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“The water hyacinth is a beautiful delicate looking little plant…it sports six-petaled flowers
ranging from a lovely purplish blue, to lavender, to pink. You can find it floating on the surface
of ponds in warm climates around the world…
The water hyacinth is also one of the most productive
plants on earth…If a pond’s surface is fairly still and undisturbed, the water hyacinth may
cover the entire pond in thirty days. On the first day, you won’t even notice it.
In fact, for the first few weeks you will have to search very hard to find it.
On day 15, it will cover perhaps a single square foot of the pond’s surface…
a barely significant dollop of color dotting the expanse of placid green.
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On the twentieth day (two-thirds of the way to the end of the month) you may
happen to notice a dense little patch of floating foliage, about the size of a small mattress.
You would be easily forgiven if you mistook it for a boy’s inflatable life raft,
left behind during a family picnic.
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On day 29, one-half of the pond’s surface will be open water.
On the thirtieth day, the entire pond will be covered by a blanket
of water hyacinth. You will not see any water at all.”
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen
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So you can see what happens when duplication is turned ON!
Now remember back to what happens when you teach your team the
Power Of One and create duplication in your team. But first remember
that duplication starts with you.
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You should check out the Slight Edge book on YouTube by Jeff Olsen.
See if you can find the audio version. It’s an awesome book and will completely
change the way you see what is possible for you in business.
If you ever want to read the book, you can find this book
(in written, digital or audible form): by clicking this link here or in the Team Store
Here’s another example from the Slight Edge: Question for you:
Given the choice to receive a million dollars or a penny’s doubled
over the period of a month, what would you choose?
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Well check this out: A penny’s doubled over the period of a month
equals over 5 million dollars! Yes you heard me right! One penny doubled equals two.
Two doubled = 4. Four doubled = 8 etc...
Hold on, let me show you:
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The Slight Edge with a penny,
doubling your money every day:
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Day 1) One Penny
Day 2) Double 1 pennies to 2
Day 3) Double 2 pennies to 4
Day 4) 4 x 2 = 8 pennies
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Day 5)
8 pennies x 2 = 16 pennies
16 doubled to 32
32 x 2 = 64
64 pennies doubled to $1.28
$1.28 x 2 = $2.56
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Day 10)
$2.56 doubles to $5.12
$5.12 doubled to $10.12
10.12 doubled to $20.48
20.48 x 2 = 40.96
Day 14) 40.96 doubled to $81.92
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Day 15)
$81.92 doubled to $163.84
$163.84 x 2 = $327.68
$327.68 doubled to $655.36
655.36 x 2 = $1310.72
$1310.72 doubled to $2621.44
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Day 20)
$2621.44 x 2 = $5242.88
$5,242.88 x 2 = $10,485.76
$10,485.76 x 2 = $20,971.92
$20,971.92 x 2 = $41,943.04
$41,943.04 x 2 = $83,886.08
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Day 25)
$83,886.08 x 2 = $167,772.16
$167,772.16 x 2 = $335,544.32
$335,544.32 x 2 = $671,088,64
$671,088,64 x 2 = $1,342,177,28
(one Million dollar mark)
$1,342,177,28 x 2 = $2,684,354.56
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Day 30)
$2,684,354.56 doubles to $5,368,709,12
So imagine what would happen
if you could double your money every day!
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The idea you want to get from this is that it starts small and
keeps looking small for a long time…
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Look at day 15: it’s only $327 How does 327 dollars by the middle
of the month turn to be 5 million in fifteen more days? Isn’t that remarkable!
But that IS THE SLIGHT EDGE in action!
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Now apply this to your business. Think really hard about how
much you make permembership (It differs in each program).
Regardless, it really doesn't seem to be making you a lot money for
you for quite a while. But add duplication to this and it
eventually takes off!
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