The Star

Several times most week I make this mind map that I call “The Star”.

It’s something I developed in a movement-based practice here in Berlin, to help quiet my mind when I get overwhelmed by the great swirling mass of ideas, projects, parts of larger goals, and core values and intentions that I want in my work. Recently it has been increasingly hard for me to find focus.
I picture myself grounded and hula hooping in the center of this star and things seem somehow contained and more manageable. It’s like all of these thoughts and projects and things are orbiting me, but I am the star of my own show. Somehow I feel more in control. It’s like those daily morning pages that people write, but I’m too tightly wound for that sort of thing. This is intuitive, but fast. 

In a public presentation, the hula hoops act as an extension of the star exercise, like a physical way to picture yourself centered and grounded. 


You are in the center.

Everything you care about, all of your projects and ideas are orbiting you.

It’s like a list but more active and less linear.

It’s like a mindmap that is always changing but there are themes, and some things stay the same.


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