Need to make a complex idea simple but visual stories feel too hard? Here’s 8 visual frameworks borrowed from maths to explain concepts clearly, in just a few lines- a thread 🧵 #ship30for30
Borrow frameworks from maths to improve your visual idea communication skills - here are 8 you can use to explain things from relationships through to behaviours.
Here's an example of how I've used a Venn diagram to explain my company @NiftyFoxCreativ niche.
Here's an example of using a bar chart to show what is most important to completing #ship30for30
Here's an example of using a line chart to show what success really looks like (the more you show up and put the reps in, the greater the results over time)
Here's an example of using a pie chart to show the TRUE components that make up success
Here's an example of using a scatter plot to show how my mood changes with how I use social media
Here's an example of how to use a funnel chart to show behaviour - here's my take on Shipper posting consistency throughout #ship30for30
Here's a flowchart example on how to make good decisions, inspired by @refuse2choose essay on decision making
Here's how to use a network diagram to explain how teams or people are connected
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Not burnout with a BIG scary B, but a wobble with the warning signs.
So I took time out.
I focused on essentials.
I prioritised health, family & Nifty until I felt more balanced.
For anyone else feeling like this, here’s how I’m avoiding the BIG B 👇
1. The warning signs
Working too much.
Anxiety off the charts.
Regular exercise out the window.
All fun activities were non-existent.
My sleep was disturbed and patchy.
I then got sinusitis for the second time.
All work and no play makes Laura an ill, cranky mess.
2. Going in to standby mode
Sinusitis was my dashboard warning light.
So I put my body car into recovery mode.
I took time off.
I re-prioritised the non-urgent.
I delegated and managed expectations.
I also made fun activities a non-negotiable.
Building course landing pages from scratch is scary.
The existential dread when facing a blank page is real.
I don’t want you to feel the same fear I did.
Here’s my landing pages swipe file from scouring over 60 course pages, so you can build yours in hours, not weeks 👇
Here’s cross cutting structure from all:
- The promise
- The difference
- The social proof
- The net new thinking
- Meet the instructor
- Results from participants
- Course content & structure
- Sneak peak at free content to intrigue
- The offer - detail different points of entry
I deliberately avoided courses that teach visuals - I don’t want to be a reproduction of what’s already out there.
As Bernadette Jiwa says: ‘you don’t need to compete when you know who you are’
Best way to know who you are is to cut out the noise of others.
3 micro-habits that have helped me read more in the first half of January than I did for the whole of 2022 👇
I read 4 books last year (absolutely terrible!)
I’ve read 5 between Christmas & now:
- Win w/o Pitching @blairenns
- Key Person of Influence @DanielPriestley
- This is Marketing - Seth Godin
- The Coaching Habit - Mike Bungay Stanier
- The One Thing - Gary Keller
Here’s how…
1. Deleting social media apps on my phone
Mindless social scrolling was something I was doing for hours a day & it was destroying my focus.
I now only use social media on my laptop, for 30mins at the end of the working day.
I then replaced this scrolling habit with reading.
Tired of seeing stifled yawns when you present?
Frustrated with tumbleweed when you post online?
Pissed off you aren’t being recognised for your thinking?
Ditch words.
Draw attention.
Go from tangled idea mess to engaged audience using 3P framework to create Atomic Visuals🧵
When words aren’t working, you gotta try something different.
Visuals are:
- Fast
- Memorable
- Action drivers
Here’s the science 👇
- We process visuals in 13milliseconds vs 6 secs for words
- We are 65% more likely to remember visuals
- Visuals evoke emotion = drive action
Atomic visuals are even FASTER and CLEARER, because:
If you’ve wanted to learn how to visualise your ideas in under five minutes so audiences get you in less than a second, then listen up.
Here’s a sketchnote visual thread on what’s been going on behind the scenes…
Number 1: Name change
Why?
- Trademarking
- Clarity on what course & community is
- Reflect process of what you’ll create
Changing to: Atomic Visuals, with our community being the Atomic Armada!
Number 2: Shift to community based learning.
Why?
- Consolidate all tools, events & content into one community based platform for top learning experience
- More opportunities to connect with atomic armada globally
- No more closed and date based cohorts - access when you like!