The Leverage Your Efforts IQ Matrix explores how to leverage your time, resources, knowledge, talents, and other people to help you achieve your goals far more quickly. Successful goal achievement has very little to do with the goal you are pursuing, and everything to do with how you pursue that goal. With that in mind, you need to make the most of everything you have at your disposal to help you achieve that goal. In other words, you need to understand how to best leverage your efforts in ways that will improve your chances of success.
Here is a quick breakdown of each branch of the Leverage Your Efforts mind map.
Take Initiative: The first branch of this map highlights the importance of taking the initiative to get things done quickly and efficiently. When you take initiative you get the ball rolling and this immediately exposes you to new knowledge, information, experiences, resources, and opportunities that can help you achieve your goals.
Use Leverage: The second branch of this map breaks down how to use leverage to achieve your goals. Using leverage is about making full use of everything you currently have at your disposal that can help move your goals forward. This might include your time, talents, contacts, ideas, opportunities, and even other people. Leverage all these things in the right way, and you will immediately enhance your chances of success.
Go the Extra Mile: The third branch of this map explores the value of going the extra mile in everything you do. To go the extra mile means going above and beyond what is expected of you in every situation. When you do more than is expected you win people over, you grow your reputation and thereby become a more persuasive and influential force in people’s lives. As a result, you naturally have more leverage to sway people’s ideas and opinions in your favor.
Model Successful People: The final branch of this map walks you through how to model successful people. Here you are leveraging other people’s experiences to accelerate the achievement of your own goals. First, you must identify what’s working for others, where they are succeeding, and where they might have previously failed, and then you leverage those experiences to accelerate the progress toward your own goals.
This map provides a roadmap and framework for leveraging your efforts. Referencing it regularly and committing it to memory will help you to embed these principles into your subconscious mind. Only in this way will you develop optimal habits of mind and patterns of behavior that will help you gain the leverage you need to accomplish your goals.
A mind map, of course, does this beautifully because it mirrors the synaptic connections made in your brain as you try to establish new habits of thought and behavior. It brings together key concepts and ideas that help your brain to fully integrate and process this information. The brain, subsequently, rewires itself as it attempts to establish new habits of mind. It’s an ideal tool for creating lasting change and transformation.
When you purchase the Leverage Your Efforts IQ Matrix you will receive:
- A PDF copy of the IQ Matrix, which you can use for printing in high resolution.
- A JPG image file of the IQ Matrix, which is ideal for viewing on tablets and mobile devices.
- A Desktop Background version of the map you can use for reference on your computer.
- A MindManager file for those who wish to edit the content of the IQ Matrix.
Additional visual resources and variations of this IQ Matrix might be added to your account page at no extra cost in the future.
