I have a confession to make, I'm a whiteboard junkie. Nothing excites me quite like having an expanse of pristine whiteboard to fill with the ideas that are swirling around in my mind but an expanse of pristine whiteboard and a bunch of ideas lack just one important ingredient: Lots of different colored markers!

Take yesterday for example, there I was attempting to take stock of my life and make some decisions on some areas I need to pursue and of course I had my modest little home whiteboard in use with my 6 different colored markers in heavy use (Black, Red, Blue, Green, Purple and Magenta just in case you were wondering) because I love to color code as I go. Pretty soon it became apparent that I needed more space so I got out my flip charts (yes I have flip charts at home, now you see how really weird I am :)) and started drawing on them. Now being a melancholy sort of person it just wouldn't do to use whiteboard markers on flip charts so I got out my flip chart markers. The only problem with that is that I only have four different colors for flip chart markers so there was a necessary restriction on color coding which was so frustrating!. Anyway 3 diagrams and a whiteboard later I had managed to come up with what I thought were my three defining characteristics (passion, strategy and creativity) as well as the 6 areas of my life they applied to as well as some things to work on which I then dutifully transferred back to the whiteboard so I could use all the colors again.

Never Again will I be caught with too few flip chart marker colors, I resolved to go to the stationary shop on Monday and all will be well. Whilst I'm there I might see if there are some other whiteboard marker colors :) (Yellow, Pink, Brown or Orange spring to mind ), I really am a sad case :)

posted by Peter at 3:32 PM

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