Reading4Champions: “The Compound Effect”

Hello Champions!

The book club is indeed alive and well. Over the past months, we have been feeding ourselves mental toughness secrets and new concepts of failure. We’ve been learning the importance of never giving up, playing to win and fulfilling dreams inside us. We even took a moment to learn the importance of planning out any entrepreneurial enterprise before opening for business. This month’s book, as you should expect, builds on what we have been learning. It is written by a gentleman I consider a mentor, instructing and guiding me through goal setting and follow through. The book is “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy, publisher of SUCCESS magazine.

This book is awesome! It is chock full of methods for goal setting,

eliminating bad habits and creating motivation to name a few. The buzzword for this book is consistency over time. I like that the methods and information in this book are not theoretical; Mr. Hardy uses them in his everyday life to achieve so much. There are summary action steps after each chapter so you can immediately implement what you just read. The most profound statement in the book for me was, “You cannot manage or improve something until you measure it.” Wow! How many times have you wanted to eat healthier or exercise more or spend less money and you don’t. Maybe because you weren’t really aware of what you were eating or how much you were exercising or how much money you were spending when you made the decision? In other words, how can you plot a course from Point A to Point B if you don’t know where Point A is? Since I wanted to eat healthier, I got a notebook and started writing down everything I ate during the day. Yes, it was tedious but it worked.

Before ending this post, I want to send out huge CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Hardy! In his September 9, 2011 blog post, he announced, “… that because The Compound Effect has had phenomenal viral success (without ever being available in a bookstore), a big N.Y. publisher came romancing us wanting to publish it to a worldwide retail market in November.” 

Now, after hearing the inspiring story of how “The Compound Effect” changed the relationship between Kevin Small and Grant, his son, Mr. Hardy launched Mission 1000.  For every hardbound copy of “The Compound Effect” you buy, the SUCCESS team will buy and distribute softbound copy to a deserving kid.   For more info, visit http://bit.ly/mission1000.  I hear another Ding being made in the universe!

Enough from me. Go get your notebook and your hard copy of “The Compound Effect”. Help yourself and 1,000 kids at the same time! (the mission ends October 14) http://www.thecompoundeffect.com/buy/