If you want to be successful copy what successful people do and you will achieve the same or similar results.

What mindset do successful people have, copy or adopt a similar mindset and you will get similar results.

Do you want to be successful at social media marketing? Copy how the Gurus do it and you will get similar results.

Yes?

Not always.

And that’s where I see many people struggle in their life and business.

To copy a Guru, apply it, and not see it work. (DISCLAIMER: for some people it does work, but my point will be different)

When it doesn’t work, it is because you have failed to ‘’adapt it to your style’’.

Everyone has a unique voice (your Monk). If you copy the voice of someone else, you are losing your own voice.

What you need to copy is ‘’the structure’’, ‘’the tools’’, ‘’the mindset’’ (the Suit) but apply it in alignment with your values, your way of speaking, your intuition, your way of communicating.

Why is it so hard? Because for most of us we don’t really know who we are. Yes in our minds yes, but not in our hearts. That’s why it’s difficult to be authentic sometimes because you first need to know who you are what your values are and what your unique purpose or gift is and then be able to communicate it.

If you speak publicly like Tony Robbins it might be that you are not authentic because Tony is Tony, when you copy his style you will hit the wall (been there).

The goal is to copy the public speaking ‘’skills’’ the rationale and then align it with who you are ‘’your purpose, your style, your voice’’ to be authentic.

It is the balance of the mind and the heart, the Suit and the Monk. The mind is how you operate in the external world, and the heart is your particular unique life journey.

In order for you to align both worlds, and to get to know your inner voice, you need to integrate all experiences. You need to learn first who ‘’you are not’’ in order to then realize ‘’who you are’’.

The more you do this process the more you will find freedom from within.

So copy the skills of the Guru, then align it with YOUR purpose, your STYLE, your VALUES.

Raf Adams

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