Never waste valuable time re-inventing the wheel. The day I discovered this secret I became master at studying previous successes and applying a new angle or new twist to an old idea. It’s the shortest route to success: find someone who’s doing what you want to do (or has the results you want to achieve). Study and determine what they did to achieve their result. Then- simply engages in the same activities that brought them success and you’ll be on a collision course with your goal.

I jokingly (but truth fully) tell my audiences that I don’t do anything original. Everything I do is something I copied from someone else. But I also tell them the biggest secret – I always copy from the very best.

Why would anyone want to re-invent the wheel? I don’t know whether it’s a fragile ego screaming for satisfaction, or whether it’s remembering our days in school when copying form someone else was frowned upon (and has been cause for dismissal of many a promising student). But I do know this, if you want to spend more time, more money and endure more frustration than you would otherwise, then strike out on an unproven path to your goal.

On the other hand, if you’re looking to significantly improve your odds of success and get to your goal on the straightest, shortest path, find someone you can model. Begin a study of them and their methods. If possible, figure out a way to meet them and get around them. Look for the things they did that you can copy apply your skill or your particular perspective to what they did, and then make it “new” “improved” or “different”
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