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Darren Hardy
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August 1 - August 11, 2024
SUMMARY ACTION STEPS Identify your three best habits—those that support your most important goal. Identify your three bad habits that take you off course from your most important goal. Identify three new habits you need to develop to put yourself on track toward your most important goal. Identify your core motivation. Discover what gets you fired up and keeps you fired up to achieve big results. Find your why-power. Design your concise, compelling, and awe-inspiring goals. Use Living Your Best Year Ever: A Proven System for Achieving BIG GOALS to guide you through the designing and tracking
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How do you get Big Mo to pay you a visit? You build up to it. You get into the groove or the “zone,” by doing the things we’ve covered so far: 1) Making new choices based on your goals and core values 2) Putting those choices to work through new positive behaviors 3) Repeating those healthy actions long enough to establish new habits 4) Building routines and rhythms into your daily disciplines 5) Staying consistent over a long enough period of time Then, BANG! Big Mo kicks in your door (that’s a good thing)! And you’re virtually unstoppable.
Of all the high-achievers and business leaders I’ve worked with and observed, I’ve noticed not only do they have good habits, but each has developed consistent routines for carrying out their daily disciplines. It’s the only way any of us can predictably regulate our behavior. There simply isn’t any way around it.
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.
Unfortunately, the people who get shoved aside are often the most important.
Once a quarter, we plan a two- to three-day getaway. I like to do a quarterly review of all my goals and life patterns. This is a great time to do a deeper check-in on how things are going in our relationship. Then we have our special travel vacation, plus our holiday traditions and our New Year’s hike and goal-setting ritual. You can see that once all this is scheduled, you no longer have to think about what you need to be doing. Everything happens naturally. We’ve created a rhythm that gives us momentum.
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I’ve mentioned that if there’s one discipline that gives me a competitive advantage, it’s my ability to be consistent. Nothing kills Big Mo quicker and with more certainty than a lack of consistency.
The person who, given enough time, will beat virtually anybody in any competition as a result of positive habits and behaviors applied consistently. That’ll put the mojo in your momentum.
Making the right choice, holding to right behaviors, practicing perfect habits, staying consistent, and keeping your momentum
SUMMARY ACTION STEPS Build your bookend morning and evening routines. Design a predictable and fail-safe world-class routine schedule for your life. For my personal 2X2 morning routine blueprint, go to DarrenHardy.com/MorningRoutine List three areas of life in which you are not consistent enough. What has this inconsistency cost you in life thus far? Make a declaration to stay steadfast in your new commitment to consistency. On your Rhythm Register, write down a half-dozen key behaviors relevant to your new goals. These should be behaviors you want to establish a rhythm with and eventually
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Hopefully by now you understand exactly how important your choices are. Even those that seem insignificant, when compounded, can make an extreme impact on your life.
We’ve also discussed the fact that you are 100 percent responsible for your life.
you must also realize your choices, behaviors, and habits are influenced by very powerful external forces.
Input to mind, Association with people and environment
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).
The input you ingest has a direct and measurable impact on your productivity and outcomes.
It’s a never-ending battle to be selective and to stand guard against any information that can derail your creative potential.
It’s important to understand that 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, potential threat—whatever’s out to hurt you. So when you open up those news alerts on your phone in the morning and get bombarded with all those reports about robberies, fires, attacks, and the tanking economy, your brain lights up. Your brain will now spend all day chewing over that feast of fear, worry, negativity. Same
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We can’t change our DNA, but we can change our behavior.
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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.
Garbage in, garbage out.
it’s powerful to evaluate and shift your associations into three categories: dissociations, limited associations, and expanded associations.
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.
even with close family members. I WILL NOT, however, allow someone else’s actions or attitudes to have a dampening influence on me.
“How do I show up to you? What do you think my strengths are? In what areas do you think I can improve? Where do you think I sabotage myself? What’s one thing I can stop doing that would benefit me the most? What’s the one thing I should start doing?”
“Mentoring is your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. And it should never end.
Who should be on your personal board of advisors? Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life.
Additionally, when you’re creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate. This is true in every area of your life—particularly within your relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. What you have decided to tolerate is also reflected in the situations and circumstances of your life right now.
If you tolerate disrespect, you will be disrespected. If you tolerate people being late and making you wait, people will show up late for you. If you tolerate being underpaid and overworked, that will continue for you. If you tolerate your body being overweight, tired, and perpetually sick, it will be.
If you want to foster a disciplined routine of rhythms and consistency, so that Big Mo not only pays a visit to your house, but moves in, you have to be sure your environment is welcoming and supportive of you becoming, doing, and performing at world-class levels.
Put the Compound Effect to Work for You SUMMARY ACTION STEPS Identify the influence the input of media and information is having on your life. Determine what input you need to protect your glass (mind) from and how you are going to keep your glass (mind) regularly flushed with positive, uplifting, and supportive input. Evaluate your current associations. Who might you need to further limit your association with? Who might you need to completely dissociate from? Strategize ways you will expand your associations. Pick a peak-performance partner. Decide when, how regularly, and what you will hold
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In this chapter, I want to talk to you about those moments of truth and how the Compound Effect can help you break through to new and greater levels of success—faster than you imagined possible. 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. In that moment, you will define who you are and who you are becoming. It is in those moments where growth and improvement live—when we either step forward or shrink back, when we climb to the top of the podium and seize the medal or we continue to
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We’ll also look at how you can consistently deliver more than people expect, compounding your good fortune even further.
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It’s not getting to the wall that counts. It’s what you do after you hit it that really matters.
If everyone is zigging, I’m gonna zag.
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 ...
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SUMMARY ACTION STEPS When do you hit your moments of truth (e.g., making prospecting calls, exercising, communicating with your spouse or kids)? Identify them so you know when to push through to find new growth and where you can separate yourself from others and your old self. Find three areas in your life where you can do “extra” (e.g., weight lifting reps, calls, recognition, sentiments of appreciation, etc.). Identify three areas in your life where you can beat the expectations. Where and how can you create “wow” moments? Identify three ways you can do the unexpected. Where can you
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Motivation without action leads to self-delusion.
The Compound Effect is a tool that, when combined with consistent, positive action, will make a real and lasting difference in your life.
bolster your why-power,
