DARREN HARDY

Preparation (personal growth, skills, knowledge, expertise, relationships, resources) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) =

• Brad’s own self-esteem goes down, he started escaping from reality and starts losing himself in late-night TV shows.
• His wife starts to complain, then becomes needy. When that doesn’t work, she emotionally withdraws to protect herself. She’s lonely. She spends more time with her girl...

Understanding the compound effect will rid you of “instant-results” expectations.

Promise yourself that you’re going to let go once and for all of your lottery-winner expectations because, let’s face it, you only hear stories about the one winner, not the millions of losers. That person you...

It's not so much, that you want to take out of your life, instead, add some beneficial options in advance. 

For example, Don't think (“I can’t eat a hamburger, chocolate, or dairy”). But Add your Healthy option so there is no place for the worse. (e.g., “Today I’m going to ...

The most challenging aspect of the Compound Effect is that we have to keep working away for a while, consistently and efficiently, before we can begin to see the payoff. Our parents & grandparents knew this, they didn’t spend their money & time binge-watching, buying unusable stuff to get thinner...

Keeping an expense log just for 2 months makes you aware of your habits. You create a completely new set of choices and disciplines around spending.

Since awareness and positive behaviors compound, you find yourself more proactive with money in general, you try to find areas like where to i...

1. Larry didn’t change his routine, he did like he was doing always.
2. Scott started making some small, seemingly inconsequential, positive changes like reading 10 pages of a good book per day, 20 minutes of podcasts, cutting 125 calories from his diet every day, and walking a couple of e...

We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of all the choices we make. Our choices can be our best friend or our worst enemy. They can deliver us to our goals or send us o...

-Mosquito does. It means our very small, negligible choices every day affects us more than the big ones.

e.g. you inhale a soda and bag of potato chips and suddenly realize only after you polished off the last chip that you blew an entire day of healthy eating—and you weren’t even hungry. Y...

We are all self-made humans, but only the successful take credit for it.

In a seminar author attended, speaker asked, “What percentage of shared responsibility do you have in making a relationship work?”

People...

For being aware of your choices, you have to Track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve.

• If you want to get out of your debt, you need to start tracking every penny you spend out of your pocket.
• If you want to lose some extra w...

This process forces you to be conscious of each of your decisions.

Jim Rohn says, “What’s simple to do is also simple not to do”.

Magic is not the complexity of the task, but it’s in doing the simple things repeatedly and long enough to ignite the miracle of the Compound Effe...

Find a Peak Performance Partner (PPP), he/she can be your success buddy in your paths of different aspects of life. Give personal appreciation for their performance and get praise for your achievements too.

Or savings tree.

• Prepare your own food instead of spending money outside.
• Cancel some extra subscriptions.
• Spend every penny consciously (needs vs wants).
• Don’t buy anything on EMIs. Go for full payment.
• Follow the 50-30-20 Rule- Spend 50% of your monthl...

To understand this, we can put only 1 bad habit of Brad under the microscope—eating rich food more frequently—to know how the compound effect can work in a negative way and can create a ripple effect that impacts the whole life.

• As we already know, he makes recipes that he learned from...

Why are we so irrationally enslaved by so many bad habits? Because our need for Immediate gratification can turn us into the most reactive, nonthinking animals around.

• If you took a bite of a Big Mac and immediately fell due to heart attack, you might not go back for second bite.

At the end of 5-10 months, we can’t see any noticeable changes in any of their lives. They continued whatever they were doing.

But at about month 25, we start seeing really measurable, visible differences.

After 31 months or 940 days, When a detailed examination was done

1. Br...

If you were given a choice between taking $3 million in cash this very instant and a single penny that doubles in value every day for 31 days,

which would you choose?

Now, calculate independently and see the “magic” of compounding pennies.

Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, says that if we gave lottery losers every thirty seconds on TV to announce not, “I won!” but “I lost,” it would take almost nine years to get through the losers of a single drawing!

Don’t try to fool yourself in...