Adam Sicinski

Adam is a life coach, mind mapper, doodler and visual thinker. He founded IQ Matrix in 2008 and has created over 500 self-growth mind maps. He also teaches doodling for personal development and transformation. Learn more at IQ Doodle School. Feel free to also get in touch and send Adam a message. And, if you found this article of value, then please share it with your family and friends.

Why You Must Develop Resilient Willpower to Achieve Your Goals

This article explores how to develop the strength, courage, and self-discipline you need to overcome any obstacle standing between you and your desired goal. These key principles, in combination, form what the map defines as Resilient Willpower. The article defines what it means to have resilient willpower. It identifies the actions, beliefs, skills, and traits that one must cultivate to harness resilient willpower. It presents you with a series of things you must learn to wield resilient willpower. And it breaks down how to utilize resilient willpower to achieve your goals and objectives. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary traits, mindset, and behaviors needed to overcome any personal challenges, obstacles, and setbacks that are currently preventing you from achieving your desired goals.

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Here’s How the Habit of Thinking Big will Help You Achieve Your Goals

This article will help expand your horizons, widen your perspective, and strengthen your desire to obtain those seemingly improbable dreams and goals. It will encourage you to think big about your life and circumstances and to stretch the boundaries of your imagination. And as you think big you act big, and that in itself can make all the difference.

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How to Attract the Good Luck You Need to Achieve Your Goals

This article explores how high achievers generate the luck they need to achieve their biggest goals. The article highlights the qualities and traits that lucky people tend to have in common. It breaks down the mindset we must nurture to help us attract good fortune into our lives. And it walks you through a set of daily action steps you must take to generate more luck as you pursue your goals. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary habits, behaviors, and mindset that will attract more luck, fortune, and abundance into your life.

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44 Life Coaching Mistakes that New Life Coaches Often Make

This article will help you identify the most common mistakes that life coaches make while working with their clients. Understanding where and how these coaching mistakes occur will be of particular value for new coaches. However, even experienced coaches make these coaching mistakes. The article categorizes mistakes into several categories including perceptual mistakes, personal communication mistakes, personal approach mistakes, and mistakes related to setting client tasks. These mistakes are, of course, very easy to address. However, we first need to become aware that we are making them. Use the accompanying mind map as a handy reference poster to help you avoid making critical coaching mistakes.

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How to Successfully Transition Through the Seasons of Change

This article delves into the natural rhythms and cycles of the seasons as they relate to our physical and psychological well-being. The article explores how life is comprised of psychological cycles that affect us all and that we transition through over a lifetime. These psychological seasons are categorized into the seasons of summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Each season relates back to our psychological tendencies and life experiences. The article breaks down the triggers, the characteristics, and the experiences we typically identify with while moving through each season. The article also presents you with several self-reflection questions you can use to help you transition through each season in optimal ways. Working through this article will help you make the most of life transitions no matter what season you’re going through. In the end, it’s not what happens to us, but rather how we interpret what happens to us that brings lasting change and transformation.

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How to Use The GROW Model to Set Actionable Goals

This article explores a simple yet very effective method you can use to help your coaching clients set effective goals. The GROW model is a framework used by life coaches to help guide their clients through the goal-setting process. This framework, can, however, be used for self-coaching purposes as well. The article breaks down the purpose of using the GROW Model. It then breaks the GROW Model down into four distinct steps. These steps include getting very clear about your goal, exploring the circumstances of your current reality, taking into consideration all available options, and finally paving the way forward. This GROW Model framework for goal setting is the perfect companion to help you help your clients set more effective and empowering goals.

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76 Indispensable Qualities of Success You Need to Achieve Your Goals

This article presents a list of personal, social, intellectual, spiritual and behavioral qualities that are indispensable for those seeking to achieve the pinnacles of success within all aspects of life. The article breaks down the different kinds of qualities that are worthwhile cultivating to help you achieve success in any field of endeavor.

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The Universal Law of Control and its Impact on Your Life

The Law of Control states that we feel good about ourselves to the degree to which we feel that we are in control of our own lives. The article defines the law and how it relates to life; explores the consequences of when we are in control and when we lack control in life, and presents several effective strategies and questions to help you take back control over your life.

