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SECRET #5
THE BIG DOMINO
I was sitting in a room with about 120 other successful entrepreneurs, all of
whom made at least a million dollars a year, a requirement to be in that room.
One of the featured keynote speakers was Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour
Workweek. After his presentation, he opened up the floor for questions. A
woman stood up and asked, “Hey Tim, you seem to get so much done. What is it
that you do all day?”
He paused for a moment, then gave an awkward half-smile and said, “If
you watched my daily routine, you’d be bored out of your mind. Most people
wake up every morning with a task list of a thousand things to do. They go
through the day trying to knock down all these things. I wake up every morning,
and I meditate. I drink tea or coffee. I go for a walk, and maybe I read a book.”
He said he might spend three or four weeks doing that and nothing else. “My
whole goal is to slow down and look around. Instead of looking for all the tasks
that I could do, I try to identify the one Big Domino—the One Thing that, if I
could knock THAT down, all the other dominos would either fall down or
become irrelevant.”
When he said that, I had an “aha” moment. I haven’t yet figured out how to