Bottom-up Organizing for Brilliant Minds
Your mind fills up fast with details, connections, flashes of great ideas, and things to do. At times this is exciting and fun; other times, it's overwhelming and distressing. Sometimes you run with it, other times, you feel judged (or judge yourself) for not being efficient, delivering on time, or achieving what you know is possible. You may be an excellent thinker, but you may struggle to get your tasks and thoughts organized in order to execute them efficiently, present them concisely, or get them on the page with ease.
You likely struggle with organization and you are likely frustrated because planners and templates feel ineffective, limiting, or not designed for you. If this is the case, you may be someone who needs to create organization from the bottom up; you may need to start with the details and build up to an organized whole. Learning to organize in this way will allow you to create the structure you need to fit the task at hand and make a plan for moving forward in your time and communication.
ThoughtGathering™ was built for bottom-up thinkers, although it's very helpful for top-down thinkers too. It’s a methodology developed over 20 years of clinical work with people who are smart, creative, and ready to find their way. It is not a tool or an organizer, but instead, an understanding of how organization works in any context, allowing you to use it when you need to. Once you have the skill of bottom-up organizing, it’s yours. It goes with you everywhere.
The flagship course, ThoughtGathering™ Foundations, walks you through that process over six weeks, covering four areas where bottom-up thinkers tend to get stuck: your materials, your time, your communication, and your ideas. You’ll come out the other side with a new relationship to all of them.
“I’ve been using the hell out of the organizational skills you helped me develop.”
Ready to learn more? Start with the course options, or visit the FAQ if you have questions first. If you want to know who’s behind all of this, the Bio page has the full story — and the Testimonials page has a lot more from people who’ve been through it.
