The Domino Effect

Everybody pretty much knows what the “domino effect” relates to. You have a bunch of dominos one next to the other and when you knock down the first one, it creates a chain reaction to the last one, knocking them all over. Domino Day (yes, it truly exists) is November 13th and in the Netherlands in 2009, a company called Weijers Domino Productions coordinated the world record domino fall by lining up more than 4,490,000 dominoes. I could only imagine who had to set these up!

This domino fall unleashed more than 94,000 joules of energy – about the equivalent of doing 545 pushups. (believe me, I know how many that can be!).

But did you know that in as much as one domino will topple over the one next to it, it will also topple over the next one even if it’s 50% bigger than the previous one? An American physicist named Lorne Whitehead put this experiment to the test.

If you started off with a regular sized domino, by the 10th, you’d have a domino my size (6 foot) and by the 18th, the domino would be the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. the 31st would loom over Mount Everest by 3,000 feet.

Why am I telling you this? The toppling of dominoes (life’s challenges) means that you should line up your priorities and whack at it until they topple over. Success is built over time and is sequential. One thing at a time.

I just finished Module 3 of the Beginners Advantage course and like Dean mentions, if you focus on what your ideal life looks like, there’s nothing that will stop you; even a big domino.

In reviewing and going through the module content, it truly dawned on me on how many complications I consistently created around me. It was easy for me to see now that many of my actions which I thought were important, weren’t. He calls this “the busy fool”. I sure was busy… (and definitely a fool).

The other great aspect of revisiting the module contents was being able to sit down with my wife and finally have her question and understand why I was going through this training and what I anticipated it provide us in the long run: our ideal life. The funny part about that though is that she anticipates being told WHY I didn’t do or finish the weekly tasks I had set out for myself (talk about having another boss to answer to!)

All kidding aside, the great aspect of it all is that I now have my life partner who understands what all of this is all about AND is now providing the support I definitely love having.

I’d also made the comments within the Community of Affiliate System which basically confirmed that contrary to my work environment, where I was an over-achiever and regularly attained my goals and objectives, I wasn’t consequential and I’d usually coast and not mind if I didn’t achieve any success within my business – which, to be honest, was truly me showing a lack of priorities.

It’s funny how sometimes being at the right place, at the right time, can make you review and rethink what you’re doing.

So now, what’s the plan? Well, to be honest, I had started my Tik Tok videos which I didn’t continue because of a bad week. Then again, that bad week got me to rethink where I stood and what I was doing.

That being said, back to the Tik Tok videos and making sure that the traffic part of the 4 core areas Dean teaches us – and writes in his book – goes forward.

Another thing that I need to be honest with both myself and you as a reader; I’m also part of Deans Accelerator Program. That basically means that whatever traffic I send to purchase his book via this link, is followed up by Dean and his team. So it really boils down to this: traffic traffic traffic.

If you’re new to my blog and haven’t purchased his book, please use this link and only pay for the shipping & handling of it. That call to action will not only open a new world for you but also bring you the much wanted support you need and want to create the life you definitely want to have.

So this weeks blog was about commitment and action. Something we should all strive to do – to get to where we want to be.

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