The Compound Effect

• Don’t be on autopilot.
• Be intentional.
• Make decisions and know why you are doing them.
• You are 100% responsible for your actions. Track them.
• You can’t improve what you can’t measure.
• Luck = Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action.

• We are what we do.
• Habit building is more effective with why-power or a purpose.
• Achievement without fulfillment is still failure.
• Write down your goals and make plans to accomplish them.
• Identify bad habits by removing anything that enables you or try substituting the behavior.
• Think about new habits as additive to your life.
• Not what you can’t do (I can’t watch tv), but what you can do (I can read and learn).
• Make yourself accountable and find a success buddy.
• Understand that habits take time and change is hard.

• It is harder to get moving initially, but easier once you get started.
• Design a system of execution and routines.
• Control how your day starts and ends.
• Change it up.
• If everything is routine, life will become stale.
• Try something new once a month, quarter, or year.
• Try to get into a rhythm but plan ahead as well.
• Track your progress.
• Ease into it.
• Taking on too much is not sustainable.
• Consistency is the most important.

• Your brain is influenced by inputs, associations and the environment.
• Feed your brain productive, creative, and inspirational things.
• The brain is wired for survival not happiness so it will focus on the negative.
• Avoid the news as it is generally not additive to your life.
• Listen and learn during your commute (audiobooks).
• The people you associate with defines you.
• Find a peak performance partner.
• Invest in mentorship.
• It doesn’t need to take a lot of your time, but be open-minded.
• Develop a personal board of advisers.
• Put yourself in a position/environment to succeed.

• Hitting the wall is an opportunity so push past it.
• It is the extra effort that makes a difference.
• Beat expectations.
• Do the unexpected.
• Typically the extra effort doesn’t cost that much more.
• Pushing yourself in this manner will multiply your results.
• Where can you do extra, beat expectations, or do the unexpected?

• Motivation without action leads to self-delusion.
• Learning without execution is useless.
• Focus energy on giving to others and helping others.