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But not many. A daily routine built on good habits is the difference that separates the most successful amongst us from everyone else. But their habits take them in the direction of becoming more informed, more knowledgeable, more competent, better skilled, and better prepared.
My dad used Larry Bird as an example to teach me about habits when I was a kid. Yet, despite his limited natural athletic ability, he led the Boston Celtics to three world championships and remains one of the best players of all time.
How did he do it? Bird was one of the most consistent free-throw shooters in the history of the NBA. Growing up, his habit was to practice five hundred free-throw shots every morning before school. Like Larry Bird, you can condition your automatic and unconscious responses to be those of a developed champion.
This chapter is about choosing to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. With enough practice and repetition, any behavior, good or bad, becomes automatic over time.
That means that even though we developed most of our habits unconsciously by modeling our parents, responding to environmental or cultural associations, or creating coping mechanisms , we can consciously decide to change them. We realize that logging three hours a night watching Dancing with the Stars and NCIS leaves us with three fewer hours to read a good book or listen to a terrific audio. So why are we so irrationally enslaved by so many bad habits? If you took a bite of a Big Mac and immediately fell to the ground clutching your chest from a heart attack, you might not go back for that second bite.
If you failed to make that tenth call today and were immediately fired and bankrupted, suddenly picking up the phone would be a no-brainer. The slightest adjustments to your daily routines can dramatically alter the outcomes in your life. Supersmall, seemingly inconsequential adjustments can and will revolutionize everything. The best illustration I can give you to emphasize the power of small adjustments is that of a plane traveling from Los Angeles to New York City.
Such is the case for your habits. See Figure 6. Most people drift through life without devoting much conscious energy to figuring out specifically what they want and what they need to do to take themselves there. Finding Your Mojo—Your Why-Power Assuming willpower is what you need to change your habits is akin to trying to keep a hungry grizzly bear out of your picnic basket by covering the it with a napkin.
To fight the bear of your bad habits, you need something stronger. I disagree. You thought you were going to lose all that weight last time. Forget about willpower. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. So, what is your why? And to make you want to make the necessary changes, your why must be something that is fantastically motivating—to you.
So, what is it that moves you the most? Identifying your why is critical. You MUST know your why. All of the hows will be meaningless until your whys are powerful enough. That same twenty dollars for walking the thirty-foot plank no longer looks desirable or even possible, does it? However, if your child was on the opposite building, and that building was on fire, would you walk the length of the plank to save him?
The risks and the dangers are the same. What changed? Your why changed—your reason for wanting to do it. You see, when the reason is big enough, you will be willing to perform almost any how. To truly ignite your creative potential and inner drive, you have to look beyond the motivation of monetary and material goals.
That passion has to come from a deeper place. The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning.
These two skill sets feed off each other, and makes me believe that success without fulfillment is failure. You have to dig deeper than that to find your core motivation, to activate your superpower. Your why-power.
Core Motivation The access point to your why-power is through your core values, which define both who you are and what you stand for. Your core values are your internal compass, your guiding beacon, your personal GPS. Getting your core values defined and properly calibrated is one of the most important steps in redirecting your life toward your grandest vision. Defining your core values also helps make life simpler and more efficient.
Decision-making is also easier when you are certain of your core values. All fretting and indecision are eliminated. To identify your core values, use the Core Values Assessment sheet on page , or download at www. Love is a powerfully motivating force. But so is hate. Contrary to social correctness, it can be good to hate.
Hate disease, hate injustice, hate ignorance, hate complacency, and so on. Sometimes identifying an enemy lights your fire. In history, the most transformational stories and political revolutions came about as a result of fighting an enemy. David had Goliath. America had the British.
Luke had Darth Vader. Rocky had Apollo Creed. Lance Armstrong has cancer. Apple has Microsoft. Microsoft has Apple. We could go on and on, but you get the point. Enemies give us a reason to stand tall with courage. Having to fight challenges your skills, your character, and your resolve. It forces you to assess and exercise your talents and abilities. Without a motivating fight, we can become fat and lazy; we lose our strength and purpose.
