This article focuses on something that is quite unique to us, the MindMapTutor.

On MindMapTutor.com the definition of a Tutor is:

‘A Teacher; usually instructing individuals and often engaged privately.’ – Collins English Dictionary

This was the original intent of the website, but out of this evolved a unique information delivery method, The MindMapTutor.

A MindMapTutor should instruct and guide you on a lifelong path of learning to enable you to continuously gain a competitive advantage.

History

In September, 2008 I registered the MindMapTutor.com domain with the intention of tutoring, guiding and training with the use of Mind Maps.

I have been using Mind Maps for over two decades now and I am still as passionate about using Mind Maps as I was twenty years ago.

I was with this in mind that I started MindMapTutor.com.

My wife and I had experimented with Mind Maps in many situations. She was a teacher, a lecturer and a trainer. I worked in the corporate world as an I.T. guy and progressed from techie to Senior Management.

Our combined experiences using Mind Maps in learning and personal growth, in the classroom, and at work, proved to be more than enough of a training ground to help us give back to the world what we have learnt.

Why another Mind Mapping website?

But why another Mind Map website? you may ask. After all there are many other experts with websites, books videos, seminars, etc. on the subject. This includes Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map.

Despite all the information available, and us teaching people how to Mind Map, we found people struggling to change from their traditional, linear ways.

We also found it difficult to create Mind Maps for other people to read, making Mind Maps a personal tool for most people.

I was also inspired by Adam Sicinsky and what he was doing on his IQMatrix website. His Mind Maps read like sentences and still maintained Tony Buzan’s one-word-per-line rule. Until today I am very impressed by his works.

Yet, no matter what system you use, there will always be detractors. No method works for everyone.

This is very different to what Tony Buzan may say. Mind Maps are the solution to all problems according to him.

We found that we had to find a middle ground. Out of this the MindMapTutor website and eventually the MindMapTutor concept was born.

MindMapTutor.com is a Blog. We chose to use a Blog as it was very easy to get up and running to test the concept and whether people will be bothered to read what we have to say.

This worked very well, and today we have thousands of unique visitors to the Blog every month.

The Blog offers a free weekly article delivered to your email inbox. The weekly articles make up the bulk of the content on MindMapTutor.com.

While writing these articles, I found it difficult to convey some of the messages in an easily digestible format. It was even more difficult to get to the heart of some of the more challenging concepts.

• A Mind Map alone left people confused.
• A linear version left them even more confused.

Out of this, the MindMapTutor concept was born.

The MindMapTutor Concept

A MindMapTutor contains an overview Mind Map illustrating the important principles and a structured text based summary of the Mind Map with the main branches becoming the headings and even the sub headings of the article.

The details are filled in in plain, easy to read text.

This provides a natural bridge between the linear world and the Mind Map world and provides the best of both worlds.

This concept has been met with great, positive feedback and many of the articles and blog posts are now delivered in this format.

The best thing about the process is that people don’t even know they are doing something different. The merger between the two worlds starts becoming a seamless process.

Another Website

Because MindMapTutor.com is a blog, it became difficult to access older articles, or articles related to a particular topic on using Mind Maps. A Blog, which comes from the words Web Log, naturally orders posts chronologically. The latest post gets the most focus, making older articles difficult to access.

We therefore decided to create UsingMindMaps.com, which has more of a Website structure with articles structured according to topics, giving us more control over the delivery of our content and a more ‘user friendly’ interface for our visitors.

We also chose SiteSell’s SBI as the delivery mechanism for the Website. You can read more about creating a website based on your passion by clicking here. SiteSell has simply been amazing. We could concentrate on what we wanted to do – deliver good quality content on using Mind Maps – and every thing else was taken care of by their system.

Most of the articles on UsingMindMaps.com are in MindMapTutor format. They have a Mind Map introducing the article followed by structured linear notes.

