Three Sentence Summary

The compound effect is the strategy of reaping huge rewards from small, seemingly insignificant actions. You cannot improve something until you measure it. Always take 100 percent responsibility for everything that happens to you.

Summary

• The compound effect is the operating system that has been running your life whether you know it or not.
• Success is doing a half dozen things really well, repeated five thousand times.
• You don't need more knowledge. You need a new plan of action.
• Consistency is the ultimate key to success.
• If you aren't better, work harder.
• The compound effect is the strategy of reaping huge rewards from small, seemingly insignificant actions.
• Small choices + consistency + time = significant results.
• Tony Robbins' no man's land concept is when you're not really happy about your life, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. You want to avoid this complacency.
• Knowledge uninvested is wasted.
• Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference. Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society and culture tells us we should do.
• It's not big choices, but ones that you think don't matter or count for much that derail us. You don't consciously think about it, but these small decisions can really change things.
• Keep a daily gratitude journal. Write down one thing you are thankful for each day and you can review it in a year time yourself to remember the good times you had a year ago.
• Gratitude is acknowledging there are people in your life who have done things for you that you couldn't do for yourself.
• What you appreciate, appreciates.
• You have to be willing to give 100 percent in your relationships. Always take 100 percent responsibility for everything that happens to you.
• You alone are responsible for your situation.
• Everyone has the opportunity to be lucky. If you live in a free society, you are lucky.