Creative Clarity: Week 8

NXLevel Entrepreneur Program:

observations & highlights

About half-way through our 10- week NXLevel class, I began taking a free online class called the Right Brain Business Plan Video Summit by Jennifer Lee. www.rightbrainbusinessplan.com  We met daily for 45 minutes (M-F) for 2 weeks.    I felt really fortunate to be taking both classes at once.  I was hearing similar things in both classes, each informing and reinforcing the other.  The RBBP really helped me take what I was learning in the NXLevel class and apply it in a way that made sense to me. The RBBP class, as the name indicates is geared for the more right brained person.   Generally speaking, the left hemisphere of the brain is sequential logical and analytical and the right hemisphere is nonlinear, intuitive and holistic. Of course, we all share elements of both and need them both to thrive.

In the RBBP the focus was more on the visual and finding a process that was comfortable to each individual.   It was good to realize that there were other folks out there who had some of the same learning challenges that I had. So, instead of feeling like I am deficient in way, I  can treat myself more kindly and be more respectful about how I learn.

When I began the NXLevel class I realized that one of the areas that I needed the help with was in developing systems that would give me more structure and direction on a daily basis.  The big picture needed to be front and foremost, with the details filling in.   I began working one Saturday morning, presumably on my mission statement and ended up spending the weekend getting a visual picture of how I would like to see my business work.  I had stacks of notes in piles all around me.  They begin to take some sort of form and gradually the piles had headings and then the piles were in groups.   Research, Night Notes, Show the Love, Housekeeping (that's a BIG pile)…….. It was exciting doing this  . . . . . a wonderful discovery and understanding of self.    I am working on putting this organization into practice.  

It was the combination of both classes, one left brained, the other right brained, that made what I learned more accessible and certainly less threatening.   l learned more about the ways we learn and have more respect for our individual  differences.   I certainly better understand how I learn.

Here's my sketch: