Welcome to Daren Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Daren Hardy.

Good morning, I have a question for you.

Are you a river or a swamp?

A river is free flowing and abounds with life.

A swamp is motionless and stagnant.

A river is the focus of settlements, trade, progress and expansion.

This remained stinking backwaters were very few people cared to go let alone live.

There's one simple difference between the two, but it means the difference between life

and death.

Literally, the great rivers of the world have for thousands of years attracted people

to them and provided the source of life for civilization as we know it.

Swamps, on the other hand, have remained swamps for thousands of years.

They have not seen much in the way of human development and are unlikely to do so in

the foreseeable future.

That's because they lack two things, one, a fresh source of input, water, and two, an outlet

that allows the fresh input water to flow through it.

Swamps, on the other hand, just pool the water in the lowest of lying areas, which means

it remains trapped and they are so low that there's no outlet for it at all.

Over time, the water becomes stagnant and quite unpleasant.

From a contrary, rivers come about as a result of water flowing from a higher point to

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