Many of us believe that various thinking techniques can be mainly applied to some professional field. At work we long for better organization of meetings, process of generating ideas and collective decision-making. At the same time, we seem quite slow at applying our skills to personal issues. We spend hours reflecting on problems and analyzing facts. We keep thinking over them in our minds instead of sitting down for five minutes to sketch pros and cons or brainstorm a solution.
However, problems we face in daily life may turn more complex and important than professional ones. The solutions we find may seriously influence such vital issues like family well-being, health and plainly personal happiness.
The brainstorming and mind mapping techniques are quite helpful in finding answers to many personal questions. Brainstorming is a technique simple by essence. It is based on the concept of relaxing and freeing your mind from any critical judgments in order to generate as many ideas, solutions or variants as possible for a short period of time. They may as well be variants of solutions to your problem, list of your strong sides or just ideas as for a picnic....