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- I'm here with Dominic Bonisch,
recent graduate of the Life Accelerator.
Tells us about you, where you're from, what do you do?
- Yeah, I'm from Rosenheim, Germany.
That's next to Munich for those not familiar
and I'm an entrepreneur for now seven years.
My passion is connecting people locally.
We run a network of 35 local job boards
and we want to connect those looking for a job
and those having one to offer and we believe
the best way in doing so is by building local brands.
For instance, Munich Jobs, or Hamburg Jobs
because everybody resonates with area they live in
and this is what we do and we try to establish
100 million connections and we are so far with 35 job boards
and growing and this is what made me my living
the last years but I'm also passionate about turning ideas
into businesses and helping others do so.
Because I found out nobody teaches you how to start
a business and it's often resistance holding you back.
As I learned during the Life Accelerator.
Yeah, and this kept me constantly
looking out for the newest thing.
I was on hunt for the newest business model,
for the newest habit to be successful.
And this also brought me to London Real
because you turned people into telling
their knowledges which got me hooked.
And yeah this made me in the end apply for
the Life Accelerator because I thought
if all those information which is out there
and available and I would love to quote you on this
would help me right now then I would be a billionaire
with a six pack so it didn't turn out to be true
and I thought, okay let's get to the secret sauce of it.
- Okay, and what were you struggling with internally?
What made you say okay, I need to do
this now with my life the way it is?
- I was not able to prioritise, I wanted to have it all.
And I thought there most be a super fancy,
expensive, complicated way to get it done
and I was on the hunt for the newest thing.
I was always hunting, I was not completing,
I was always just hunting and hunting
and getting new information to an extent
that I only produced new information
and didn't move anywhere.
And this was what finally made me apply
because the promise on the landing page
was guys I'll show you the success secrets
and how you can use them for your own.
It's not only the knowledge, it's how
to apply them and stick to them.
This got me to the course.
- Okay and what's about the people around you.
Like before the course, how was you peer group,
how was all of that?
- It was mixed actually, I have a lot of entrepreneurs
in my peer group but they are all special
and you don't see them that often.
Everyone of them has their own plate full with work
and with self-improvement and stuff like that.
And then I have really regular guys from a local sports.
I was playing ice hockey for years
and people playing ice hockey is Rosenheim,
they are totally disconnected from
their entrepreneurial network.
It's just like the total opposite end but they still have
so much positive energy and influence on me.
So I was hopping between two worlds
and one inside the rural, local Rosenheim population.
Deeply connected to nature and to sports.
On the other hand side, the open-minded cosmopolitan
entrepreneurial network from all over the world.
I've been studying in Madrid, I've been working in Miami.
I was really loving the international community
and I guess this blend made me special in the end.
- Okay, okay, and when you finally decided to join us,
it was a big investment, what made you say okay I'm in?
- I was, it was a Friday night I can still remember
because the deadline was Friday at 12.
And I came home from work and then from workout.
It was nine in evening and I saw your mail
and like Dominic, what's now going on.
We chatted about the USP of
the Life Accelerator and I didn't move.
And I was like okay, I just gotta fucking do it.
What made me do it in the end was like,
don't overthink it, just give it a shot.
And the sentence, what are you investing?
You're investing in yourself, that's
the best investment I can make.
And I was thinking what should I,
it's December, it's the end of the year.
We had a successful year, why should I not take
a portion out of time to invest into myself in the new year.
This made me finally pull the trigger.
- Okay, what do you remember of
the first part of the course?
You jump in, you got the private Facebook group,
you have all these people from around the world.
What's your first memory of that first week or two?
- (laughs) It was so strange talking to my cellphone.
I was like okay, how should I do this?
I really love to communicate but it turns out
that I have to shoot intro video, I was like this feels
so strange and then I saw all the others doing it
and I was like, okay they feel strange as well.
And I guess I didn't get the system in the first place.
I read the instructions and then it was like,
okay we have to do this, we have to do that
and it took me a while to get used to it.
To get really out there and be open.
To not just check of the intro video
but to be really putting your heart into it.
And it made click I would say in week two or three
when I realised it's not about in the accountability talk
to just put it on a green status.
It's about opening up and really giving everything you got
and making sure these videos are inspiring the others.
In the first week I was more or less,
okay I have to do it because everyone needs 100% green score
and I was not thinking of how can I do it the best way,
I was just thinking of okay here's an intro video,
this is Domenic, have fun with it.
And then in the second and the third week
I saw people like really giving all they got
and I was like I wanna be like them.
I saw Alex for instance, Alex Pix he was like,
or George T., they are so familiar with the camera
and then you had really the feeling,
they must have been doing this, it's not the first time
that they are shooting a video and I realised
my videos were not the best I could make them
and from that point on I tried to give everything I got
and go out the comfort zone and really.
Just like last night when I lost
my voice in active meditation.
It's not the same if you're just doing it,
you have to go all in to be really really experiencing
the benefits and also the learning process.
- What's your biggest win from this course,
the one thing that you are like man,
this was the biggest takeaway for me?
