Be A Copycat

If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard the adage, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…”. I’ve heard this for so long, I had to do a search to see who came up with the quote. Interestingly enough, that isn’t the quote in its entirety and we’ll revisit it later. Tony Robbins says, “Success leaves clues” and I’ve said on more than one occasion, “When it says experience is the best teacher, it doesn’t have to be your experience.” Let’s take a bit of a deeper dive into those three quotes or sayings.

The complete Oscar Wilde quote is “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery mediocrity can pay to greatness.” When comparing what you do or would like to do with those who have done it exceptionally well already, comparatively speaking, your results have been mediocre set side by side to whomever you’re comparing your deeds to. They’ve had success and if “ success leaves clues” as Tony Robbins said coupled with “experience being the best teacher” we can put that all together in a highly beneficial manner.

Copycat is defined as a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics or follows the lead of another. So be a copycat. Find out who has achieved the highest levels of success in whatever the endeavor is you’d like to accomplish and follow their lead. Read every book they’ve written. Watch every speech or interview they’ve delivered. Find out every single thing they did and imitate it. “If you do what they did, you will get what they got.” Chances are your timeframe to achieve similar levels of success will be collapsed. The reason being…you can avoid their pitfalls since they’ve told you what not to do.

Today, Tuesday April 18, 2023, I am grateful that:

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I assure you it is well placed.

If I may explain a little on how this works

200/20/10/2

200 calls

20 "real" connects

10 listen

2 set

even at 25 calls per hour = 8 hours

A standard work week is 40 hours, (45+ usually, for me, in a FT role me)

At 4 hours a week, it would take 10 weeks to achieve a full first week of work

the results at 4 hours can take up to approximately 3 weeks. (Of course exceptions are not uncommon)

The reason for this is eg: call backs, emails sent, follow up calls.