The Compound Effect

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Using the Compound Effect means knowing that every decision you make creates your destiny, and that you must work consistently before you can experience success.

This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress and achieve any desire. If you create goals for yourself that have friction with your values, you’re going to self-sabotage or feel guilty about your progress. The rest of the book is some form of supporting arguments or elaborations for his main premise, which is fine but they are filled with humble-brags and name droppings that suspiciously look as if he’s trying a little bit too hard to boost his credibility (which is unnecessary).My mentor Jim Rohn said, “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. In that seminar I attended at eighteen, the speaker asked, “What percentage of shared responsibility do you have in making a relationship work? It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality.

These illustrations not only clarify his points but also inspired me to think of new applications in my life.Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work.

If I always took 100 percent responsibility for everything I experienced—completely owning all of my choices and all the ways I responded to whatever happened to me—I held the power.It was so obvious; both people must be willing to share the responsibility evenly or someone’s getting ripped off. we eat fast food because cooking takes too long, we go on quick-fix diet plans to drop 20 pounds in a week, and become restless if we’re not promoted within a year. Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. The book provides relatable examples and actionable strategies for implementing the compound effect in various aspects of life. The difference between people who employ the Compound Effect for their benefit compared to their peers who allow the same effect to work against them is almost inconceivable.

There was undoubtedly a level of bulls--t with many of his anecdotes, and the constant harping on about SUCCESS Magazine was a bit repetitive and unnecessary. Previously, he was the executive producer of two television networks, The People’s Network, and The Success Training Network. Yes, he has this principles that have since been perfected and codified so that he can share it with us in this book, the same lessons he teaches entrepreneurs and executives in his coaching class!To get to where you want to be in life, you have to start becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired results. The Compound Effect shows us how to make lasting changes by paying attention to the smallest decisions we make – and their cumulative effect on us. The wall of your discipline and routines represents the gap between your old self and your improved, stronger self. It teaches the value of hard work and consistency with some action plans included, and that is, I think, something more people need to understand.