"Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking."

You have to follow these simple 6 steps -  <ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Expose Yourself to Good Input: read books, listen to podcasts, etc.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Expose Yourself to Good Thinkers: Spend time with the right people. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Choose to Think Good Thoughts: You have to become intentional about the thinking process.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Act on Your Good Thoughts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Allow Your Emotions to Create Another Good Thought</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Repeat the Process</li></ol>

HOW TO BECOME A BETTER THINKER

<ol><li>Find a Place to Think Your Thoughts: If you go to your designated place to think expecting to generate good thoughts, then eventually you will come up with some.  </li><li>Find a Place to Shape Your Thoughts: As you shape your thoughts, you find out whether an idea has potential. </li><li>Find a Place to Stretch Your Thoughts: "The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time; for the Right Reason = the Right Result"</li><li>Find a Place to Land Your Thoughts: You have to share your ideas.</li><li>Find a Place to Fly Your Thoughts: You have to find how to act on the thought.</li></ol>

HOW TO DISCOVER and DEVELOP GOOD THOUGHTS

<ol><li>Allows You to Lead: People who are constantly looking at the whole picture have the best chance of succeeding in any endeavor.</li><li>Keeps You on Target</li><li>Allows You to See What Others See: One of the most important skills you can develop in human relations is the ability to see things from the other person’s point of view.</li><li>Promotes Teamwork</li><li>Keeps You from BeingCaught Up in the Mundane</li><li>Helps You to Chart Uncharted Territory: The only way to break new ground or move into uncharted territory is to look beyond the immediate and see the big picture.</li></ol>

WHY YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THE WISDOM OF BIG-PICTURE THINKING

"A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss."

<ol><li>Don’t Strive for Certainty</li><li>Learn from Every Experience</li><li>Gain Insight from a Variety of People</li><li>Give Yourself Permission to Expand Your World</li></ol>

HOW TO ACQUIRE THE WISDOM OF BIG-PICTURE THINKING

"Am I thinking beyond myself and my world so that I process ideas with a holistic perspective?"

Thinking Question #1

“knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts are not to bother about.”

<ol><li>Remove Distractions</li><li>Make Time for Focused Thinking</li><li>Keep Items of Focus Before You</li><li>Set Goals</li><li>Question Your Progress: “Am I seeing a return for my investment of focused thinking time? Is what I am doing getting me closer to my goals? Am I headed in a direction that helps me to fulfill my commitments, maintain my priorities, and realize my dreams?"</li></ol>

HOW CAN YOU STAY FOCUSED?

“If you can’t write your idea on the back of my business card, you don’t have a clear idea.”

"Am I dedicated to removing distractions and mental clutter so that I can concentrate with clarity on the real issue?"

Thinking Question #2

<ol><li>Remove Creativity Killers</li><li>Think Creatively by Asking the Right Questions</li><li>Develop a Creative Environment</li><li>Spend Time with Other Creative People</li><li>Get Out of Your Box</li></ol>

HOW TO DISCOVER THE JOY OF CREATIVE THINKING

"Am I working to break out of my “box” of limitations so that I explore ideas and options to experience creative breakthroughs?"

Thinking Question #3

"Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it."

Strategic thinking can - <ol><li>Simplifies the Difficult</li><li>Prompts You to Ask the Right Questions</li><li>Prompts Customization</li><li>Prepares You Today for an Uncertain Tomorrow</li><li>Reduces the Margin of Error</li><li>Gives You Influence with Others</li></ol>

THE POWER OF STRATEGIC THINKING

<ol><li>Break Down the Issue</li><li> Ask Why Before How</li><li>Identify the Real Issues and Objectives</li><li>Review Your Resources</li><li>Develop Your Plan</li><li>Put the Right People in the Right Place</li><li>Keep Repeating the Process</li></ol>"Strategic thinking is like showering, you have to keep doing it."

HOW TO RELEASE THE POWER OF STRATEGIC THINKING

"Am I implementing strategic plans that give me direction for today and increase my potential for tomorrow?"

Thinking Question #4

“Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done.”

