{"id":8217,"date":"2013-11-28T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2019-06-21T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:18:21","slug":"mind-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/mind-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a Mind Map Help You to Lead a Sustainable Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you spotted my earlier post where I shared ten ideas for local Irish Christmas gifts<\/a>, you may have noticed the paragraph where I mentioned focussing all of my energy into Community Gardens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One of the tools I’m using to help me get to grips with this is a mind map<\/strong>. I’ve several draft versions that I’ve created exploring various ideas and now have a colourful one pinned to my office wall as a constant reminder.<\/p>\n

\"How-to-mind-map\"<\/a>

Image courtesy of Learning Fundamentals<\/p><\/div>\n

I won’t share my own scribbles with you, just to say I can read and understand them and that my own mind map serves to focus me in an instant, helping to keep me on track.<\/p>\n

I did however, stumble across these examples of mind maps on social media recently that really caught my eye, so I set off and asked permission to reproduce them for you.<\/p>\n

\"combating-global-warming-map\"<\/a>

Image courtesy of Learning Fundamentals<\/p><\/div>\n

Learning Fundamentals<\/a>\u00a0have created some really inspiring mind maps along with excellent\u00a0instructions about how to create and get the most from them. Check out some of their others<\/a> about connecting with nature, using less plastic and how to focus in the age of distraction among others!<\/p>\n

Would a mind map help you to organise your life better in terms of growing vegetables, eating more healthily and shopping locally or even just helping you to organise your life? I think I might ask our children to give me a hand creating one that can be pinned to the fridge.\u00a0We’ll give it the title<\/p>\n

“How to Live in a Tidy\u00a0Household and Instantly Create Less Nagging…”\u00a0<\/em>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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