15 Subtle Hints That Success is Right Around the Corner

At some point in your journey, you will hit certain milestones that tell you you're getting closer to your big goal. This video breaks down exactly what those milestones are and what will give them away. Most people quit because they don't know what to look for. You are not most people. Here are 15 subtle hints that success is right around the corner.

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Number one: your life feels exciting. After a long, boring grind, there's a tingling you get inside of you. Your Spidey senses vibrate like, "Hey, I think we're on the edge of something here!" It just feels different. Your mood has switched, and you're suddenly more optimistic. While you're in the grind, it's easy to question your decisions, to think, "What if this doesn't work? What will I do then?" or things like, "Why do I even waste my time?" But you do it anyway, until one day when things start to feel different. You have one good day, then another, and before you know it, you've had a good week, and that turns into a good month. That's when you start wanting it more. Once you see results, it becomes an addiction. The thrill of what this could mean to you and your family is running through your head, and you start feeling like the smartest person in the world because you know you're going to be okay. This feeling right here only shows up after a long period of hardship where nothing feels like progress, but keep going through the motions, and you'll know when you hit it.

Number two: both your admirers and haters become a little more vocal. All of a sudden, new people start picking up on what you're doing. They're digging it and letting you know! It makes you feel special; it makes you feel proud of what you're doing. The growth at this stage flows organically because people vibe with whatever you offer. They recommend it to friends. You're having a moment because you're expanding outside of those who followed your journey since the beginning. New people will doubt your efforts because they have no backstory for you, so they'll say dumb things that you'll take to heart. There could be a hundred people loving what you do, but you'll fixate on the negative comment because it tugged a string that you took personally. Here's a pro tip, though: you don't argue with them; you prove them wrong through success.

Number three: a small breakthrough leads to another breakthrough. For a while, you felt like you hit a plateau; things were flatlining, as they often do. You try making it better and better, and eventually, people notice. Not everything is going to work; actually, some will be a massive waste of time. But at some point, something will click. You'll get yourself in front of a new crowd; a new pool of people will discover you, and they'll open up doors to new possibilities. People focus too much on catching a big break, the one thing that changes everything. But that big break is at the end of three or four smaller breakthroughs that you have to design yourself. You learn a new tool, you master a new skill, you shift the space you're in or the people you talk to or the way you talk to people. Think of your journey as one through a big mansion. You're in the entryway right now; you'll move from one room to another, trying to figure out how to open each door until you eventually find your way to the bedroom, the safe, or the bathroom, depending on the situation. At this stage in life, pay attention to the signs or ask people for directions; you'll know when you're getting closer.

Number four: you get subtle differentiating skills in your craft. Here's what that means: so let's say you're a salesperson. You learn to alter your pitch in a new way that closes more clients than before. If you're a copywriter, you learn to write better hooks or with a little bit more humor. If you're a designer, you create in such a way where people can set you apart from everyone else. All of a sudden, because of this extra effort, extra insights, extra approach, you stand out; you start to shine. What happens now is that people who really love what you do will want the same thing for themselves, and business will start flowing in. Your prices will go up to accommodate the demand. Before you know it, you're booking three to five times the amount of business you did before at three times the price. Life is amazing! This only happens when you get really good at what you do. Everyone else competes on price because they have no differentiating skills, but there's a gold nugget here. It's not what you do, but how you do it. All of your competitors can get to the what, but it's the how that sets you apart.

Number five: the advice you've been receiving finally starts to make sense. You'll smack yourself in the head because you had the answer all along, but you didn't listen to it or didn't know what it meant. The same piece of advice hits different and means different things at different stages in your journey. You become wise when advice aligns with experience; you simply didn't have enough experience to know how to apply the advice. You don't have enough movement, enough momentum for that advice to be valuable yet. This is important: others can teach you the lessons they learn the hard way, but unless you pay the price of ignoring them, you won't listen. It's like you're wired this way in your teenage years and early 20s. Then you get smarter; you differentiate between earned experience. And once you've got a little bit of momentum, you realize that the highest cost you will pay in life is on the information you don't know that you don't know. So smart people pay to fill in those gaps. That's what investing in yourself really means. If you're already moving, high-end advice changes the path and the speed of your success. This is why the rich pay millions of dollars for other people's insights. Every big CEO has three to five people who are executive coaches on payroll, meaning they look over their shoulder, and it's their job to help the CEO get there faster. These people are incredibly expensive, and they'll never work with someone like you. Until now, we pay their exorbitant fees on your behalf, put them in a studio, and have them give you the same insights, tactics, and shortcuts they offer to top CEOs. If you're a middle employee looking to move up or start your own thing, if you're a business owner or a startup founder, go to alux.com right now and get our app. Step one: you fill in a survey so we know what challenges you're facing right now and what your biggest goal is. Step two: we build a custom learning path that's proven to be successful for people just like you. Step three: you get coached for up to 15 minutes a day until you achieve your primary goal. Then you set a new goal, and we go after that one together. Even better, if you do it right now, you can scan that QR code on screen and get 25% off the yearly plan.

