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How to Create a Mind Map

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Have you every created a Mind map?

Creating a mind map is a great way to organize your business and ideas.

I found by searching on Google for Mind Maps How to Create a Mind Map using Word.

Click on the link to get the steps to creating your Mind Map.

Word has different templates that you can use to create a mind map.

Here are a few samples:

Story Map

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Blank templates

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Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is another great free tool that you can use to create a mind map.

With Bubbl you can create up to 3 free mind maps.

It’s fairly simple to create them.

 

What is a Mind Map

Mind Maps were invented by Tony Buzan.

According to the Tony Buzan website, “A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, colour and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquely powerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the infinite expanses of your brain. The Mind Map can be applied to every aspect of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance human performance.”

 

Why Should I Create a Mind Map

A mind map is a great way to structure and plan out your business.

It is also a great way to determine your content for your blogs.

By using a mind map you can put your niche in the center bubble and then research and fill in the sub niches for your main niche.

By doing this you will be able to generate ideas for your blog.

Say your main niche is Dogs.

Your sub niches can be all the possible topics related to dogs.

Examples:

  • How to train a dog.
  • Types of dogs
  • Best dog to own with children

Mind maps are a great way to organize your business. They will help you to plan out your week or month.

If you haven’t don’t a mind map yet, you should give it a shot. I think you will be pretty amazed how your brain will start to fill in the bubbles.

In conclusion, you can use Word to create mind maps for free. You can also create 3 free mind maps with bubbl.us. Mind maps are a great way to structure and plan out your business it is also a great way to map out your content for your blog.

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Deirdre Powell (Dee)

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16 Comments

  1. Latifa Ihsan Ali
    Latifa Ihsan Ali on March 30, 2015 at 7:04 pm

    AWESOME post Deirdre! I recently got into Mind Maps and was shown a great tool… Mind Meister. It helps anyone do what you suggest which is to use it as a tool to organize your business. This is how I set my 2015 goals.

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on April 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm

      Thanks Latifa. I will check out Mind Meister. Thanks for the info. Appreciate your comment.

      Reply
  2. Gail Kendig
    Gail Kendig on March 22, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    This is so cool..I will definitely be checking these sites out..I recently did a mind map for a book I’m writing..our publisher gave this as one of our first assignments…made my life a lot easier and was able to identify chapters easier this way too…thanks a million Deirdre!

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:12 pm

      Thanks for commenting Gail. I appreciate it. Let me know when your book comes out.

      Reply
  3. Patrick Batty
    Patrick Batty on March 22, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Thanks Deirdre. I’ve struggled with some mind-map tools. But based on your post I checked out bubbl.us. Very easy.
    Thanks again for sharing.
    Patrick Batty

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:11 pm

      Glad you found it easy Patrick. Thanks for stopping by commenting.

      Reply
  4. Lisa Kuhlman
    Lisa Kuhlman on March 22, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing this.Can’t wait to check it out.

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:10 pm

      Thanks for commenting Lisa. let me know what you think after you check it out.

      Reply
  5. Marko Krist
    Marko Krist on March 22, 2015 at 7:38 am

    Thanks Deirdre. You gave me another useful tool to become more productive. Haven’t created a mind map yet, but now I will 🙂

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:52 am

      Thanks for your comment Marko. Mind maps are very useful and help you get organized.

      Reply
  6. Chris Brindamour
    Chris Brindamour on March 22, 2015 at 7:14 am

    Deirdre, this is a great post. Mind maps are great ways to get your thoughts and better yet organize your thoughts. Here’s some free software that I have used for this https://www.mindmeister.com/. 🙂

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:54 am

      Thanks for stopping by Chris. And thanks for sharing the mind meister software link. Appreciate it!

      Reply
  7. David Bell
    David Bell on March 22, 2015 at 3:43 am

    Mind mapping is such a useful exercise for organizing our thoughts and strategies, Deirdre. Thank you for sharing these resources. : )

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:56 am

      Thanks for your comments David. Mind mapping is very useful.

      Reply
  8. Mary Barnett
    Mary Barnett on March 22, 2015 at 2:23 am

    Great Post! I bookmarked the mindmaps url 🙂 This is something new for me 🙂 Thanks for sharing!

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    • Deirdre Powell
      Deirdre Powell on March 22, 2015 at 10:57 am

      Thanks for your comments Mary, glad you were able to get something from my post.

      Reply

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