The idea is to have short, focused articles on a topic with each article being a building block of a bigger picture, so that you can build up your knowledge bit by bit with methods that are simple to learn, easy to use and produce fast results.

The whole is bigger than the sum of the parts!

Products

We have also started to develop some commercial MindMapTutor products. The first is our Learning Management Program Ebook.

We decided to launch this at a very low, affordable price, as it is our first one and we learned a lot by producing it. It also provides you with everything you need to know to learn just about anything, including our MindMapTutors!

The Ebook contains eight modules. Each module has a Mind Map introducing it and the rest of the module is written in the same, easy to read style as the articles on UsingMindMaps.com.

Clarity

I hope that the concept of the MindMapTutor is clear to you. Have a look at the page on UsingMindMaps.com devoted to the MindMapTutor concept. A quick look at the examples should be enough for you to get the idea.

Also browse the rest of the articles to get a broader idea of the concept.

We hope that our MindMapTutors will enhance your learning and growth. So keep a lookout for new free and premium MindMapTutors in the future.

They will definitely enable you to learn faster and easier and ensure that you maintain a sustainable, competitive advantage.

Please pass this on to anyone that you think may benefit by learning faster and easier.

Why Mind Map Tutor?

Before I answer the question, ‘Why Mind Map Tutor’, I give you the Collins Dictionary definition of a tutor: ‘A Teacher; usually instructing individuals and often engaged privately.’

You should feel that you are being personally tutored by the information on this website.

My love for Mind Mapping and what it did for me, gave me the idea to share this information with as many people as possible. What better way than via the Internet?

Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage – Arie De Geus

I believe that Mind Maps are the most effective tool to accomplish this with the least amount of effort.

By using Mind Maps you will be able to increase your net worth, by being able to learn faster than your competition. In this world of information explosion, Mind Maps can help you organise and categorise complex information in a simple, associative and memorable way.

You will also be able to reduce the large volumes of information out there into meaningful and manageable chunks. Mind Maps are also colourful, stimulating and fun!

With Mind Maps you will also be able to learn:

• How to improve memory
• How to improve writing
• How to improve reading
• How to improve communication
• How to improve learning
• How to improve study skills
• And much more…

We will provide lots of Free Mind Map articles, share our thoughts and experiences in the use of Mind Maps and also provide Mind Map Tools and Guides to help you in your Career, Business, Education and Personal Life.

We trust that you will enjoy and learn from the information on MindMapTutor.com. So bookmark us, or sign up for our Weekly Newsletter at YourWeeklyTutor.com to stay updated and informed.

Faizel Mohidin
January 2010

Join our Learning Management Programme to get that competitive advantage NOW!

The free articles on this site should give you a good indication of what Mind Maps can do for you. If you really want to start getting the benefits of Mind Maps in the shortest possible time, then you should join our Learning Management Programme.

Watch the video below to learn more about why you need a Learning Management Programme:

By using our online Virtual Classroom, you will get tutoring at a price that would normally be prohibitive.

Get lifetime membership now for only $57-00! You get all the updates at no extra cost.

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Challenge Now On! Enrol Now…

From: Faizel Mohidin

Dear Friend,
If you want to get better results with less effort, then read further to learn about our exciting 30 day Learning Challenge.

If you are:

• Getting Poor Results
• Not getting the results you want
• Struggling to study
• Battling to concentrate
• Battling to recall information in exams

Then our Learning Management Programme is the answer.

It covers nearly everything you need to know about getting up and started in solving these problems… as soon as TOMORROW!

Imagine getting the results you want so that you can live the lifestyle you choose. By getting the results you want, you can choose the school you attend, what university you go to and what job you will get.

You can do all of this in the comfort of your home, or from your nearest Internet access point.

In just 4 few weeks from now, you could be having the same knowledge, skills and attitude as the ‘great brains’.

Our programme does what no other programme does.

Why?

