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William Reed, a bilingual bestselling author living for almost 4 decades in Japan, takes us on a tour of how to Master the Mandala Chart, an innovative thinking and planning tool which helps you achieve life/work balance with a flexible perspective.
Check out the Flexible Focus WebBrain Index for a visual depiction of the topics in this series
Following are the already published posts in this series:
Mastering the Mandala Chart
Flexible Focus #1: Inside the Mandala Chart – A zoom lens for your life
This introductory post provides answers to the fundamental questions on Mandala Charts and sets the context of what the author means by “Flexible Focus”.
The Mandala Chart comprises of 8 sections, each section divided into various topics. Each section/topic will appear below as soon as the relevant post is published:
The Art of Flexible Focus
- Flexible Focus #2: Are goals traps or opportunities
- Flexible Focus #10: Become the change
- Flexible Focus #19: Path to the Eureka moment
- Flexible Focus #27: In search of solutions
- Flexible Focus #38: Flexibility without Forcing
- Flexible Focus #47: Clearing your Clutter
- Flexible Focus #57: Unlocking the Box of Perception
- Flexible Focus #67: A-Chart vs B-Chart
The framework of Wisdom
- Flexible Focus #3: The Principle of Interdependence
- Flexible Focus #11: The Principle of Comprehensiveness
- Flexible Focus #20: The Principle of Optimization
- Flexible Focus #28: The Principle of Innovation
- Flexible Focus #39: The Principle of Gratitude
- Flexible Focus #48: The Principle of Initiative
- Flexible Focus #58: The Principle of Objectivity
- Flexible Focus #68: The Principle of Improvisation
The 8 Frames of Life
- Flexible Focus #4: The 8 frames of life: Health
- Flexible Focus #12: The 8 frames of life: Business
- Flexible Focus #21: The 8 frames of life: Finance
- Flexible Focus #30: The 8 frames of life: Home
- Flexible Focus #40: The 8 frames of life: Society
- Flexible Focus #49: The 8 frames of life: Personal
- Flexible Focus #59: The 8 frames of life: Learning
- Flexible Focus #69: The 8 frames of life: Leisure
Mandala Tools
- Flexible Focus #5: The Mandala Business Diary
- Flexible Focus #13: Finding focus in the frames
- Flexible Focus #22: New degrees of freedom with a digital Mandala chart
- Flexible Focus #31: Mobile Mandala
- Flexible Focus #41: Your 100 year life span
- Flexible Focus #50: The Art of Idea Capture
- Flexible Focus #60: Writing Tips and Tools
- Flexible Focus #70: The Carp of Creativity
Japanology
- Flexible Focus #6: Peace in the Elements
- Flexible Focus #14: Japan Photo Safari
- Flexible Focus #23: Manners make the man
- Flexible Focus #32: Folding the Square
- Flexible Focus #42: Time Lapse as a Mandala Movie
- Flexible Focus #51: The Art of Winning without Fighting
- Flexible Focus #61: The Art of Folding Time
- Flexible Focus #71: The 3rd Mandala Chart Festival 2011
Thinking Inside the Box
- Flexible Focus #7: Inside the lines
- Flexible Focus #15: Karma and Connections
- Flexible Focus #24: The sky is not empty
- Flexible Focus #33: The Wonderful World of Flow
- Flexible Focus #43: 8 Levels of Consciousness
- Flexible Focus #52: A sense of Significance
- Flexible Focus #62: Discipline your Thinking
- Flexible Focus #73: The Power of Ritual
The Temple of Templates
- Flexible Focus #8: Memory is a slippery slope
- Flexible Focus #16: The decision trap
- Flexible Focus #25: Assessing your situation with a Mandala SWOT analysis
- Flexible Focus #34: Projecting your Future
- Flexible Focus #44: Lessons in Life Balance
- Flexible Focus #54: Modeling Your Business
- Flexible Focus #64: The One Year Plan
- Flexible Focus #74: Ritual Empowerment
Art of Abundance
- Flexible Focus #9: The magic of mindset
- Flexible Focus #17: Determine your destiny
- Flexible Focus #26: Leveraging your time
- Flexible Focus #35: Move Less, Attract More
- Flexible Focus #45: My Cup Runneth Over
- Flexible Focus #55: Make Music, Find Flow
- Flexible Focus #65: Shaping Your Future
- Flexible Focus #75: Tofu Wars and the Art of Abundance
Summary Section:
Following are the summary posts:
- Flexible Focus #18: Engage visual thinking
- Flexible Focus #29: Activate your mindset
- Flexible Focus #36: Charting New Territory
- Flexible Focus #46: Lens on Consciousness
- Flexible Focus #56: Finding What Matters Most
- Flexible Focus #66: Change the World, Change Yourself
- Flexible Focus #76: The Art of Abundance
Bonus Section:
In this section, William Reed provides bonus material to go along with this cool repository of Mandala knowledge!
- Flexible Focus #37: Navigate with Nanba!
- Flexible Focus #53: WA JAPAN Project
- Flexible Focus #63: SAMURAI WALK
- Flexible Focus #72: Use an Author’s Mandala Chart to Write & Publish a Book