The Compound Effect

Your habits can either make or mar you. The thing about successful people is that they structure their life with habits that are in line with their core values and goals.

Habits help to keep us sane and moving. Without them, we will spend too much time each day processing everything and anything. Which will inevitably slow down our progress and cause us burnout.

Even the tiniest addition of a promising habit to one’s life can cause significant differences in the long term if one is consistent.

There's a friend that is close to Richard Branson, Lance Armstrong, Jeff Bezos, Michael Phelps, Bill Gates, and every other superachiever.

His name is Big Mo.

Big Mo (or what you may commonly call momentum) is hard to unleash, but once you are able to harness it, it can catapult you to heights you never imagined.

The only to trigger Big Mo is through long and sometimes hard effort, repeated over time.

Inconsistency is the only thing that can kill Big Mo, and once it’s dead, you would have to start all over to get it functioning.

You are the average of five of the people you spend most of your time with.

And these people, or sometimes, things, we surround ourselves with have a subtle but powerful influence over our lives.

Although we may not notice it, billions of stimuli bombard our brains each day. The control we have over our lives enables us to choose what we let in.

If we aren’t choosing to allow positivity and things pertinent to our general well-being to permeate us, it will condition us to live, reacting to everything that is thrown at us. Which would be devastating.

As we undertake our journey of letting the compound interest work for us, whether we like it, we are going to encounter brick walls.

These times are when we will be pushed far away from our limits. We will have to look deep within ourselves for our true nature; if we are going to crack like nuts or persevere through the odds. And if we eventually overcome this barrier that separates our old selves from who we desire to be, that is when the true, lasting change happens, pushing us far ahead of the competition.