The Course in Mastery Day 5: The Power of Associations

Day 5 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood explains, what he calls, "the hidden blocker to success" and Darren Hardy explains "the 'You' factor".

Tom Wood

1. Your associations in life affect all of your outcomes
2. If you want more wealth you have to hang around with wealthy people, same with health, integrity, your associations affect your experiences in life.
3. 5 to 10 of your closest associations affect your income, wealth, health, humor, integrity, character
4. TV shows and books are associations too
5. You don't have to get rid of old friends, you just have to start putting more associations in your life.
6. Hang around with different people.
7. Start slowly but surely change your associations


Darren Hardy

Darren Hardy is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as its Publisher and Editorial Director.

As a leader in the personal development industry, Darren gets the unique privilege of sitting down with the leading experts on human performance and achievement, as well as many of today’s top CEOs, revolutionary entrepreneurs, superstar athletes, entertainers and Olympic champions, to learn their unique secrets to their extraordinary success.

Darren is also an accomplished entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, private equity investor, corporate advisor and peak performance mentor.






1. The results you produce will determine the lifestyle that you have.
2. If you want to produce results look at the actions that you have.
2.1 Are you doing the right things?
3. The attitude determines the actions that delivers results
4. YOU factor is your philosophy that creates your attitude
5. Improve your attitude:
5.1 Information
- Listen to something positive daily.
5.2 Environment
- Make sure your environment supports the kind of production you want to put out
5.3 Associations
- You become the combined average of the people you hang out the most


OJ Lopez

1. To deliver a LIFESTYLE, you have to produce RESULTS, which means you have to take ACTION, which means you have to work on your ATTITUDE, which means you have to focus on YOU, your PHILOSOPHY.

2. YOU have a PHILOSOPHY that creates your ATTITUDE that determine your ACTIONS that deliver the RESULTS that make up your LIFESTYLE.

3. Determine my associations.

4. Who do I need to spend less time with? Who do I need to spend more time with? Who do I need to attract?