Why you stop taking visual notes after a few attempts

‘It’s so hard to capture the whole conversation in my visual notes.’

‘It is. So why do you try to capture everything then?’ I ask in return.

‘Because I don’t want to miss anything important.’

Wanting to capture the capture the whole conversation and not making choices about what to capture and what not, is one of the pitfalls you might fall into when you start making visual note taking a practice during coaching sessions or actually any conversation.

Did you give taking visual notes a try?
Have you noticed how your brain is talking quite loud to you while you made your first attempts? It’s quite likely you have fallen in one or more of the pitfalls that appear when you want to make visual note-taking a practice.

Perhaps you even already stopped taking visual notes because of it. Let’s turn the page and start a new. Knowing which pitfalls will come on your way, you can now make progress, because you know when to pass.

Know the pitfalls before you fall into them so you  succeed in making visual note-taking a practice.

The 5 pitfalls that stop you from taking visual notes after a few attempts

PITFALL 1 – YOU TAKE VISUAL NOTE-TAKING TOO SERIOUS

PITFALL 2 – YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR VISUAL NOTES PERFECT

PITFALL 3 – YOU JUDGE WHAT YOU CREATE ALL THE TIME

PITFALL 4 – YOU WANT HIGHLY QUALITATIVE VISUAL NOTES FOR YOUR CLIENT RIGHT AWAY

PITFALL 5 – YOU WANT TO CAPTURE IT ALL

MAIN INSIGHTS

• 1 > You take visual note-taking too serious
•  2 > You want to make your visual notes perfect
  
•  3 > You constantly judge what you create 
•  4 > You immediately want highly qualitative visual notes for your client
•  5 >  You want to capture it all