What if there was a way to predict your success before it happened, so you can
plan for it, stack the odds in your favor and really make sure that you're on the
right track. Well, there is which is why in this video
I'm going to share with you ten signs that you're going to be successful that
I've learned after 15 years of working with multi millionaire and billionaire
entrepreneurs. Let's get to it! Hey there, my name is Adam Earhart,
marketing agency owner, online advertising consultants and modern
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and tactics, well, you may want to consider subscribing and hitting that
notification bell. Over the last fifteen years, I've had the privilege of working
with a number of different incredibly successful entrepreneurs from
millionaires and multimillionaires all the way up to billionaires. Now, over that
time I've managed to distill down ten signs that you can use to predict
success before it even happened, so you can plan for it to make sure that you're
on the right track. Now, you may have no desire to buy a mega yacht or fly around
in private jets or eat champagne and caviar for breakfast because, that's just
kind of gross. But, you can still learn these exact same signs and how they
apply to you so you can start to adopt the same attitudes, mindsets and
behaviors to help you achieve your goals quicker and more efficiently than you
ever thought possible. Now, as we go through these ten signs if you find them
in yourself that's fantastic, you're on the right track, but if not don't worry
that's what this video is all about, to help you identify these skills and these
traits and essentially attitudes and beliefs and behaviors, so you can start
to model them and adopt them into your own life as early as today.
Alright, let's start with sign number one: you're going to be successful if you
have a growth mindset. Now, this has been covered before in other videos and I'll
make sure to link them up in the cards and description below but what's
important to realize about a growth mindset is that you believe your
intelligence and your capabilities and essentially your potential isn't fixed
but rather you can influence and adapt and continue to learn and grow into
nearly an unlimited potential. You see, one of the biggest differences between
those who are sort of moderately successful or maybe even just scraping
by and those who are incredibly successful, is that the incredibly
successful people all have an incredible insatiable curiosity. They want to learn,
they ask a lot of questions, they're always reading and they're always
consuming new information. For example, I remember being around 22 years old and
working for a couple different billionaires and I was always stunned by
just how curious they were into me, asking me questions trying to learn
about what I was up to, what I was interested in, always really shocked me
but I realize now that what they were doing is really they just had no other
option than to be incredibly curious about everything around them. For example,
if ever they had the TV on in the office, well it was almost always on CNN or
Bloomberg or some kind of news channel or stock market report. Any time we went
anywhere, always had to make sure that we had a stack of newspapers, lots of
magazines different books and all sorts of different educational and current
events, so they could stay up-to-date and looking back over my career I think I
could count on one hand the number of times I saw them just kind of chilling
out or relaxing. Not to say that they shouldn't have been chilling out or
relaxing, but they accomplished a great deal and they were always reading, always
learning, always having a meeting and essentially, always filling their mind
with the most relevant and valuable information possible. So, if you want to
be successful, incredibly successful, you've got to possess that growth
mindset, you've got to have insatiable curiosity and you have to prioritize
learning and consuming as much valuable and informative content as possible and
that part's important right it has to be valuable and informative and really
strategic content because as great as it is to consume content just for the fun
of it, if it's not really progressing you further towards your goals it's not
really gonna help. Alright, so the second sign that you're going to be successful
is if you possess a bias towards action. Now, what this means is that essentially,
when given the choice to act or to not act you tend in favor of acting and
ideally acting quickly and decisively. You see, one of the trends that I noticed
among my most successful clients and former employers, was that they were
always focused and strategic on what they had to be doing but they were
always doing something. They never seemed lost or confused or staggering around.
