James Avery’s blog

September 6, 2009

Make Anything Possible (TM) - M.A.P. Template

This is designed for printing out at A0 and hanging on the wall, but it still seems to look fine when printed A4. This is a continuation from the original ‘chess board map’ concept, with room for some more ‘pie in the sky’ ideas.

The aim is to have a template to plan out any creative concept - or just to plan a week’s work in a mind map format, rather than trying to fit everything in to a linear 9-5 type grid format, which just isn’t relevant for creative thinking.

Naturally, I’m not going to give the full game away here, but the basic template is free to use. If you are planning anything geographical, then the ‘box’ could still be simplified as a world map down to ABCD (Alaska, Beijing, Chile, Dunedin / Desert Island - or any other variation on the theme). For England, I use cArlisle, Berwick, Cornwall, Dover - there’s no room for pedants pointing out that Cornwall is a county, this is a box for outside the box thinking, so the whole point is to have rough boundaries, not anything that has to be strictly enforced.

The ‘roof’ of the house could be used for ‘big sky blue’ thinking, or for anything which might make up part of a plan, but which wouldn’t fit in the box.

Hope this makes some kind of sense, it isn’t supposed to make total sense, because it is a template, not an answer. But the basic concept remains - using simple maps, and breaking evertything down into small chunks, there’s no reason why you can’t Make Anything Possible.

MAP = Make Anything Possible

MAP = Make Anything Possible

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