Hardly anyone was smiling. Most of my fellow travelers were trudging with their heads bowed down. I saw bored expressions. Everybody looked so tired. Failing is exhausting. I heard angry words. I stopped for a cup of coffee and heard a young couple arguing with each other. A burly man scolded his young son to the point of tears. A heavy woman complained about the service, then the prices, then her food, and then started back in on the service again. The other people in line nodded their heads.
A few joined her in a chorus of negativity. Why is everyone so … down? Everything these people need to know to change their lives for the better is already available. All the information they could possibly need to put them on a path of extraordinary success and fulfillment is out there, in books and CDs, DVDs and workshops. There are people to help them—rich, living resources to guide them, be their mentors, teachers, coaches and allies. It was all already available.
I looked around the airport as the early morning rush hour swelled its ranks of busy, hurrying, scowling, unhappy people shambling past with no spark in their faces, no bounce in their step. I wished I could somehow address them all, that I could touch all their lives with my silent soliloquy. If only you were aware of the Slight Edge. If only you knew what it was doing in your life and how easy it is to have the Slight Edge working for you—instead of against you.
If only you were making the right choices, doing those simple, little disciplines that would change your life for the better forever … where would you be five years from today?
If only you learned to recognize the Slight Edge If only But it was only in my head. Not a soul heard my words … nobody, that is, but me. That day, on the plane, I started writing this book. The Slight Edge is not just more good information. Nobody needs that.
This book is a precursor to help you use that information. I have since been back to that airport. In fact, I have been back through there many, many times. I have looked for the shoeshine woman, but she is no longer there. But I do know this: she is not alone. There are millions upon millions of people, everywhere I go, everywhere I look, whose lives are not all that they wish, not all that they yearn for. Not even close. And yet they could be.
I dedicate this book to you and to those who have already put the Slight Edge into practice. I have been fortunate to be the CEO and owner of many successful companies. So how did I get there? When you get the opportunity to be around successful CEOs and influential authors and speakers, their wisdom has a way of rubbing off on you. But the main reason for my success—and the success of other influential people around the world—continues to be the daily application of the philosophy I am going to share with you called the Slight Edge.
After my time at Texas Instruments and building my own company Sun Aire of America, which at the time was one of the largest solar energy companies in the country, I went on to build three separate multimillion-dollar sales forces, one of which I was appointed CEO. I arrived at these destinations, not by being smarter than everyone else, not by quantum leaps of advancement, but by consistently applying the Slight Edge philosophy.
Influential authors and speakers were lining up at my door, due to the large distribution of personal-development information our company produced. I sat with Oprah Winfrey for lengthy in-depth discussions on the path of personal development. I worked closely with Jan Miller, the biggest literary agent of personal development. I even went to Nashville, the capital of country music, to talk with legendary country music executive Jimmy Bowen about mixing personal development with music.
I met with about every leading author and speaker on every topic you can imagine, many of whom made appearances in many of our programs. TPN was making huge waves. Does Chicken Soup for the Soul sound familiar? It should; this one book has sold over million copies and has spawned several other titles that have been translated into several languages.
I was there in when author Mark Victor Hansen shared with me his idea and dream to create the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. We were not just information providers but information producers. You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.
Although some might have success in the beginning, the results are not long lasting, This ends up frustrating the consumer and makes them give up on otherwise great information, that if applied with the right philosophy would have given them great results. What the Slight Edge philosophy is meant to do is give you a philosophy that will become a filter for every decision you make. It will give you a way to apply great information into your life in a way that will produce lasting results.
If you understand the Slight Edge philosophy then you can effectively apply any sound principle or action into your life with success. And that is a percent guarantee. I have been teaching the Slight Edge philosophy for many years now, and published the first edition of the book in These are wonderful books and I encourage you to go buy them to learn more about their interpretation of the Slight Edge philosophy.
Many other readers of The Slight Edge have gone on to accomplish amazing things by simply implementing the Slight Edge principles in their lives—many of the stories we will share with you in this revised edition. It began when the book was only a concept. To flesh it out I went to the Mountain Shadow Resort in Phoenix to get away by myself and spent a weekend listening to Jim Rohn and other legendary personal-development icons. Soon I started to see an overall philosophy develop from all that I read and heard that weekend.
The best way to convey it was to simply draw it out. From this crude drawing I started to teach it out on the road and it soon became known as the Slight Edge. Everywhere I went people wanted me to give the Slight Edge speech. My next task was to get it out of my head and onto paper so people could read it whenever they wanted. I wrote the first pages and then life got busy and the unfinished manuscript sat on my credenza for years.
Eventually I carved out the time to finish it. I was never trying to create a best seller with The Slight Edge. I was simply trying to get it out of my brain and onto paper as fast as I could so people would stop hounding me about it. This way I could point to the book without having to explain the entire philosophy. First, I sent the book out to a few friends who wanted it, thinking that would be it.
But I received more calls from my friends telling me how much they got out of reading the book, which I laughed at. I discounted much of what they were saying because these were my close friends and I figured they were just being supportive. But then I started getting calls from people who had received the book from my close friends, and it mushroomed from there. All this time others were telling me this, but I was too busy to notice.
In fact, it never had wide distribution because it could only be purchased by calling a number. By simple word-of-mouth the book has exploded at a grassroots level— completely organic.
And now that we have seen how it is affecting so many lives I wanted to make it better—to take it to the next level. She was the driving force behind this project and pushed me to make this book even better than it already is. Over the years, people have shared with me how the Slight Edge was working in their life. I told them to give me their business card with the topic either finances, health, sports, etc on the back and we would call them to get their story in writing. Amber finally volunteered to call these people when she saw the drawer spilling over with business cards of people anxious to share their stories.
Again, I want to thank my daughter for finding the time to call these wonderful people and to personally thank them for sharing with me the stories you are about to read. People had finally begun to ask themselves, What I am doing with my life? I want something more. Today we are experiencing a similar revival. I tell you all this so that before I start explaining the Slight Edge philosophy you get to see how I came to understand the Slight Edge and how these principles have stood the test of time by themselves—with or without my influence—and have enabled people to accomplish amazing things.
As a way to thank all of the readers, this revision is dedicated to all the past, present and future readers of The Slight Edge. All we have done is plant the seed. You are the ones who have watered and cultivated it to be what it is today. In this revised edition we have meticulously gone through each chapter and expanded it with new stories, as well as updates based upon observation of the Slight Edge principles over the last five years. There is a new chapter in this edition called 7 Slight Edge Principles.
It is a good foundation on which to start your own personal-development journey, all the while creating a positive ripple effect, by one action that creates several positive reactions. The one thing I am most excited about in this revised edition is the chance to share with you the stories of many readers of The Slight Edge.
We have received thousands of amazing stories from readers explaining how The Slight Edge has helped them with their personal relationships, finances, business, health, and life pursuits just by injecting the Slight Edge philosophy into their lives. The results have created a ripple effect having a lasting impact on everyone they meet. Their stories explain the principles and real-life applications far better than I ever could.
I hope you will be moved by their stories as much as I was. My daughter Amber contributed a section addressing the next generation of readers of The Slight Edge.
She has grown up with The Slight Edge and knows the importance of getting this information into the hands of young people to help them understand that the choices they make today will affect the rest of their lives. Through my father and others, I have seen the impact of a lifetime full of right and wrong decisions and where they lead you. I am forever grateful to have had the Slight Edge philosophy instilled in me at a young age by my parents, because I was able to end up on the positive side of the Slight Edge curve by being aware that the choices I make on a daily basis matter.
Please come experience the slight edge community at www. I look forward to seeing you there! Prized as an ornament, it sports six-petaled flowers ranging from a lovely purplish blue, to lavender, to pink. You can find it floating on the surface of ponds in warm climates around the world. The water hyacinth is also one of the most productive plants on earth; its reproductive rate astonishes botanists and ecologists. In fact, for the first few weeks you will have to search very hard to find it.
On the twentieth day two-thirds of the way to the end of the month , you may happen to notice a dense little patch of floating foliage, about the size of a small mattress.
On the thirtieth day, the entire pond will be covered by a blanket of water hyacinth. You will not see any water at all.
They soon found themselves in a dairy. Hopping and jumping around frogs will be frogs, after all , they jumped into a milk pail half full of cream. At first, they were both thrilled.
They had never tasted anything so delicious! They drank and drank. Soon after some contented frog belches followed by much giggling they were both full-bellied and getting just a bit sleepy. But there was a problem. The inside of the pail was too slippery to climb, and there was nothing on which they could place their feet for traction to get up a good hopping distance The awful reality dawned on them: they were trapped. Let us save what dignity we have left and die here like frogs, with our eyes facing our homeland!
We should never give up! When we were tadpoles, which of us would ever have dreamed that some day we would emerge from the water and hop about on land? Swim on, and pray for a miracle! But the first frog refused to give up. He continued to swim. He swam and he swam in ridiculous, pointless, useless, futile circles, hoping against hope for a miracle.
Fired by adrenaline, he paddled mightily Was my brother right? Am I a fool? Are there no miracles in the life of a frog?
Finally, he could swim no more But something odd then happened He just sat exactly where he was. Ever so tentatively, he stretched out a foot The Choice A wealthy man nearing the end of his days summoned his twin sons to his bedside. Before he died, he told them, he wanted to pass on to them the opportunity to experience the richness of life that he had enjoyed for his many years on earth.
But there are three treasures I have had the good fortune to experience in my life, and it is my fondest wish, my dying wish, that you would both have these three treasures. I have been giving it to you both since you were born, and die in peace knowing that you both already have it in abundance.
For some, it never runs out, while for others, it constantly runs out. This gift I give you now, but whether or not you keep it will be up to you. I have been showing it to you both your entire lives, but cannot say whether or not you have gained it. This gift I cannot give you, but I can give you an opportunity to see it one last time before I die. Do you know what the first gift is? Easy to give, and it never runs out The first gift is love! The boy was right. They again became quiet with thought.
Easy to give, but not always easy to have Is the second gift money? This time both boys remained buried in thought. Neither could come up with an answer. The father smiled again, a little sadly this time. He lifted a beautiful lacquer box from the bedside table onto his lap, opened it and looked inside.
I will no longer be with you, for my life has run its course. On that day, thirty-one days from now, I have instructed my most trusted advisor to execute a document that will bequeath my home, my treasury, my estate—all that I possess—to the good people of this land, who have treated me with kindness all these years.
This place, which has been our home together for these twenty-one years, will become a public trust. I will be well on my way to the next world, and the two of you will set off to make your way in this one. My last gift to you, on the day of your departure, will be a purse to finance your adventures. One million dollars. In the other hand, he held a shiny new copper penny.
However, if you choose the penny, my treasury director has instructions to double the contents of your purse every day. You each have the same choice to make. Whatever you do not take, I will return to my treasury to add to my estate. Tomorrow morning, come back and tell me your choice. Which should I take? What is the lesson? He had made his decision before his father had finished the sentence.
Now he was making careful plans for what to do for the next thirtyone days. When morning came, the second boy sprang into action. After securing the million in cash from his father, he hired a sharp consultant and a manager to help him execute his carefully wrought plan. They rented out a hotel suite, in which they conducted exhaustive, back-to-back interviews for the next six days.
By week three, the best plans had been selected, winnowed, examined, combed, explored, game-theoried, road-tested, computer-simulated and dissected. Off they went, into the battlefields of commerce and speculation. The boy spent the next few days keeping in close contact with his far-flung financial team by telephone; but by mid-week, it seemed clear that things were well in hand and he was not needed.
He decided to pay a visit to his brother, whom he had not seen since breakfast on the morning after that long and sleepless night. After that excited breakfast, the first boy had also paid a visit to his father, but without explaining why, he announced that he had made the second choice. He had taken the penny, left it in the purse, then returned to his room and began reading from one of his favorite books.
The second day, he visited again, and was allowed to peek into the purse: the shiny new penny had been joined by a companion. On the third day, he found four pennies. On the fourth, there were eight, and on the fifth, sixteen, then thirty-two.
By the end of week two—with nearly half the month gone—his piles of pennies had swelled to just shy of ninety dollars Later that week, the wealthy man called his sons to him one more time and spent several hours with them, sharing memories and telling stories. That night, the old man died peacefully in his sleep. The markets, it seemed, had gone a bit soft.
Taken a bit of a tumble, actually. The team had acted quickly and salvaged what they could, but their earlier rosy projections would most certainly need to be revised downward.
The boy thanked them for their vigilance, and waited, fretting and anxious. At the close of the week, the team brought mixed news.
Some investments had performed quite well, others had suffered. All in all, the boy had made a modest gain: starting with his one million in cash, his team had succeeded in parleying that into nearly one and a half million.
Unfortunately, his expenses, including their commissions, tax, bills for the hotel suite, broker fees and the rest, came to just over half a million. The boy had ended the month with just a bit less than he started! On day 29, the two-and-a-half million mark. Yesterday, on day 30, it had doubled to more than five million! A Question Two boys. Two frogs. Two powerful choices. Riches or poverty.
Life or death. You are making those same choices, every day, every hour, and the choices you make are spreading out through your life, just like the water hyacinth. You may not see the results today, or tomorrow, or even next year. In fact, by the time you do finally see the results, the process will probably be so far along that the surface of the pond will be completely covered. The question is, covered with what?
When the wealthy man spoke to his sons, the second boy thought he was offering them a choice of which money to take. But the first boy listened more carefully. He remembered that money was only the second gift. He understood that the choice was not whether to take the penny or the sheaf of bills—the choice was whether or not to take the third gift.
The lesson was not about money: it was about wisdom. It was a lesson about compound interest, leverage, geometric progression and growth. It was a lesson about the Slight Edge. The choice the wealthy man offered his two sons is the same choice the world offers you, every day, every hour: sickness or health; sinking poverty or abundant wealth; deepening loneliness and alienation or a rich and growing circle of friends. It will keep you paddling until your cream becomes butter.
It will give you the power to choose what to plant in your life, so that you will end up completely blanketing the surface of the pond with the blossoms of your choice. One wins, the other does not. They have all had the exact same opportunity. But the great majority of them, faced with exactly the same opportunities, have gone nowhere. Nor is it timing, nor fate. Actually, it was quite the opposite. In every case, I did the exact same thing every time, using ridiculously simple strategies made up of ridiculously simple lists of ridiculously simple actions.
The strategies I used—none of them invented or devised by me, incidentally—are so simple that if you and I sat down together in a room for twenty minutes, I could show you exactly what I did to create four different, separate, independent multimillion-dollar organizations—and teach you how to do the exact same thing. In twenty minutes. Why not? Because how to do it is not the issue. People everywhere are clamoring for the formula, the secret, the path to improve their lives.
Tell me how you did this, so I can do it, too. Give me the definitive plan. Tell me how to be healthy. Tell me how to be rich. Tell me how to be happy. Tell me, tell me, tell me How to do it is not the issue. And most of us are none of those things. We already have enough of those—maybe more than enough. Because what you need to transform your life is not more information. It may work for me, but it may not be the how-to that works for you.
There is a secret that, once you know it, will cause you to find those answers, apply them, live them, and achieve those results you want. The secret ingredient is your philosophy. The secret is to change the way you think. It simply means changing your thinking. Your philosophy. So, what I need is an attitude adjustment Your emotions change. You feel like doing your twenty minutes on the treadmill. To find the path to success, you have to back up one more step. Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold it, and how it affects what you do.
Yes, you have to know the winning how-to actions, and you have to possess the winning attitudes—but what generates all that and keeps it all in place is your philosophy. A negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turn into negative results, which turn into a negative lifestyle.
Life Wisdom What do I mean by philosophy? Not something lofty or abstract; not something you need to go to graduate school or learn Greek to understand.
I mean something so simple, so basic, a six-year-old child can understand it. Here is an example. Do the thing, and you shall have the power. The sort of wisdom you can actually apply in everyday life. There are two prevalent types of attitudes: entitled and value-driven. Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold what you know, and how it affects what you do. Watson, Sr. It had better be an option!
Because not only did Babe Ruth set a world record for home runs, he also led the league in strikeouts. The next two years he grew four inches, honed his game … and the rest, as they say, is history.
Abraham Lincoln had an extraordinary record of lost elections and publicoffice failures over the course of his career. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. In his efforts to find a stable filament to make his electric light bulb invention work, he tried out thousands of different versions and every single one failed.
The Slight Edge Philosophy Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions. By and large, people are looking in the wrong places. They happen through the Slight Edge. The purpose of this book is to have you understand the Slight Edge philosophy, to make it part of how you see the world and how you live your life every day. To understand patience; to understand that little steps, compounded, do make a difference.
That they not only make a difference—they make all the difference. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest. Then go back regularly and read through just those highlighted sections: your own personal guide to the Slight Edge philosophy. The Slight Edge is also the philosophy embodied in the three stories you read in the beginning of this book.
It is understanding the tremendous potential of something as seemingly insignificant as a penny. It is knowing how to recognize and harness the power of the water hyacinth. Just Add Life and Stir The Slight Edge will help you apply all the information you learn from the health book, the sales book, the investment book, the positive attitude book. The Slight Edge is the book you need to read, highlight and reread along with your fitness class, your career planning, your continuing education and pursuit of new skills.