<ol><li>Stop Focusing on the Impossibilities</li><li>Stay Away from the “Experts”</li><li>Look for Possibilities in Every Situation</li><li>Dream One Size Bigger: Henry Curtis advises, “Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because twenty-five years from now, they will seem mediocre. Make your plans ten times as great as you first planned, and twenty-five years from now you will wonder why you did not make them fifty times as great.”</li><li>Question the Status Quo</li><li>Find Inspiration from Great Achievers</li></ol>

HOW TO FEEL THE ENERGY OF POSSIBILITY THINKING

<ol><li>Set Aside Time for Reflection</li><li>Remove Yourself from Distractions</li><li>Regularly Review Your Calendar or Journal</li><li>Ask the Right Questions</li><li>Cement Your Learning Through Action</li></ol>Reflective thinking has three main values: it gives me perspective within context; it allows me to continually connect with my journey, and it provides counsel and direction concerning my future.

HOW TO EMBRACE THE LESSONS OF REFLECTIVE THINKING

"Am I regularly revisiting the past to gain a true perspective and think with understanding?"

Thinking Question #5

"Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become."

<ol><li>Think Before You Follow</li><li>Appreciate Thinking Different from Your Own</li><li>Continually Question Your Own Thinking</li><li>Try New Things in New Ways</li><li>Get Used to Being Uncomfortable</li></ol>"If you embrace unpopular thinking and make decisions based upon what works best and what is right rather than what is commonly accepted, know this: in your early years, you won’t be as wrong as people think you are. In your later years, you won’t be as right as people think you are. And all through the years, you will be better than you thought you could be."

HOW TO QUESTION THE ACCEPTANCE OF POPULAR THINKING

"Am I consciously rejecting the limitations of common thinking in order to accomplish uncommon results?"

Thinking Question #6

<ol><li>Identify the Real Bottom Line</li><li>Make the Bottom Line the Point</li><li>Create a Strategic Plan to Achieve the Bottom Line: The important thing is that when the bottom line of each activity is achieved, then THE bottom line is achieved. If the sum of the smaller goals doesn’t add up to the real bottom line, then either your strategy is flawed or you’ve not identified your real bottom line.</li><li>Align Team Members with the Bottom Line</li><li>Stick with One System and Monitor Results Continually.</li></ol>

HOW TO ENJOY THE RETURN OF BOTTOM-LINE THINKING

“Think like a man of action—act like a man of thought.”

"Am I continually considering others and their journey in order to think with maximum collaboration?"

Thinking Question #7

<ol><li>Put Others First: Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.</li><li>Expose Yourself to Situations Where People Have Needs</li><li>Give Quietly or Anonymously</li><li> Invest in People Intentionally</li><li>Continually Check Your Motives: François de la Rochefoucauld said, “What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”﻿</li></ol>

HOW TO EXPERIENCE THE SATISFACTION OF UNSELFISH THINKING

"Am I staying focused on the bottom line so that I can gain the maximum return and reap the full potential of my thinking?"

Thinking Question #8

Gather successful people from all walks of life-what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life! A Wall Street Journal bestseller, HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success.

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How Successful People Think

"When one person is in control of another, love cannot grow deeply and fully, as there is no freedom.”

Boundaries are just like a 'property line in one's life'. Just like in real life you have a property and the property line. Whatever is inside the property line is your responsibility and you have control over those. If anything bad happens there then you will feel sorrow for that. Boundaries are imaginary lines which mean these are not physical border. So you can decide what to come inside and what to throw out.

What is Boundaries

“Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.”

<ol><li>Say 'NO' to bad</li><li>Avoid saying 'NO' to good.</li><li>Respect other's boundaries (when they say 'NO')</li></ol>

Creating Boundaries

"The most basic boundary-setting word is “no.” It lets others know that we exist apart from them and that we are in control of ourselves.”

<ol><li>The Law of Sowing and Reaping</li><li>The Law of Responsibility</li><li>The Law of Power</li><li>The Law of Respect</li><li>The Law of Motivation</li><li>The Law of Evaluation</li><li>The Law of Proactivity</li><li>The Law of Envy</li><li>The Law of Activity</li><li>The Law of Exposure</li></ol>

10 Laws of Boundaries

“You reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit” Sometimes, however, people don’t reap what they sow, because someone else steps in and reaps the consequences for them. If every time you overspent, your mother sent you money to cover check overdrafts or high credit-card balances, you wouldn’t reap the consequences of your spendthrift ways.You just need to stop interrupting the law of sowing and reaping in someone’s life.

