Colouring pencils and planning

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I love technology and I use a whole variety of different apps to organise my daily life.

However, if you really want to visualise your plans or a project, then there is no substitute for scribbling on a good old fashioned big sheet of paper with some coloured pens and pencils.

Doesn’t matter how you do it, the simple step of putting pencil to paper and drawing it out is a very powerful way of feeling, visualising and creating a plan for something.

No app can create that feeling and there is a huge pleasure in doing something different and creative.

You may well then create all the necessary steps on cards in Trello or a simple list on Workflowy or whatever your favourite app is.

Always start with something you physically draw or write out, it’s a way of expressing your passion for creating your dreams that will make a big difference to the outcome.

The wrong way round

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Often we stare at things from one direction only. We look at challenges or issues and we take the same one-dimensional approach to finding solutions. Often we don’t find the solution as it is unclear how to. Many times we keep repeating the same behaviour or pattern of actions.

What is often needed is to turn something upside down or inside out. Turn the telescope around and see what the different view looks like.

Just taking another perspective suddenly will lift the blur.

It’s like only looking in the rearview mirror for the answer in what has always been done, look forward and see what could be done that is new.

This is how we find out that the telescope has been the wrong way round and sometimes for a long time.