Number six: your daily actions lead to long-term improvements. Along the way, you shift from working for the day to working for the future. So here's what that means: most people spend the day working on things that impact that particular day. You take out the trash, you buy your groceries, you go to your job, and the cycle repeats every day. Average people solve for today; successful people solve forever. If you only do the work for the current day, you'll never make any real progress. You finally feel like success is around the corner when every day you solve another piece of the puzzle. This builds up, and eventually, you end up with...

Number seven: the product is better, and you are better at perfecting the product. Not only can you see the product or service improve, but you get the hang of what it takes to make it even better. It's a combination of action and knowledge. Great products reflect the growth of their creators. For your product to get better, you need to get better. You know the product is better when things start becoming easier and more predictable.

Number eight: the numbers on the screen are trending up. Because look, okay, numbers do not lie. Pick whatever golden number in your company; it could be sales, revenue, subscribers, donations, views, meetings... you know what your number is. Every morning you wake up and look at that number. As you experiment and try new things, that golden number will fluctuate. When you do a good job, it goes up; when you do poorly, it goes down. Study what makes that number go up; look at the last three months and find out when that number jumped. Do more of that! Doing this proactively helps you to identify who your ideal client is. Why did they buy or take your call? What made them buy or consume your service? Once you find out what moves that number up, you simply do more volume of whatever works.

Number nine: the people you work with will start getting what you're saying. You have people under you who maybe don't see the vision. They don't think what you're trying to do will work. Then you show them it works, and they gain a little bit more faith. You train them; you hold their hand along the way, and they build up confidence in the plan. These are people you've been pulling toward your goal. Until now, the higher their faith in the likelihood of success, the less heavy they are to pull, and the more in line they get. Turns out it wasn't just them; it was mostly you. You lacked the necessary skills to hire, fire, and communicate effectively. You were too nice and were carrying dead weight for too long. Turns out, though, if you can communicate clearly, and the people you hire have a good head on their shoulders, things no longer feel like you're swimming against the current. More on that at number 14, though. Until then...

Number ten: you found one voice to listen to and stopped caring what the others think. Do you know the saying "a man with two watches doesn't really know what time it is"? Well, it's the same with advice, guidance, and the path you'll take to success. Probably most paths will get you there, but you can't take all of them at once. Pick one, commit to it, and screw the rest. Once you pick a path and vouch to go after it for the next 10 years because this path leads to the kind of life you wish to live, there's no reason to listen to anyone else. Your progress is dictated by how far along that path you get. As long as you keep moving forward, and your life is getting incrementally better because of it, who cares what other people think? Their opinions never paid your bills anyway. So you find a path, you get yourself mentored, coached, read everything you can on your path, acquire tool after tool, skill after skill, and although it might not feel like you've arrived yet, when you look back compared to where you started, well, you've actually come quite a long way.

There are only two ways to accelerate your progress: one, no matter what, keep moving forward, and two, make sure every day you get smarter and keep your mind sharp. If the first part is solely under your control, well, our app was specifically designed to help with that second part. If you practiced guitar for 15 minutes every day for a year, well, it's safe to say you would get a lot better at playing guitar. It's the same with your mind, your decision-making, and your business acumen. At this point, those who get it, get it, and those who don't, don't. But alright, okay, enough with the shameless plugs; let's drive this home.

