Powerful Hub Formatting. How to lay out your hub for the easiest focus discipline for your topic - Part 2 of 2

Once you learn the lesson taught in the following hub:

Creating Amazing and Focused Hubs the First time

Then you will have the focus part of your concept down. This hub will focus on getting the information into your hub as effortlessly as possible using an outlining technique thats intuitive and fun.

This hub is written with the assumption that you've read the other hub (linked below if you missed it).

Note these are just suggestions not die hard rigid steps. This is what worked for me you may find doing them differently but this will give you a starting point and a format to get started from.

Sometimes I just hook up the microphone and start talking on a subject matter and without using any of the following techniques other than just babbling I start to write the hub. This just helps me get it out of my head and excited about it, but it also allows me to vent out the opinions and so on so when I do write I write more focused not excited like a puppy with a wagging tail to write down all my ideas (usually you do this to extract the real info, but the recording saves a step and is easier than typing 3000 words then having to go back and edit, something I find very difficult myself..

You can continue honing your techniques using this hubs tactics (a continuation of the other hub's tactics).

• 1. Once you've built your recording of your rants, 2-3 times and have a focused recording of your "final draft" to use to create your focused and informative hub, you want to make the hub creation process more intuitive. Start out by generating several text and picture capsules. I suggest you build a text then a picture then a text then a picture and so on to make a text picture sub sandwich *smile* This is going to help you insert headers faster.
• 2. Once you get this done we can get to the fun part. Listen to your recording (final draft), and as you recognize the point of a paragraph stop the recording and think for a moment and insert that cleverly worded but precise header into the text capsule. Then play the recording again to the end of that point. You may find a better header description will work as you get deeper into that part of the recording and that's fine so keep it open until you feel the recording is going to change gears.
• 3. One way to do this effortlessly is to first take some time from when you recorded it to when you start the hub creation. Go distract your mind, try to do anything non digital in nature (TV, computer, etc..) going outside is always a great way to clear your head. This resets the mind for a fresh session. You did the work of recording the article and focusing it, now were going to utilize this recording to generate a book report of the theme, but the first step will be making effective headers to outline the piece for more focus when you start writing.
• 4. When your ready play you're recording once through without doing anything on hub pages, just listen and have the intension of cherry picking categories and header titles from what you hear. If something comes to mind say it out loud and if you like (Like I do) write it down OFFLINE this helps your brain better focus and integrate this as the very act of handwriting has psychological repercussions that will help you build the folder structure if you will. Doing this online isn't as effective for this part of the exercise.
• 5. Once you've covered the recording and have a list of headers written out, you can begin the work. Listen to your recording again and this time plug in the headers into your hub capsules (text). If you think the ones you wrote down work best use them, just transcribe them. You didn't waste your time as the act of writing it down through a pen or pencil will actually get you focused to write the paragraph. Once you have all your headers down your half way done with stage 2 (stage one being the other hubs tips and tricks in recording and focusing your mind easily).
• 6. Now what you want to do is look at each header and find a picture that would best motivate the reader into the mindset of that paragraphs point. This is powerful for you too as you prepare to write because you can look at the picture and write what the picture tells you along with the information on the recording. I personally play the recording to the end of the first header/point then stop it and ponder what I want to write, I first grab a picture that will drive the point home and with my hearing the recording as I stare at the picture I chose, the paragraph will practically write itself and flow out of you focused and concise.
• 7. When you finish getting the picture in their and the header, start writing the capsule information. You may want to listen to your recording again if you get stumped. I write down cliff notes of the recording as I listen to it to highlight the good points, the great facts and what I think will give me a great header and starting point for that capsule/portion of the hub.
• 8. You should give yourself definite time limits to write the capsules. Use a kitchen timer or most microwaves now have timers built in (without having to use the actual microwave to cook). Any timer will work (cell phones all have timers too!). Give yourself about 3 minutes per capsule to complete the segment. If you need more time, feel free to add just another 2 minutes. The idea is not the time but the disciplining of the mind to focus. This helps you remove ranting and redundancies. Don't cheat or your mind won't accept the time constraints anymore and this will be ineffective.. Like I said give yourself more time but limit it so you continue to limit your writing to those constraints and yet allow for a buffer. It's all about focus. You can always later come back and add more if it's absolutely necessary. You may find that when you read the whole thing you won't need to. Writing in timer mode helps you develop a concise and focused "Outline" draft, which you can add to later with more structure. No time limit breeds ranting and out of control writing.

Recording process for focus (see other hub for details)

1. Record to rattle it out of your head subconcious to concious mind or tip of the toungue
2. Listen with intention of weeding out the facts so your prepared when you record it again (focus builder and content filter technique)
3. Re-Record with intent to focus better

1. Take an hour off from anything digital(tv, comptuer, even the microwave keypad *smirk* (no I'm not kidding)
2. Listen to last draft of your recording, same process this time picking out blocks of information to generate headers about, and write them down as they come to you (with a pen or pencil not keyboard!!!) Listen all the way through before going to hub pages.
3. Create your hub template and create about 10 sets of pictures and text capsules picture, text, picture, text ... in that order. Your going to now plug in the headers into all the text capsules. Once plugged in from your papers list (you can reorder them at this point which helps since you wrote them down, and the actual writing them down helps you to determine if the order you spoke the information should be changed, this works best with a pen or pencil on paper not on the computer.
4. Writing is a much more involved process and has triggers to parts of the brain your not even aware writing affects that typing does not. You can refer back to your recording if you like to get a better idea of how to word the header. Listening to it once through will help refresh the "big picture" in your mind so you can more easily cherry pick headers, and as you listen to a header deeper inside the recording it may affect how the header at the top of the hub will be formatted (a hiarchy may form for example).
5. Once you get all your headers in there listen to your recording one last time with the headers in mind. You can hone and updatet hem accordingly, you will be a in supreme focused state by this time. Believe me this sounds tough listening to this thing 5 times but realize in a long ranting hub that you just can't figure out how to edit you spend more time and frustration not to mention more than 5 redundancies trying to get it focused. This way (listening to recording) actually saves time AND frustration and doesnt hurt the eyes!
6. Write your hub, one capsule at a time (how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time!). making sure to limit your time available to each capsule!! this is important to learn discipline. After much practice with this you will just automatically set limits from habit and become a highly focused writer/huber eventually. You may impress yourself like one does when they sleep learn something and realize they can pull the inforamtion up without first conciousely processing it! (I did this with the french alphabet, when I got to class I didnt know a single letter, then I went to the front of the class and it just flowed out of me when she triggered me with the first letter.. amazing how the mind works!)
7. Edit hub and publish. Always give your hub a day to stew, come back to it then read it as if you've never seen it before, try to see it from your readers perspective. Make edits as neccessary and publish. The stewing process helps you to edit it one last time before publishing in a more relaxed and focused state as you've had a day to absorb the information and file it, and the hub score will mysteriousely go up over the day.. not sure why but it happens.. I went to bed it was at 58 woke up, no edit, not published it was at 72 magically. *smile* Seems the Hub fairy came while I was asleep.