- To see the group energy transforming like 60 people
at a time because every one of us
made progress and I could not believe that,
I mean I've never met any of those guys.
We've been like talking to ourselves over the internet
for six weeks and it worked for really
everybody from start to the end.
And I just did not believe that this can happen
and I'm right now a really really big believer
in group energy, it's, I just can't describe it.
You have to go through the process your own.
It's not something you can film on tape
or write down on an article and review.
It's really you either be there or not
and the group energy it's for me was really mind-blowing.
- Last night you met a lot of them for the first time.
- Yeah.
- What was it like?
- You enter a room, you see the person
you've never seen before and you instantly want to hug them.
And you feel like you've been friends for years.
(laughs) Yeah.
- (laughs) what you struggled with on this course,
what was the hard part for you?
- Relationship, the relationship model was really hard.
And also setting the right goals.
I adjusted them three times
and I'm still not happy with ever goal.
I then made the commitment to done is better than perfect
but for instance the relationship goal
I'm not quite sure how to set it that I can really
measure it and I really want to achieve it.
It's hard to distil the why
in every of those five areas.
I have areas like for health and finance
where I have a really clear smart goal
from the first day and I didn't change it
and I still feel like I God damn wanna achieve it.
It makes total sense for me but for instance
when I try to get more involved in my inner circle
and to help them be the best versions of them,
I still can't grab a smart goal which
I really wanna track every week, am I on track or not.
But I think you just get used to it during the process.
- Yeah, New Year's Eve, you posted
a video of who you wanna be.
Who is Dominic gonna be on New Year's Eve this year?
- He's being, he's a really positive fellow.
Everybody is saying, hey where's that energy coming from?
I want to talk to him about that.
I will be like spreading out this message
even without communicating.
Everybody will see me and will say this guy has,
there's something magic.
He's positive, when I first meet him.
- Say we walked outside right now, went down on the sidewalk
and we bumped into the Dominic who didn't take
this course, what's that guy like?
- He would be probably on his phone, (laughs)
like checking some newsfeed he's not really interested in
and then when you hit him up he will like give you
five minutes of hey my business is doing so bla bla bla
and then he didn't ask what you're doing
and why we are meeting and I guess he will run away
because he has to check his newsfeed
and get off to the next big business idea.
Yeah, he won't be present.
- Right, because you are a successful entrepreneur, correct?
And yet you're trying to be even better as a person
and you're looking deep inside yourself
and you're like okay.
'Cause a lot of guys would just congratulate themselves.
I sold my company, I'm doing amazing work.
But you look deeper and you want more, right?
- Deep inside I new that I was,
my entrepreneurial journey I was still learning.
I never saw that I was good at it
because I think you're always growing.
But because of that I was constantly looking
to get better and it got to a point
where it got basically also egoistic.
Where you just, you did not know how to put
your inner circle and your friends into the equation.
You are always thinking, how can I be better?
How can I make this company better?
How can I make my employees better?
I wanted really to help, but it was
a very egoistic drive and also doing
the Life Accelerator relationship model
I realised that I want to help others.
And now I have this information
and say like for the last six weeks
that I want to build a network of mentees I help
building their own first one million Euro business
and this is what really gives me energy.
I can see myself being in the group of those guys
and they were like hey Domenic,
you really made me do it.
Because many of them have the potential
and they just don't have someone in their family
or in their peer group who will give them
the courage and say just give it a shot.
What's the sma;lest step you can take,
just give it a try it won't hurt you.
- To someone who's listening or watching us right now,
what's the one big takeaway that you got
from the Life Accelerator that maybe
they can use in their life.
You mentioned not looking at your phone,
that kind of thing but what is it?
- (laughs) I would say instal an accountability doc
and just measure it and really really measure it.
Not just fake it, be honest to yourself,
put red lights if you don't do it
and just set a clear goal and measure it.
This really works, yeah.
- Yeah, and to that same person who's watching
who's like maybe I'll take an Accelerator,
but I'm not sure if I should or shouldn't,
what do you tell 'em?
- You can't do it on your own.
I mean one out of thousand will maybe get it done
on its own but like regular folks as I am,
we need the peer energy and the peer pressure
and this is the magic sauce of the course.
This group energy, you can't buy for money.
You just, if you contribute you get it back.
That's the way why if you're on the tip
of doing it or not you should give it
a try because you can't buy it, yeah.
- Dominic, it's been awesome having you on this course.
You're a huge part of that group energy.
You're coming in, you go big every single week.
And you struggle just like everybody else
which is natural and human and I know
on the movement thing you're like yeah Brian
but I wanna get back to my crossfit
and I'm like yeah but you gotta try new movement practise
and it's just been awesome having you on.
And I can't way to see you on these monthly calls
and to see how you inspire the team.
And I know you wanna give back to these entrepreneurs,
so I look forward to meeting you on New Year's Eve
and seeing that energy you're talking about, so thank you.
- Yeah, thanks a lot I'm really grateful
to made a contribution, yeah.
- Cool man.
- Thanks Brian.
- Thanks buddy.
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