#1: The Law of Sowing and Reaping

Many times when people hear a talk on boundaries and taking responsibility for their own lives, they say, “That’s so self-centered. We should love one another and deny ourselves.” Or, they actually become selfish and self-centered. Or, they feel “guilty” when they do someone a favor. The Law of Responsibility includes loving others.“Love each other as I have loved you”

#2: The Law of Responsibility

<ol><li>Confession: You have the power to agree with the truth about your problems. </li><li>You have the power to submit your inability to God. </li><li>You have the power to search and ask God and others to reveal more and more about what is within your boundaries.</li><li>Repentance: You have the power to turn from the evil that you find within you. </li><li>You have the power to humble yourself and ask God and others to help you with your developmental injuries and leftover childhood needs.</li><li>You have the power to seek out those that you have injured and make amends.</li></ol>

#3: The Law of Power

“True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.”

We fear that others will not respect our boundaries. We focus on others and lose clarity about ourselves.If we love and respect people who tell us no, they will love and respect our no. Freedom begets freedom.

#4: The Law of Respect

These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries: <ol><li>Fear of loss of love, or abandonment. </li><li>Fear of others’ anger.</li><li>Fear of loneliness. </li><li>Fear of losing the “good me” inside.</li><li>Guilt</li><li>Payback.</li><li>Approval</li><li> Overidentification with the other’s loss.</li></ol>Freedom first, service second. If you serve to get free of your fear, you are doomed to failure. Let God work on the fears, resolve them, and create some healthy boundaries to guard the freedom you were called to.

#5: The Law of Motivation

You need to evaluate the effects of setting boundaries and be responsible to the other person, but that does not mean you should avoid setting boundaries because someone responds with hurt or anger.We need to evaluate the pain our confrontation causes other people. We need to see how this hurt is helpful to others and sometimes the best thing that we can do for them and the relationship. We need to evaluate the pain in a positive light.

#6: The Law of Evaluation

“Things can hurt and not harm us. In fact they can even be good for us. And things that feel good can be very harmful to us.”

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."Do not try to get to freedom without owning your reactive period and feelings. You do not need to act this out, but you do need to express the feelings. You need to practice and gain assertiveness. You need to get far enough away from abusive people to be able to fence your property against further invasion. And then you need to own the treasures you find in your soul.

#7: The Law of Proactivity

Your envy should always be a sign to you that you are lacking something. At that moment, you should ask God to help you understand what you resent, why you do not have whatever you are envying, and whether you truly desire it. Ask him to show you what you need to do to get there, or to give up the desire.

#8: The Law of Envy

When a baby bird is ready to hatch, if you break the egg for the bird, it will die. The bird must peck its own way out of the egg into the world. This aggressive “workout” strengthens the bird, allowing it to function in the outside world. Robbed of this responsibility, it will die.We must not shrink back passively. Our boundaries can only be created by our being active and aggressive, by our knocking, seeking, and asking

#9: The Law of Activity

A boundary is a property line. It defines where you begin and end. We have been discussing why you need such a line. One reason stands above all the others: You do not exist in a vacuum. You exist in relation to God and others. Your boundaries define you in relation to others.The Law of Exposure says that your boundaries need to be made visible to others and communicated to them in a relationship.﻿

#10: The Law of Exposure

This book will tell about how to set boundaries to our mental world.

Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances -- Mental boundaries give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions -- Emotional boundaries help us to deal with our own emotions and disengage from the harmful, manipulative emotions of others -- Spiritual boundaries help us to distinguish God's will from our own and give us renewed awe for our Creator -- Often, Christians focus so much on being loving and unselfish that they forget their own limits and limitations. When confronted with their lack of boundaries, they ask: - Can I set limits and still be a loving person? - What are legitimate boundaries? - What if someone is upset or hurt by my boundaries? - How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money? - Aren't boundaries selfish? - Why do I feel guilty or afraid when I consider setting boundaries? Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend offer biblically-based answers to these and other tough questions, showing us how to set healthy boundaries with our parents, spouses, children, friends, co-workers, and even ourselves.

Boundaries

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. "

Yes, Staircase! not a lift! Because there is no shortcut to go to the top. You have to step on each staircase one by one and eventually you will see yourself at the top. The 6 steps are -  <ol><li>SELF- IMAGE</li><li>RELATIONSHIP</li><li>GOALS</li><li>ATTITUDE</li><li>WORK</li><li>DESIRE</li></ol>

6 Steps in the Staircase

“The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.”

It doesn't matter what others think about yourself, but it is much more important that how you think about yourself.We normally get influenced by our society or friends. So try to think yourself what kind of person you want to be in the future. For the there are many tips given in the books. Some of them are 'Positive self-talk', 'talk with successful people in your desired field',' reading success stories', etc.

