Create a domino effect in your life

andrefaria
Bluesoft Labs
Published in
2 min readFeb 27, 2015

Gary Keller owns the Largest Real State Company in the World. He has written the book The one Thing. In the book, he discusses the fact that a single domino is capable of bringing down a domino 50% larger than itself.

For example, if you start with a two-inch tall domino, domino 18 can take down the Leaning Tower of Pisa! Then, the 23rd domino, the Eiffel Tower and the 31st the Mount Everest, and Domino 57 the moon.

You need to identify the most important thing for you and then find how to apply this geometric force to grow and make progress .

When you think about success, plan to reach the “moon”!

Setting Goals to Now

The “moon” is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into the ONE most important thing. Here’s a process you can use to help you do that by Setting Goals to Now

1. Identify you big goal in life (what the one thing you wanna do someday).

2. Find your 5 year goal that supports your previous goal

3. Find your this year goal that supports your previous goal

4. Find your this month goal that supports your previous goal

5. Find your this week goal that supports your previous goal

6. Find your today goal that supports your previous goal

After identifying you today goal, find the most important thing you should do in your day. Then, make it the first thing you will do your day. Block the time so cannot get distracted by anything else.

Remember Pareto? Think of 80/20 recessively so you can find the 20% of your 20% and then find other 20% until you find the most important single thing you can focus on.

Brian Johnson created a great video about those ideias. Worth Watching!

Create this domino effect in your life!

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andrefaria
Bluesoft Labs

CEO at Bluesoft. I'm passionate about startups, SaaS, innovation, cloud, technology, agile and management 3.0.