What I Learned From Falling Down The Stairs

bybotipton

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7 years ago

The house we live in is an old two-story house built back in the 1830s. Inside the house there is a beautiful old wooden staircase that goes up to the second floor where the bedrooms are.

The Dance Scene

The other morning early in the morning our black lab decided that he could now wait until his normal going out time and needed to go out to the bathroom right now. In his gentle persuasive way (If you have had a black lab you know what I am talking about.) He woke me up to let him out.

Normally he would wake up my wife but this time he chose me for the door opening duty.

With me half asleep and him fully awake down the stairs we went.

On the third step from the bottom my barefoot decided to not grip the step but to slip off of it. Needless to say stepping on air going down the stairs leads to some interesting movements. Videos of the falling down the stairs dance would have gone viral.

I did the grab the rail, and try to catch yourself down to the bottom of the stairs dance.

The grand finale of the dance was me sitting down at the bottom of the stairs.

To make things worse I think the dog was laughing by this time.

The good news was that the only thing that was hurt was my pride. I found out I can still bounce pretty good at 65.

Well, after that happened I got to thinking about falling on the stairs and how it relates to Wealthy Affiliate. I know my mind goes strange places sometimes.

Anyway, after some research on the Internet I found the connection.

The statistics for Stairway injuries are

• Over 1 Million injuries occur each year as the result of stairway falls.
• Staircase and stairway accidents constitute the second leading cause of accidental injury, second only to motor vehicle accidents.
• Each year, there are 12,000 stairway accident deaths.

So scary stuff right. So how does that relate to Wealthy Affiliate.

In my research for this post I found out It seems if you are going up the stairs and you fall there is seldom any injuries and normally not major injuries. Most of the falls are minor injuries from falling while going up the stairs.

After thinking about it I could see why that would be true.

If you are going down the stairs or standing still on the stairs and fall that is when major injuries happen and people are even killed by falling on the stairs.

Okay, Okay, here is the way it relates to Wealthy Affiliate.

If you are doing the training here at Wealthy Affiliate and being consistent with the training when you run into a problem the chance is that it will not destroy you. You will be able to keep going.

If something happens in your life and you were moving up at the time chances are you just get up and brush yourself off and continue on.

• If you have not been doing much
• If you have not been consistent
• If you only do something every few days or weeks
• If you have not been moving forward
• If you have not been working the training
• If you have not been getting encouraged by the community

Then just like falling down the stairs the the chances are that when you run into a problem doing something it might set you back and even make you quit altogether.

Moving backward or standing still here at Wealthy Affiliate, not working on the training, not working on your sites, just like on the stairs, is a dangerous place to be.

Moving onward and upward helps us when we fall get up and keep going.

Doing nothing for long periods of times can destroy us.

If you fail do it while moving up in the training and learning as it is a whole lot safer.

Onward and Upward Go For It