If you keep taking the same action, you will eventually get bored and plateau. Thus, you need to change it up and challenge yourself to maintain momentum. For example, you can try new activities or hobbies or change your routines to generate different results. Rhythms Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference. Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society and culture tells us we should do.

With momentum, you can continue succeeding with less work. It’s easy to keep things running once you have momentum.I am already implementing his advice in my life and feel that in taking things slowly, I am able to adopt healthier long lasting habits. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will take you either to the life you desire or to disaster by default. This book is the distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. NOTE FROM DARREN Go for a Public Display of Accountability (PDA): Inform your friends, family, and coworkers about your habits to be held accountable. If you say you’re a dedicated professional, but you show up late and unprepared, your behavior rats you out every time. Set Yourself Up to Succeed: Create a positive environment and lifestyle that allows your new behaviors to thrive.

Book end your days. You can always ensure how your day starts and ends. Finish your most important tasks first. Review your day each evening. The result after 2 and a half years: The third friend is now obese, has got health problems and loses his job and wife. The second friend remains the same and now is more bitter than before. The first friend remains trim, has a happy relationship with his wife and gets a job promotion. Think Addition, Not Subtraction: Choose positive actions to “add-in” to enrich and replace your negative actions.

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Simple, direct, and to the point—these are the principles that have guided my life and every top business leader I know. This book will show you the way to your own greater success, happiness, and fulfillment .” If you create goals for yourself that have friction with your values, you’re going to self-sabotage or feel guilty about your progress. For example, if your family is a high priority, but you set high financial goals for yourself then there is friction between those two goals. (Note: this is basically identity-based habits. You can’t have friction between your identity and your goals.) The compound effect is always working, and it will always take you somewhere. The question is, where? You must know where you want to go. What goals, dreams, and destinations do you desire? Something almost magical happens when you organize and focus your creative power on a well-defined target. More often than not, we are completely unaware of the similarities between us and our circle of five.

Look beyond the motivation of monetary and material goals. Even if you acquire the shiny object(s), you won’t capture the real prize - happiness and fulfillment. Look at the list of bad habits you do. That’s the truth about who you are. Now you get to decide whether that’s okay, or if you want to change.Most importantly the Author has some very practical suggestions to implement good habits and get rid of bad ones. So if you want to lose weight, what many people do, is to buy an expensive gym membership, new gym clothes and shoes to exercise. They work out intensively for an hour a day for 7 days. Then they give up disappointed with the results. Instead the Author suggests that it is better to walk 10 minutes a day and slowly increase it till it becomes a habit like brushing your teeth. In this way you will have long lasting impact for your health. The compound effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. Your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.