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How do I know that the Compound Effect is the only process you need for ultimate success? Firstly, I have applied these principles to my own
My personal experience has proven that, no matter what you learn or what strategy or tactic you employ, success comes as the result of the operating system of the Compound Effect.
Jim Rohn, said, “There are no new fundamentals. Truth is not new; it’s old. You’ve got to be a little suspicious of the guy who says, ‘Come over here, I want to show you my manufactured antiques!’ No, you can’t manufacture antiques.”
Before we dig in, I have one warning: Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
Keep It Slow and Easy
Today, Beverly runs full marathons!
Aristotle wrote, “We are what we repeatedly do.”
you know successful people aren’t necessarily more intelligent or more talented than anyone else. But their habits take them in the direction of becoming more informed, more knowledgeable, more competent, better skilled, and better prepared.
Start by Thinking Your Way Out of the Instant Gratification Trap
You don’t have that heart attack, your face doesn’t shrivel up, you’re not standing in the unemployment line, and your thighs aren’t thunderous. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t activated the Compound Effect.
Defining your core values also helps make life simpler and more efficient. Decision-making is also easier when you are certain of your core values. When faced with a choice, ask yourself, “Does this align with my core values?” If it does, do it. If not, don’t, and don’t look back. All fretting and
Find Your Fight
When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. It’s as if you’re giving your mind a new set of eyes from which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you. With this new perspective (an inner itinerary), your mind proceeds to match up on the outside what you want most on the inside—your goal.
One thing Jim Rohn taught me is: “If you want to have more, you have to become more. Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.”
5. Or Jump In
Game Changers: Six Techniques for Installing Good Habits
Leadership expert John C. Maxwell said, “You will never change your life
until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
The key is staying aware. If you really want to maintain a good habit, make sure you pay attention to it at least once a day, and you’re far more
1. Set Yourself Up to Succeed
2. Think Addition, Not Subtraction
3. Go for a PDA: Public Display of Accountability
4. Find a Success Buddy
Dr. Mehmet Oz once told me in an interview, “If people would just walk a thousand more steps per day, they would change their lives”.
6. Celebrate!
I love what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said so eloquently: “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.”
Creating new habits (and burning new grooves into your brain) will take time. Be patient with yourself.
It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you
can almost always control how your day starts and ends.
Once your daily disciplines have become a routine, you want the succession of those steps to create a rhythm. When your disciplines and actions jibe into a regular weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly rhythm, it’s like laying a welcome mat at the front door for Big Mo.
The Compound Effect—the positive results you want to experience in your life—will be the result of smart choices (and actions) repeated consistently over time. You win when you take the right steps day in and day out.
The Power of Consistency
I’ve mentioned that if there’s one
discipline that gives me a competitive advantage, it’s my abili...
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CHAPTER 5 INFLUENCES
That said, you must also realize your choices, behaviors, and habits are influenced by very powerful external forces.
Everyone is affected by three kinds of influences: input (what you feed your mind), associations (the
people with whom you spend time), and environment (your surroundings).
Controlling what our brains consume is especially difficult because so much of what we take in is unconscious.
Your brain is not designed to make you happy. Your brain has only one agenda in mind: survival. It is always watching for signs of “lack and attack.” Your brain is programmed to seek out the negative—dwindling resources, destructive weather, whatever’s out to hurt you. So when you switch on that
radio on the way to work and get bombarded with all those reports about robberies, fires, attacks, the tanking economy, your brain lights up—it now will spend all day chewing over that feast of fear, worry, negativity. Same deal when you tune into the evening news after work. More bad news? Perfect! Your mind will stew on that all night long.
Left to its own devices, your mind will traffic in the negative, worrisome, and fearful all day and night. We can’t change our DNA, but we can ch...
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to look beyond “lack and attack.” How? We can protect and feed our mind. We can be disciplined and pro...
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What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you’re thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life. So the question is, What are you thinking about? What is influencing and directing your thoughts? The answer: whatever you’re allowing yourself to hear and see. This is the input you are feeding your brain.
I’ll share what I do to safeguard my mind. But
According to research by social psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard, your “reference group” determines as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life.
Who do you spend the most time with? Who are the people you most admire? Are those two groups of people exactly the same? If not, why not? Jim Rohn taught that we become the combined average of the five people we hang around the most.
Rohn would say we could tell the quality of our health, attitude, and income by lookin...
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As Jim Rohn taught me, it’s powerful to evaluate and shift your associations into three categories: dissociations, limited associations, and expanded associations.
When you’ve prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you’ll be presented with your own moment of truth.
