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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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It’s not the dramatic failures that sabotage your goals—it’s the barely noticeable ones. Darren Hardy unpacks a simple but powerful truth about how even the smallest missteps, repeated over time, can take your life completely off track… and what you can do to reclaim control.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. |
| 0:07.3 | Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. |
| 0:13.2 | If everything's turning out the same and one starts to make small seemingly insignificant positive choices and one seems to be making seemingly insignificant |
| 0:21.4 | negative choices the outcomes of those choices are are significant and and i'll just i'll explain |
| 0:27.9 | kind of how this happens without most of us realizing it with this analogy imagine that you're |
| 0:32.9 | on a plane at let's say lax and you're going to be flying across the country to LaGuardia. |
| 0:39.7 | If the nose of that plane while sitting on the tarmac at LAX is off by only one degree, |
| 0:47.3 | which literally from the visibility of the plane on the tarmac is invisible. |
| 0:54.2 | But that 1% degree off traveled 3,000 miles across the country will end up 150 miles off its intended destination. |
| 1:05.0 | Two states away. |
| 1:05.9 | You will have missed your destination by two states. |
| 1:09.7 | Well, this is what happens in people's lives. They get to the end of 10, 15 |
| 1:13.1 | years and they look up one day or they stand in front of a full-length mirror and they go, |
| 1:19.4 | how did this happen? How did I get so fat? Or how did I end up divorced? This person who I said would be my soulmate for life. Or how did I end up divorce this person who I said would be my soulmate for life or how did I end up |
| 1:31.2 | estranged from these people that I I said were the most important people in my life these these |
| 1:36.1 | people that I said were family or how did I end up bankrupt or in this financial crisis the reality |
| 1:43.9 | is this you might not have done anything |
| 1:46.1 | significantly wrong. You might not have made any big colossal mistake in your choices. You might |
| 1:54.0 | have just been one degree off and one degree carried over 3,000 miles or 10 or 15 years, and now you are significantly off your intended course. |
| 2:07.7 | So you go, well, what do you do about that? |
| 2:10.4 | Well, just the same thing a plane does, right? |
| 2:12.7 | The plane in the nose of it's got a gyroscope or a compass. |
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