No in this video I just want to share with you a really practical to or or brainstorm brainstorming
exercise that you can gauge your clients through.
There might even be one that you want to use yourself.
Now I'm a very very visual person so the only reason I'm sharing this with you is because this generally
works for me.
If I'm on a bit of a loss or from you know struggling to make a decision in a certain area of my life
I like to mind map or some people might refer to this as brainstorming.
So you know how you can use this as a life coach is if you are working with a client who's quite visual
or perhaps quite creative and you're really struggling to connect with them just on a conversational
level.
And sometimes it can be good to invest into an A frame flip chart with a couple a a one note pads and
cardio exercises like this especially around the life balance workbook.
So what I would do if I was do it if I was hosting a name like a life balance coaching session or or
if I was hosting a life balance workshop.
All right now look at this.
We just create a resource and if you want to use this resource for the purpose of hosting life events.
All right you can eventually even make money for then why not.
Why why wouldn't you do this.
All right so how I would do this is I would look at the circle or the middle bubble here being like
life life balance all right.
So that's the that's the over riding kind of topic area of focus of looking for.
So especially if you're hosting a workshop life balance workshop you attract a whole lot of people or
you invite some friends around something like this to get some practice in fast so you can have a life
balance workshop today and then all if all arms each one of those arms is then just a certain area of
life.
This one here would be love relationships and then this arm here is as career professional life.
This area here is personal finances.
This area here is routine responsibilities this area here is contribution given back as one over here
is then your own personal growth and then you have the one that I missed out which is your social life
it's your are and are things like things like that.
So again this can sometimes be a great exercise for your clients just to get everything out of their
heads that is in their heads no I'm not sure remember if I mentioned this idea earlier on as a stress
principle and this is that stress equals time plus limited space no this is an idea that I actually
borrowed from from Einstein right it is kind of a kind of ties in with his theory of relativity just
a little bit even though it's not too similar it's kind of a little bit.
So basically this idea is that when a person is feeling stressed in life it's not because they've contracted
something as because of generally the timeframes that they give themselves to complete a certain goal.
All right.
So say for example a great example of this would be a student who's going through higher education perhaps
studying for the final exams.
No in this final year of their school life at the start of the year they're not going to be stressed.
Why.
Because they've got pretty much the entire year to prepare for their exams.
But then how do you think they're feeling two weeks before the exams are set to take place.
Stressed.
All right.
No.
Plus the time factor.
So when we feel like we're running out of time to fulfill a certain task this is one why not one factor
of stress that determines how stressed we feel.
The second factor is limited space.
All right.
When a person for example is is desperately trying to balance their whole life s or multitask and accomplish
and work on and achieve multiple projects any one given moment in time becomes a space thing.
All right.
And how do you feel when you're trying to do 10 things at exactly the same time my friend.
That's right.
Stressed the principal is doing one thing and doing one thing well would anyone given moment in time.
So what I'm saying here is that life balance is critical.
All right.
And how we help our clients to become more aware and appreciative of the different aspects of their
life could be conversational through the life balance workbook.
Or it could be through an exercise like this via a workshop or via a one to one coaching session.
And it's is less led and driven by you.
It's actually more driven by them.
So what I would do in a coaching session with a client is I would literally halve the seven different
life areas Omar.
Omar though here and then I would just ask them to simply start defining the goals that they have in
each of those areas.
So say for example this one here is his finances all right.
And we might look cuts budget was no budget is is not serving them is not serving them.
If is not serving them then we need to establish one.
We need to figure out a means through which we budget our finances do we have savings account.
If not well let's build the principle of percentages into our into our financial life.
Have you ever heard of that by the way the principle of percentages where many people live their lives
to get money at the start of the month on end by the end of the month is all gone.
It's like there's not enough month for people's money sometimes.
So how we can overcome this is by living by percentages.
So say every single month.
If I have a certain amount of money comes in at the start of the month I will put 10 percent of that
away into an investment fund.
All right.
An investment fund that I will invest and 2 am.
It could be shares.
Stocks shares things like that or it could be property or it could be something but it's going to be
an asset something through which I'm going to get returns for money.
Then I'm going to have a rainy day account so I'm going to put 10 percent of the money into a rainy
day account so that I can see it doesn't really matter what my current accounts like I can see that
there's really there is always increasing and growing.
All right which just is a nice thing to be able to see that you are actually increasing in an area of
your life.
Then I'm going to halve our percentage which is usually around about 40 percent.
That goes to two bells and expenses a monthly costs then everything that's left is then mine to do with
as I will.
All right.
So that it.
So to be honest with you because I operate in this way what it means is that I'll never run out of money
so never have to worry about it because I've got a system in place for managing my budget.
All right.
So ideas like this can be massively helpful sometimes.
Yeah your client comes in and says I'm stressed about money I'm stressed about money.
Well one thing you can do as a life coach is give them a whole of the money but you can't help them
to plan and budget the finances.
So there's lots of real practical things you can do right to work with your clients here and there may
be the case that some of your clients would prefer to go and mind map or brainstorm in their own time
in which case I've got a few links down here and that are actually knew some of them are up to some
of the more Web sites you might not be able to read this or read them out.
One of them is called called Kaggle right see or G.G. alley and this is a Web site is very very basic
but as for those who are new to main mapping and brainstorming.
This school is one that I've referred a few clients onto him in the past.
You have another one called mainly is generally a Mac application then I think there's one though for
Android as well and this is for mobile mind mapping so people can do this on the mobile phone so we
know that mobile phones are where everyone has one these days only.
We've got draw dot AI or again that's web Mark windows and chrome has got a free main mapping software
and as a few others there as well but you can't see the draft going to Google and type in main mapping
software or mine mapping up and is a lot there's hundreds of them these days right.
So for some of our clients is gonna be appropriate that they actually build mine mapping into their
kind of day to day life.
Why.
Because it's going to help them to draw all of the ideas out of their heads and get them down on paper
or down onto a tablet or something like that.
Once we've done that and just getting stuff out of our heads can actually give us the time and space
bank to be able to then wisely decide what we're going to prioritize and how we're going to start investing
our time to pursue those goals.
Who makes you understand why we're doing this.
Listen.
Very basic idea.
There's not really any teach in here just the real practicality.
I use this quite a bit with many more creative clients.
But again this is going to be for you to decide whether this is appropriate to use or whether it's not
so and why not.
You log into one of these websites and take the life balance workbook and just mind Mother for yourself
right.
See if this works for you and for the first time someone said this to me I can remember doing mine marks
when I was back in school when I said No no no.
Mind mapping is not for me.
I'm not interested but to be honest with you I pushed myself to do it once I got into it and I started
seeing different voids in my life that I hadn't even really considered before.
And here's the thing once we have everything written down we can see it is then it becomes a process
of elimination.
And you know on a day to day basis or a weekly basis if we if we can see if we can start crossing stuff
off our lists and we feel like we're making progress in life and this can be a real source of fulfillment
and honestly real genuine in our peace as well so don't undermine the importance and how powerful it
can be to sometimes write our goals down or draw them and a mind mapping context.
So and take this lever is entirely up to you.
But I look forward to seeing you again in the next clip.
This is just something that I would sometimes do.