Book Summary: The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect looks at how the smallest decisions we make, over time, can have huge and profound effects on our lives.
Related Book Summaries:
Getting Things Done – David Allen – Book Summary
The Pomodoro Technique – Francesco Cirillo
Quotes:
You make your choices, and then your choices make you.
Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.
A goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.
Book Summary Notes: The Compound Effect
- Build momentum, make plans and exchange bad habits for good ones.
- Immediate results are often far less rewarding than steady improvement.
- Little steps, small positive daily actions are the keys to long term success.
- We are ultimately responsible for the things we both do and don’t do. No one else is to blame.
- By allowing yourself to connect your decisions to the right motivations and clear goals, you will make progress.
- Consider the different areas of your life; business, health, spirituality, lifestyle and your family. What habits or attributes do you need to become successful in each of them? Write it down and begin to move towards them.
- Routines are the backbone of habits. By creating a routine that runs through all of the positive habits you want to adopt, it will gradually become easier and easier to do those individual habits. Your skill or results in them will increase with time and consistency as well.
- You will encounter obstacles on your path, embrace them. Breaking personal limits is how grow most effectively.
