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Organizing Your Ideas 1

http://www.businessenglishpod.com/2012/10/21/business-english-skills-360-organizing-your-ideas-1/

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• Is brainstorming a practice adopted by many people now-a-

days?

• How well do you think it works?

• Do you utilize brainstorming at work?

• Do you have any special ways of brainstorming ideas?

• Think of someone who you think speaks well. How does he/she

organize ideas?

• Do you ever write out lists of advantages and disadvantages

(pros and cons)?

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To run on at length

Vague

To tune out

To tame

Framework

To get the ideas flowing

To deep-six

(To) Lay it all on the table

Fair game To come to mind

Easier said than done

Mind mapping

Radial

Say

Branching

To illustrate

To jot down

To put together

Handy

To crank out

Chaotically

Clearly articulated

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Now read and listen to the podcaston organazing your ideas

http://www.businessenglishpod.com/2012/10/21/business-english-skills-360-organizing-your-ideas-1/

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Brain storming and mind mapping are great ways to organize ideas and have a more clear picture of what is important and what is not. These tools are alsogreat when you are working on a project and want to visualize what needs to bedone, when and how it needs to be done and by whom?

And what about when we are feeling overwhelmed, and our head is about toexplode, because we have too much in our plate? The first feeling that we havemight be: ¨I don´t even know from where to start!¨

But what do you do when you feel this way? How to you get started andprioritize things? After all, we need to get things done, and more often than notwe need to get things moving fast.

And what do you do when you face situations in which things are not within yourcontrol or, how do you strip away things that are not important? Are you thetype of person that keeps dragging things on or you have some tools that youuse to handle this type of situation?

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Creating mental white space

?

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Now watch Marie Forleo´s video and answer these

questions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjO10vnC0c&list=PL4FE61E9B84760E4A&index=3

• Is her idea of creating mental white space the same as

yours?

• Are her tips on how to deal with overwhelm useful?