#1 SELF-IMAGE

The 2nd step is the relationship with others.In the book, the author talks a lot about how a healthy marriage is a key to success. It is not that, you don’t have to get married asap, but if you’re in one already get down and invest.You both need to work for your relationship and if your relationship is not healthy it will affect your overall motivation and which will eventually affect your business and your success.

#2 RELATIONSHIP

“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

If you don't have a compass you will just wander in the vast sea and never reach your destination. In LIFE also you will need direction to move on. This direction will be set by your GOALS.Some of the most important goal achieving principles are - <ul><li>Keep records where are you</li><li>Make a list</li><li>Specific with goals</li><li>Set big small goals which you think is achievable</li><li>Make a goal long range etc.</li></ul>

#3 GOALS

"Lack of DIRECTION, not lack of TIME is the problem. We all have 24 hour days."

There is a difference between attitude and self-image. Self-image means how you view yourself, but attitude is about how you represent the rest of the world.You must change your attitude towards problems like you are facing this problem because of your own fault and you must learn how to react to such situations in real life.

#4 ATTITUDE

"The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem."

In LIFE you will not get anything for free. If you believe one day some magical being will come with a magic wand and make all of your dreams come true, it's not going to happen.You have to go out and need to find your own ways to achieve your dreams and work hard to get them. It's the only way.And you should know comfort zone is a nice place but nothing ever grows there.

#5 WORK

Now you have set up your goals, you have the right attitude and you are working hard for it, but if you don't have a burning desire for your goals then it will not last long.The burning desire gives you the boost to go on. Your desire should be at the top in order to achieve what you want in your life.

#6 DESIRE

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

This book helped me to learn 6 important steps to get success in my goals and I'm still applying them whenever I can and I can see the change. 

The 25th anniversary edition of the classic motivational and self-improvement book that has sold more than 1.6 million copies in hardcover. For more than three decades, Zig Ziglar, one of the great motivators of our age, has traveled the world, encouraging, uplifting, and inspiring audiences. His groundbreaking best-seller, See You at the Top, remains an authentic American classic. This revised and updated edition stresses the importance of honesty, loyalty, faith, integrity, and strong personal character.

See You at the Top

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"

"The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion."

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

<ul><li>Step 1: Reconnect to peak moments in the past.</li><li>Step 2: Write out the story in detail. </li><li>Step 3: Repeat the process for ages five to twenty-five</li><li>Step 4: Write the values that emerged from those moments.</li><li>Step 5: Define your values.</li></ul>

THE ORIGIN STORY EXERCISE

"Little ideas that tickled, and nagged, and refused to go away should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny"

<ol><li>Create a manifesto that summary what you’re seeking to bring to the world, your beliefs and values, and how you operate. Add this to your website if you have one. Remember to share the ?why of what you do.</li><li>Find your big why. Throw out the dispassionate corporatespeak. Talking about your beliefs, your values, your vision for the world will engage people’s emotions, which is how they make decisions.</li><li>Craft a Vivid Vision and make it public. Speak three years into the future. Don't worry if you’re currently small or operating from a warehouse. Talk about the future as if it’s happening now.</li></ol>

MODELS OF REALITY

"Positive optimism is not the rejection of sadness, but the thought, even during sadness, that the future will be okay."

<ul><li>End goals are the beautiful, exciting rewards of being human on planet Earth. End goals speak to your soul. They bring you joy in and of themselves, not because they confer any outward label, standard, or value attached by society.</li><li>Means goals are the things that society tells us we need to have in place to get to happiness. Almost everything I wrote down as a goal was actually a means to an end, not an end in itself.</li></ul>

Means Goals Versus End Goals

<ol><li>What experiences do I want to have in this lifetime? </li><li>To be the person who lives life with these amazing experiences, how do I need to grow?</li><li>If I had a life with these amazing experiences and had grown to this level, how do I now give back to the world that has rewarded me so much?</li></ol>

The Three Most Important Questions (3MIQs)

"Companies should not just ask people to be engaged in the company vision. Companies should be engaged in an employee's vision for their own life."

"The true reality is that success and failure are illusions. The only thing that matters is how fast you're evolving. Your journey is about removing all the barriers that hold you back from self-actualization."

"Your work is not about your work. Rather your work is the greatest vehicle for your personal growth. "

"Grow so fast that your friends who haven't seen you in a month have to get to know you all over again."

