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The earlier you start making changes the more the compound effect works in your favor. Your life is a result of your moment to moment choices. Small choices over time will get you off the track that you are desiring. If the nose of a plane is pointed just one percent off course when it leaves LA for New York, it will end up in Delaware once it gets to the east coast.

Design the life you want first and the business you want second. Many people choose a career before even thinking about what kind of life they want to build. Constantly write down your most important goals and keep evaluating them. While setting a goal figure out your why. The most motivating choices are ones that align with your “why” and your purpose. You need a deep why to achieve anything. 

What are you willing to tolerate? If you tolerate earning less than what you’re worth, that’s what you’ll earn. Become conscious of the choice you make and what you surround yourself with. Aim to spend more time around people and places that lift you up; the people you admire. You are the average of the 5 closest people around you. Create your future by raising the environment you are in. Pay attention to what you are feeding yourself. Where you put your attention creates your reality.

Take one step at a time to slowly gain momentum. With momentum, you can continue succeeding with less work. It’s easy to keep things running once it is already moving. Start your day off strong and finish strong making consistent choices to get to your goal. Develop a habit for 21 days, then focus on the 90-day stretch. After that hang with it for 3 years, it takes about 3 years to get good at about anything. It takes about 7 years to gain mastery and focused study. Don’t expect it to happen overnight. Make moment to moment positive choices to get you where you want. Start tracking tiny wins all throughout the day to turn things around.

Where you’re short on talent and skill, you can make up for with purposeful practice. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. Success is a combination of your God-given gifts and the time you take to learn every day. Studying a topic means you are invested in it and try it out. What you need is to study, to practice, and to take action on the knowledge you have.

Look back 5 years ago. Are you where you thought you would be by this point? If not, why? Stay consistent with good choices and habits to put the compound effect to work for you. Identify your triggers for your bad habits: the who, what, where, and when that prompts you to start your bad habits. Focus on what you are gaining from removing the bad habits and get back on track to whatever you want in life. 

Is your life full of significance? Start giving to others. Too many people focus on achievement without fulfillment. If you want to fill more positive, try to help someone else feel encouraged. If you want more success, celebrate the success of others. Always go a little bit beyond what people expect.

The second section of The Compound Effect our team pulled out the key principles of gratitude and money. Darren Hardy is a self-made millionaire that shared the secrets of his success. His daily disciplines compounded over time got him to where his is today. 

Last week we talked about how making small choices can greatly affect the outcome over a long period of time. Being grateful is another one of the small, daily choices that can make a tremendous difference. Expressing gratitude daily will keep you focused on the positive aspects of your life. Gratitude is acknowledging the people and things you have in your life that you couldn’t do for yourself. Another principle is to bookend your days both in the morning and the evening with gratitude. Start and end your day with greatness. 

“What you appreciate, appreciates.”

Challenge: Create a daily thanksgiving journal for your spouse. Focus on one thing he/she did each day that you appreciate and write it down. Give them the book as a gift one year later. 

You are 100% responsible for everything. By what you do, what you don’t do, and how you RESPOND to what happens to you. When you change how you look at a situation, the situation changes. To be successful you need to be willing to give 100% without the exception to get anything back.

Awareness is the key to all our choices, behavior, habits, and situations. It also is the key to how we spend and handle money. Start taking your progress and steps to make sure you are in line with your long-term goals. Making every choice a conscious action is when you can begin to change the outcome. You must be aware. 

You can be in control of your finances, but you must be conscious of when, where, and how much you are spending. Think about how much time you buy a cup of coffee for just $5 a day, after a week you have spent $35, one month $150. After one year you would have spent $1,825 dollars. Be conscious in your financial behaviors. 

Dave Ramsey, known for personal finance and getting out of debt, says that 80% of finance is all behavior. Start with small steps to make the behaviors into a habit. The earlier you start making changes the more the compound effect will work. 

Every choice ignited the compound effect. They are subtle at the time but will adjust where you will end up. Stay the path. Are your choices going to be positive or negative? 

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy is one of those books that falls into the same category of what it is trying to teach. It is easy to understand and most all will agree the principles would be easy to apply, yet it becomes too easy that we just don’t do it. Darren Hardy has been a business leader in the personal development industry for 20+ years. He shares the strategy and steps to creating the success you have been longing for. 

In the first section of this book, Hardy helps explain the compound effect of combining the core principles that we learned from The Talent Code, practice, ignite, and coach, to begin to master success. There are huge rewards from small choices made consistently. Every choice leads to a habit, which beings to shape our future. Success doesn’t happen overnight and this book explains the basic fundamentals it takes. Don’t stop doing the little things that have made you successful. 

“Here’s the bottom line: You already know all that you need to succeed. You don’t need to learn anything more. If all we needed was more information, everyone with an Internet connection would live in a mansion, have abs of steel, and be blissfully happy. New or more information is not what you need—a new plan of action is.”

Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = Radical Difference 

Even though most have heard and been taught this principle it is still a huge takeaway. The smallest of choices have an effect on the trajectory our lives take. The slightest degree of change over time makes a radical difference in the long run.

Our choices are every day, not just a New Year's resolution, or the start of summer goal but something we constantly need to be AWARE of. With that, it’s not an easy task to do but if we can be aware of just a few good and bad choices made each week/month that can make a significant change in the direction of our lives and happiness. 

As humans, it's easy to fall into the routine and just coast through the days, weeks, months, years of our lives. The more we can be awake and aware of what is motivating us or what our big crazy goals are the more likely we will be able to make the small choices to get us what we really want.