The Compound Effect (10th Anniversary Edition): Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

by Darren Hardy

doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability. If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you simply need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them!”

“Be the guy who says ‘no.’ It’s no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, ‘Be The Exception’”

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices.

Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE

The secret to success was then, and is now, hard work, discipline, and good habits.

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

Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

All you have to do is improve yourself, your performance, and your output and earnings by 1/10 of 1 percent each workday (you even get to slack off on weekends). That is 1/1,000.

Your life is the product of your moment-to-moment choices.

“The older they are, the bigger they get, the deeper the roots grow, and the harder they are to uproot. Some get so big, with roots so deep, you might hesitate to even try.”

Living Your Best Year Ever: A Proven System for Achieving BIG GOALS

The power of your why is what gets you to stick through the grueling, mundane, and laborious.

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

“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.”

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!”

I’ve seen this time and again: the highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions. The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.

You only see, experience, and get what you look for.

By our very nature, we are goal-seeking creatures.

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 through which to see all the people, circumstances, conversations, resources, ideas, and creativity surrounding you.

“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.”

(InsaneProductivity.com).

think of Lake Rollins

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

During those eight minutes I do three things: First, I think about everything I’m grateful for. I know I need to attune my mind to abundance. The world looks, acts, and responds to you very differently when you start your day with a feeling and orientation of gratitude for that which you already have. Second, I do something that sounds a bit odd, but I send love to someone. The way to get love is to give it, and one thing I want more of is love. I give love by thinking of one person, anyone (it could be a friend, relative, co-worker, or someone I just met in the supermarket—it doesn’t matter), and then I send them love by imagining all that I wish and hope for them. Some would call this a blessing or a prayer. I call it a mental love letter. Third, I think about my No. 1 goal and decide what three things I’m going to do on this day to move closer toward reaching it. For example, at the time of this writing, my No. 1 goal is to deepen the love and intimacy in my marriage. Each morning I plan three things I can do to make sure that my wife feels loved, respected, and beautiful. When I get up, I put on a pot of coffee, and while it’s brewing, I do a series of stretches for about ten minutes—something I picked up from Dr.

Winning the race is all about pace.

The person who, given enough time, will beat virtually anybody in any competition as a result of positive habits and behaviors applied consistently.

Everyone is affected by three kinds of influences: input (what you

feed your mind), associations (the people you spend time with), and environment (your surroundings).

You get in life what you create.

Expectation drives the creative process. 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.

Jim Rohn taught that we become the combined average of the five people we hang around the most.

The people with whom we spend our time determine what conversations dominate our attention, along with the attitudes and opinions we are regularly exposed to. Eventually,

we start to eat what they eat, talk like they talk, read what they read, think like they think, watch what they watch, treat people how

treat them, even dress like they dress. The funny thing is, more often than not, we are completely unaware of the similaritie...

When you make the tough decision to put up boundaries between you and people who drag you down, realize that they’ll fight you—especially those closest to you. Your decision to live a more positive, goal-oriented life will hold a mirror up to their own poor choices. You will make them uncomfortable and they will attempt to pull you back down to their level. Their resistance doesn’t mean they don’t love you or want the best for you—it’s actually not about you at all. It’s about their fear and guilt about their own poor choices and lack of discipline. Just know that breaking away won’t be easy.

Now people often reach out to my assistant in order to get my advice or mentorship. All she has to do is tell them it’s all already available from anywhere in the world through DarrenDaily or inside our Darren Hardy Training Vault.

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you will get in life what you accept and expect you are worthy of.

Where in life can you do more than expected when you hit the wall? Or where can you go for “WOW”? It doesn’t take a lot more effort, but the little extra multiplies your results many times over. Whether you’re making calls, serving customers, recognizing your team, acknowledging your spouse, going for a run, bench-pressing,

planning a date night, sharing time with your kids, whatever… What’s the little extra you can do that exceeds expectations and accelerates your results?

I challenge you to adopt these philosophies in your own life—in your daily habits, disciplines, and routines. Giving a little more time, energy, or thought to your efforts won’t only improve your results, it will multiply them. It takes very little extra to be EXTRAordinary. In all areas of your life, look for the multiplier opportunities where you can go a little further, push yourself a little harder, last a little longer, prepare a little better, and deliver a little bit more. Where can you do better and more than expected? When can you do the totally unexpected? Find as many opportunities for “WOW,” and the level and speed of your accomplishments will astonish you… and everyone else around you.