This step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. Use the power of the Compound Effect to create the success and life you dream of.
The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default.
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Key Takeaways
The Compound Effect
Small, unsexy, but smart decisions made consistently everyday, that are in alignment with your big vision, lead to seemingly incomprehensible and incredible results. Results that you can be truly proud of one day.
"Even though the results are massive, the steps in the moment don't feel significant. The changes are so subtle, they're almost imperceptible."
The small changes you make everyday, offer no immediate result, no big win, and no obvious “I told you so!” pay off. So why bother? We live in a culture that promotes a “Microwave Mentality”.
- Microwave Mentality we expect instant downloads, fast-food, same day shipping
Core Values
To stay true to the compound curve, we need to stay true and we need to trade the need for immediate results with the need for immediate alignment with our core values.
Your core values are your internal compass or personal GPS. They act as the filter through which you run all life’s demands, requests and temptations, making sure they are leading you to your intended destination.
Getting your core values defined and properly calibrated is one of the most important steps in redirecting your life towards your grandest vision.
When you know that what you’re doing from moment to moment, and the choices and decisions that you’re making are in alignment with your core values, you stop needing to have instant results show up in your life.
You’re content in knowing that you are becoming the person that you want to become.
To discover your core values within your work setting, complete the following exercise:
- Think of someone successful within your field or within the field you want to work in. That you respect.
- Ask yourself, what key attributes contribute to their success?
Knowing that I’m making small decisions that are moving me towards the person I want to become is enough to quiet the “Monkey Mind” from wanting to see instant results.
The act of aligning each work decision with your core values, provides you with the reassurance and motivation to stick to your daily pursuit of achieving a compounded, incredible results in your life.
Measure Results
Sometimes, knowing that we are making good choices isn’t enough. To know that were on the right path, the compound path, we need to focus and measure the percent gains, not that net gains.
During your pursuits, actively measure the percent gains and focus on your momentum.
If your efforts are producing month to month or week to week improvements, and your daily choices are aligning with your core values, then you need to be patient.
We humans routinely overestimate what we can produce in a week, but we vastly underestimate what we can produce in a few months or years of sustained effort.
