The Compound Effect By Darren Hardy

provides essential tools to help me to redirect my concentration on the positive rather than the negative, which makes an immediate impact on my life. My natural inclination is to pay lots of attention to wrong behavior in order to correct the error. After reading the book, I have tried to change my reaction and also redirect my attention towards the positive rather than the negative. I have attempted to apply the “Whale done” approach and I realized that there were some situations that things became easier for me and sometimes they were highlights of my days. Few days ago, I ran into one of the elderly employees at Starbuck and she was frustrated because she was having trouble getting the new cash register to read her fingerprint to sign in and she could not remember how to make my drink. I simply explained that when she made the drink I knew it would be extra delicious because I was made to wait and would enjoy it more and that I was not really in any big hurry. She relaxed, remembered how to prepare the drink and was able to ask another employee to help her sign into her register. She was suddenly smiling and seemed to be much happier. Rather than focusing on the negative setbacks I redirected her to the positive and I could see the difference it made in her overall performance. Though it was just a small change in my reaction but it has inspired me and helped me realize how much power I have to affect those around

He combines these appeals to write a great and interesting paper that motivates and entertains us all at once. I believe anyone who reads this article will feel some type of motivation no matter what. Everything he encountered he overcame and gained from it. This article taught me things just by reading it. Never let anyone dictate what you are and what you are not capable of. You should never give up on what your tasks is because you may never know how far you may get if you give up because you never know how close you are to reaching your goal. Reading this article made me think if the saying that my elementary teacher use to always say during the morning announcements which was, “Never settle for less than your best.” Those words will forever stick with me because she never failed to say it every day, by her constantly repeating it made me get the full meaning to what she was trying to get us to understand. And because of that he made an impact of my everyday life from elementary school all the way until

After reading this book, I absorbed two lessons from it. One lesson I learned, was that family influence has a huge affect on what people become. I am really happy that my family tells me to be the best especially my parents, who want me to challenge myself so I improve my skills. The other is that I will face some choices that will determine whether I will become successful or obliterate(14) my chances of success. The way the author, Wes Moore, wrote this book was very interesting. It was written from his perspective and from the other Wes Moore’s perspective. This allowed me to see what both of the Wes’s thoughts when they were making choices. My final assignment for The Other Wes Moore was to write a letter to the author. This helped me grow as a student because I really had to dissect the chapters in order to be very

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for 22 minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after 30 seconds.” (246) This quote shows that even though the author has given many examples throughout his novel of how people can become successful by chance, you are more likely to become successful by putting in the time and effort. During the course of the novel, many characters become successful because of how or where they grew up, but the author seems to be trying in the quote to get the reader to understand that you must work for success not just wait for it to fall into your

A lesson I took from the story about achieving success is that no matter what obstacle you encounter, you need to keep pushing forward to your end goal and beyond. Certain situations can cause us to pause or if they’re severe to completely give up on our goals.

The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to use my money wisely and also teach my children to use their money wisely also. The book I l chose to read is Smart Money Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and his daughter Rachel Cruze. The five principles that I’ve learned out of this book is to teach your children young, about giving, saving, spend, budgeting, and debt.

Roth worked as a mechanical engineer before he was inspired to start teaching a class at Stanford. He was tired of people talking about what they wanted, but not doing the actions. In his class, he made his students do a personal, deeply personal, project. “Now, for the first time, Roth brings his mantra of “doing is everything” to his inspirational and a valuable new book, The Achievement Habit, Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life" (Theachievementhabit.com). Roth uses examples and situations of his life to make the reader analysis their patterns and lifestyle choices; choices that stop them from reaching their goals. He then intrigues the reader by using encounters he has had with his students that also demonstrate our

One of those includes planning everyday in advance. This means making a list of goals for the day every morning, as well as making lists of goals for the week, month, and year. This helps you visualize exactly what you need to and when you need to do it by, making your objectives more clear. A quote in the book that stood out to me is “Planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about it now.” Meaning that if you do not plan, you are not properly preparing yourself for what there is to come. After making these lists, you must use rules such as the 80/20 Rule, the ABCDE Method, and the Law of Three to help in prioritization.

Finish your discussion with your thoughts on how this information affects you personally including any insights you had about yourself and the stress that you experience. I believe that for everyone money is a big stressor, so I feel like it was a great chapter that I took a lot away from. I really enjoyed this lesson because of all the tips it gave me to start managing my money better. I think the great think about this chapter is that it is a good reminder for everyone, no matter if there young, old, rich, or poor; all the points made in this chapter are things we all need to keep in mind when thinking about money. My favorite thing is this whole chapter was David Ramsey’s comment about contentment. I think he was completely right when he said that the most important financial principle is contentment. While I think most people know more money and stuff will not make them happy, I know for me personally, contentment is one of the hardest things to master. So it was a good reminder for me and made me think a lot about the silly things I am spending money on that really are unneeded. This chapter gave lots of tips that I will be using throughout my life to help manage my money and reduce my

* Using the following prompts, please develop a narrative explaining how you can integrate the content covered in this course into your personal financial plan.

Major points in the Lecture include taking the time to dream, the importance of being a good parent in a child’s life, and how you should think of others before any short and materialistic things. Also Pausch connects with the major themes of his Lecture telling his personal anecdotes about never making it in the NFL, becoming an imagineer for Walt Disney World, not being the coolest guy, and creating the Alice software project. The book also talks about brick walls in life and how you should never give up. Randy Pausch says, “ We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” In the book he gives many life advises that I believe has helped me with my own problems and inspired others as

I must say that this book would help a lot of struggling people and for people who still didn’t know about this book, then, you must read this one because I really think that there are a lot of people who have the skills and talents that only need to be unleash and discover in order to make money work for

Credentials, focus, and lack of compromise or promise are other important features important to consider when choosing a book. As far as credentials go, it is important to note that Byron Tully is not a financial advisor. Instead, Tully is just a common Old Money Guy who writes for the entertainment industry, lives in Los Angeles, travels frequently, and is happily married to an Old Money Gal from Boston. Also, his focus remained intact throughout the length of the book. Tully’s objective was to give a full description on what the concept of the Old Money refers to, as a whole, and so he did. The Old Money has health, education, work ethic, manners, financial independence, family, and marriage. All of these, were thoroughly broken down in detail

This book is a little life saver kit once in your hand hard to put it down though I first listened to the book and then decided to read again .His advice is very simple explained in ten points .He tried to explain getting ideas with fear is not a upright approach the best way is to have fun be a child.

The biggest message I got out of the reading is that if I want to be successful and prosper, I need to be able to deal with change and adapt to anything that is thrown at me and make the best of it. I can’t hold myself back and be stubborn to the idea of change.