Some of my mentorship clients worry that their why-power derives from less-than-noble goals. They feel guilty for wanting to prove the naysayers wrong. What matters is that you feel fully motivated. Sometimes that motivation can help you use a powerfully negative emotion or experience to create an even more powerful and successful end. All that time, I was living with the fact that I was much better and I needed to fight to prove it. I was frustrated because I knew I could be special.
I was surprised to learn that his extraordinary talent and determination blossomed from anger. Hopkins admitted to being a horrible student, burdened with dyslexia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder before such diagnoses existed. My cousins were all brilliant; I felt resentful and rejected by a whole society and was very depressed. At first it propelled him to fight to achieve success outside of academics or athletics. He discovered he had a glimmer of talent in acting.
Today, Hopkins is considered one of the greatest actors alive. We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. Goals As I mentioned before, the Compound Effect is always working, and it will always take you somewhere. The question is, where? You can harness this relentless force and have it carry you to new heights. But you must know where you want to go. What goals, dreams, and destinations do you desire?
When I attended the funeral of Paul J. Meyer, another mentor of mine, I was reminded of the richness and diversity of his life. He achieved, experienced, and contributed more than dozens of people combined.
His obituary made me reassess the quantity and size of the goals I set for myself. Something almost magical happens when you organize and focus your creative power on a well-defined target. The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.
By our very nature, we are goal-seeking creatures. So, when you instruct your brain to look for the things you want, you will begin to see them. In reality, this is how the Law of Attraction really works. It is not the mysterious, esoteric voodoo it sometimes sounds like. We are bombarded with billions of sensory visual, audio, physical bites of information each day.
To keep ourselves from going insane, we ignore But is that realistic? Of course not. When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on. With this new perspective an inner itinerary , your mind proceeds to match up on the outside what you want most on the inside— your goal. The difference in how you experience the world and draw ideas, people, and opportunities into your life after you have clearly defined your goals is profound.
They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment. Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.
And everybody has fantasies, but those fantasies are like bullets with no powder in the cartridge. I recommend considering goals in all aspects of your life, not just for your business or finances. Be wary of the high price of putting too much focus on any single aspect of your life, to the exclusion of everything else.
Go for whole- life success—balance in all the aspects of life that are important to you: business, finances, health and well-being, spirituality, family and relationships, and lifestyle. Why not? Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become. It revolutionized my life and personal growth. Instead, I looked back at the list and considered whether or not I embodied those same attributes myself.
Did I have the very qualities I was expecting in her? Who do I need to become to be attractive to a woman of this substance? Then I went to work on becoming and achieving those qualities. Guess what? It worked! As if she were peeled off the pages of my journal and appeared in front of me, my wife, Georgia, is exactly what I described and asked for, in almost eerie detail. To identify bad habits and needed new habits essential to becoming and achieving what you want, complete the Habit Assessment sheet on page , or download at www.
This is the doing process—or, in some cases, the STOP-doing process. What stands between you and your goal is your behavior. In other words, what habits and behaviors do you need to subtract from and add to your life? I mean, honestly, do you know how many hours of TV you really watch every day? How many hours do you spend tuned to news channels or keeping up with the goals and accomplishments of others on the sports or style networks?
Do you know how many cans of soda you drink? He was doing well, but knew he could optimize his time and output further with some coaching. I had him track his activities for a week, and I noticed something I see too often: He spent an incredible amount of time reviewing the news—forty-five minutes in the morning reading the newspaper, another thirty minutes listening to news on his morning commute, and an equal amount of time tuning in again on his drive back home.
News several times, spending at least twenty minutes in total. In total, he was spending 3. The time he spent with the paper and news programs on radio and TV greatly exceeded what he needed to be a knowledgeable voter and contributing member of society, or even to enhance his own personal interests.