They were always exactly laser focused on what they were trying to get done and
they were always moving progressively towards it. This means, if you find
yourself stuck or stalled or wasting hours, days, weeks, maybe even months, well
it's time to take a good hard look at exactly what you're doing and the kind
of actions that you're taking, because success is going to come from daily
actions taken again and again and again consistently and over a long period of
time, which leads us nicely to our next point. Great sign that you're
going to be successful is if you have a vision for your life and for your
business and what it is that you want to accomplish. You see, a vision is an
all-encompassing picture of what you want your life to look like, how you want
your work to be, what you want your family life or your finances or your fun
or whatever it is. Essentially, this holistic kind of entirety of what
everything is going to come down to. Now, of course you're gonna have goals along
the way as well, but these goals are meant as stepping stones to move you
closer and closer to your ultimate vision. You see, you really need to spend
some time and drill down on exactly where it is that you want to end up,
because, as I'm sure you've heard before, if you don't know where you want to end
up, well, you're never gonna get there. Also, when you're forming your vision,
it's really important to kind of drill down really deep into it and and really
get to the why behind it. Simon Sinek talks about this a lot and is start with
why content, but really what you want to do here is drill down to the deep deep
meaning of why you want what you want. Let's say for example, you've got a
financial goal, well what you want to do here is really figure out why you want
this financial goal, what your life will look like once you achieve it and really
all of the benefits that are gonna come from this, maybe its control or security
or freedom, whatever it is, there's going to be a vision there that's a lot deeper
than just some monetary number. Now, I never saw any of my billionaire clients
vision boards and I'm really not sure if they even had them, but what I do know is
that they constantly were surrounded by the things that they wanted, so they had
luxurious vacation magazines, they had printouts on new jets, occasionally we
would go and look at new yachts, whatever it was, they were always envisioning the
next step for their lives and for what they wanted it to look like. The next
sign that you're going to be successful is that you're chasing progress and not
perfection. Now, this is hard to admit from a former and still kind of
borderline perfectionist myself, but the reality is is that perfection is
procrastinations best friend. You see, the problem with perfection is that nothing
really ever gets done, because at the end of the day it's never going to be
perfect, right? Instead of way better and way healthier, way more productive
alternative is to keep striving for progress, getting a little bit better
every single day and we can do this with our previous point that bias for action.
So, as long as you're taking action, as long as you're seeking to progress and
continually get better, even if it's just 1% every
single day, well that number is going to compound and add up to a massive number
by the end of the month, the end of the year and the end of the decade. Two
phrases that I absolutely love and I have to constantly remind myself about
is that 80% is good enough, meaning that if we can get something to
the eighty percent level that you're satisfied with, especially if you're a
perfectionist, it's probably good enough to get out there and the second phrase
is that done is better than perfect and this is a really important one to make
sure that you continually produce and publish the work that you're actually
creating. After all, that perfect piece of content or that perfect marketing
campaign or that perfect business plan doesn't do anything if it's just sitting
in your desk, you've got to get it out there.
The next sign that you're going to be successful is that you're extremely
obsessive. You see, there's a very big difference between wants and needs. Wants
are something that you could let slide or maybe put off or procrastinate on but a
need is something you absolutely must have and the most successful people in
the world have needs and not wants. You see, the problem with wants is that they
can often get pushed aside, there's a saying that I absolutely love which is
you never rise to the level of your goals you fall to the level of your
standards which means you've got to make your standards or the lowest level of
what you're willing to accept a need in your life and be uncompromising about it.
Your vision and what you want your life to look like is non-negotiable,
if it is, you need a stronger vision success comes from not being interested
in something but being committed to actually achieving it, so really again, we
come back to that vision point, you've got to spend some time to drill down and
really paint a clear picture of what you want your life and your business to look
like form that vision and then be uncompromising in your desire to go out
and achieve it. Alright, so this next sign that you're going to be successful
is probably the most controversial in this entire video and that's that you
have an unbalanced life. Now, here's the thing with this point, first of all,
nobody wants to hear this and there's two very different and very divided
camps on it, there's the hustle camp which is like work 24 hours a day and
never sleep and just keep grinding and then there's the work-life balance camp
which is more don't sacrifice your health or your family or your sanity to
achieve success, work more reasonable hours and hey, you're only productive up
to a certain point anyways. Now, here's the reality, when you take a look at the
multi millionaire and billionaire entrepreneurs that have worked
with, very few probably none of them were in this lifestyle camp, when almost all
of them were in the work incredibly hard camp and if any of them happen to be in
the lifestyle camp it was only after they worked incredibly hard for an
incredibly long period of time in the hustle camp. So, here's my recommendation
and where I sit today, essentially I'm a big fan for working incredibly hard and
putting in those long hours because you're really going to need to, certainly
initially, but over time this is unsustainable and it's probably not that
healthy which is why I tend to trend a little more to the middle which leading
a bit more of a balanced life but of course still having those push periods
where you really work hard and really strive to get a lot more done. Of course,
one solution to having a more balanced life while still being incredibly
productive comes in the form of our next sign that you're going to be successful
which is waking up early. Yes, I know that we all have different internal rhythms