"Remember this when you wake up every day: Your life is not about you. Rather, it's about the lives of every single person you touch. "

Step 1: Reflect on these questions below:<ol><li>What missions in the world already inspire you?</li><li>What causes can you be an activist for? </li><li>What to or fields light you up? </li><li>What types of groups do you want to make a difference for?</li><li>What brands can you support?</li></ol>Step 2: Take action. What actions can you take to align yourself with or create positive missions that forward initiatives in the areas that matter to you? Write them down. Then get in action.

MASSIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL PURPOSE (MTP)

"The bigger your vision, the easier it gets. When you live this way, you may find that the vision is not coming from you. Instead, the Universe is choosing to go through you to realize what the world needs."

"Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good, to allow what is truly great to enter."

"The question is not: Are you worthy to reach your goals? The question is: Are your goals worthy enough of you?"

"Remember: Don't describe what you do today. Describe what you're going to do in ten years. Be humble and admit that there's a chance of failure. But talk boldly of what you aim to do."

"A goal is not meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind challenges everything you thought you knew about work, showing how aligning with your core values and fostering personal growth will lead to unimaginable success with a sense of ease"--

The Buddha and the Badass

“Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don’t expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.”

The Compound Effect “is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices,” made consistently, over a long period of time.For example, would you rather have (A) $3 million upfront or (B) one penny that doubles in value every day for 30 days?If you have taken option (B) then - Day Money you have ($)1 0.012 0.02...15 327.67...27 1,342,177.2728 2,684,354.5429 5,368,709.0830 10,737,418.16 You can able to see the change after 28 days. It's the power of Compound Effect.

Compound Effect

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.”

“A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.”

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

<ul><li>Decide to take full responsibility for your own life – even if you can’t explain how you got here.</li><li>Write down 6 seemingly inconsequential positive steps you can start doing daily (like reading books).</li><li>Identify 6 seemingly inconsequential negative actions you can put a stop to. (less watching TV, less playing video games).</li><li>Identify any areas of life where you’ve enjoyed success in the past but may have become complacent and are no longer improving.</li></ul>

Actionable Steps

Always remember that - Luck = Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + ActionNow - <ul><li>Identify the one area of life you’re struggling most with and start journaling all the things you’re grateful for about it.</li><li>Identify and assess an area of life you want to change and that you’re not taking 100% responsibility for.</li><li>Start tracking at least one behavior in one area of your life you’d like to change and improve.</li></ul>

Choices

“You make your choices, and then your choices make you.”

<ol><li>Identify your triggers.</li><li>Eliminate those TRIGGERS from your Environment. </li><li>Substitute with a REWARD that has the same effect </li><li>Either: Ease into your new reward – (if No.3 doesn't work) some habits are easier to change by cutting them down slowly.</li><li>Or: Make a hard change – others are easier to dislodge with a quick decisive tug at the roots.</li></ol>

Eliminating Bad Habits

<ol><li>Start Strongly – start with a strong WHY</li><li>Set Yourself Up to Succeed – eliminate distractions</li><li>Think Addition, Not Subtraction – focus on what you will get not what you lose.</li><li>Make a Public Commitment </li><li>Find a Success Buddy –a friend or a coach</li><li>Set up Some Competition – compare the results with yesterday's progress</li><li>Celebrate – training your brain is much like training a dog so don’t underestimate the power of small, simple rewards for good behavior.</li></ol>

Creating Good Habits

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

<ul><li>Create a good evening and morning routine.</li><li>List three areas of life where you’re not consistent enough. What has this cost you? Decide to be consistent from now on.</li><li>Create a habit register and write down a half-dozen key behaviors (which may be beneficial in the future).</li></ul>

Creating Momentum

“Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.”

<ul><li>Identify the influence of media and information on your life. Identify ways to protect it from the negative and fill it with positive information.</li><li>Evaluate your current associations. Which must you stop or limit? How will you expand your (good) associations?</li><li>Pick an accountable partner and decide when, how often, what to and how you’ll hold each other accountable.</li><li>Identify three areas of life you are most focused on improving. Find and engage a mentor in each area of those areas.</li></ul>

Influences

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”

Giving a little more energy or thought to your efforts won’t just improve your results, it will multiply them.<ul><li>Identify times when you hit your moments of truth and commit to pushing through them when you next get there.</li><li>Find three areas in your life where you can do “extra” and make a plan to do more.</li><li>Identify three areas in your life where you can beat expectations then plan where and how to create “wow” moments.</li><li>Identify three ways you can do the unexpected. Where can you differentiate from what is common, normal, or expected?</li></ul>

Acceleration

No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, 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.

