Today, I want to share with you a really powerful exercise that we use all the time with our clients. It's going to help you declutter your mind. The exercise is called mind mapping. And it's going to allow you to write down in a piece of paper all the areas that you have. So what do you need? Do you need a notebook?

Do you need a few markers? And then you just need to write down everything that is in your mind. I want to share with you the exercise that I did with one of my latest clients. So in this case, it was a she. She was very stressed. She just retired and she has a lot of time, and she wanted to do a lot of things.

As you can see the three main things the three main challenges that she was facing was a basement, garden and things to do in a tight basement. She recently had a flood due to A lot of rain. And basically she needed to renovate in there to renovate the basement. So as you can see, I wrote down all the ideas that she was telling me all the activities, tasks, things that she needed to do. So the yellow one is the main idea. You can see four numbers in blue collar, 123, and four, that is the priority.

And then you can see, for example, packing boxes, infrared, I brought down the estimate of time that she thought it will take, and every idea came brand down into more ideas, more activities are more things that she needed to do. In the case of packing boxes, you can see she wants help packing. So she was exploring the idea of asking family members asking friends, or hire an organizer. If she hires an organizer that will have a cost of $300 according to here, and that will take six hours to do the whole thing. So another challenge that she was facing was the garden, she wanted to get the garden ready. So number one was expanding the garden with new garden beds.

Number two was buying flowers and plants. And again, all the ideas spread down. And then you can see that every task has time associated in red and cost, even though there is a cost associated. The third challenge that she was facing was she wanted to start doing things with her free time. She just retired. So she had a lot of free time.

But she was stressed because she didn't know what to do. She had a lot of ideas, and she didn't know how to get started. So this was more of a brainstorming idea. So she had the idea of exercising she wanted to meet with friends. She wanted to explore a meetup group to meet new people, and she wanted to learn new things. Again, I asked her about the priorities priority number one was to exercise number two was to meet friends Number three was learning new things.

And number four was exploring the meetup groups. As you can see every idea branches down into more ideas and activities that she wanted to do. And then I asked her, how long do you think this is going to take, and how much money this is going to cost. In the case of exercising, she was thinking about joining a gym. She wanted to spend around three hours a week, and the cost will be around $60 a month. So this exercise is really powerful.

I invite you to do the same thing with your challenges. So what what's in your head? what it what is causing you stress right now? Or are you maybe brainstorming ideas to do you want to start a new job? Do you want to do something different? Do you want to go on vacation, what is bothering you in your head?

Like all the ideas, all the thoughts that you have, try to break them down in a piece of paper. Try to start writing all the activities, all the tasks, everything that comes So your mind, put it down there. And then after that, set the priorities, estimate how long it's going to take and put a price on that. This exercise is going to help you be able to decide if this is doable or not. Most people break down a lot of things that they want to do. But once they break down the time that is going to take, they realize that it's not possible to do so many things.

And then they are hard to reduce and to select the ones that are more meaningful for them. So I invite you to use this exercise. Please comment below how it goes. And experiences Did you like it? Did you find it challenging? Do you have any questions?

Share with me anything that you want, and I will be happy to respond below. Okay, see you in the next video.