Personal Insights Guide

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Personal Insights Guide

Welcome to your Personal Insights Guide.

Use this Guide to help you identify hidden activities and outcomes that you may be ignoring or not considering, and which if completed would benefit yourself or others.

We recommend you print this Guide or use a blank piece of paper to capture your exercise answers.

Identifying Potential Areas of Interest

The first thing to note is that on Ideas-Shared, you have the ability, to post 18 different activity types, in 18 parent categories, with more 400 top level key words, across 227 countries and regions in the world and beyond. That’s millions of combinations!

The 18 top-level categories are the Arts, Business, Computing, Global Issues, Health, Home

& Garden, Interest & Shopping, Kids & Teens, News, Recreation, Reference, Science, Society,

and Sports.

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Exercise 1: Start by scrolling through the following keywords and tick the boxes of those you have an interest in. These interests will be orientated towards your ideas, frustrations,

problems, questions, solutions, and more, that if pursued could deliver value and benefit to you or other people:

 Aerospace and Defence

 Abortion

 Academia

 Accounting

 Activism

 Addictions

 Advice

 Aesthetics

 Aging

 Agriculture

 Agriculture and Forestry

 Algorithms

 Alternative

 Ambition & Vision

 American Football

 Amusements

 Analysis and Opinion

 Animal

 Animal Welfare

 Animation

 Anomalies

 Antiques

 Antiques and Collectibles

 Apartment Living

 Apathy

 Archery

 Architecture

 Art History

 Artificial Intelligence

 Artificial Life

 Arts and Entertainment

 Ask an Expert

 Ask The Expert

 Associations

 Astronomy

 Auctions

 Audio

 Automotive

 Aviation

 Awards

 Badminton

 Baseball

 Basketball

 Beauty

 Beauty Products

 Biography

 Biology

 Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals

 Birding

 Board Games

 Boating

 Body Art

 Books

 Bowling

 Crime

 Crime & Justice

 Croquet

 Cue Sports

 Current Events

 Customer Service

 Cycling

 Dance

 Darts

 Data

Communications

 Data Formats

 Death

 Debt

 Dentistry

 Design

 Desktop Publishing

 Difficult People

 Digital

 Directories

 Disabilities

 Disabled

 Discipline

 Do-It-Yourself

 Domestic Services

 Drugs

 Earth Sciences

 E-Books

 E-commerce

 Economics

 Education

 Education and Training

 Electronics and Electrical

 Emergency Preparations

 Employment

 Employment Benefits

 End of Life

 Energy

 Entertaining at Home

 Entertainment

 Environment

 Environmental Health

 Equestrian

 Ethnic Minorities

 Ethnicity

 Extreme Sports

 Fake News

 Family Events

 Family Planning

 Fencing

 Financial Services

 Fireworks

 Fishing

 Fitness

 Flags

 Illustration

 Immigration

 Industrial Goods and Services

 Information Services

 Information Technology

 Instruments

 Insurance

 Intellectual Property

 International Business and Trade

 Internet

 Internet Search

 Interviewing Skills

 Intranets

 Investing

 Jewellery

 Kites

 Knowledge Management

 Labour

 Lacrosse

 Language

 Language and Linguistics

 Laser Games

 Law

 Leadership

 LGBT

 Libraries

 Lifestyle Choices

 Listening Skills

 Literature

 Living History

 Lumberjack

 Magazines & E-zines

 Mailing Lists

 Major Companies

 Management

 Management Information Systems

 Maps

 Marketing and Advertising

 Martial Arts

 Materials

 Math

 Medicine

 Men

 Mental Health

 Mentoring

 Military

 Miniatures

 Mining and Drilling

 Mobile Computing

 Models

 Motivation

 Motorcycles

 Puzzles

 Race Relations

 Racket Ball

 Radio

 Radiography

 Real Estate

 Relationships

 Religion and Religious Artifacts

 Religion and Spirituality

 Religious Differences

 Reproductive Health

 Retail Trade

 Robotics

 Rodeo

 Rope Skipping

 Rounders

 Rowing

 Rugby League

 Rugby Union

 Running

 Rural Living

 Salary & Pay

 Satire

 School Time

 Science and Technology

 Science in Society

 Scientific Resource

 Scouts & Guides

 Scuba Diving

 Security

 Self-Belief

 Self-Help

 Self-Worth

 Senior Health

 Senior Living

 Senses

 Services

 Sexuality

 Shooting

 Shopping

 Skateboarding

 Skating

 Skiing