The Compound Effect

"Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable."

"When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity."

"We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future."

“Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.”

“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called PASSION.”

“People who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened."

“People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.”

“Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”

"Go slow when you can, fast when you must."

"The most noble thing you can do is to give to others. Start focusing on your higher purpose."

“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”

“Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it is the realization that we can.”

"Happiness is not the other side of success. Success does not create happiness. Happiness creates Success."

"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

“You have to dress up for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.”

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”

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Inspiring Quotes from Self-help Books (Part - 1)

"When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity."

<ol><li>Preparation keeps companies alive when the unknown creeps into our lives.</li><li>The businesses that will make it through tough times look at the facts and prepare with a worst-case scenario mindset.</li><li>10X companies reach their goals year after year, despite what happened within that year.</li><li>10X companies take their leaps when they see it’s necessary.</li><li>10x companies love the idea of their equation yielding the same results over and over.</li></ol>

5 Key Points 

Best leaders (10X) do not predict the future<ul><li>They observe what worked and why that didn't and build their company around those foundations</li><li>They are Not more risk-taking, bold, or visionary, more disciplined, empirical, and paranoid.</li><li>They can able to scale innovation, not just be innovative.</li><li>They know when to go fast and when not to; not all about going super fast</li><li>Change on the outside doesn't necessarily mean change on the inside</li></ul>The key qualities are - <ol><li>Fanatic discipline</li><li>Empirical creativity</li><li>Productive Paranoia</li><li>Level 5 ambition</li></ol>

Qualities of a 10X leader

"Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom."

Shows regularity of action; rejects pressure to conform in ways incompatible with values, performance standards, and long-term aspirations<ul><li>20-Mile March: The first man to reach the South Pole, Norwegian Roald Amundsen, marched about 20 miles on calm days, and about 20 miles in screeching gales.</li></ul>He was consistent. He didn’t march 40 miles on good days, nor zero on bad days.10Xers make incremental progress year after year by consistently hitting specified performance markers.<ul><li>They have an unwavering commitment to high performance in difficult conditions</li><li>They hold back in good conditions</li></ul>

#1 Fanatic Discipline

“If you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back.  ”

During times of uncertainty, look at the empirical evidence, not to other people; rely on direct observation and practical experimentation and build a deeper empirical foundation for decisions and actions.<ul><li>Fire bullets, then fire cannonballs: First work out what works and what doesn't in a riskfree manner-</li></ul><ol><li>Bullets are low risk, low cost, and low distraction</li><li>Convert to cannonballs with successful ideas</li><li>Beware of uncalibrated cannonballs with good outcomes because it encourages the use of bad processes.</li></ol>Don't let discipline inhibit creativity or creativity to erode discipline.

#2 Empirical Creativity

10X winners always assume that conditions can change, violently and fast.1. Extra oxygen canisters (big margins of safety in cash reserves)2. Bounding risk<ul><li>Avoid “Death Line risk” that could kill or severely damage the enterprise.</li><li>Ignore “Asymmetric risk” (those risks for which the potential downside is much bigger than the potential upside).</li><li>Steer away from “Uncontrollable risk” that exposes the enterprise to events they can't control.</li></ul>3. Zoom out, then zoom in<ul><li>10X leaders obsessively focus on their objectives and are hypervigilant about changes in their environment.</li></ul>

#3 Productive Paranoia: Leading Above the Death Line

Create and use a SMaC recipe to execute your strategy: Specific, Methodical, and Consistent.<ul><li>Operating instructions - includes both Dos and Don'ts</li><li>Be stoic about what you cannot control but exert extreme control when you can - be SMaC!</li><li>Try not to change your SMaC often (like Constitution - ok to question and challenge but rarely change) </li></ul>

SMaC Recipe

“The environment doesn’t determine why some companies thrive in chaos and why others don’t. People do.”Who luck (the luck of finding the right mentor, partner, teammate, leader, friend) is one of the most important types of luck.The real difference between the 10X and comparison cases was ROL (Return on Luck).<ul><li>They zoomed out to recognize when a lucky event had happened and to consider whether they should let it disrupt their plans.</li><li>If yes, they threw themselves at the luck event with ferocious intensity, not letting up.</li></ul>

The Role of Luck: 

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.

How Successful People Think

Boundaries

See You at the Top

The Buddha and the Badass

The Compound Effect

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