Success Leaves Clues
AFFIRMATIONS
for
Meditation and Reflection
I am seeking out and finding clues left by others that help me achieve my goals.
I am seeking out and working with mentors who can teach me what I need to know to be successful.
I am alert when people speak on topics directly or indirectly related to my goals because they contain valuable clues that I want to learn.
Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.
—ANTHONY ROBBINS
Author of Unlimited Power
Clues are easy to find if you’re willing to look. Almost anything you can think of has already been done by someone else—whether it’s losing weight, raising a family, or starting a business—and that’s great news because it means they have left clues about how they achieved their success. You can identify these clues and mimic their actions on your own path to reach these same major goals.
For example, if you’ve just been promoted at the office and want to eventually reach the senior executive level, there are hundreds of books for you to read on the topics of leadership, personal success, goal setting, human psychology, and more. You can also read my other books, The Success Principles and The Power of Focus, or participate in my Breakthrough to Success seminar. What’s more, just a phone call away are people who are available as teachers, mentors, advisors, and consultants.
I am seeking out and finding clues left by others that help me achieve my goals.
A couple of years ago I was in Dallas preparing to go on a morning news show and I asked the makeup artist what her long-term goals were. She said she’d always thought about opening her own beauty salon, so I asked her what she was doing to make that happen. “Nothing,” she said, “because I don’t know how to go about it.”
I suggested she offer to take a salon owner to lunch and interview her about how she did it.
“You can do that?” the makeup artist exclaimed.
Absolutely you can—and there are many people within reach who would love to talk about what they do and how they came to be doing it. Whatever your dream is, there is someone who has achieved a similar dream and has clues to share—but you have to make the move and ask. You can even offer to volunteer or intern with one of them so that you can get a hands-on learning experience—talk about finding clues!
I am seeking out and working with mentors who can teach me what I need to know to be successful.
At some time or another, you’ve probably thought about asking an expert for advice yourself, but shrugged it off with thoughts such as Why would someone take the time out of their day to talk with me? Why would they want to potentially create their own competition? Stop! You’re creating roadblocks in your own mind that don’t even exist. Most people love to talk about how they built their business or accomplished their goals.
Here are a few reasons why we don’t take advantage of this resource that’s so readily available:
- We’re too reluctant to do something no one else we know is doing.
- We’d have to go out of our way or take time from something else—like friends or hobbies.
- Our fear of rejection overrides our desire to ask for advice or information.
- We’d have to do something different, and even when it’s in our own best interest, change is uncomfortable.
- We’d have to work at it, and frankly, most people just don’t want to work that hard.
I am alert when people speak on topics directly or indirectly related to my goals because they contain valuable clues that I want to learn.