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Be the “First Domino” If You Want to Strengthen Your Network and Inspire Change
Most people are basically good and decent…but sometimes you just have to go first
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
-Robert Frost
Each and every one of us can think of at least one person in our lives who set us on the path to where we are today.
There was — or is — someone in your life who believed in you when you didn’t; someone who saw something in you that you didn’t yet see in yourself, and who helped you actualize your latent potential.
The luckiest among us will have had parents who were our “first dominoes,” as Joe Polish refers to them, but these influences would also have come in the form of books, teachers, coaches — role models of all kinds.
Some people go their entire lives without hearing someone tell them that they love them, support them, and believe in them, and it’s always an exceptional event when these first dominoes appear in our lives.
We remember them for the rest of our lives.
The important point here, though, is that you can be the first domino for someone else.
I believe that most people are basically decent, friendly, and good, but I also think that sometimes you just have to…
