Life is not always easy, in fact for most people it can be a continuous struggle that never seems to end. Yes, of course you have all these wonderful goals and dreams that you would like to achieve, however as usual unexpected problems arise and you never seem to be making any progress. Life just seems unfair and all your hard work seems to be in-vain. During these tough times you start to question yourself, life and why in the world you can’t catch a break…

Life does not need to be a struggle if you come to understand the psychological forces that are currently influencing your daily decisions, actions and behaviors.

Have you ever felt like the world is conspiring against you? It seems that no matter what you do there’s always a problem hiding around every corner. Life seems to be coming at you from a variety of different angles and trajectories making you feel overwhelmed and exhausted. It seems that no matter what you do that life is always a step ahead, ensuring that you don’t get what you want most to accomplish.

This is actually a very common scenario. In fact, most people tend to feel this way—maybe even you feel this way at times… most times?

For years I read all the self-help books, attended many seminars, listened to more personal development programs than I can count trying to understand why life seems to be pushing me under the bus all the time. I mean… I’m working so hard and trying to do the right things. Why do I continue to struggle?

Looking back at myself at the time, I was filled with many insecurities, fears, broken dreams and the like. I wanted life to get better, and I felt that I needed to fill that void by collecting as much information about my PROBLEMS as possible. In short I was looking for answers. However, I was nothing more than an Information Collector. Taking action on what I was learning was just not part of my psychology. I just wanted to collect, organize and gain as much knowledge about everything that pertained to the psychology of success as was humanly possible so that one day I could achieve my goals and dreams. I figured that if I knew everything that there was to know, that it would eventually help me climb to the top in any field of endeavor.

I would religiously take notes about everything I learned and came across. I kept a diary about my daily interactions with others. I even studied television shows and took notes about the psychology of people and how they interacted with the world around them. Reality television shows and documentaries brought forth some of the greatest insights. They allowed me to see people in a “real world” environment, dealing with the challenges and pitfalls that life threw their way.

I also applied the same observations in the real world while interacting with other people. However, as you can imagine it was a little more difficult to take notes while conversing with another person. I couldn’t politely, in the middle of a conversation press the PAUSE button and say; “Could you just hold on a second? I want to note down the facial expressions you used while telling me this absurd story about your life.”

Around this time I decided to broaden my knowledge about self-development and decided to become a Life Coach. My studies at the Life Coaching Institute of Australia gave me practical experience and confidence to start applying what I was learning, and putting that information into Action for the first time in my life.

The development of the MasterMind Matrix began as I was undertaking my studies at the Life Coaching Institute. What I learned at the Institute was extraordinary, however there were so many gaps within this knowledge base (and within all the information I had collected up to that point) that it would often leave me frustrated trying to figure out how all the pieces of our psychological puzzle fit together. I essentially needed a diagram that could piece all this information together and simplify my Life Coaching work with clients.

One night in 2006, I was sitting on my computer at home, and decided to try my luck by creating a simple diagram that pieced a few key components of this information together. The original chart was composed of only 30 to 40 pieces (the bottom image shows version 1.5), however it presented me with a starting point and something I could work from.

An early version of the MasterMind Matrix created in 2006. Click image for larger view.

I would spend the next 12 months (mainly evenings, nights and the very early hours of the morning) plowing through my notes and piecing the MasterMind Matrix together step-by-step. I had all these questions I needed answered about the psychology of being human—and the chart was providing me with an avenue to express myself. As a result I persisted with the creation of the MasterMind Matrix until all questions I was asking at the time were answered.

As I was expanding the MasterMind Matrix, I came to realize how many pieces of information were still missing. I therefore undertook further research, read more books, listened to just about every self-improvement program I could get my hands on, to ensure that no stone would remain unturned. I instinctively believed that the information these self-help Gurus were sharing with me could be compressed into an easy to understand format that would effectively piece together all the components necessary that lay down the building blocks of success in any field of endeavor.

By early 2007 the MasterMind Matrix had grown out of control and had become a dominating part of my bedroom wall—presented in A4 sized chunks that were stuck together with tape. I posted the MasterMind Matrix Chart right on the wall beside my bed so that it would always be at the forefront of my mind as I went to sleep at night and woke up the next morning. The chart was still rather rough around the edges, however the main pieces were in place.

Over the remaining 2 years — moving into 2009 — I updated the chart with new snippets of information from books, NLP courses, personal experience and through working with life coaching clients. Every piece of new information I came across seemed to fit seamlessly into the MasterMind Matrix, which gave me a lot of confidence that everything was on the right track.

In 2008 I launched the IQ Matrix Blog which is built around mind maps that are directly connected to specific segments of the MasterMind Matrix. Their purpose is to expand areas of the MasterMind Matrix in greater depth and detail, thusly providing a comprehensive overview of what it takes to achieve success in any field of endeavor.

The current version of the MasterMind Matrix chart last updated in 2010

I often look back at the MasterMind Matrix and wonder how it all came together. The answer I get is “one very small piece at a time“. Could this short statement hold the greatest secret to all success? You be the judge.

The MasterMind Matrix pieces together some of the best information, strategies, tools and techniques about the psychology of success. The chart is designed to help you acquire all the knowledge you need that will help you achieve your goals and objectives.

MasterMind Matrix Chart

The MasterMind Matrix chart will guide you step-by-step towards success and achievement in any field of endeavor. It makes for an ideal self-coaching tool for any problems or challenges that may stand between you and your life’s objectives.

