<ul><li>Write out your excuses, decide to make up for them with hard work and personal development.</li><li>Write out a half-dozen small, seemingly insignificant steps you can do every day to go a different direction.</li><li>Write the small seemingly insignificant things you can stop doing to stop your downward spiral.</li><li>List a few areas/skills/outcomes where you’ve succeeded in the past. Are you taking those for granted and not improving?</li></ul>

Put The Compound Effect To Work For You

Would you rather have (A) $3 million upfront or (B) one penny that doubles in value every day for 31 days? Choose any one!! To maximise your gains, the correct answer is (B). But it doesn’t happen quickly. After 19 days you’d still only have $5,243 and you might feel pretty foolish next to a friend who chose option (A).It’s not until day 29 that the compounding gains of option (B) net you $3 million. And by day 30 your patience would have tripled option (A). (See figure)

The Power Of Compounding 

<ul><li>Compound Effect: reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. Steps feel insignificant, results are massive.</li><li>Doesn’t matter how smart you are. Just work harder, work smarter.</li><li>Be the guy who says no. It’s no achievement to go along with the crowd.</li><li>Ripple effect: Even one small change can have a significant impact.</li><li>The Secret: hard work, discipline, good habits.</li></ul>

Short Summary 

“When the reason is big enough, you will be willing to perform almost any how.”

<ul><li>Law of Inertia: Objects at rest tend to stay at rest; in motion stay in motion.</li><li>Rockets use more fuel during the first few minutes of flight than the rest of the trip. The hard part is getting off the ground.</li><li>Pumping water requires many pumps before the water comes out, but once it’s up, it stays flowing. But if you let go of the lever too long, the water goes down and it takes effort to get it back up.</li><li>Starting step is always hard but once started we gain momentum.</li></ul>

Momentum

<ul><li>The extra effort after you’ve done your best is the difference maker.</li><li>See yourself as your own toughest competitor to multiply your results.</li><li>Push past what others expect of you. Do more than enough.</li><li>It takes very little extra to be EXTRAordinary.</li></ul>

EXTRAordinary

<ul><li>Successful people aren’t more intelligent/talented, they just have habits that help them be more informed, knowledgeable, skilled, prepared, competent. </li><li>With enough practice/repetition, any behavior becomes automatic over time.</li><li>Life is a product of moment-to-moment choices.</li><li>Every choice is getting you closer to that ultimate goal.</li><li>The instant gratification trap: Immediate gratification turns us into reactive, nonthinking animals.</li><li>Slight adjustments to daily routines can alter life outcomes.</li></ul>

Habits

<ul><li>Making positive choices in one area of your life has a ripple effect that spreads out to other areas of your life. </li><li>Start making one small positive choice and it will ripple out to make you far better overall.</li></ul>

Ripple Effect

Luck = Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + ActionPreparation: Personal growthAttitude: Beliefs and MindsetOpportunity: Things coming your wayAction: Doing Something

Luck

<ul><li>The sooner you start making small changes, the more powerfully the Compound Effect works for you.</li><li>Procrastination on behaviors, habits, disciplines is dangerous!</li><li>The key is to start now.</li></ul>

Time Matters

<ol><li>Pick an area you want to be successful in. Picture where you are now, where you want to be.</li><li>1st step toward change: Awareness.</li><li>Be aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.</li><li>Track every action that relates to the area of life you want to improve.</li></ol>Magic: do simple things repeatedly for long enough that the Compound Effect kicks in.

Success Formula

<ul><li>To fight bad habits, you need something stronger than willpower - THE WHY POWER.</li><li>What’s your reason to make significant improvements in your life?</li><li>Your WHY must be fantastically motivating to you, inspiring you to GO…for years.</li><li>Decision making is easier when you know your core values.</li></ul>

Find Your Why Power

“You can only control two things in life: Your attitude and your actions.”

“If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down.”

……. is “the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices, made consistently, over a long period of time.”Compounding requires enormous amounts of patience and faith.

The Compound Effect

<ul><li>Brains aren’t designed to make you happy, but to survive. It likes to seek out negatives.</li><li>Flush your mind by filling it with good stuff which will eventually clean out the bad/negative ideas.</li><li>Put yourself on a media diet — Media gives you a perverted view of the world.</li><li>99% news has nothing to do with you.</li></ul>

Media Diet

<ul><li>We all come into the world the same, the life we end up with is an accumulation of our choices.</li><li>Everything in your life exists because of a choice you made.</li><li>Every choice has an impact on your life’s Compound Effect.</li><li>You are sleepwalking through your choices.</li><li>You make choices, then choices make you.</li></ul>

Choices

<ol><li>Find your motivation.</li><li>Choose one new habit, get hooked, the other behaviors will fall in line.</li><li>Start with an easy task.</li><li>Why-power will fuel your new health habits.</li></ol>

Success Is A Marathon

“Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.”

“ You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

You make choices, then choices make you !

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. You will find strategies including: How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced. Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress. The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing. Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable. The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too!

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The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. You will find strategies including: <ul><li>How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.</li><li>Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress.</li><li>The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.</li><li>Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable.</li><li>The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too! </li></ul>

Darren Hardy is an American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect. 

DARREN HARDY

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