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.

How Developing a Curious Nature will Unlock a World of Opportunity

This article gives you a glimpse into the incredible power of curiosity and the extraordinary impact it can have on your life, growth, and development. The article explores how curiosity is the starting point of every great achievement. It breaks down the advantages of cultivating a curious nature and how it supports your ability to learn and grow. It presents you with questions that will spark your curiosity. Delves into curiosity practices you can partake in. And lists the things you must avoid doing that are likely to undermine your curiosity. Those who are curious see the world very differently when compared to those who never question the nature of their reality. Curiosity is, therefore, an indispensable part of success that can open up doors of opportunity that others never have access to.

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Are You Struggling to Tame Your Inner Critic? Here’s How to Set Yourself Free…

The article explores how to tame the inner critic who continuously reminds you of your mistakes, failures, limitations, and inadequacies. If your critical voice is out of control, then it’s undoubtedly influencing every decision you make and action you take. Moreover, it’s holding you back from living your life to the best of your ability. When your critical voice is around you don’t do what you could do to achieve your goals and objectives. You, instead, hold yourself back, which only leads to a life of unfulfilled potential and endless regrets. This article explores where your critical voice comes from. It walks you through a three-step process you can use to subdue your critical voice. And it delves into numerous solutions for taming your inner critic. These ideas will provide you with the leverage you need to control that voice inside your head from taking control of your life.

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Are You Stuck in the Perfectionism Trap? Here’s How to Plan Your Escape!

This article explores various ways to help you overcome the constricting consequences of indulging in the habit of perfectionism. Perfectionism is a very covert way we tend to sabotage ourselves. While indulging in perfectionism we feel as though we’re making progress. However, it’s ultimately nothing more than a smokescreen for our self-sabotaging behavior. This article identifies the disadvantages of indulging in perfectionism. It highlights the typical behaviors that lead to perfectionism. It outlines how we tend to hold onto our perfectionistic behavior and how it evolves over time. The article then presents you with several strategies and guidelines to help you overcome perfectionism in your day to day undertakings. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary traits, mindset, and behaviors required for overcoming your perfectionistic nature.

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How to Develop the Superhero Courage Needed to Achieve a Goal

This article explores how to step outside your comfort zone and risk it all to overcome your fears and achieve your goals. The article provides a very helpful definition of courage that invites introspection. It presents you with ideas on how to prepare your body and mind to undertake courageous acts. It describes how you can strengthen your courage muscle each day in small ways. And concludes by showcasing the types of decisions you should make, the steps you should take, and the behaviors you must cultivate to develop a courageous heart. Working through this article will help you develop the courage you need to overcome your fears and achieve your goals.

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How to Fake it Til You Make it and Find Your Self-Confidence

This article explores how to develop the self-confidence you need to achieve your goals and to overcome your fears and the awkwardness you might feel in social situations. The process involves acting AS IF you already are the person you desire to be. By acting as if you’re already this person you subsequently transform how you think, behave, and talk to yourself within particular social settings and situations. Moreover, this changes the choices and decisions you make and the actions you take. And as your attitude shifts, your results improve and your life takes a dramatic turn for the better. This article walks you through what it means to act as if you’re already confident, successful, courageous, calm, etc. It then breaks down a four-step process you can use to begin faking it with purpose. And it concludes by presenting you with additional guidelines and suggestions for faking it like you mean it.

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What is a Self-Ideal? And Why is it Important to Pursue Your Ideal Self?

This article explores the steps we can follow to reach a state of self-actualization where we pursue the very best of what we are capable of becoming. You have your “current” self and you also have your “ideal” self. Your current self is who you know you are right now. While your ideal self is who see yourself becoming as you move forward into the future. Your ideal-self is the better version of the “self” you experience today. It’s, of course, not a perfect version. It’s not perfect because it’s an ever-changing version of yourself that will always remain somewhat elusive and out of reach. However, pursuing your ideal-self leads to tremendous growth opportunities that can help you become a better version of yourself today. This article breaks down what the self-ideal is all about and what it means to pursue our ideal-self. It then walks you through a four-step process you can use to help you shape your self-ideal intentionally and with purpose. It presents you with several questions for unlocking your ideal-self. It then concludes by walking you through what it means to experience a state of self-actualization. Working this article will help you add new layers to your persona, which will help you become a better version of yourself.

