“Your life is the product of your moment-to-moment choices.”

- Darren Hardy

“You get and continue to receive in life what you tolerate. The world will form around the standards that you keep in your life.”

- Darren Hardy

“Perspective shapes reality.”

- Darren Hardy

“Your core values are your internal compass, your guiding beacon, your personal GPS. They act as the filter through which you run all of life’s demands, requests, and temptations, making sure they are leading you toward your intended destination. Getting your core values defined and properly calibrated is one of the most important steps in redirecting your life toward your grandest vision. If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. 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. When faced with a choice, ask yourself, ‘Does this align with my core values?’ If it does, do it. If not, don’t, and don’t look back. All fretting and indecisions are eliminated.”

- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

“The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of all the choices we make. Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”

- Darren Hardy

“Gratitude is a choice. It can become a positive habit -- but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible. In order to create abundance you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Research has proven that practicing gratitude improves our emotional and physical well-being; reduces stress, worry, fear, anxiety and the conditions closely associated with these emotions such as high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, and immune system deficiencies. Gratitude can save and prolong your life.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Gratitude is the attitude that changes everything. An attitude of gratitude adjusts your mind to focus on the positive. Thus you’ll see, discover and create more of the same, experiencing more abundance, prosperity, well-being, love, joy, and happiness.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends.”

- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

“Some of our best intentions fail because we don’t have a system of execution. When it comes down to it, your new attitudes and behaviors must be incorporated into your monthly, weekly, and daily routines to affect any real, positive change. A routine is something you do every day without fail, so that eventually, like brushing your teeth or putting on your seatbelt, you do it without conscious thought. These routines ease life’s stresses by making our actions automatic and effective. To reach new goals and develop new habits, it’s necessary to create new routines to support your objective. The greater the challenge, the more rigorous our routines need to be….A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.”

- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

“Learning to set goals is the master skill of success. Without goals your life is like a boat without a rudder. You drift along with the current, inevitably crashing onto the rocks time and time again. Proper goal-setting puts you in a speedboat and gives you a target to steer towards. You will go directly to your destination and arrive with great speed.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“The two strategies used by almost all great achievers are:

1. An unyielding commitment to constant learning; and

2. Clearly written goals that have specific plans laid out to achieve them.”  

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Your mind doesn’t care about the size of your goals. If you set little goals you’ll achieve little goals; if you set big goals you can achieve big goals. And for the most part it takes just as much time, energy, and life force to achieve big goals as it does little ones. Go BIG!“

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“We can ALL become a “genius” and reach mastery in any area of our life, if we commit to a process of deliberate and purposeful improvement. Deliberate improvement requires a mindset of never, ever, being satisfied with your current ability. It requires a constant self-critique, a capacity for daily disappointment and failure and a never-ending resolve to dust oneself off and to try again and again and again.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“A constant awareness and never-ending commitment to growth and continual improvement is what will catapult you forward, enabling you to achieve what before seemed impossible goals.  To achieve what you have never been able to achieve before you have to grow and improve yourself to levels beyond where you are now.  Your commitment to ongoing improvement is what will get you there.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“The “magic” is becoming the person you should be in order to attract the people or results you want to achieve.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“No matter what it is you want to change -- your marriage, your financial situation, your weight -- you’ll never achieve lasting change until YOU change.  Once YOU improve, everything else around you will improve.  It’s important to understand that you don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.  You will only achieve the level of success in your life that equals your level of self-worth.  When it comes to achieving your goals, remember that it is not your goals that need to be worked on; it is YOU.  You can only have, be or do what you feel you are worthy of.  The key is to raise your set point, or self worth, self-esteem, mindset, attitude, philosophy, and character.  When those get raised, everything in your life will be raised with them.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy