“Success leaves clues”

This simple quote changed my life.

I remember hearing Tony Robbins’ say this in his Personal Power II audio series, on my mp3 player. I was driving my motorcycle on a small back road in Vietnam, focusing on weaving in between the herd of water buffalo, so it didn’t really register when I heard it.

After I passed the herd, I mentally recounted what Tony had said that I missed.
“Success leaves clues.” It was simple, and incredibly obvious. And although I’m sure that I may have heard it before, the gravity of the statement really hit me.

I stopped the bike for a good twenty minutes, and almost filled my little notepad with thoughts.

I’ll paraphrase what he said next: “If you want to be successful at doing X, find people who have done X before and do what they do.”

I thought to myself: I’ve done this in the past, with learning foreign languages and becoming a more social person (I was incredibly shy as a kid, to the point where people would forget I was there), but I wasn’t really consciously doing it. Tony was suggesting modelling another person who has whatever it is you want. Business success, lifestyle, physique.

You want to run a successful ebay business? Do what the successful ebay businesses did. Now, every new goal that I have, this is one of the first steps that I take. If my goal is to be successful with women, I make friends with guys who already have massively successful dating lives, and model their behavior. If my goal is to ride a motorcycle around the world, I’m going to call up Ewan MacGreggor and ask him for advice.

“Success leaves clues.”

Simple, obvious, but needed to be said. Think about it.


Published by idatemodels under Success, lifestyle, Life & Skills, self improvement, positive thinking

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