Success Leaves Clues

In his best selling book, Unlimited Power, Tony Robbins says, “If you want to achieve success, all you need to do is find a way to model those who have already succeeded.”

Success leaves a long trail of clues that prevents us from traveling the long, hard road of trial and error. Why not model those who have already succeeded and save yourself a lot of time and energy.

There’s no point in reinventing the wheel. Find someone who is already successful in what you want to accomplish and go to them and find out how they achieved their success.

This is one of the very best ways to shortcut your way to success. Unfortunately, most people never use this golden tool.

Success becomes a very simple formula when you begin modeling yourself after those who have already achieved the results you are looking for. Simply find a mentor and tap into their recipe for success. You’ll save yourself months and even years of trial and error.

The benefits of a mentor are many: emotional support, friendship, accountability, creative input, helpful feedback, exchange of ideas, shared resources, and invaluable brainstorming that can enhance every area of your life.

This is not a new concept. It even dates back to the time of Sir Isaac Newton, who once said,

“If I have achieved more it is because I have stood on the shoulder of giants.”

You can optimize every area of your life through the power of mentors. Take your business, your health, your relationships, and even your finance to an entirely new level.

Athletes are some of the few people who truly take advantage of modeling. Take a look at any successful athlete and you will most likely find a coach who has helped them in reaching that level of success.

You have probably heard of Lance Armstrong, the man who won the Tour De France 7 times in a row.

However, you may not have heard about his coach: Chris Carmichael, a man who builds winners.

He brought the very best out of Lance, leading him to a level that he could never reach on his own. He taught him how to nourish himself for peak performance and train for optimal speed.

Athletes aren’t the only ones who need a coach though. To live our lives at peak performance, we must have our own coaches, mentors, and even heroes.

So, how do you find these mentors? It’s not nearly as hard as you might think. Most people are just afraid to ask for help. The smart ones are constantly looking for mentors to help them in every area of life. Think about it. The worst possible answer you can get is no and that’s really not so bad.

Here are some very simple steps to finding mentors that will help you to reach all of your goals in the shortest time possible.

1. Identify someone you admire and respect. This must be a person who has already achieved the results that you are looking for in life.

When looking for a mentor, it’s best to start with friends. If you have a friend who has achieved the kind of success you are looking for, simply start by taking an interest in what they do. Ask them some questions about how they achieved their goals.

Remember that it is critically important to take an interest in them. Once you take an interest in them, most will happily return the favor.

Another great source of mentors is within professional organizations in your field. Many professions have organizations that accompany them. For example, many professional speakers belong to an association called NSA (National Speakers Association). If you are looking to become a professional speaker, this would be a great place to look for mentors.

If you are a college student, the university may have a formal mentoring program in place. If not, alumni members are often good candidates for mentors.

Professors are also a wonderful source of guidance and direction.

Read about how one college student benefited from a mentor in this article from Time.com’s College Center.

** Special Note to College Students: Internships are one of the greatest mentoring models. By taking on an internship in your chosen field while in college, you get the opportunity to gain lots of real-world experience while also building up your resume.

While working as an intern, look for people who are achieving the results you want and find out what they are doing to achieve that kind of success. An internship can be one of the best ways to start forming a social network within your chosen field.

2. Take a keen interest in that person and begin developing a casual relationship with them. You may want to take them out to eat and begin learning more about them.

3. Once you have developed a relationship with them, invite them to be your mentor. Most people are more than willing to help.

4. You must make sure that this is NOT a one-way relationship. Every mentor-mentee relationship should be a give and take.

Everyone has something they can offer in return. You could possibly even exchange services. Let’s say for example that you are looking to start up a successful business and you have found a good mentor who has started a very successful small business of their own.

Let’s also say that this person is looking to extend their business online but does not know how to create a website. If you know about web design, then you can exchange services and both of you will benefit from this mutual relationship.

Every successful person has been surrounded by a group of advisors.

The president has a group of advisors known as cabinet members. Leaders of the world have had groups of advisors dating back to the time of Alexander the Great and King Arthur’s Court, propelling each one to greater success than they would have achieved by themselves.

Success leaves clues and the recipe for success is freely available to anyone that ASKS.