In fact, he was getting very little valuable information through his programming choices—or, rather, his lack of choices. So why did he spend nearly four hours a day consuming it? It was a habit.
I suggested he keep his TV and radio off, cancel his newspaper subscription, and set up an RSS feeder so he could select and receive only the news he deemed important for his business and personal interests. Doing so immediately cleared out 95 percent of the mind-cluttering and time-sucking noise. This left the forty-five minutes in the morning his commute time , and that hour in the evening for productive activities: exercise, listening to instructional and inspirational material, reading, planning, preparing, and spending quality time with his family.
One small, simple change in habit, one giant leap forward in balance and productivity! Get out your little notebook and write out your top three goals. Now make a list of the bad habits that might be sabotaging your progress in each area. Write down every one. Habits and behaviors never lie. Look at the list of bad habits you just made. Next, add to that list all the habits you need to adopt that, practiced and compounded over time, will result in you gloriously achieving your goals.
If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down. The key is to make your why-power so strong that it overwhelms your urges for instant gratification. And for that, you need a new game plan. The following are my all-time favorite game changers: 1. Identify Your Triggers Look at your list of bad habits. Who are you with, where are you, or what are you doing? Social settings? Feeling physically insecure?
What do you typically say when you wake up? Again, get out your notebook or use the Bad Habit Killer Worksheet here which you can also download for free at www. This simple action alone increases your awareness exponentially. And I mean this literally and figuratively. If you want to stop drinking alcohol, remove every drop of it from your house and your vacation house, if you have one. Get rid of the glasses, any fancy utensils or doo-dads you use when you drink, and those decorative olives, too.
If you want to stop drinking coffee, heave the coffee maker, and give that bag of gourmet grounds to a sleepy neighbor. Trust me; everyone in your family is better off without it. Get rid of whatever enables your bad habits. Swap It Look again at your list of bad habits. Can you replace them with healthier habits or drop-kick them altogether? As in, for good. Anyone who knows me knows that I love something sweet after a meal.
If there is ice cream in the house, the something sweet turns into a triple-scoop banana split with all the fixings 1, calories. My sister-in-law started a habit of eating crunchy and salty junk food when she watched TV. Then she realized that what she really enjoyed was the crunchy sensation in her mouth. She decided to replace her bad habit with crunching on carrot and celery sticks, and raw broccoli spears. She got the same joyful sensation, and her FDA-recommended vegetable servings at the same time.
I suggested he replace them with low-sodium, carbonated water, adding fresh lemon, lime, or oranges. Play with this, and see what behaviors you can replace, delete, or swap out. Ease In I live near the Pacific Ocean. Some people just run and dive in and get it over with—good for them. Not me. For some of your long-standing and deep-rooted habits, it may be more effective to take small steps to ease into unwinding them.
You may have spent decades repeating, cementing, and fortifying those habits, so it can be wise to give yourself some time to unravel them, one step at a time.
We both love our coffee, so if she was going to have to suffer, I decided it was only fair that we do it together. Then percent decaf for another week. Then Earl Grey decaf tea for a week, followed by decaf green tea. However, if we had gone cold turkey… well, I shiver at the thought. Or Jump In Not everyone is wired the same way. Some researchers have found that it can be paradoxically easier for people to make lifestyle changes if they change a great many bad habits at once.
For example, pioneering cardiologist Dr. He discovered they often found it easier to say goodbye to almost all their bad habits at once.
He enrolled them in a training session where he substituted a very low-fat diet for their fat- and cholesterol-rich fare. The program included exercise—getting them off their couches and walking or jogging—as well as stress-reduction techniques, and other heart-healthy habits.
Amazingly, in less than a month, these patients learned to let go of a lifetime of bad habits and embrace new ones—and they went on to experience dramatic health benefits after a year as a result. When I was a kid, my family camped at a little-known spot called Lake Rollins.
The lake, situated not far from the Sierras in Northern California, is fed from glaciers that melt from atop the mountains of Lake Tahoe. Every day we were there, my dad insisted that I water ski in the polar pond. All day I would be quietly anxious about the dreaded call to go in.
I loved to water ski; I just hated getting in the water. A slight conflict of interest, because of course, there was no separating one from the other. Dad made sure that I never missed my turn, sometimes by actually physically throwing me in. After a dozen or so excruciating seconds of near-hypothermia, I always found the water refreshing and rejuvenating. My anticipation of getting in the water was actually worse than the reality of just jumping in.
Once my body acclimated, water skiing was a blast. And, yet, I went through this cycle of dread and relief each and every time. For a short while it can feel excruciating, or at least quite uncomfortable. But just as the body adjusts to a changing environment through a process called homeostasis, we have a similar homeostatic ability to adjust to unfamiliar behavior changes. And usually, we can regulate ourselves physiologically and psychologically to the new circumstances quite quickly. Sometimes you really do have to jump in.
He drank at lunch, with dinner, after dinner, and all weekend long. He made a decision on the spot that he would never touch a drop of alcohol again.
Cold turkey, that was it, never again. But in my professional life, I find that taking the big plunge is far more effective. Each time, I think of Lake Rollins and know it will be painful at first, but I remember that within little time, it will be exhilarating, and well worth the temporary discomfort. Most everything is good in moderation.
But, how can you tell whether a bad habit is becoming the boss of you? I believe in testing my vices. My vices are coffee, ice cream, wine, and movies. I already told you about my ice cream obsession. About every three months, I pick one vice and abstain for thirty days this probably stems from my Catholic Lent upbringing.
Try this yourself. If you find it seriously difficult to abstain for those thirty days, you may have found a habit worth cutting out of your life.
Game Changers: Seven Techniques for Installing Good Habits Now that we have helped you eliminate the bad habits that are taking you in the wrong direction, we need to create new choices, behaviors, and ultimately habits that will finally take you in the direction of your grandest desires.
Eliminating a bad habit means removing something from your routine. Installing a new, more productive habit requires an entirely different skill set. Doing so takes effort, time, and practice. Here are my favorite techniques for putting good habits in place. Leadership expert John C. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
That means that if we bring special attention to a new habit daily for the first three weeks, we have a far better chance of making it a lifelong practice. The truth is, you can change a habit in a second, or you can still be trying to break it after ten long years. The key is staying aware. Set Yourself Up to Succeed Any new habit has to work inside your life and lifestyle.
Your gym must be close and convenient, and fit into your schedule. Keep nuts and healthy snacks in your desk drawer. One strategy I use is to have protein on hand. I cook up a bunch of chicken on Sunday, and package it and have it ready for the week. One of my most distracting and destructive habits is my e-mail addiction.
Seriously, this is no laughing matter. I have to build the walls around that time vortex, lest I keep falling in all day. Instead of thinking that he has to deprive himself, or take something out of his diet e.
A friend of mine wanted to break his bad habit of wasting too much time watching TV. He said he would play with his kids more. His choice was photography. A total techie, he went out and got all this high-tech editing equipment, which he happily toted along on more family outings so he could take great photos of his kids. Because he was so focused on his kids and photography, he no longer had the time nor the desire to sit around and watch TV at night. By replacing TV viewing with his new habit of playing games with his kids and working on his photography hobby he discovered passions with far more power and far bigger payoffs.
Want to cement that new habit? Get Big Brother to watch you. I heard about one woman who decided to get control of her finances by blogging about every penny she spends every day. She just smoked her last cigarette!
But she did quit smoking! Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell Facebook and Twitter. Find a Success Buddy There are few things as powerful as two people locked arm and arm marching toward the same goal. You might seek out a success buddy for regular walks, runs, or dates at the gym, or to meet to discuss and trade personal- development books.
