The Compound Effect will help you beat the competition, rise above your challenges, and create the life you deserve!"— T. Harv Eker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind They stop making contributions to the IRA after a few years because they could use the cash - and it doesn’t seem to be adding up to much anyway. Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference. Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society and culture tells us we should do. The Author gives lots of examples like the one above. The plane analogy, the pump analogy and the steam engine analogy.

More often than not, we are completely unaware of the similarities between us and our circle of five. As it is, there are a few helpful hints and good catch phrases, but mostly this book is asking people to be self-absorbed, inhuman sharks. Hardy also ends with a blatant push for you to gift the book to your friends. Friends that should no longer speak to you if you aren't the picture of health, wealth, and success.

At the moment, the smarter choices feel insignificant but will help you improve your health, wealth, and relationships over the long term. Darren Harry captures the Compound Effect in this formula: The hardest part of momentum is the beginning. But like pushing the merry-go-round on the playground… Once you get moving you can keep going very easily.

You need a deep why for doing stuff. With a why that is meaningful enough, you will do almost anything. (Think of Kristy exercising for the wedding.) People can be fueled by hate and anger just as much as love and happiness. Sometimes, an enemy, negative emotion, or bad experience can motivate you to succeed. Enemies and bad moments can give us the reason to confront adversity with courage. Goals In 2010, Hardy wrote The Compound Effect, [5] a book about the impact of everyday decisions which includes a guide to achieving goals. [15] [16] In 2011, he wrote Living Your Best Year Ever, which is a journal system to design and achieve goals. In 2015, he wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, which outlines the challenges of business ownership for entrepreneurs. [2] [4] Bibliography [ edit ] Think about what you can add in, not take out. Instead of saying “I want to stop watching TV for 3 hours a day” ask yourself what you would want to do with 3 hours of free time if you had it. Then focus on this. Winning the race is all about the pace. You have to keep moving or you will lose momentum and soon the whole race. It’s the tortoise and hare principal.The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you decide to take full responsibility for your life. The best way to increase your potential for whatever traits you desire is to spend the majority of your time with people who already possess those traits. The behaviors and attitudes which helped them acquire the success you admire will begin to become part of your daily routine. The only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.

Instead, you should surround yourself with people who represent and positively influence the life you want. This third group is those with who you should expand your association: Spend more time with these people. Join organizations and businesses, health clubs, networking groups, toastmasters, charity organizations, symphonies, country clubs, etc. where these people gather and make friends.CHOICES 53 Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination. Let me show you how… 4/21/10 1:00:01 PM Chapter_2.indd Sec1:53 4/21/10 1:00:01 PM Chapter_2.indd Sec1:53

You have to be willing to give 100 percent in your relationships. Always take 100 percent responsibility for everything that happens to you. I love something sweet. If there is ice cream in the house, the something sweet turns into a triple-scoop banana split with all the fixings (1255 calories). Instead, I replace that bad habit with two Hershey’s kisses (50 calories). We are habitual beings, as research shows that “95 percent of everything we feel, think, do, and achieve is a result of a learned habit.” We are born with instincts, but with enough repetition, good or bad behaviors become automated unconsciously in our habits. The most successful people consciously form positive habits to their benefit to be more knowledgeable, capable, and prepared. Avoid Instant Gratification Paul J. Meyer, a mentor of Darren Harden, has said, “If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.” The most successful people establish a clear, compelling vision for why before determining how. After, they define and write down their goals to work toward the vision.

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Identify your triggers for your bad habits: the who, what, where, and when that prompts you to start your bad habits. Befriend the person you think is the biggest, baddest, most successful person in your field. What do they read? Where do they go for lunch? In the Compound Effect, Hardy shares his morning routine, which grounds him in essential habits and prepares him for the day: From now on, you must be the master of your life by taking control and completely owning your life. Many others before you have succeeded in the face of great weaknesses and obstacles. Thus, you should not complain or make excuses about unfortunate circumstances in your life. Your Scorecard: Your Secret Weapon