The Slight Edge will prepare you to be able to absorb all that other information, guidance and education from all those other books, classes, situations and experiences. Whatever your deepest desires are in life, I want you to have them, and I know you can. But you need a place to start. The Slight Edge is that starting point. Key Points of Chapter 1 People everywhere are clamoring for the formula, the secret ingredient, the path to improve their lives.
The secret ingredient is your philosophy: what you know, how you hold it and how it affects what you do.
They not only make a difference—they make all the difference. Apply the Slight Edge Principles and Stir! I have used the principles of the Slight Edge to improve my physical fitness, starting with one push-up and one sit-up a day, adding another each day and building to over per day.
Chunking every project into annual goals, monthly outcomes, weekly agendas and daily disciplines has helped me accomplish massive improvements in every area of life from health to relationships, to communication skills, to finances. By identifying the daily disciplines in every area of life, I was able to move from cancer to outstanding health; from non-communication with siblings to best friends; from struggling as a single mom to creating a net worth of over 1 million dollars!
The Slight Edge principles, compounded over time, will make a massive shift in any area we choose. I have quit focusing as much on the goals, and am focusing more on the little thin gs I do every day, since I can control those.
As a fath of om isd w imparting the. You know whom I mean: that woman with the easy, engaging smile, the one who makes you feel instantly at ease, even as you stand in awe of her accomplishments. People who not only are successful, but also seem to breathe success and fill the space around them with it. They live in beautiful homes, travel to exciting places, fly first class. Are surrounded by people who love them and admire them. Are appreciated, respected and recognized.
Happy, healthy, creative and fulfilled. Winners in the game of life. Why do some families have such great relationships, such warmth and fun and caring closeness, while others are perennially angry with each other, so distrustful and distant they might as well live on different planets? Why are some people positive and upbeat while others are miserably negative, constantly complaining and criticizing?
Why are some people digging deeper and deeper into debt, while others just keep earning more money? Why are some people successful, and some people failures? What Do Successful People Do? Happy versus unhappy marriages, health versus illness, how many retirees barely survive on fixed incomes versus how many reach their golden years in comfort and security.
My observation is that about one person in twenty is achieving a significant measure of his or her goals in life: financial, professional, personal, marital, spiritual, in terms of health, in whatever terms you want to look at.
Ninety-five percent are either failing or falling short. What are the five percent doing that the ninety-five percent are not? There is only one difference. It is not heredity, education, looks, talent or inheritance. They all understand the Slight Edge and how it is working for or against them.
If you will learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, I will guarantee you that in time—and chances are, less time than you would imagine—you will have what you desire. You will be among the five percent. You will be successful.
And you will achieve those aims, goals and dreams by doing simple things. If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult.
And those actions will create your success. If these are things anyone can do, why are only five percent successful? Fundamentally, we all take pretty much the same actions every day.
We eat, sleep, think, feel, talk and listen. We have relationships and friendships. We each have twenty-four hours a day, 8, hours a year, and we each fill these hours one way or the other with a sequence of little tasks and actions, any one of which is seemingly insignificant.
Gold medal marathon runners eat and sleep. So do people who are thirty pounds overweight. Successful entrepreneurs think and feel and have relationships with other people. So do those who are unemployed or even living on the streets.
People who make lots of money read books. People who are broke read books, too. The successful and unsuccessful both do the same basic things in their lives, day in and day out. Yet the things successful people do take them to the top, while the things unsuccessful people do take them down and out. The difference is their awareness, understanding and use of the Slight Edge in their life and work. Successful winners understand the Slight Edge. Unsuccessful people do not. This is why we are all capable of doing what it takes to be successful.
We are all capable of being winners The Slight Edge is always working. For you or against you, the Slight Edge is already, always at work in all our lives. The purpose of this book is to help you become aware of it—how it is working in your life, every day, every hour, every moment, in every step you take and every choice you make. Easy to Do Easy Not to Do Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do. Tapping into the Slight Edge means doing things that are easy. Simple little disciplines that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest accomplishments.
Every action you need to take to make any and all of your dreams come true is easy. So why is it, then, that the masses are unhappy, unhealthy and financially bound? Every action that any of these goals requires is easy to do. Why are these simple yet crucial things easy not to do? But that simple, seemingly insignificant error in judgment, compounded over time, will kill you.
It will destroy you and ruin your chances for success. You can count on it. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. You can always count on the Slight Edge. And unless you make it work for you, the Slight Edge will work against you.
Invisible Results If I could have had a magic wand that day in the Phoenix airport as I sat thinking and having my shoes shined, one of the first things I would have done would have been to wave it at the little pile of paperbacks.
