Stay Clear and Focused on Your 2012 Resolutions with Visualization

The New Year is shiny and bright. Now is the time when we can look back on past accomplishments and mistakes of the previous year and start anew. Whether you are building on your previous Thoughts and projects or starting a new Brain, visualization software and mind maps enable you to formulate clear and doable plans for the New Year in a way that captures your best thinking.

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Create a No Limits Knowledgebase for Travel

Whether you are making your annual trip back home for the holiday season or are on the road each week, your Brain can help you make the most of your travel plans. Moreover, by adding key resources into your Brain you’ll create a robust knowledgebase for key destinations that gets better every time you use it.

TheBrain is invaluable for keeping trip itineraries accessible and collecting cool snippets of your destinations.

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With the holiday season fast approaching we’re all trying to do more while enjoying the beauty and joys of life. Using TheBrain enables you to organize your business and personal events so you can make the most of your plans and retrieve your best ideas when you need them.

Nonlinear Organization Fuels Creative Results

Event planning by its very nature involves many variables, people and ideas coming together. Organizing events in PersonalBrain where you can link any idea to anything else will help you visualize all aspects of an event, build and grow good ideas.

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“An idea is not a single thing. It is more like a swarm.”         
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

Creating the right context for ideas and collaboration has led to unsurpassed breakthroughs. Whether we’re exchanging ideas in a coffee shop or online at our office, the heart of an idea’s growth and formation is environmental connections.

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Topic focused Brains are ideal for sharing and publishing. They are a great way to enter into the publishing arena on WebBrain.com and are a ton of fun to create.  Here’s how to create a compelling Brain in 6 simple steps.

1. Select the Right Topic: Breadth or Depth?
If you want to attract attention on your blog or webbrain.com choosing a topic that’s engaging is a must. If you are pressed for time and want to publish, keep your topic focused. For instance, instead of mind mapping out the entire history of the United States you could choose a more specific topic  like “the Effect of the Industrial Revolution” or American Entrepreneurs.  Narrowing down your topic will help you avoid any gaping holes in your content and ensure that your Brain covers all key ideas on your subject.

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We’re all connected to a vast sea of information, so very, very, connected to: twitter, email, news and social networking web sites, blogs, online trading systems, discussion boards, corporate portals…

With all this information at our fingertips it begs the question:
are we getting smarter with all this data or just bogged down?

Here are a few strategies to master information overload so you can actually use what you have.

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It’s Time to Close More Deals and Increase Your Revenue with PersonalBrain

Understanding where you are in your sales process and what your next steps should be is critical to your success.

However, with multiple proposals and projects, gaining control of all relevant information can be a challenge.  By creating a Brain your understanding of those many ingredients to win more business becomes instantly visible. Seeing is knowing.

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  Free upgrade for all 5 users.

      Version 5.5 contains over 150 new features and improvements.

Key Features Include:

• Easier, more powerful reports
• Massive keyboard commands: virtually every single feature can be assigned a command
• Instant screen capture for Thought icons
• More powerful Thought views with additional options
• Instant spell checking for Thoughts
• And much more!

See our Complete Feature List

…or, for a quick preview, check out my 5 favorite features of PB5.5 in 5 minutes!
 
Now Available as a Beta release

Enjoy using your PersonalBrain!
Matt

It’s All About You,
Really.

Accidental Autobiography:  Your Digital Mind

Navigating through someone’s PersonalBrain gives you a very intimate look at who they are. You can learn a lot about that person not only by the Thoughts they’ve chosen to add, but also the way things are connected.

Creating a Brain that moves beyond the sum of its parts usually happens by accident as your Thoughts and ideas grow. But actually taking on the task of self-reflection and exploration using PersonalBrain can be just as fun and rewarding. With this in mind, let’s explore some ideas for purposefully mind mapping yourself.

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Use PersonalBrain for Outstanding Presentations

We had a great webinar today with a ton of questions.  Thanks to all attendees for their participation. We focused on how you can use PersonalBrain as a presentation and persuasion tool for more effective communication before, during and after your meetings. If you missed the webinar, feel free to watch the on-line recording.

Template Brains from Webinar

• Here is the BrainZip I used for my presentation. A PersonalBrain on “Presenting with PersonalBrain…”
• Here is the sample Brain of an executive annual meeting presentation done with PersonalBrain.

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