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What Exactly is a Self-Image? Here’s What You Need to Know…

This article explores what it takes to develop an empowering self-image that will help you develop the self-confidence and self-belief you need to achieve your goals. The article defines what a self-image is and its impact on our lives. It breaks down the difference between a healthy and unhealthy self-image. When our self-image is healthy it helps us get the most out of our abilities in every situation. On the other hand, when it is unhealthy, it holds us back from reaching our full potential. The article then takes you through a four-step process for developing an empowered self-image. These steps present you with numerous thought-provoking questions that will give you deep insights into your own psyche and psychological tendencies. The article concludes by providing you with further guidelines and suggestions for strengthening your self-image. Working through this article will help you develop the self-confidence and self-belief you need to live more intentionally and with purpose. You will feel powerful instead of powerless, confident instead of hesitant, and that will make all the difference for your future growth and development as a human being.

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How to Build Self-Worth and Start Believing in Yourself Again

This article explores how to build a higher level of self-worth and start believing in yourself again. Self-worth is, however, often confused with self-esteem. They are certainly related, however, there is a difference. Where self-esteem is derived from sources that are outside of ourselves, self-worth, on the other hand, comes from within, from a sense of personal power. Self-worth is a measure of how you value yourself in spite of your results, in spite of what’s happening around you, and in spite of what others might think or say about you. Therefore, to have self-worth is to have personal power. And with a sense of personal power, anything becomes possible. This article breaks down the key differences between self-worth and self-esteem. It then takes you through a five-step process you can use to help you build your self-worth. Working through this article will help you feel more confident irrespective of what life throws your way. Your self-esteem will, therefore, no longer be at the mercy of your results or of what others say or do. The only thing that will matter is what you think about yourself.

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Ultimate Brainstorming: A Beginner’s Guide to Brainstorming and Ideation

This article delves into the process of brainstorming to help solve organization-wide problems. The article breaks down the process of group brainstorming within a workshop environment. However, this article isn’t only for group brainstorming. The techniques presented here can also be used for individual brainstorming activities. Specifically, the article breaks down the advantages of brainstorming, how to prepare for a brainstorming session, how to execute a brainstorming session and the various brainstorming activities you can undertake to generate creative ideas.

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Practical Ideas for Boosting Your Self-Confidence and Achieving Your Goals

This article explores how to boost your level of self-confidence and enhance your self-esteem. The article breaks down what self-confidence is all about and what it means to feel confident in yourself. It highlights how a lack of self-confidence impacts our life in limiting ways. It provides you with a set of self-analysis questions that explore the goals you might like to achieve when it comes to developing your self-confidence. The article also shows you how your level of self-confidence is a direct result of how you perceive failure, rejection, mistakes, embarrassment, and other debilitating fears. It delves into several suggestions for constructing your self-confidence. And it concludes by breaking down the mindset of a confident person. Working through this article will encourage you to make several important perspective shifts that will help you develop the necessary habits and mindset required for generating more self-confidence.

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How to Succeed and Win at the Game of Life

This article will help you live your life with a renewed sense of purpose and passion. This will ultimately help you make the most of every moment and overcome adversity. The article uses the analogy of life being very much like a game. No longer is life simply “life”. Life now becomes a game — a game that you play; a game that you learn from; a game that you experience and enjoy; and a game that you potentially come to master over time. As with any game, there are guidelines for playing and very specific rules that you must follow. These rules have been set in place to help you. They are there to help you overcome personal challenges and struggles, and ultimately win at the game of life. By following these rules, you improve your chances of success. However, by ignoring these rules, you are setting yourself up for inevitable failure. The article walks you through what it means to succeed at the game of life. It also outlines 10 indispensable rules that we must follow to ensure that we win at the game of life.

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The Complete Guide to Living with Passion and Purpose

This article explores how to live with more passion, purpose, and enthusiasm as you work toward the achievement of your goals. The article defines what it means to live with passion. It highlights the benefits of living with passion and the positive impact this can have on your life. It presents you with a set of questions to help you discover and unleash your passions. It walks you through a series of steps for tapping into your passions each day. It concludes by listing down a number of passion traps that are likely to sabotage your progress as you work toward your goals. Working through this article will help you find more passion, enthusiasm, and a zest for living your life with a sense of purpose.

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A Visual Plan on How to Set Your New Year’s Resolutions

This article explores a process of steps that will help you follow-through with your New Year’s Resolutions. Surveys have shown time and again that people who make New Year’s Resolutions rarely achieve them. In fact, one survey indicated that 92 percent of all New Year’s Resolutions are never realized. Why? Because there are just too many “good enough” excuses not to follow through. However, excuses aside, many people simply fail to fully commit to the goals they set for the New Year. And all this comes down to a lack of clarity and understanding about what it truly takes to achieve their desired objectives. This article walks you through the six-steps for setting actionable New Year’s Resolutions. These steps include reflecting on the past year, outlining your desired goal, creating a plan of action, taking action, maintaining consistent action, and following through with your actions until your goal is realized.

