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“A well planned storage system can transform your working life. ” [ Lorrie Mack].

Some projects never get off the ground, or once launched, fail to reach completion. Most times the culprit is a lack of a comprehensive master plan to guide your activity over the course of a project. A general activity map, combined with a detailed timeline, can orchestrate future accomplishments in a carefully planned and easy to follow manner. A popular way of pictorially representing your projects (whether they include planning a speech, preparing a lecture, or designing an empirical study) is through mind mapping. Tony Buzan, co-author of Get ahead: Mind Map^® Your Way to Success describes the mindmap as “a swiss army knife of the brain,” because it has the potential to unleash creativity and ideas through “branches” that simulate dendrite connections. Turn the page…