 Small Business

 Soccer

 Social Networks

 Social Sciences

 Softball

 Software

 Speech Technology

 Sports Hobbies

 Squash

 State Benefits

 Strategic Direction

 Strength Sports

 Supercomputing

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 Bulletin Board Systems

 Business

 Business and Society

 Business Services

 CAD and CAM

 Camps & Camping

 Canoeing and Kayaking

 Card Games

 Cars & Autos

 Cars and Autos

 Caving

 Chats and Forums

 Cheerleading

 Chemicals

 Chemistry

 Child Health

 Children

 Children, Youth and Family

 Church State Relationships

 Classical Studies

 Climbing

 Clothing

 Coaching

 Collecting

 College and University

 Comics

 Communication Skills

 Companies

 Computer and Technology Law

 Computer Science

 Computers

 Conditions and Diseases

 Conspiracy

 Construction and Maintenance

 Consumer Electronics

 Consumer Goods and Services

 Consumer Information

 Cooking

 Cooperatives

 Cost of Money

 Costumes

 Courses & Training

 Covid-19

 Crafts

 Cricket

 Food

 Food and Related Products

 Football

 Fraud

 Furniture

 Futsal

 Future World

 Gaelic Football

 Gambling

 Games

 Gardening

 Genealogy

 General Merchandise

 Gifts

 Golf

 Government

 Graphic Design

 Graphics

 Greyhound Racing

 Gun Control

 Guns & Shooting

 Gymnastics

 Hacking

 Handball

 Hardware

 Health

 Healthcare

 Healthcare Industry

 Hiking

 History

 Hockey

 Holidays

 Home and Garden

 Home Business

 Home Buyers

 Home Health

 Home Improvement

 Home Improvements

 Home IoT

 Home Making

 Home Security

 Home Shopping

 Horoscopes

 Horse Racing

 Hospitality

 Housing

 Human Computer Interaction

 Human Resources

 Human Rights &

Liberties

 Humour

 Hunting

 Ice Hockey

 Ice Skating

 Moving & Relocation

 Multimedia

 Museums

 Music

 Myths and Folktales

 Native and Tribal

 Negative Feelings

 Netball

 News

 News and Media

 Newsgroups

 Newspapers

 Nudism

 Occupational Health

& Safety

 Office Products

 Officiating

 Older Citizens

 Olympics

 Online Shopping

 Online Writing

 Open Source

 Operating Systems

 Opportunities

 Organisations

 Orienteering

 Outdoors

 Paddleball

 Paintball

 Paranormal

 Parties

 Peace

 People

 People and Society

 Performing Arts

 Personal Branding

 Personal Finance

 Personalised News

 Petanque

 Pets

 Pharmacy

 Philanthropy

 Philosophy

 Photography

 Physics

 Politics

 Pornography

 Poverty

 Pre-School

 Procrastination

 Procurement and Supply

 Programming

 Property Rights

 Public Speaking

 Publishing and Printing

 Surfing

 Swimming and Diving

 Table Tennis

 Tax

 Team Building

 Teamwork

 Technology

 Teen Health

 Teen Life

 Telecommunications

 Television

 Tennis

 Territorial Disputes

 Terrorism

 Textiles and Non- Woven

 Theatre

 Theme Parks

 Time

 Tools

 Toys and Games

 Track and Field

 Transportation and Logistics

 Travel

 Travel Health

 Typography

 Urban Living

 Video

 Video Games

 Violence & Abuse

 Virtual Reality

 Visual Arts

 Volleyball

 Walking

 Warfare and Conflict

 Water Sports

 Weather

 Weddings

 Weight Loss

 Wrestling

 Wholesale Trade

 Winter Sports

 Woman

 Women’s Health

 Work

 World Records

 Writers Resources

 Young Families

 Your Family

 Youth and High School

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Selecting Activities & Desired Outcomes

Once you have at least one keyword ticked, the next thing to do is determine if there is an opportunity for you to progress it.

Exercise 2: Take each previously ticked keyword in turn, then run each through the following list of activities, desired outcomes, and value/benefit shown below.

Start by considering whether you want to undertake any of the Activities listed in column one. (Undertaking an activity in column one means ‘pursuing an outcome option in column two. Achieving this would deliver the value and benefit outlined in column three).

Example: Let’s assume you select ‘Covid-19’ as the keyword. Run through the below list and identify an ‘Idea’ that you’ve been thinking about. As you consider, identify possible

outcomes that could be achieved, along with possible benefits. (Note that the last column are examples only, you can choose to deliver whatever value and benefit you like).

