Hey facilitators, let's stop looping

Learn to make better decisions by sketching it out.

Author

Joe Bartmann
July 11, 2023

Ideas and tools inside:

  1. Tony Robbins and Mr. Ligtenberg on better decision-making.

  2. How to draw on napkins.

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Stop making big decisions in your head

Anthony Robbins says all decision-making is better after you have put a pen on paper. It’s a great way to stop the endless loop of thinking and discover what you really want to do.

Whenever I was stuck, my high school physics teacher Mr. Ligtenberg told me “sketch it, Joe Bart!” He was right.

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“Sometimes what feels complex in our own heads becomes vastly simplified on paper.“

Anthony Robbins

Grab a napkin and a pen

You’re a facilitator. Maybe you are even a graphic facilitator. If you have your clients sketching or drawing or writing things out on sticky notes to help them figure things out, why not do it for yourself too? I don’t mean in the space, I mean in YOUR space.

I’m kind of particular about my notebooks and pens. But a napkin works great too.

And just for fun, here are 17 napkin sketches by famous architects.

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