In the last few weeks, I have begun to realise after reading many books that I am 100% on the path to success. I don’t tell you this to impress you but to impress upon you that self-development and the things we teach on Addicted2Success really do work if you allow them to.

Below are the seven signs that showed me I was on the path to success and that you should start being aware of.

1. Taking big risks as if it’s a habit

Subconsciously I have begun taking what I used to consider as big risks by habit. What this has done for me, has allowed my personal growth to multiply more than ever before. No longer am I worried about what people think and if everyone is doing something, like face painting (this happened at a function I was at the other day), I am perfectly comfortable in doing what I believe in and making sure it’s for the right reasons.

I never really knew what the path to success looked like until my mind started taking these risks and turning them into a video game that I wanted to win. We talk a lot on Addicted2Success about habits but never would I have ever thought that taking risks would become one of mine. It started out as taking smalls steps, but now these steps appear giant when I look back.

2. Career opportunities coming from everywhere

This is going to sound crazy, but for the last two years I have been swamped more than ever with career opportunities. This is yet another sign that I am on the path to success without even realising it. When I talk to other people, they keep wondering how this continues to happen to me.

The only way I can explain it is when you focus all your efforts on becoming a better version of you, the universe conspires in your favour to make your ultimate dreams come true. Between being offered amazing corporate roles, to being asked to invest in companies, to sitting on the board of amazing charities and being asked to attend ridiculously cool events, I am having to pinch myself each day.

There is no luck in any of this just lots and lots of personal growth and carefully focused attention towards success. If you’re not experiencing this just yet, set yourself a goal that for the next three months you will do nothing but consume self-development content in the form of books, documentaries, podcasts and audiobooks.

At the end of the three months, I want you to then spread at least one idea from this content with someone new each day. If you do this for three months, this new habit will pretty quickly see your career opportunities change for the better.

3. Strangers wanting to have coffee

I did an interesting exercise a few weeks ago and had a look at my iPhone calendar from a few years ago. When I compared it to now, there were dozens more requests to have coffee with people. I have added this to the list of things that have showed me that I am on the path to success.

The invitations seem to come out of nowhere. No matter where I go I seem to meet at least one interesting person who insists on having coffee at some point in the near future – for those of you who know me well, you know I only drink green tea, not coffee, but that’s another story.

I often return to my office after these encounters and don’t think much of it but then sure enough I have an email sitting in my inbox with the calendar invite. Some of these calendar invites are what turn into interviews on this site.

The crazy thing about these interviews is that I get to learn ideas and concepts that I could have never come across before. I then have to write out these concepts in the form of an article, which just reinforces and creates further references that I use to keep me on the path to success.

I once listened to a Tony Robbins audiotape that suggested that you should budget a portion of your monthly income into taking out successful people for coffee or lunch. I can’t stress enough that when I came across this idea, I begun to see the money spent on coffees and lunches as an investment in me, rather than an expense.

4. Red eyes being replaced with eyes whiter than whipped cream

I compared some photos of myself from a few years back and noticed that my eyes were no longer red like they used to be. It would not be uncommon for me to get at least five people per day comment on why I look so tired and how come my eyes are red, and even make jokes about me being stoned from marijuana (I despise marijuana).

If I compare the comments to now, most people are telling me I look full of energy, have glowing skin and seem very healthy. This has shown me that I am on the road to success because most successful people say that being healthy is a big part of where they are now.

When I had red eyes and felt sick every day I was being sucked in by the Western diet of high fats and sugars, which was affecting my mood and making me tired every day. When I began drinking more water and practicing the daily habit of drinking green juice, the red eyes disappeared overnight.

5. An influx of comments on your birthday

I recently had a birthday, and I saw further signs I was on the path to success when all my social media platforms and email lit up with people sending me birthday messages from all over the world. Only a year prior I would be lucky to get even a quarter of the messages I get now.

Once you start a life of growth and giving, people seem to reciprocate this back to you. I stopped focusing on what I could get and focused more on what I could give. The result was all the inspiring messages I got on my birthday. I now believe that it’s always best to be humble and appreciate even the little things like birthdays.

6. Daily inspirational emails from strangers

I am not making this up when I say that every day now I consistently get inspiring emails and messages from people of all walks of life. Many of them have read my articles or seen me at a function and just want to reach out.

This sign of success comes because I think the law of attraction works in your favour when you put out messages into the world that are helpful and inspire people to change their life. I find that reading these messages each day compounds my motivation and passion even further.

A lot of the success signs I am sharing with you in this article have that magical compounding effect that Warren Buffet always talks about with investing. The hardest part for me was to get moving towards momentum. Once the momentum starts, you just need to control it, appreciate it and nurture it going forward.

7. Being asked to speak at different engagements

As I look back on the first half of this year, I have also been asked to speak on many different occasions. When you’re on the path to success people see value you in what you represent. It’s only human nature that people want you to share the value they see in what you do, with everybody else.

It’s after the extreme moments of growth that you find your true passion, which puts you on purpose; that focuses your attention on one pursuit. The thing I try and remember is It’s not that I was never good at what I am doing now, it’s just that I never focused enough time on it because my effort was spread too broadly.

I used to always believe that I wasn’t good at speaking in front of other people, and it just wasn’t part of my DNA. While I am a long way from being any good at speaking, I have come a long way this year towards being able to present moments of value for others.

If I am asked to speak about something that is outside of my true passion, I find that my speaking skills and confidence immediately drop right off. Even when I have spoken about something and thought I did a poor job of it, people still tell me I did very well.

I now try and remember that as long as I deliver at least one useful point, the rest of my talk can be a train wreck and people will still get value.

***Final Thought***

To sum up all of these signs that I am on a path to success, would be to say quite simply, have something of value to say, put your passion into it, give when you can and the universe will take care of the rest for you.