5 Best Quotes From "The Compound Effect"

This is an amazing book that I read this year and probably the one that changed my mindset the most. It talks about The Compound Effect, which reffers to how the small things we do constantly (aka habits) add up in a very big way. One of the things that impacted me the most is the fact that The Compound Effect is always working, either on your favour or against you, so in one way or another it is very much present in our life and  I believe everyone should get their hands on this book, truly life-changing. I was one of these people that was always thinking "I'm not going to do this today because it's not going to change anything" and now I realize how much this was holding me back. We only have the present moment so if you have this kind of mindset, you're never actually going to do anything (and The Compound Effect will be working against you),  but if you know that everything you do matters, and that small acts will add up as time goes, you'll always have the mindset to do the things you believe are important (and The Compound Effect will be working in your favour).

I selected 5 of my favorite quotes from this book to share with you:


#1

“Since your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.” 

#2

“No matter what has happened to you, take complete responsibility for it—good or bad, victory or defeat. Own it. My mentor Jim Rohn said, “The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.” 

#3 

“You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.”

#4 

“1. Making new choices based on your goals and core values 2. Putting those choices to work through new positive behaviors 3. Repeating those healthy actions long enough to establish new habits 4. Building routines and rhythms into your daily disciplines 5. Staying consistent over a long enough period of time”

#5 

“What’s simple to do is also simple not to do.” The magic is not in the complexity of the task; the magic is in the doing of simple things repeatedly and long enough to ignite the miracle of the Compound Effect. So, beware of neglecting the simple things that make the big things in your life possible. The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not. Remember that; it will come in handy many times throughout life when faced with a difficult, tedious, or tough choice.”