Raise the structure of our thoughts

When we think of raising our level of thoughts to a higher level it is always a challenge. In such times I normally prefer writing down a few thoughts coming to mind. And when you have command over writing you will have learned the skills you ask about. Speech is inherently subconscious for most of the time, for most of us who are good writers. Writing, down however is more easily acceptable to my thoughts rather than speaking out.

My writing also gives you a kind of immediate feedback from my readers. And whenever you get some strange feedback you will soon see the poking holes in your writing, and seeing them is the first step in unmaking them. To be efficiently articulate is essentially to be well literate and well read, which I here mean literally, and so to practice writing coherently will train your mind in a way that benefits your spoken articulation as well.

Of course when I am meditating I would always begin by thinking about something higher in plane and then explaining something from a high level perspective, before breaking it down into smaller chunks of thought bits. And then it helps me to focus on small things first. At first a bunch of good ideas going in many directions are like a sign that points everywhere, pointless. When you have a goal, ideas can be pointed to the goal and prioritised, and lesser ones eliminate.

Of course when I share the goal initially to myself, the mind does not pay much attention to it. But the goal, or objective is key to making sensible structure. If your only goal is to look good, you'll soon be exposed. If your goal is clear and worthwhile, you need to say less. By the time I am through with meditation I would have already crystallised some great thoughts to put down on paper and then elaborate on them in the form of a well articulated text.

Whenever I have a thought or many ideas in my head, I take my note book of ideas and I jot them down. After I have emptied my head, I then look at everything I have written and I rewrite them properly - this time in sequence or boxes or categories. That is who I structure my thought-process to think efficiently. When I write down the thoughts every single time it works wonders any day.

And trust me I have never had a problem with articulating my ideas, but I sometimes mess up when I come up with specific things I want to say that I like to have a rough outline of major things I want to address and the freedom to journey to them without a strict guideline. Nothing demonstrates your power than the ability to be comfortable with momentary silence.

Of course when it comes to speaking to an audience on some thoughts before you speak, always make it a point to have a strategic framework in your head, by asking yourself because just remember, our mind speed is so much faster than our tongue speed! - what's my intended objective? or what does the recipient or audience want from me? How best can I put it succinctly across to them? There are many ways to put across or explain something, as information and/or idea, can be best organised and better structured as follows, at least from the explanatory standpoint, drawing upon my own extensive experience in strategy consulting and performance coaching like listing or enumeration; topical; definition; classification; process; chronological;compare and contrast;order of importance; sequence; spatial; cause and effect; problem solution;

For example, when explaining something that is a listing or enumeration, the strategic framework one holds in the head is to use a numerical sequence to explain the information. If it's a process that you are explaining, you know very well that a process always involves stages or steps, in a logical sequence. That's to say, there's a start-point, an endpoint, and a developmental path of transition points in between. With such a strategic framework in the mind, your explanatory path just follows the thought sequence. Stay blessed! #kishoreshintre #possessedbywritingspirit #ks1000articles #proudtobeindian