Simply because we have listened to learners, both young and old, and put together a guided programme covering all aspects of learning. We ensure that you ‘Learn how to Learn’. It is similar to the old saying, ‘If you give a person a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.’

Our programme does exactly that. We teach you how to learn. Other programmes may help you with specific problems. Tutors may simply teach the material to you again, hoping you will understand. But do they teach you HOW to learn?

We had the same problem!

At school, I was an average student. I grew up in Athlone, on the Cape Flats in Cape Town, South Africa at the height of the Apartheid era.

I grew up in a poorer socio-economic climate where education was not the prime focus.

When I left school, I realised that learning will be the only way to get out of the situation I was in. I discovered ‘Use your head’ by Tony Buzan and it changed my approach to learning forever.

Once I knew how to learn, I started getting awards for outstanding results. I changed my career from a technician to a software developer and then a database administrator. I finally settled on Business Intelligence and now lead the Business Intelligence Division of a large fashion retail company.

I’ve changed jobs easily, moved to The Netherlands with my family to test myself in the International arena and obtained a Dutch second language diploma.

On returning to South Africa, I obtained a Post Graduate Degree in Business Management and I head up the Business Intelligence division of one of the largest fashion retailers in South Africa.

I could do all of this because I learned how to learn – effectively and efficiently, while having fun doing it.

My wife, Jasmine Mohidin, is the Education Consultant in this venture. She grew up under even worse circumstances than mine. She lost her father as a teenager and had to work after she left school to support herself and her mother.

She was determined to realise her dream of being a teacher though and enrolled to study as a teacher, paying her way with bursary money, which she obtained for excellent results in her tertiary studies. She obtained top results despite obtaining even worse results than mine in high school.

Her results were through sheer determination though, until she discovered Mind Mapping and Learning how to Learn, which she actually introduced to me.

Since then, she obtained a second tertiary qualification in Organisational Psychology and is now doing Post Graduate studies. She did all this, while working, being a mother, a wife and a student. To crown it all, she did it via distance learning.

She taught for many years at high schools and colleges. She also trained teachers in the new curriculum.

Today she is an Education Specialist in The Parliament of South Africa.

We’ve put our minds together and developed our Learning Management Programme, which has been tested in one-on-one situations, in the classroom and online.

Now, for the first time, we will be guiding you through the programme using social networking mechanisms such as a Blog and Twitter.

This is ground breaking stuff.

Besides this, we will be taking our seventeen year old son, Khalid, through this programme as well.

For the month of July 2009, we will be running our 30 Day Learning Challenge, which will lead you step by step through our programme and allow you to post your comments so that we can respond to your feedback

We have gone through the process.

Our son will be going through the process.

You can go through the process.

Through our 30 Day Learning Challenge you will learn the knowledge, skills and attitude used by the great brains throughout history.

Our online course has been developed in response to YOUR queries. You wanted one on one tuition. We can’t teach each and every one of you face to face, yet we wanted to help as many people as possible.

By using social networking tools such as a Blog  and Twitter, we are able to guide you through the programme, as if you were receiving personal tuition.

Working through the Learning Management Programme in this way, will give you better results than attending classes, as you will be working through the material and applying it.

By doing this, you will naturally develop the knowledge, skills and attitude needed for success without even realising it.

Here’s a quick overview of what you will learn in our 30 Day Learning Challenge:

• How to become motivated and stay motivated
  
• How to define goals and achieve them
  
• How to live the life that you want
  
• How to manage yourself
  
• How to use your time effectively
  
• How to focus on the correct things
  
• How to read faster
  
• How to increase comprehension
  
• How to remember more
  
• How to take better notes
  
• How to Mind Map
  
• How to add colour and fun to your learning
  
• How to write exams easily and effortlessly
  
• How to stay healthy
  
• How to stay sharp
  
• And more…

People who have used our methods have the following to say:

Nicole Hayes

“The mind map notes were amazing in helping me to achieve an A in higher grade Economics for my Matric.

