Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur who believes in living an extraordinary life. He has become an expert on how to develop effective strategies for success in life and business and built a billion-dollar empire in the process.
But Robbins didn’t start out as a success. He started out like most of you – a passionate person with an idea he wanted to share with the world.
And even for Robbins, there were hurdles to jump at the beginning of his career, many of which were related to employing the wrong strategy.
For example, when Robbins started out, he once offered a FREE seminar, with room for 500 people.
Today, this sounds ludicrous, as attendees across the world pay top dollar to get in a room with Tony. But this was years before Robbins became the business strategist we know today.
So how many people do you think showed up to Tony’s FREE seminar? Only 7!
So, with only seven people in the audience that day, what do you think Tony did?
First, Robbins gave the best presentation to those seven that he possibly could. But afterward, he went home and began working on a simple, yet all important task:
Creating a strategy that was guaranteed to deliver results.
But Tony didn’t have personal experience in the business world. And none of his family members knew people in business either.
So, where was he going to start?
Robbins could have begun studying books on business strategy, gone to school, or tried to come up with different models, applying and testing them one by one.
But, Robbins didn’t do any of that.
Instead, he grasped a simple idea that impacted him personally, as directly influenced his business strategies, for the remainder of his life.
Here is what Tony Robbins learned early about strategies. Listen up, we all need to hear this:
The best way to achieve your goal is to model your strategy off someone who’s already achieved it.
The value of other peoples experience is far more valuable than money, says Robbins. And he suggests that you should aim and get advice from the best of the best.
Robbins message is simple. Learn from others who have achieved the goal you desire, implement their strategies, and you have the greatest chances of success.