and some of us work better way late at night and others in the middle of the
day some of us really early in the morning but the reality is is that most
of the incredibly successful people out there all tend to wake up early, often
really early. Now, there's a ton of different studies and research on this
so I won't beat the point up here but the reality is is that the early morning
hours are some of the most productive in the entire day, simply because it's quiet
time it's undisturbed and the normal office hours and usual work that gets
done well it hasn't really kicked in yet giving you more time to focus on your
most important tasks. The other benefit of waking up early is that it tends to
force you to go to bed a little bit earlier and often those late night hours
or spend kind of wasting time or watching TV which aren't really that
productive anyways. So, if I could make a big recommendation it would be to start
rolling the clock back just a little bit go to bed a bit earlier wake up a bit
earlier and you'll be on the right track to becoming more successful. Now, one
quick caveat here, if you know for a fact that you do your best work at night and
not early in the morning, then do not sacrifice your sleep because at the end
of the day if you're sleep-deprived your productivity and your success will
suffer dramatically. But if you're not sure that you're in that late night camp,
then give it a try and start waking up early you may be surprised. The next sign
that you're going to be successful is that you have a history of finishing
things, meaning you don't have a ton of half completed projects on the go but
rather you tend to start one task and see it all the way through to completion
before starting on the next one. Now, admittedly this one's probably even
harder for me then the perfectionist thing, because I have
massive shiny object syndrome where I love the latest and greatest thing and
latest tactic and latest strategy and I can't wait to sink my teeth into it
often at the expense of finishing what I was previously working on. But this is
something I've had to work very hard to overcome and it's been incredibly
beneficial in my business life. You see, when it comes to success, you're not
judged by how many things you start but rather by how many things you actually
finish, because that's what gets published and put out there to the world
for other people to see and benefit from and if you never finish anything well
there's nothing for them to see. Now, there's a great saying when it comes to
hiring people which is to hire slow and fire fast, meaning take a lot of time and
make sure that you've got the right applicant and then as soon as you
realize you have the wrong one well make it a clean cut get it done quickly. Well,
this same analogy applies to projects and campaigns and tasks that you're
gonna take on. Choose slow and finish fast, meaning make sure that the projects
and the tasks that you're gonna actually take on and really dedicate your time
and energy and resources to make sure they're the right ones that are going to
move you closer towards your goals and once you've made that decision go all in
and get it done. Alright, so the next sign that you're going to be successful
is that you have vision behavior congruence, a bit of a weird kind of
messy term but it essentially just means that your actions match what you say you
actually want. You see, far too many people claim that they want to increase
their income and yet they spend their evenings and weekends watching TV or
really just wasting time, a lot of people claim they want to get in better shape
but they don't make better food choices and they're certainly not exercising
enough and a lot of people claim that they want to learn a new subject or
learn a new skill and yet instead of spending their time studying or
practicing they spend it wasting it on other kind of non-productive activities.
The problem is this is incredibly dangerous when it comes to success
because you form an in congruence between what you say you want and what
you're actually doing which crushes your confidence and destroys yourself belief.
The alternative on the other hand is to form that vision what you say you want
and then start acting in accordance with that vision, basically say what you're
gonna do and then do it. The beauty here is that when you start to act in
alignment with your vision and your actions match the words that you're
actually saying you start to dramatically increase your confidence
and your self belief in that you're actually going to do what you say you
want to do. There's an expression that goes:
"Show me your calendar and show me your wallet and I'll show you where your
priorities lie". This is absolutely true, because if you can
track your time and your expenses over the last week or over the last month
you'll start to get a really clear picture of exactly what you're
prioritizing in your life and be able to determine if this is in line with your
vision and what you want or otherwise. Alright, and the next sign that you're
going to be successful is that you're not afraid to get help. You realize that
you don't need to reinvent the wheel and if anyone's achieved it before well then
you can do it the same and there's no sense in trying to figure it all out by
trial and error when you can just learn from those who have gone before you. You
see, one of the biggest indicators of success between the incredibly
successful people and those who are just scraping by is that the super successful
people are desperately afraid of getting stuck in wasting time. They know that
wasted time and opportunity cost of not seizing the moment of not progressing
faster, well, these are the things that are really going to hold them back from
achieving what they truly want. The key here is to not let yourself get stuck or
stalled as soon as you don't understand something but rather to get help as soon
as possible. This means if you need to learn something or you need some help
the best bet by far is to go out there and hire someone to help you. Now, if you
can't afford that, there's probably an online course or two out there that'll
teach you exactly what you need to know and if even that's out of the question
well there's probably a dozen or two dozen books on the exact subject you're
looking for help with. You see, there's never an excuse to stay stuck when you
could be taking action and potentially change your entire business and entire
life. The next step is to check out these two videos I've got listed for you here.
The first is the most powerful mindset for success and how to develop it which
is gonna take what we talked about here and drill down even further giving you
exact steps you can take today and the second is the single biggest mistake I
made my first year as an entrepreneur to help you avoid the exact same pitfall
that I fell into. So, take a look now and I'll catch you next time on The Modern
Marketing Show