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What is Murphy’s Law? And Is it Destined to Bring You Bad Luck?

Murphy’s Law states that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time, all of the time. Becoming aware of this fact will help you to better prepare for ‘so called’ bad luck that you might experience in life. The article explores how anything can go wrong; how nothing goes right; how everyone always knows what you don’t, and much more.

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The Universal Law of Attraction and its Impact on Your Life

The Law of Magnetic Attraction states that we are like magnets attracting into our lives everything that corresponds with our dominant thoughts and emotions. The article breaks down the impact that this law has on our life; pinpoints how the law of expectation creates a self-fulfilling prophecy; analyzes how our internal world mirrors our external world, and much more.

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The Complete Guide on How to Use Twitter (2009)

The How to Twitter IQ Matrix provides you with a beginner’s guide on how to use the social network twitter. The article explores the benefits of twitter, the various uses for twitter, what kind of content to post on twitter to get engagement and retweets, and how to brand yourself on twitter for your target market. These guidelines will provide you with a good beginner’s guide that will help you get started on this social network.

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The Universal Law of Belief and its Impact on Your Life

The Law of Belief states that what we believe with feeling, commitment and intention will become our living reality; whether we like it or not. The article discusses the relevance of this law; explores the paralyzing effect of self-limiting beliefs and the impact they have on our lives; presents several guiding principles for taking charge of limiting beliefs, and more.

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The Universal Law of Cause and Effect and its Impact on Your Life

The Law of Cause-Effect states that all of our thoughts and actions create specific effects that are measurable and predictable; allowing us to take conscious control of our lives. The article discusses the premise the life isn’t ruled by accidents or chance encounters; presents the idea that we have always had free choice; lists several questions to help you take charge of your life.

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How to Quickly Improve Your Memory Using Number Associations

The Number Associations IQ Matrix is designed as a memory assistance tool to help you remember dates, phone numbers, birthdays and other information quickly and easily. Imagination and association are both critical components of memory. For this very reason this map is built upon number rhyme associations that are designed to help improve your memory and recall.

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Unlocking the Entrepreneurial Mind of Richard Branson

This article presents you with an insight into the mind, habits and skills of one of the most extraordinary and charismatic entrepreneurs the world has ever known. The article explores the habitual behaviors that separate Richard Branson from the masses, identifies the skills he has mastered, and outlines how Richard Branson thinks and the beliefs that have created a global billion dollar empire.

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The Complete Guide on How to Mind Map for Beginners

The How to Mind Map IQ Matrix breaks down the fundamental principles of mind mapping. Working through this map will help you to better understand the value of creating mind maps and the rules that govern mind map creation. You will also discover creative ways that mind maps can be used to help improve your productivity and improve your thinking ability.

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Download the MasterMind Matrix Chart

Imagine taking a unique journey through the depths of your mind and stepping into a world of limitless possibilities where every one of your thoughts, habits, behaviors, beliefs, decisions and actions are revealed to you in vivid detail. Within this scenario “causes” are identified and “effects” are measured, effectively unlocking the hidden patterns that are […]

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A Person of Influence

A Beginner’s Guide on How to Become a Person of Influence

This article explores what it takes to become a person of influence in your field, profession or industry. The article provides you with essential rapport creation and communication techniques you need to help you gain respect, adoration, and more influence in the public arena. Personal influence is, of course, built upon the fundamentals of communication and listening skills. The article, therefore, breaks down how to develop your rapport skills, how to become a better listener, and how to improve your communication style and technique. The development of these skills will help you to gain more influence over the people you love, teach and serve.

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How to Read People Like an FBI Agent

Unlocking Personality: Learn How to Read People Like an FBI Profiler

This article explores how to better understand people and their behavior at a deeper psychological level. The article will help you profile people at a basic level of understanding in a similar way an FBI Profiler profiles a suspect. The article breaks down various aspects of human behavior, personality, and appearance that we must learn to read in social situations. It highlights the four personality types and how to influence them at a fundamental level. The article also outlines three communication types and how to adapt your behavior to each type. Finally, the article breaks down the signs of deception that you must look out for. These signs will help you identify whether or not a person is being genuine and honest. As you work through this article you will come to understand people at a far deeper level, and as a result, you will be better able to influence their thoughts, decisions, and behavior.

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