One Woman Wanderer

Here is my mind map in all it's glory:

I personally enjoy drawing when brainstorming, but if you're looking for some tools to help you build a mind map, this is a good resource.

I'm going to reference my mind map frequently while working on my designs, rejecting and improving upon less-than perfect plans.

I love work exchanges better than exchanging money with friends. My friends Gabe and Aleks have a construction and landscaping company, Freeman Construction, down in Colorado Springs and occasionally I'll work a few days for them. Last week I helped them for a couple days building a deck, so I'm heading down to Colorado Springs next week to cash in on a trade and get some help building the platform, which gives me a week to solidify my plans.

Tools + expertise + use of materials leftover from job sites + time with good people = $$$

Now, I'm proud to say I've gotten a lot better over the years at keeping a clean room, but the more active my lifestyle becomes, the more prone my spaces are to chaos.

This is why it is so important to me to design an organizational system for my car that works for me. I want to be able to hit the road in 15 minutes, and to come home without my car looking like a tornado passed through it. And the key to this is a well planned design.

Good designs don't happen all at once. They germinate. It can be easy to become highly solution focused when brainstorming, and I think it's important to truly work to understand and define your problems and needs before working on a solution.

I've started paying more attention to the systems I have in place in my house that I can transfer to my microcamper to keep things organized. I have a lot of ideas sprouting, and soon I'm going to bring some organization to these ideas through a mindmap.

Though I'm not an engineer, I think think like one. If a system seems inefficient, or a need is going unmet, I have a hard time sitting still until I start working to fix it. The way I pack up haphazardly for adventures, forget things, and come back with a filthy car is a clear indicator that this is a perfect project for me to jump into.