They outline the main points of the work leaving you with the ability to expand on those points using your own knowledge as well as that from the text book.

Mind maps really do work… even now in varsity if there’s a question involving something I did in my Economics I can still picture in my mind where this answer is on the page of the mind map!

Mind maps make the work load seem a lot less overwhelming and easier to understand in cases where the text book may seem complicated.”

Genevieve Wagener

Mind Mapping Rocks!

“Thank you for giving me this opportunity to convey to other students how helpful those awesome mind maps of yours are!!!

The mind maps made learning the course for the first time so much easier and less intimidating as all the course content was summarised in a very simplistic and yet easily understandable manner, which made learning far more enjoyable.

Revision was a dream!!! All the content is right there on a few pages. The mind maps are compiled in such a way that there is just enough information to remind you of all the crucial points that you need to know and still get your mind working to fill in all the detail that is needed when writing on the essay topics.

The mind maps helped me incredibly because not only did the summarized information make learning easier, it is also set out in a way that when in a stressful exam or term test situation I could imagine the mind map and then see the section I was having difficulty with, which is much easier than trying to think of one sentence in a page long paragraph like most of the text books have.”

Patrick Cameron-Smith

“The mind maps helped me because they are fun and easy to study from. They first outline the main points to focus on before you go into more depth on the more difficult points.”

Michelle Basset

“I have found the resources on yourtutor.co.za extremely helpful in my matric studies.  In particular, the mind maps have been invaluable – they are concise and informative, giving all the information needed in a clear, easy to understand way.  I wish all my subjects had these resources!”

Richard Alexander Wagener

“I would like to say that the mind maps you showed us and used as a teaching aid in my Matric year helped tremendously with my studies and with my marks they were also used to create intense communications and debates between the class and you, the teacher. The Mind Maps also helped in showing us how different topics and the varying areas of economics were connected and interlinked. I would also like to add that I found the mind maps so useful I still use them for studying, both in Economics and Management at University and they help with my studies and my exam preparations.”

Nicola Duddy

“The mind maps are a faster, more convenient and reliable way of learning any subject.
I personally find them less over-whelming than the usual linear notes and a lot easier to learn from when you’re under pressure with tons of work and limited time.”

Shelley Anne Daniels

“The Mind Maps provided me with a summary of the work in Economics, which helped me to learn facts quickly, especially for essays. It also made my studying more interesting and easier. It was therefore easier to maintain my high marks.”

If you don’t do our course, you can learn the knowledge skills in the following ways:

• Buy books on the subject
• Get personal tuition
• Attend courses
• Attend seminars
• Attend extra classes
• Search The Internet

What’s a resource like this worth?

Considering the fact that courses like this cost thousands of Rands and personal tuition could cost you up to R300 and hour and ‘teaching yourself’ could take years, you would think that the price we are asking is ridiculous.

How can we offer it at this price?

Firstly, we chose to deliver this online, so that we could reach the maximum number of people at the least possible cost.

Secondly, this is an introductory price. The price will go up!

Thirdly, we practice what we preach and want to take lifelong learning to as many people as possible.

We maintain free websites with lots of information on learning and Mind Mapping.

Which is why the introductory price of our Learning Management Programme with guided tutoring is such a bargain at R497-00 for a whole year’s worth of tutoring.

This is less than R42-00 a month!

For this you will get:

• Access to online lessons
• Access to PDF Ebooks formatted for printing
• Mind Map templates
• Interactive Mind Maps for Free Mind Map software
• Guidance via our 30 Day challenge blog
• Twitter updates as we progress through the programme
• Email access to us for any questions
• The ability to post comments so that we can adapt to your preferences
• And much more…

All this comes with our 100% money back guarantee. If you’ve worked through the material by following our 30 Day Learning Challenge and feel that the programme has not helped you, we will gladly give your money back and unsubscribe you from the programme.

