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Influences.

Influences.

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.

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Aristotle.

"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."


ARISTOTLE.

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Habits.

Habits.

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 any...

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Momentum.

Momentum.

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 catap...

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The Compound Effect in Action - The Magic Penny.

The Compound Effect in Action - The Magic Penny.

Assume I gave your friend $3 million, and I asked you to save a penny for a month, with it slowly doubling each day. Which would you pick?

If you’ve come across this gambit before, you know picking the penny is the right option. Yet, why is it, in reality, a decision like this would be so h...

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Acceleration.

Acceleration.

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 c...

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Choices.

Choices.

People don’t achieve who they are overnight, but because of a series of choices that they have made.

We humans often make bad choices because we love anything that provides us with instant gratification. If you immediately developed lung cancer, the moment you picked up that cigarette, I’m ...

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