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Basketball Defensive Skills
The game of basketball may very well be won on the offensive end of the court. After all, a team must score in order to win the game. However, on the flip side of the coin, the end result of a basketball game is always heavily influenced by the defensive pressure that a team is able to exert on their opponents. No matter how well drilled a team is offensively [...]
Basketball Shooting Skills
Learning how to shoot a basketball more effectively is a progressive process that requires specific and conscious actions that will help you to improve both your power and accuracy when shooting a basketball. The key is to practice these fundamentals persistently and consciously up until the point they become second nature, where you no longer need to [...]
Path to Extraordinary Leadership
Some say that Extraordinary Leadership is something that is injected into our psychology at the moment of our conception. Apparently these leadership characteristics and traits come packaged as part of our DNA makeup. We are therefore either born with the gift for Extraordinary Leadership or we unfortunately draw the short end of the straw. Conversely, [...]
The Blueprint to Success
Achieving success in life is somewhat perceived as a psychological science built around a mathematical formula of sorts. When you mix this and that ingredient together, and you add these two digits you will essentially transform your life and achieve the success you have been longing for all this time. Does this formula really exist? Is this formula practical [...]
Study Matrix is Moving to IQmatrix.com
Just a quick note to let all the readers know that the Study Matrix website is in the process of being migrated over to a new domain @ IQ Matrix.com. Along with the move to the new address, the Study Matrix concept will be re-branded under the IQ Matrix brand. The Blog should be moved over in its entirety sometime this week. Initially when I started creating [...]
Psychology of Personal Success
The MasterMind Matrix Chart is a Personal Self-Coaching tool that will break down the Psychology of Personal Success and Achievement step-by-step, as it applies to your life. Moreover, it will help pinpoint your weaknesses, limitations and self-sabotaging habitual patterns of behavior that are currently preventing you from achieving your life’s goals, [...]
6 Thinking Hats for Solving Life’s Problems
When life suddenly throws us a curve ball, things can get rather overwhelming and ridiculously frustrating in the blink of an eye. Not having the ability to effectively deal with these challenges puts us at a disadvantage and sabotages our growth as a productive human being. It is important to understand that our daily life problems present [...]
Advanced Mind Mapping Study Skills
For those of us who are blessed with the gift of sight, it is easy to understand how critical and important it is to our daily life, decisions and actions. Our visual organs bring forth into our conscious mind a world of color, intrigue, movement and depth. We perceive our reality to be real and true based on our personal [...]
Becoming an Outstanding Critical Thinker
As we go about our days, we tend to perceive, decipher and understand the problems, events and circumstances of our lives somewhat differently than others. In fact we believe that our understanding of reality is built upon the foundations of our perceptions – what we take in through our sensory organs including the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue. This is [...]
Awaken Your Problem Solver from Within
Problem Solving, Creative and Critical Thinking go hand-in-hand helping us to see the world from several different angles and perspectives. Each of these techniques strengthen our capacity to think in flexible and adaptable ways expanding our understanding and awareness about the world we live in. This post will specifically focus on the process of problem [...]
