The Ebooks that you’ve downloaded or printed will be yours to keep.

Simply email us with the reason why the programme did not help you so that we can adapt it if necessary and we will gladly refund your money.

We won’t be keeping the price this low forever. After our 30 Day Learning challenge starting 1 July 2009, we will be increasing our price to a more realistic one.

So don’t hesitate, click here to enrol now so that you can start preparing for the programme. We will be advising on material and free software that you could use on the course. By enrolling early, you will get a head start.

What is the Learning Challenge?

Our learning challenge is 30 days of guided tutoring on ‘Learning how to learn.’ It is the only programme of its kind in the world!

We have developed a Learning Management Programme that guides you through the knowledge, skills and attitude to Awaken the Genius in You.

Our Learning Management Programme has been successfully delivered one-on-one and in the classroom. Now, for the first time, it will be done online.

We are based in South Africa. Based on this we know that in South Africa:

• Internet Access is expensive
• Bandwidth is expensive
• Speeds are slow
• Internet access is limited

To overcome this, we have optimised the online learning experience.

We deliver the material via Moodle, an online Course Management System used by thousands of organisations across the world and we guide you with a Blog, which allows you to follow us easily and cheaply. You will also always have access to the latest information without having to search for it.

Our social network will get you performing at your peak in no time at all

Gone are the days when you had to struggle on your own. We provide you with a Learning Management Programme that gives you more than just a study method, more than just a set of techniques, more than ‘extra lessons’.

We provide you with hands on support to grow your learning skills. We do this by holding your hand and guiding you every step of the way.

Interested?

Here’s how it works

You sign up with us and get access to our virtual classroom. You will get immediate access to all our Learning Material for one year.

You will also get access to our subscription only site, where only paid members can hang out.

This will give you immediate access to regular updates and guidance through the program.

Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage – Arie De Geus

Increase your Net Worth

The Mind Map is the most effective way to achieve this.

Whether you are a student, a doctor, a lawyer a sports person or simply your average Joe, you can increase your value using Mind Maps.

Mind Maps engage your whole brain in the learning process and therefore enables you to increase your knowledge faster and easier. By increasing your knowledge, you will have an advantage over your competitor. By having an advantage over your competitor, you will be worth more and achieve more.

People, in this world of information overload, have realized this, but cannot implement strategies to get ahead. Mind Mapping has proven itself in giving the ‘Mind Mapper’ an advantage over the ‘Non-Mind Mapper’.

If you are not sure about Mind Mapping benefits, read the free articles on this site. You will be given overwhelming evidence of the benefits of learning to Mind Map.

Why MindMapTutor.com?

We’ve been training people in the use of Mind Maps for over two decades and wanted to give some of this experience to a wider audience. This website allows us to write about a subject that we are deeply passionate about. We hope this passion comes through in our articles.

There should be enough free information on this site to get you interested in Mind Maps and Mind Mapping and hopefully encourage you to use Mind Maps in your life.

We subscribe to the Principles of Mind Mapping as devised by Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps. We understand that his laws get broken sometimes, but the closer you stick to his laws the better the results.

Free Mind Mapping Software

We have been using commercial Mind Mapping software in business and education for many years and found that software can dramatically increase the ease and use of Mind Mapping.

The problem with commercial software is that it is too expensive as a learning tool. As a productivity tool, there is no doubt that all of them are worth infinitely more than you pay for them.

With the advancement and popularity of Open Source software, we feel that the product XMind is good enough to teach you the principles of Mind Mapping.

We therefore recommend that you download and try it.

Free Articles

You will find numerous, high-quality, free articles on our website. We will give you enough information to explore the benefits of Mind Mapping.

And if you are convinced that it can make a difference in your life, you can then proceed to our Online Tutoring, which we are in the process of developing.

Welcome to MindMapTutor.com and may your Mind Mapping efforts be fruitful!