Success is not doing thousands of things really well. Success is doing a very few things really well - thousands of times.
It is your habits and consistency that will yield compounding results in your life.
Read on...
In 'The Compound Effect', Darren Hardy reveals the core principles that drive success and presents a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal successes in business, relationships, and beyond.
This is an easy-to-use, step-by-step guide that allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve anything you desire.
It is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny and how little, everyday decisions will, by default, either take you to the life you desire or to disaster.
After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down the 29 catchy lessons from this awesome book.
These are the examples that stuck with me.
These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb.
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For now, if you wish to know about "The Compound Effect", and what I learned from it, here you go...
1) Success is not doing 5000 things really well. Success is doing 10 things really well 5000 times.
2) Hard work can compensate for lack of any skill and experience.
3) Small positive habits can create massive and unexpected ripple effects in your life. And small negative habits can do just the reverse. Nothing, thus, can be considered as small. Be mindful of every tiny habit.
4) Nothing fails like success. Because success brings comfort and complacency.
5) Those who understand compound effect never expect instant results. They are ready to slog for decades at a stretch.
6) You must go through mundane, unexciting, boring and hard daily grind to reveal compounding effect.
7) Create an annual family journal for someone close you want to strengthen your relationship with. Write whatever good things you see about the person every day in that journal with date. Shortly, you will be looking out for their positives. Their response towards you will change for the good. Things will compound. You will have a full journal by the end of the year. Gift it to them on their birthday. They will love it like anything. Compounding will turn magical.
8) You cannot see what you don't look for, and you cannot look for what you don't believe in.
9) If it's simple to do, it's also simple not to do. The magic is not in the complexity but in the doing of simple things again and again for decades at a stretch.
10) Tracking is the only way to get back on track and stay in track. All winners are trackers.
11) It's not the big things that matter in the end. It's the little things, millions of little things that makes the difference in the end. This is what separates ordinary from the extraordinary.
12) Material goals and money cannot recruit your heart, your guts into the fight. That passion has to come from a deeper place. And that's your why of life.
13) Your values are what you live for, non-negotiable, your internal compass. And when your external actions are in conflict with your values, you will experience stress, anxiety, unhappiness, non fulfilment. As an example, if you are a family person and your actions or goals are to have a huge business, then you might take some actions that will take you away from your family. Whenever this happens, you will feel certain friction. So, it is advisable that you create your goals and actions which are in synchronization with your internal values.
14) Make your life goals before you make your professional goals. Don't create your professional goals first and allow your life to revolve around those goals.
15) Goals that are not written down are just fantasies.
16) Success is something that you don't pursue. What you pursue ditches you. It is like chasing a butterfly. Success is something you attract, by becoming the person you should.
17) Monitor your entertainment to education ratio.
18) Between what you say and what you do, it is always what you do that shows the right habits that you have.
19) You must create boundaries between your professional and personal life. If you do not do that and the boundaries are fluid, then it is very likely that your work starts to flow into your family time and often in such cases, the most important people are taken for granted and get neglected.
20) Falling in love is easy and doesn't require any skill. Staying in love needs hard work and skill and regular efforts.
21) It is far easier and efficient to consistently keep running than to run and stop and run again. One who is consistent after starting is usually the winner at the end even at a slower speed.
22) Our brain is always seeking negatives so that it can prepare to protect you. Media understands that and hypes the negatives. It's far tougher to control what goes in your brain than what goes in your body.
23) Check who you are surrounding yourself with - anchors or engines. Anchors hold you backward. Engines take us forward. Make sure you have the right associations.
24) You are never too good for a mentor. The highest performers are the ones who are willing to hire and pay for the best coaches in different areas.
25) When your dreams are big, you may need an environment that suits such big goals else your growth will be constrained, much like of a budding tree in a small pot.
26) You will get whatever you are ok to tolerate - salary, fitness, goals etc.
27) What you do after you did your best - goes on to define you.
28) Don't wish it was easier for you. Wish you were better.
29) Be a bit better than expected. And that brings extraordinary results
4) Nothing fails like success. Because success brings comfort and complacency.
5) Those who understand compound effect never expect instant results. They are ready to slog for decades at a stretch.
6) You must go through mundane, unexciting, boring and hard daily grind to reveal compounding effect.
7) Create an annual family journal for someone close you want to strengthen your relationship with. Write whatever good things you see about the person every day in that journal with date. Shortly, you will be looking out for their positives. Their response towards you will change for the good. Things will compound. You will have a full journal by the end of the year. Gift it to them on their birthday. They will love it like anything. Compounding will turn magical.
8) You cannot see what you don't look for, and you cannot look for what you don't believe in.
9) If it's simple to do, it's also simple not to do. The magic is not in the complexity but in the doing of simple things again and again for decades at a stretch.
10) Tracking is the only way to get back on track and stay in track. All winners are trackers.
11) It's not the big things that matter in the end. It's the little things, millions of little things that makes the difference in the end. This is what separates ordinary from the extraordinary.
12) Material goals and money cannot recruit your heart, your guts into the fight. That passion has to come from a deeper place. And that's your why of life.
13) Your values are what you live for, non-negotiable, your internal compass. And when your external actions are in conflict with your values, you will experience stress, anxiety, unhappiness, non fulfilment. As an example, if you are a family person and your actions or goals are to have a huge business, then you might take some actions that will take you away from your family. Whenever this happens, you will feel certain friction. So, it is advisable that you create your goals and actions which are in synchronization with your internal values.
14) Make your life goals before you make your professional goals. Don't create your professional goals first and allow your life to revolve around those goals.
15) Goals that are not written down are just fantasies.
16) Success is something that you don't pursue. What you pursue ditches you. It is like chasing a butterfly. Success is something you attract, by becoming the person you should.
17) Monitor your entertainment to education ratio.
18) Between what you say and what you do, it is always what you do that shows the right habits that you have.
19) You must create boundaries between your professional and personal life. If you do not do that and the boundaries are fluid, then it is very likely that your work starts to flow into your family time and often in such cases, the most important people are taken for granted and get neglected.
20) Falling in love is easy and doesn't require any skill. Staying in love needs hard work and skill and regular efforts.
21) It is far easier and efficient to consistently keep running than to run and stop and run again. One who is consistent after starting is usually the winner at the end even at a slower speed.
22) Our brain is always seeking negatives so that it can prepare to protect you. Media understands that and hypes the negatives. It's far tougher to control what goes in your brain than what goes in your body.
23) Check who you are surrounding yourself with - anchors or engines. Anchors hold you backward. Engines take us forward. Make sure you have the right associations.
24) You are never too good for a mentor. The highest performers are the ones who are willing to hire and pay for the best coaches in different areas.
25) When your dreams are big, you may need an environment that suits such big goals else your growth will be constrained, much like of a budding tree in a small pot.
26) You will get whatever you are ok to tolerate - salary, fitness, goals etc.
27) What you do after you did your best - goes on to define you.
28) Don't wish it was easier for you. Wish you were better.
29) Be a bit better than expected. And that brings extraordinary results
Hope these 29 fabulous lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you appreciate life much better.
Recommended Further Readings:
- Book: A Father's Diary
- Book: Dream On!
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Regards
Manoj Arora
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