When we were children we imitated the things we saw our parents do, and said the things we heard them say. We also had hero’s we admired and were inspired to become. I remember Halloweens where my childhood friends and I all got a chance to become that superhero we admired most. We would not just buy and make the costumes but tried to speak like them, move like them and feel what they would feel. This behavior is called modeling.
Modeling is a conditioned behavior that we picked up from those we are closely associated with beginning in our childhood. Unfortunately, we no longer need most of those behaviors by the time we reach adulthood. Most of the time those learned behaviors are negative in nature and hold most people back.
Before you can reach any level of success, the negative habits must be transformed into positive ones. The fastest and most effective way to do this is by learning to model other successful people. This requires making some changes. Awareness is the first step toward change.
You need to become aware of what it is that successful people are doing and have done that allows them their wealthy lifestyle. Use that information to compare with the things you are doing.
Choose the Strategies You Want to Model
If you want to be successful, it makes sense to model the strategies of the successful. It’s an old concept, yet it’s completely underused and often misunderstood.
We are talking here about modeling those strategies that you feel you want to integrate into who you are and then make them entirely your own. It is a matter of personal choice what strategies you choose to master. Step into a world of possibilities that may not have occurred to you or been open to you before.
Take the risk to model something that is slightly outside of your comfort zone. If you do something you have never done, you’ll get a result you’ve never gotten before. And that can be a good thing.
You can model anyone, living or dead. Get specific details. Check if they have an autobiography or a biography. Speak to people that know or knew them. Read and, if possible, listen to their speeches. Find out if you can meet the person. You might even be able to ask them to be your coach or mentor.
By studying what other successful people have done, rather than finding your way alone, you can receive better results much easier.
To begin, you need to analyze exactly what it is that that person is actually doing to produce the results you would like to produce. Once you have analyzed and understand what your model does, you can work at doing the same things.
The modeling approach is sometimes referred to as “fake it until you make it,” but there is nothing fake about it. You are simply using a scientific approach to duplicate their thinking process. The closer you can imitate their physiology the easier it will be to create the same thought patterns.
Eventually these new result producing behaviors will be programmed into your own personality. You will have adopted the very same thought processes and be producing similar results. Then you will be the one others will want to model.
Success Leaves Clues
This is a powerful idea: Success leaves clues. If you can learn the methods that someone else used to succeed, then you can do the same thing.
Anthony Robbins said in his bestselling book Unlimited Power, “If you want to achieve success, all you need to do is find a way to model those who have already succeeded.”
Here are two questions for you:
-Whose success clues are you studying?
-Whose model are you duplicating?
Without a model, success will be much more difficult for you to achieve. Choose one model and begin to implement it. Don’t chase after multiple models, trying a little of this and a little of that.
Pick one and begin. Action is the key.
How do you know which is the right model to follow?
What to Look for In A Success Model
Here are three things to look for in a model for online success:
1. It should show you how to target a hungry online market.
2. It should reveal to you powerful ways to generate website traffic.
3. It should teach you how to convert prospects into customers.
Use the above criteria to critique the model you choose to duplicate. The final step is to take action and actually implement your success model. Who is your primary model of success? What one person best captures your idea of living the dream?
Six Simple Strategies for Effective Success Modeling
Below is a simple strategy to help you model success.
In getting answers to these questions and using the responses, youll tap into the success strategies of the person you are modelling. The important thing here is to take action on what you learn in a sense to do as they do and integrate those aspects of success into who you are.
1. Environmentally, what type of people does the individual surround themselves with, what type of mindset do these individuals have? How do they view and respond to the world around them?
2. How does this person you wish to model behave? How do they manage their emotional well-being? What is their skill set? How do they use that skill set to take them to the next level? How do they manage gaps in their skill set? Is their behavior reactive to other peoples’ moods and behaviors, or do they stand in their own power and choose how they wish to behave in any given situation and the world in general?
3. Is this person a forward thinker, a strategist? To what extent are they focused on continuous improvement? Is this person a good listener and able to assess a range of views and be decisive?
4. Find out what the individual’s belief and value system is. What is important to them and why? How and why do they do what they do?
5. Delving deeper into understanding the individual, what is their purpose? What is this person’s reason for being? What have they come here to be and do?
6. What is the ultimate success for this person, however they define this for themselves?
Many successful people live a life of no limits. Their focus being the world is theirs to have and to hold as they wish.
Success is a choice. There is no right time for it, so why not get motivated, inspired and start right now to create the lifestyle of your dreams. Take the actions to model your way to success.
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