If you keep your healthy behavior up for a long enough time, you’ll fall into a natural, consistent rhythm.

But ignore the ego and you might learn one or two more things, like his take on habits, triggers, his friend the “big mo” (momentum), clean environment, sticking to our core values, identifying our “why”, proper goal-setting, getting rid of the inefficient habit (such as reading news a little too much), “vice test”, or how the attitude that the path to ultimate success is not through winning a lottery or a jackpot but through a continuation of mundane, unexciting, and unsexy daily disciplines that compounded over time. 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. If you take 100% responsibility for everything that happens to you, by completely owning all your choices, you will reclaim power over your 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. Many people try to form new habits and fail because they engage their willpower and not their why-power. This difference is more a matter of personal character than any shortcoming of the concept or the book itself.

It's helped me understand better why parts of my life are working well and other parts are not - the compound effect works for and against me. It’s not the big things that add up in the end; it’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. This book does a brilliant job of explaining where we get caught and also different ways we might avoid traps. When you think of going off on your routines, and daily rhythms, consider the massive costs of inconsistency. Except here it is applied to the negative forces in our life whereas he applies it to our goals and ambitions.

Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change. Achievers—people who get into a successful rhythm—continue busting their butts and end up achieving more and more. 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). What you need to do is take little steps, because daily, small, positive actions are the secret to long-term success.

Previously, he was the executive producer of two television networks, The People’s Network, and The Success Training Network. men and women across the world work less, achieve more, and live fulfilling, abundant lives without distractions, fear, or procrastination getting in the way. Whether it’s a loss of motivation or poor structuring of their goals, Hardy offers a practical blueprint for guaranteed success. My mentor Jim Rohn said, “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.The Compound Effect is a treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible! I'm completely torn about it but I opted for a 4* instead of 3* rating, simply because I found the actual content about the Compound Effect really strong and it was exactly what I needed to read at this point in my life. The key thesis of his theory is this: Small things if done consistently over the long run will generate something good. In fact, you will stumble upon a lot of Jim Rohn references in this book – like the way Robert Kiyosaki keeps referring to Napoleon Hill – as well as quotes from his aptly named (and with all capital letters) SUCCESS Magazine.