Number eleven: you start regretting not doing it sooner. If you've been subscribed to our channel for a while, you know that overnight success usually takes like 7 years, and financial stability is achieved usually in a decade from when you actually take it seriously. Now, the realization of how much time you've wasted hits you deeply because you finally understand the value of time. That's how you know success is around the corner. A switch happens inside of you where you take control over your time and guard it religiously. Unless it serves you and your family, you're no longer willing to just give away your time like you used to do in the past.

Number twelve: you can't wait to wake up the next day and see what happened overnight. Remember what we said about excitement and your numbers going up? Well, if you abide by number six on this list, your actions lead to long-term improvements. Well, at some point, your efforts start compounding. If you do it right, growth happens irrespective of you. You make money while you sleep; the project acquires new users; you book more clients, etc. You wake up and grin widely when you refresh those pages and can't believe your eyes that you're actually doing it. Even better is that you now realize there's no cap at what you can do. If you keep going the way you are right now, it'll only get bigger. This is how people end up with 300 locations, best-selling books, movie careers, or multiple hotels. In tech, we call it product-market fit, and it's basically a point in your journey from which you could easily scale. It's like a formula you can apply, fly over and over again, where the ROI is positive.

And speaking of formulas, number thirteen: you found your hit-to-miss ratio. We know, okay, fancy talk, but it's really not that complicated. Hit-to-miss ratio is how many opportunities you convert. If you do sales, for example, let's say you close two out of every 10 phone calls. If you do e-commerce, let's say you convert 3% of your traffic into customers. If you're an actor, let's say you book one role for every 20 auditions you go to. You get the gist. So knowing this shifts all of your success to volume. You want more sales? Well, do more phone calls, drive more traffic! If you know you'll book a commercial for every 20 auditions you go to, simply go to 40 to 60 auditions to average your two to three jobs. What this does is it makes rejection easier to digest because there's undeniable proof in the results. You might not be right for everyone, but you are the right fit for some. So if all things stay the same, if you 10x your volume, you 10x your income.

Number fourteen: you found people who are pushing with you instead of you pulling them. Now we promised we would get to this one. The journey in the early days is a lonely one, right? You play all of the instruments, you wear all the hats, and slowly delegate the simplest of tasks. But a couple of years in, you learn some hard lessons and eventually get it. You go from product manager to people manager. You eventually find someone who brings brains instead of muscle. They're not just executors of your ideas, but they problem-solve all on their own. Usually, they've acquired the experience somewhere else and are now deploying it for you. That is when you finally get it. That is what running a business is supposed to be like. You find great people, pay them a lot of money, and they run their part of the business better than you did because you were spreading yourself too thin. For the first time in your professional life, the pushing forward part—well, it just got easier.

Number fifteen: you know deep down that this is what you're meant to do, and it's just a matter of time until you win big. Now here's a piece of reassurance: if you're obsessed enough with a goal and simply don't give up, well, statistically, you are likely to achieve it. Turned out, us humans are pretty good at getting what we want if we can define exactly what we want. This turns it from wishful thinking to a concrete, tangible objective that is separated from you by things that could be acquired through effort and time. Right around the corner could mean 6 months or 2 years from now, but what is that in a 90-year lifespan? The only certain thing is that it won't fall into your laps. You got to be moving toward it. But since you're here watching this, we want to confirm to you that you are indeed on the right path, even if it doesn't feel like it. Very much like a baby stumbles and falls in the beginning of their walking journey, you're not going to master running right out the gate. It's supposed to be hard because hard means life-changing if you get it right.

So we're curious to know, Aluxer, when you look at your life, do you feel like success is right around the corner? Let us know in the comments. And since you're one of the true Aluxers who watches these videos until the very end, here is your bonus reward: the simple rule on problems.

So the majority of the stress in our lives comes from the negative anticipation of things that will not actually happen. You worry too much. Here's a simple but incredibly powerful rule that we use both in business, building products, and in life: you solve problems when you have them, not ahead of time. You take too much pride in being smart, and you'll try to anticipate your problems, but this will eventually kill your product or service. You will waste too much time and too many resources on problems that will never actually occur. Be honest and transparent about the problems you face with your team, partners, or family. Keeping up a facade that everything is great when it isn't will only harm the relationship in the long run. Solving problems when you have them allows you to be surgically strategic with your resources; it will yield the best results and move the product forward faster than anything else. If this idea clicks with you and you believe success is right around the corner, write the word "next" in the comments. Let's see how many of you won't stop until you get to the next level.