Process mapping.

-

My aim today is something I call process mapping. Anyone who knows the Bullet Journal method understands that keeping track of what you actually do, and noting down what you need to do, creates a framework which can be used to discover what gives your life meaning and purpose.

Additionally, to know what you might do to change things in a great direction, it helps to have two more categories of information. 

1. What will things be like when they are really good?

2. What needs to be done now so I can shift my life towards that?

Process mapping is part one. The task is to describe and evaluate your actions during an hour, or a day, a week or a month, a year , a lifetime even. Bullet Journal folks, You've got this ok!

Decide your time period.

Next, log what you are doing. Check in every hour. ( If you are logging an hour, check in every 10 minutes).  Log your actions - a sentence or a single word to describe, but keep it simple.

Next - rate  the energy the actions took, or gave on a scale of -5 to 0 to +5.  Was it draining -5, or really energising+5.

Now, using the same scale rate attention, +5 would be something that is totally absorbing, +5 you were 100% focused on the experience. -5, your mind was elsewhere!

I'm either going to use workflowy or my bullet journal app. I also have a simple time tracker

Outcome, purpose?

Doing this shows your relationship with energy and attention, it is also a record of what you actually did with your time.

The final part is to draw the map, I'd start with reverse mind mapping, this is a splurging of words,  information onto some A4 paper, and then coloured pens to make connections to find patterns in the information.

From that I list significant findings.. significance is purely subjective!

So, why do this? Because I need to model for my son, how self knowledge allows a person to feel confident and to make changes. And I need to find more of what feeds my soul and supports my sense of agency!

Remember, feeling trapped is part of the traumatizing process. Mapping one's actions and autonomic state (using energy and attention as markers) is 'seeking' the keys to the many doors...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

-
The Unattractive Portable Head by Daughters Many things to say. First thing: I wish I could remember when I first heard this song. I felt like it was telling me something. But I didn't recognize myself in it. I identified with the sound of it , the energy, the rage. Not the lyrics. This song... I hear it now as.. Writing on the wall. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree... The configuration of self I called 'Last year's man' is either at the end of a continuum, or is the real person.  Last year's man is his father's son. Yesterday I almost cracked.  I wanted to take everything that is his back. Put it in the car, go round at about 3:30 am when he would be asleep. Leave it outside, behind some bushes... I decided this impulse comes from the part of me addicted to pain. He would hear me, see me. Why am I thinking of this! So So, I let the impulse to remove all trace of his family from my house run only as far as putting some things into a box.  Then I r...
Read more

A trying day.

-
Image
We took ex-Service User to the hospital for his check-up X rays. Being positive here, I can honestly say that his capacity to sit in the waiting rooms is so much better than it was. Just a couple of forays into the subject uppermost in his mind -about being a psychopath, having committed lots of crimes and how he will be tortured forever - headed off at the pass by feeding him nuts...., He left with a discharge - sometimes that is a good word - so he is healed sufficiently, his fractured bones are mending. We headed into town for a celebratory meal...only it didn't feel that way, because within minutes of the orders being taken, ex-Service User is beginning the panic monologue again. I had been revising Solutions Focused technique, a central tenant of which is: who cares about reality (don't get caught up in he content) just look for stuff that works! So I was fairly centered and able not to get caught up in the mad spinning, but on the other hand, having to spe...
Read more

Three questions.

-
Image
Three questions sent me up the road to enroll at college to begin training...All three have been answered. Gaining the information has been painful and probably, any fool could have told me the answers. But no, I don't believe so. My first was,  how do people ignore other people who are totally distraught, that is to say, so distraught that they may be compromising social rules? Years ago now, it was around 9 pm, a woman was walking up and down the street, sobbing. After I'd spoken to her and she had gone home, my neighbor ( a nurse) opened the window and asked me, what that was 'all about'? I felt really uncomfortable. I wanted to say, 'you heard her, but you did nothing?!' Hence my question Was it fear that meant my next door neighbor ignored her? Did my neighbor think that the woman would be embarrassed when she stopped crying, and would prefer to be ignored? Or was there something else going on? This question perplexed me because I don't ign...
Read more