Brainstorm your Life

At work the other day I was faced with what seemed like an insurmountable amount of tasks. Having read about brainstorming many times before, I had never quite been able to use it. I thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to just brainstorm down all the tasks, and their related subtasks. So, I tried. I began and allowed myself to roam freely with the pen on the paper. I managed to produce three A4 pages full with tasks and related activities. It felt kind of good. What had been previously kept in a normal text file on my computer in no particular order, was actually now in some sort of order with actionable items surrounding them.

Yeah, planning and organisation have never quite been part of my skill set, but it’s something that I’m trying to improve. This little exercise, forced upon me, got me thinking. So far I’ve not come any closer to my finding or creating my guiding purpose. But, what if I tried and brainstorm my life? It would be a simple exercise really. Put myself in the middle, and start by branching out some of, what I would consider, skills. I’ve not yet done this but I can imagine where it would lead.

Reading and learning, music and creativity, writing and sharing, programming and thinking, early mornings and exercise, yoga and meditation, kissing and hugging (my Johanna, oh and Pixie our dog, but perhaps only hugs there!), loving and caring. On it goes. I will do this tomorrow, I’m excited. This will be my task. To brainstorm my life, ideal or current, it doesn’t really matter. The purpose would be to just get it out there and letting it flow freely. It would seem rather logical that from that brainstorm session I could garner quite a lot of useful information about myself. Perhaps it could even be used for finding, or creating, a guiding purpose?

Today becomes yesterday and yesterday was once tomorrow. But I don’t care, I welcome each day as if it was any other day filled with opportunities to learn and experience.