A short monologue by Allison Maslan explaining the 'Brainstorm Builder', a simple visual tool for brainstorming around a stated intention. She describes placing the intention in the center and using surrounding squares to capture ideas, action steps, resources (contacts, vendors), and options (e.g., ghostwriter vs. self-writing). Uses include in-person masterminds and personal meditation/vision-crafting sessions.
The first one is the, the brainstorm Builder. And, and you know, I'm, I'm not really sure what these, what it looks like on this, on the software, because I haven't been on there to see how you have this, but there's several ways. And the, you know, reason why this was developed is generally this is more used in person or it's used for them themselves when they're brainstorming. So we use this a lot at the events. And so let me just kind of explain in the middle, you're going to write what your intention is. Now, I don't like to use the word goal anymore because to me that's something you're trying to do. An intention means you're going to do it. So let's just say my intention is I want to write a book. And let's say they're masterminding with your group. You're doing your mastermind. So this could be a great tool for them to use during the mastermind. And let's say it's their time to share. And they say, you know, I want to write a book, but I just, I don't know all the things that I need to make this happen. And so one person will say, well, you know, you need to write and you need to figure out what your goal is of the book or what your intention is. What do you, what do you want people to walk away with from the book? And then, you know, what kind of book do you want? So each of these would be a square. Okay. Then you, you know, you might want to do some research on, on printers for books, you know, Amazon createspace. You know, are you going to write the book? Are you going to get a ghost writer? Are you going to, you know, so it's really like, it's like a brainstorm tool. And each square is an idea around. It's just, it's just a way to kind of, you know, put all the, a brain dump on the page. And then in each square about that, you could put phone numbers. If someone has a resource, someone has a, you know, and it's all around that goal. So the other way to use this is if they're brainstorming themselves. Like, I do a lot of brainstorming in my meditation, vision crafting sessions. So sometimes I will be like, you know, there's something that's happening here and I just can't seem to put my finger on what it is. And so I'll write down my intention, what I want, and then I'll use the squares to put down, like, all the things that are coming up for me around this and what I could do about it. So it's just these tools really represent. This is not something complicated, but it's a visual, and the brain reacts to a visual. It's easier sometimes than a blank page to kind of spark an idea or a process. Okay, that's the Brainstorm Builder.