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To Achieve Your Goals You Need to Commitment to the Pursuit of Excellence

This article explores how to tap into your competitive spirit. It’s that competitive spirit that will propel you to raise your standards of performance and excel at higher than expected levels. However, pursuing excellence is not necessarily about being the very best. Nor is it about being first at everything you do. It’s rather about being the very best you can be by adding the most value to everything you do. Yes, of course, it’s important to be competitive and strive to get more out of yourself in comparison to others. This is, of course, how most people measure excellence. However, excellence always begins within. It begins internally. It’s a mental game, and once you understand this inner game you can then play it to the highest level and to the best of your ability. This article walks you through the mindset, approaches, habits, and beliefs that build the foundations of excellence.

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Practical Guidelines for Boosting Productivity and Accelerating Your Results

This article explores how to improve your effectiveness and efficiency throughout the day. Most of us want to achieve more, but we rarely change how we do things. We continue doing things the same way over again expecting different results. If you want to boost your productivity, then you must change how you go about doing things. That is the only way you will improve your results. This article walks you through several guidelines for boosting your productivity. It makes suggestions on how to improve your output throughout the day. It delves into several productivity shortcuts you can use that will save you time and effort while working on tasks. And it identifies common barriers and obstacles you might face that may harm your productivity and output throughout the day. As you work through this article and apply these principles to your life you will progressively develop the essential habits and behaviors that separate the highest achievers from everybody else.

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Breaking Down the Six-Step Productivity Process

This article explores a process you can use that will help you boost your productivity and accelerate your results. Learning how to be more productive doesn’t need to be a complicated process. We can all improve our levels of productivity throughout the day. We just need to follow some tried and tested guidelines for improving our output. This article walks you through the mindset you must cultivate to work more productively. It breaks down the skills that will improve your effectiveness and efficiency throughout the day. And it and outlines a six-step productivity process you can use to maximize and optimize how you work on tasks and projects. Working through this article will help you develop the necessary skills, habits, and mindset of highly productive individuals.

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How to Work Smarter, Not Harder to Achieve Your Goals

This article explores how to stop being busy, and instead build the habit of working on the most important things that have the greatest impact on your goals. This article has been designed to help you re-prioritize how you think and how you work on day-to-day tasks and activities. What many people get wrong is that they waste too much time on just being busy. Being busy doesn’t mean you’re making progress. You make progress when you make better choices that help you work on the right things, at the right time, for the right amount of time, and for the right reasons. That is the only way to accelerate your results. This article outlines what it means to be genuinely busy. It explores how to prioritize your tasks and activities. It highlights the difference between a task that is important, necessary, and unnecessary. It delves into how to make better choices that will move your goals forward. And it presents you with various guidelines and suggestions for working smarter, not harder.

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Living Mindfully: Using the Power of Mindfulness to Optimize Your Life

This article explores what it means to live more mindfully. Mindfulness is, however, not primarily about living in the moment. There’s a lot more to mindfulness than most of us realize. Mindfulness is, in fact, a mindset of self-growth and development. It’s a state of being where you live with purpose, on purpose, which essentially helps you make more effective choices and decisions throughout the day. The article breaks down what it means to live mindfully. It highlights the value that mindfulness can bring to our lives. It outlines a series of exercises you can practice for improving your mindfulness practice. And concludes with guidelines on how to live more mindfully each day.

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How to Critically Assess Your Personal Strengths and Weaknesses

This article will help you identify your strengths while overcoming the weaknesses that are preventing you from making progress towards the attainment of your goals. The article breaks down a process to help you identify your strengths using a series of questions; takes you through a weaknesses assessment process and helps you identify key skill areas to work on.

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How to Expand Your Comfort Zone to Achieve Your Goals

This article explores how to break free of your comfort zone and achieve your goals. Many people have all these wonderful goals they want to achieve. However, they make very little progress toward these goals because they remain anchored to their comfort zones. Anything and everything that is meaningful that we want to achieve lies beyond our comfort zones. We must, therefore, find the courage to step beyond its boundaries to live the life we desire to live. This article breaks down the make-up of a comfort zone. It explores how we tend to constrict ourselves within our comfort zones. It walks you through a process of how to progressively work on expanding your comfort zone. And it presents you with strategies for pushing the limits of your comfort zone each day. Working through this article will help you to find the courage and motivation you need to progressively expand the boundaries of your comfort zone.

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