Activity Desired Outcome Options Value & Benefit Criteria

Develop Idea (Idea Listing) Build, Campaign, Do Something, Improve, Innovate, Invent, Suggest Something

Make Money, Bring Joy to Others, Change the Law, Improve Quality of Life, Live Longer

Overcome Frustration (Rant Listing)

Complain, Change, Get Redress, Improve, Overcome, Vent Frustration, Vent Anger, Warn Others, Stop Something

Feel Better, Be Less Stressed, Improve Temper, Show Others You Care, Gain Support

Fix Problem (Problem Listing)

Change, Fix, Improve, Overcome, Repair, Solve, Stop Something

Get Something Working, Increase Values, Improve Quality of Life, Feel Better

Share Article (Article Listing)

Complain, Educate, Evaluate, Explain, Inform, Promote, Share, Showcase, Warn, Stop Something

Become Famous, Develop a Following, Understand People More, Make Better Decisions

(Ask Question) Question Listing

Decide, Engage, Get Feedback, Influence, Learn, Prompt Reaction

Know More, Get the Answer You Need, Progress to the Next Level, Be the Expert (Offer Solution) Solution

Listing

Educate, Promote, Sell Increase Revenue, Increase Profit, Improve Reputation

(Manage Jobs) Job Listing Find Help, Offer Help Get Things Done, Improve Matters, Feel Good

Showcase Place Worth Visiting (Place Listing)

Share (your little-known favourite places that others might like to visit or learn about)

Attract More Visitors, Earn More Money,

Showcase Place Needing Help (Place Listing)

Alert (those issues big & small so that others can help)

Gain Coverage, Get Sponsorship,

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Showcase Place Able to Help (Place Listing)

Showcase (places that are there to help those in need)

Show Support, Gain Financial Support

Promote Day in History Event (Event Listing)

Calendar Entry Remember, Hold to Account

Promote Conference (Event Listing)

Present, Learn, Network Get More Visitors, Cover Costs, Increase Revenue, Impart Knowledge

Promote Exhibition (Event Listing)

Present, Learn, Network Improve the Economy, Share Knowledge, Take Orders, Increase Revenue, Increase Contact Database Promote Fund Raising

Event (Event Listing)

Contribute, Think of Others, Feel Great

Bring in the Cash, Continue the Service, Buy What You Need

Promote Open Day (Event Listing)

Look Around, Learn, Network, Decide Something

Share Your Capabilities, Build Network, Increase Uptake

Promote Public Meeting (Event Listing)

Debate, Understand, Decide Gain Support, Obtain Feedback, Develop Relationships

Promote Trade Show (Event Listing)

Showcase Capabilities, Meet New People, See Old Friends

Grow Order Book, Cement Relationships, Drive Sales Promote Online Meeting

(Event Listing)

Bring People Together, Get Things Done

Travel Less, Save Time, Meet More People Together

Write down the outcomes of your selections in the below table or use a separate piece of paper. Note the Priority and Pillar columns, turn over the page to get further details:

Topical Area Activity Type Desired Outcome

Benefit Priority Pillar Example: Older

People

Idea (Idea Name)

Invent Something

Improve Quality of Life

Priority 1 Box 2

Note that the above Use a separate piece of paper or print the Form out again as needed.

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Identify Activity Priority and Pillar

To complete your Personal Insights Guide, it’s time to identify Priorities and Pillars as shown in exercise 3 and 4.

Exercise 3: Select a Priority from the following list for each of the previously selected activities:

• Priority 1: Important & Urgent Activity/Tasks – do these immediately

• Priority 2: Important but Not Urgent Activity/Tasks – schedule these tasks

• Priority 3: Not Important but Urgent Activity/Tasks – delegate these tasks

• Priority 4: Not Important and Not Urgent Activity/Tasks – eliminate these tasks

And finally:

Exercise 4: Select a Pillar for each of the previously selected activities:

• Box 1: The Self Box – You want to change and improve yourself

• Box 2: The Other Person Box – You want to change and improve other people

• Box 3: The Organisation Box – You want to change and improve organisations (includes Charities, Schools, Clubs, Special Interest Groups, Businesses, etc.)

• Box 4: The Systemic Box – You want to change and improve the systemic nature of our world includes Social, Political, Environmental topics etc.)

Summary

Completing the actions shown in this Personal Insight Guide can help you to identify hidden activities that you can progress to help yourself, help other people, other organisations, as well as the broader environment.

You can use this quick method each time you feel there is something missing in your life, or you simply want to start new adventures.

Note that Ideas-Shared is built upon a commitment culture, where our members aspire to make a difference in the world.

With shared values, and that commitment to make the world a better place, you are joining a growing community of like-minded people who come together to deliver multiple dreams.

As a member, you have the chance to represent and collaborate with every decent person in the world.

We’re all here for the same purpose, and we help our members be better than they believe, where friendships and memories, along with value generation are the most important.

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