Tips for success #3: Make a Mind Box
Having a hard time getting solid ideas together, figuring out what to do now, or just have a ton of things planned for the future? Make a Mind Box!
EXAMPLE: Person X wants to create and host a website for a blog, learn new recipes, sell items through Amazon, make budgeting plans, learn a new instrument, publish an eBook, learn a new language, travel to a distant country to experience a different culture, move out from their parents’ place, and earn a degree.
Sounds like a lot, but still doable within your 20s.
This is what person X will do:
RESEARCH AND PLAN!
Collect information about the gists and costs of what they want to do onto separate note cards, this includes websites, hidden costs, places, things they want to try, potential instructors, or products to sell, etc.
ORGANIZE!
Group the notecards by subjects, and label the first card in a subject group with a sticky note strip/tab to label them. (i.e. travel, budgeting moving out, recipes, language, building passive incomes, budgeting, education, etc.)
BOX!
Put the cards into a box about the same width as the length of the note cards.
DO IT!
Make sure to ACTUALLY pull out the cards and start DOING them, set deadlines for yourself or a day where you have to start working on some of your ideas.
-Add as you please, and edit your mind as you progress.
This is a great project to start at any age. If you have kids, encourage them to start one too! Ask them what they always wanted to do, or what kind of skills they really want to have when they are older, and let them research and organize the details of what they want in the future their self.