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Visual Organization and Planning

Last spring, out Intentional Creativity® Maestra Shiloh and her biz coach Amy Ahlers offered Dancing Entrepreneur for both Color of Woman students and the general community. We created the folded Vision Plan books (one of the CoW assignments) plus a set of 16 cards to support moving forward with our plans. 

We connected with others in the class (a weekend workshop or 5 week class) and used the momentum of the class to bring ideas into action or products. I developed my virtual Red Thread Circles, and collaborations with other students and IC teachers.

Some of the posts in our group that caught my eye were of Karen Dawn's Visual Planning system, and I joined her Beta Test group on crafting similar systems of our own! I love Karen's creative approach to planning! (Her blog includes some of these teachings!) 

Vision Plan Board

Mine is on a foam board from a vision board class I offered, and has two of the Dancing Entrepreneur action cards, a little vision board we created with Karen, and - pockets. My clothesline is a ribbon, and I just taped the ends to the back of the board using painter's tape! (You can use nails to tack the lines directly on a wall - so many options!)

Karen uses this 'clothesline' system for organizing her ideas visually. She found that when her notes were tucked away in journals and files, they weren't as accessible, and often dropped off her radar. (So me!) 

You can clip cards directly to the line, or Viola! - make pockets to hold sets of cards with those ideas! (Who doesn't want to make pockets, lol!) 

Larger file folder size pockets can be tacked up, with in depth writings/images. You can clip labels to the front of the pockets, to keep organize. I also like making little vision plans in Zines - these could easily tuck into small pockets! 

Planning pockets

As I dream into my new offerings, and projects on my plate, I'm using this system to keep organize my ideas and action steps.

Comments

  1. CJNovember 25, 2020 at 4:38 PM

    So inspired by these ideas! I see pockets in my future 😍

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    1. NadyaNovember 30, 2020 at 7:11 PM

      You'll love making pockets - these are from a little packet of card stock scraps - I think I got two strips from each - plus the map, which was an envelope from a friend.

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  2. Elkes LebensglückNovember 29, 2020 at 1:17 AM

    Sweet your self-made advent calendar, great idea!
    Have a happy cozy Advent season, hug Elke

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  3. DVArtistNovember 29, 2020 at 8:51 AM

    Very nice and a great idea.

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  4. NadyaNovember 30, 2020 at 7:12 PM

    Thank you!

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