Employees organized into teams and competed to see which team could accumulate the most steps. At lunch, they walked in the parking lot. If they knew they had a conference call, suddenly they were out doing it on their cell phones while they walked! Because of the competition, they found ways to increase their activity. Yet as soon as the competition was over, I was fascinated to observe that the step count completely dropped off the cliff—by more than 60 percent just one month after the competition.
What kind of friendly competition can you organize with your friends, colleagues, or teammates? How can you inject fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into your new habit? There should be a time to celebrate, to enjoy some of the fruits of your victories along the way. Maybe time to yourself to take a walk, relax in the bath, or read something just for fun. For bigger milestones, book a massage or have dinner at your favorite restaurant. And promise yourself a nice big pot of gold when you reach the end of the rainbow.
Change Is Hard: Yippee! The difference is successful people do them anyway. Change is hard. Ordinary is easy. Extra-ordinary is what will separate you from the crowd.
I love what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Just do it. And keep doing it, and the magic of the Compound Effect will reward you handsomely.
Be Patient When it comes to breaking old bad habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. Attention feeds the habit. When we give our attention to a habit, we activate the brain groove, releasing the thoughts, desires, and actions related to that habit. Luckily, our brains are malleable. When we form new habits, we drive new grooves deeper with each repetition, eventually overpowering the previous ones.
Creating new habits and burning new grooves into your brain will take time. Be patient with yourself. If you fall off the wagon, brush yourself off not beat yourself up! No problem. We all stumble. Just go again and try another strategy; reinforce your commitment and consistency. When you press on, you will receive huge payoffs.
Speaking of payoffs, the next chapter is where we really start breaking away from the herd, where the multiplying effect really takes shape.
Identify your three bad habits that take you off course from your most important goal. Identify three new habits you need to develop to put you on track toward your most important goal. Download the Habits sheet: www. Discover what gets you fired up and keeps you fired up to achieve big results.
Download the Core Values Assessment document at www. Design your concise, compelling, and awe-inspiring goals. Download the goal sheet at www. Big Mo is, without doubt, one of the most powerful and enigmatic forces of success. Big Mo can catapult you into the stratosphere of success. When you implement the ideas outlined ahead, your payoff will be a thousand times or more what you paid for this book.
Seriously, these ideas are BIG! Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, unless something stops their momentum. Put another way, couch potatoes tend to stay couch potatoes. Achievers—people who get into a successful rhythm— continue busting their butts and end up achieving more and more. Do you remember playing on merry-go-rounds when you were a kid? A bunch of your friends piled on, weighing the thing down and then chanted as you worked to get the thing moving.
Getting started was slow going. The first step was always the hardest— getting it to move from a standstill. You had to push and pull, grimace and groan and throw your entire your body into the effort. One step, two steps, three steps—it seemed like you were getting nowhere. After a long and hard effort, finally you were able to get up a little bit of speed and run along side it.
Even though you were moving and your friends were cheering louder , to get the speed you really wanted, you had to keep running faster and faster, pulling it behind you as you ran with all your might. Finally, success! You jumped on and joined your friends in the joy of feeling the wind in your face and watching the outside world turn into a smear of colors.
Once the merry-go- round was spinning at a good clip, momentum took over, making it easy to keep it going. You get started by taking one small step, one action at a time. Progress is slow, but once a newly formed habit has kicked in, Big Mo joins the party. Your success and results compound rapidly. See Figure 8. The same thing happens when a rocket ship launches. The space shuttle uses more fuel during the first few minutes of its flight than it does the rest of the entire trip.
Because it has to break free from the pull of gravity. Once it does, it can glide in orbit. The hard part? Getting off the ground.
Everything just wants to stay at rest. Ever wonder why successful people tend to get more successful… the rich get richer… the happy get happier… the lucky get luckier? When it rains, it pours. But momentum works on both sides of the equation—it can work for you or against you. He gained thirty-three pounds with a few small bad habits, and experienced major job and marriage stress because of the negative momentum those habits generated.
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