The MasterMind Matrix is a map about the unconscious, conscious and semiconscious patterns of behavior that we experience every single waking and sleeping moment. Whether you perceive it as being a map about your academic life, your career path, your sporting mindset development plan, your life accomplishment tool, or an entrepreneurial management success strategy—putting all that aside, it is essentially nothing more than a process of how we condition ourselves and are conditioned by our environment and others on a daily basis. Alter any one of the major forces on the MasterMind Matrix and you begin to make dramatic and momentum building changes to your entire pattern of existence.

The following is a list of some of the key areas that the MasterMind Matrix touches upon:

• The impact of peer groups, society, media and other influential forces on your psychology.
• How your thoughts are influenced and influence other areas of your life.
• How your perceptions are influenced by your psychology and outside forces.
• Enhancing your imagination through creative thinking processes
• The impact of the human NEEDS on your psychology.
• How you form references which turn to opinions and eventually beliefs.
• The development of your self-concept as it relates to other aspects of your psychology.
• How to model the patterns of successful people to achieve success in your life.
• Meta-program elicitation and formation.
• How your values influence and interact with other psychological factors to form your understanding of reality
• Belief alteration strategies to strengthen your drive towards your goals and objectives.
• The difference between beliefs and convictions and how to turn beliefs into convictions.
• Mastering the psychological rules that impact your daily decisions and actions.
• Personality identification and the influence this has on your psychology moving forward through the MasterMind Matrix.
• The influence of the EGO on your life.
• The importance of mastering your physiology and how this influences your psychology.
• How to adjust your mental state and influence your emotions.
• Improving your levels of emotional intelligence.
• Turning a limiting attitude into an empowering attitude to propel you forward towards your goals and objectives.
• Transforming your language to improve your emotions and life.
• Asking the right questions that will lead to better and more effective decisions.
• How to enhance your levels of intuition for more effective decision making.
• Making choices and decisions the smart way to enhance your results.
• An analysis of your strengths and weaknesses.
• Clarification of your personal legend, purpose, life’s mission and vision.
• A step-by-step process for effective goal setting.
• How to use the process of pain and pleasure to drive you forward towards your goals.
• How to layout effective plans of actions for goal achievement.
• Mastering your time using a variety of time management strategies.
• Incorporating visualizations and affirmations to enhance the progress you make towards your goals.
• Utilizing appropriate motivation techniques to boost your levels of productivity.
• Fears and phobias and how to overcome them.
• Managing stress and anxiety more effectively.
• The importance of becoming a lifelong learner in this day and age.
• How to expand your comfort zone and transform your life.
• Listing the essential qualities of success required to help you achieve your goals.
• Analysis of critical thinking skills.
• Analysis of creative thinking skills.
• Analysis of problem solving strategies.
• How to identify opportunities that will help you achieve your goals.
• The fabrics of the conscious thinking brain and how it connects to everything within the MasterMind Matrix.
• The intricacies of the unconscious mind and how it connects to everything within the MasterMind Matrix.
• Mastering your levels of health.
• Sleep enhancement strategies and its importance to helping your expand your creativity.
• Enhancing your energy and levels of vitality.
• Incorporating accelerated learning principles in all areas of your life.
• How to improve your memory.
• How your relationships with others influence your current reality and perceptions.
• The MasterMind Matrix also pieces together many life skill areas including leadership, sales, networking, negotiation, public speaking, persuasion, rapport creation and wealth management strategies.

This list only provides a quick overview of some of the sections within the MasterMind Matrix. There’s a lot more depth to the MasterMind Matrix than what is first visible on the surface. To view more in-depth visuals of a number of these segments, please click on the images below to view the chart.

What makes the MasterMind Matrix so unique is that it’s actually composed of many smaller elements that have been expanded into 100+ individual IQ Matrix maps. If you view the image below you will see all the sections that have been highlighted in yellow. Each of these sections has been expanded in much more detail within one or more IQ Matrix maps.

The MasterMind Matrix is for you if:

Achieving high levels of success in any field of endeavor takes time and effort. The MasterMind Matrix is an all-encompassing chart that will lay down a clear path that you can follow to help you succeed in almost anything you set your mind to. However, it will not do the work for you. Taking action towards your goals and implementing everything outlined within the MasterMind Matrix is up to you. Therefore if you’re looking for something that will immediately fix your problems, than the MasterMind Matrix isn’t for you.

If on the other hand you are looking for something that will provide you with a clear framework to help you overcome those pesky problems and achieve your goals and objectives, than the MasterMind Matrix may be exactly what you’ve been looking for all this time.

Each of these mind maps can be used as an effective reference poster to keep you on track and focused in the right direction. Simply print out the mind map you wish to learn and master and post it on your wall, refrigerator, bathroom mirror, beside your bed, or in your office for easy reference throughout the day. Alternatively you can also place the mind map you want to study on your desktop as a background.

When you purchase the MasterMind Matrix you will also receive access to the Effective Thinker bundle pack which includes 15+ mind maps that are designed to help you improve your thinking.

The mind maps included within this bonus package are:

As an additional bonus you will also receive access to the MasterMind Matrix eBook, which will take you step-by-step through segments of the MasterMind Matrix. The eBook also lists over 700 additional resources, articles, books and videos that will help expand your understanding of the chart in much more detail.

This eBook is the perfect companion to the MasterMind Matrix and will provide you with insights you may not have acquired using the chart by itself.

The eBook is not officially for sale and is only available to IQ Matrix email list subscribers. However, I plan to sell this eBook for $27.00 in the future.

To order the MasterMind Matrix simply click on the yellow “order now” button below and you will be given the option to pay via PayPal or Credit Card using PayPal as the payment processor. You therefore don’t need to have a PayPal account in order to make your purchase.