide a trustworthy system; thereby, enabling your mind to respond rather than react to the present moment.
5. Creates Focus and Concentration. By identifying the actions that are most important for you to complete on a given day, week, month, or year; you bring together the full power of your attention and efforts.
6. Sparks Creativity. Since pictures are the language of the mind, Bubble Maps capture more of what’s in your mind. The connection between your subconscious and conscious mind is like a muscle—the more it is used, the stronger it becomes. Thus, the accessibility of paper and the visual appeal of the page layout combine to pull the creativity into existence.
7. Establishes Boundaries. The boundaries of the bubble allow your thoughts to be discreet and manageable, in this way they are hedges of protection. Also, the limited number of bubbles on a page release the power of accomplishment by making the number of tasks in your day achievable.
8. Supports Visual-Spatial Learners. Over 60% of the student population in a recent study preferred Visual-Spatial learning to Auditory-Sequential. This is why many people are unable to use a PDA effectively. The linear nature of task management software is contradictory to the genetic make-up of most people. Bubble Maps engage the Visual-Spatial learner and opens new gateways for  productivity.

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