Interruption can make your day. Your week. Your year. Your life.

Concentrating on working all day long as hard as possible, being in a hurry till late at night, building your schedule with no gaps and following it strictly are not the best things to help you in finding or following your original passion. You might never hear the voice of your heart or understand your real dream. Living with such an approach can put you in dire straits—you can lose yourself and dig yourself into a hole. But even if you know what you really want to do, a permanent state of “being in a hurry” can possibly prevent you from giving your passion a chance, because you can spread yourself too thin and forget the real value of your dream. If it seems that people, conditions, responsibilities have got you over a barrel and you have to live someone else’s life and you dream to wave a magic wand to fix everything, it becomes obvious that something should be done before it is too late. The only answer I have for this is: it is essential to stop sometimes. To make a pause. To rethink.

Let’s talk a bit about psychological measures and practices related to making a pause which are intended to improve your life, to keep going in the right direction, improving your performance and taking a sad song and making it better.

The simplest thing we can do is meditation. Any available kind of meditation can help. Personally, I believe that having a bath in the morning helps me to rethink or even revise my life direction. Other people can drive, drink a morning coffee, walk a long way to work or even meditate while having a rest after morning sex… This is an individual thing. I call this a “short interruption” that helps recover your breathing.

The next thing I want to mention is spending some days alone. It seems to be something similar to the short interruption, but with a much deeper degree of concentration.

If you feel that your job is the wrong one, your life goes poorly, possibly it is time to have a sabbatical vacation. There is a TED speech on this topic. I understand that it is not always possible to quit your job, give up your habits, but sometimes it is worth it. If your life is going to be ruined, it is no longer effective to try to be on the safe side—if you try to make this revolution in your life, you can win a jackpot.

Learn to give an elevator pitch

Plan and tips

An elevator pitch, elevator speech, or elevator statement is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value proposition. (Wikipedia)

In order to become a more fluent speaker and successful person, I'm studying this stuff. So, this is the attempt to give the elevator speech. Basic idea is in the picture below:

Elevator speech content

Guys, what do you usually do during these brainstorms with your creative team? Sure, you draw something on a white board or on a piece of paper. Often the result looks like a mind-map. Suppose, you've finished. What are the further actions? What will happen to this art? 

You can throw it out, memorize, take a photo and save as a file, erase it from the board and forget... An alternative thing you can do: launch the project management application on your PC and create a list of tasks and so on. So, where is a modern approach and time saving techniques?

Instead of drawing on a board or a paper, you can launch one of this popular mind-mapping tools (such as MindJet Mind-Map). It allows you to create mind-map, convert it to outline or even to Gant diagram.

Looks pretty good, supports export to Microsoft Project and so on. 

BUT WHY DON'T YOU USE IT DURING THE MEETING?! 
Because it is inconvenient to create this thing if you're a speaker right now: you have to deal with all these menus, toolbars, keyboards and not with your team members and ideas. Sure, you can use an interactive board or tablet PC, but the problem is still here: all available software on a the market provides an unnatural way to input mind map, using all these toolbars, drag-n-drops on a tablet bring an even worse experience than on PC. 

The hell of menus and toolbars:

OUR GOAL IS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. 
Let's create a software for tablets and interactive boards which will allow to create mind-maps in really convenient natural way, just by drawing all shapes and connections, write hand-written text. You should draw the shape which is close to a circle shape or ellipse, square, rectangle, star, trapezoid, and it immediately becomes the shape object (smoothly drawn and pretty). You add a hand written text with a stylus - and it is recognized in one second, it is already computer understandable text. You draw a connection like a line - and result is the real connection object from the topic to the subtopic. It is easy to draw during the real life brainstorming. You communicate with people. Not with software. You're thinking of ideas. Not of menus and tools in toolbars.
Once brainstorming is done, you'll be able to export this data to any available idea representation format:

• save as a picture
• export to a simple text-based outline, 
• generate a Gant diagram, 
• save to Microsoft Project format 
• export to MindJet MindMap file format
• etc...

This is a real productivity enhancement, saving your time. 

Thank you.

Forever Student.

Yeah, I am the kind of guy who never stops learning. This is my destiny. And definitely it is a happiness.

I study mathematics, programming, computer science, guitar. And also I study English.
I'm starting this blog, not for public, but mostly for myself. Its goal is to give me practice in writing and receive assistance from my best english teacher I've ever learned from.

I'll write essays here. Texts. Thoughts. Poems. I'll try to understand the english speaking word. I'll be making mistakes, and I'll be naive here. And I hope to be corrected online. So, I'm ready!