I would have waved the wand and Presto! Because the simple truth is, how you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body. Seeing how naturally open-minded and intellectually curious the shoeshine woman was, I have no doubt she would have dove into any one of these books with gusto. But then we would have run into a problem. If you read ten pages of a good book today, will your life change? Of course not.
Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge in her. Would she do it?
On day 1, sure. And day 2. And maybe day 3. But would she still be doing it by the end of the week? If she did keep reading, over the course of the year she would have read 3, pages—the equivalent of one or two dozen books of life-transforming material! Would her life have changed? No question. At least, not today. We live in a result-focused world.
We expect to see results, and we expect to see them now. Push the button, the light flicks on. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Failure is also just as gradual. And chances are, at the time you actually made those choices, nobody noticed but you.
Invisible results. What makes this time different? Nothing—unless you act on it. My hope for you—my request for you—is that before you reach the last page of this book, you will have put in place a Slight Edge financial plan for yourself so that you are consistently building your equity. Some simple, daily or weekly, or monthly discipline that, over time, will buy your financial freedom.
Easy to do? Surprisingly so. Easy not to do? Tragically so. To give you a sense of the cost of waiting, look at the following example. Your friend starts doing it now. You wait. At the beginning of year 7, you ask your friend how his IRA is doing. Or sixty-four? In fact, best-selling author David Bach has written an excellent book titled Start Late, Finish Rich, addressing exactly that issue.
My point is simply that there is a cost to waiting. Just ask Ramona B. After reading and re-reading the book several times, I began depositing a designated amount from each paycheck into a savings account, which soon became a compound interest-bearing account. It has been amazing to see the results of a simple decision to consistently save.
I hope like Ramona you decide to make a Slight Edge commitment to your financial future. What You Do Matters I am as passionate about personal health and fitness as I am about financial health.
I believe your health is your most prized possession. It amazes me how many people pay no attention to their health. Do you know anyone who would eat a quart of Crisco or a pound of butter a day? Then why do we act like we do? We all do. Fresh fruits and vegetables, complex carbs, salads, whole foods, lean meats, more fish and poultry than beef You know it, I know it, we all know it.
So why do so many of us still go out and chow down cheeseburgers and fries every day? Not today. If you ate a cheeseburger and immediately suffered a near-fatal heart attack, would you ever go near a cheeseburger again? I doubt it. And so do you. It has been said that we dig our graves with our teeth.
Eating the burger is just a simple error in judgment. Not eating it, a simple positive action. But compounded over time, it can and will. A simple, positive action. A simple error in judgment. For example, if you read 10 pages of a good book today will you see success?
They look the same today. Why do you walk past the exercise bike? No, of course not. You know what you need to do to stay healthy and feel fit and live a long life. Get your heart rate up, a little over normal, for twenty minutes, three times a week. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time, will take you down and out. It is the same with your health, your diet, your exercise, your financial habits, your knowledge, your relationships, your marriage.
With anything and everything. With your life. You see one person eating a good meal, and the person next to him eating an awful meal. One person saving a penny, another spending a penny. One taking a brisk walk, another sitting and watching the news. Is there any difference between the two? Nothing you can see The difference between success and failure is not dramatic. In fact, the difference between success and failure is so subtle, most people miss it.
What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
Those little things that will make you successful in life, that will secure your health, your happiness, your fulfillment, your dreams, are simple, subtle, tiny things that nobody will see, nobody will applaud, nobody will even notice. They are those things that, at the time you do them, often feel like they make absolutely no difference They do. Key Points of Chapter 2 If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult.
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With that thought, I got up the next morning and every morning after that. I look forward to them. I never thought I would look forward to working out. You have to be pretty well along the path to see any significant results. What keeps you doing this simple thing, day after day? Will power! I just need more will power. Will power is vastly overrated.
For most people, will power ends up looking and feeling like some sort of grim self-tyranny, and involves creating an elaborate, artificial reward-and-punishment system.
Do you want to change? If so, I can show you how to tap into the most powerful force for change there is. Would you like to know what it is? Are you ready? Here it is: TIME. Because time will either promote you or expose you. What keeps you on the path is your Slight Edge philosophy, which includes your understanding of the secret of time. When you enter a darkened room, why does your hand reach out for the light switch? Because you know that when you hit the switch, the light will go on.
Because you know what will happen. You know. After all, a million dollars! In cash! Right now! It represents an entirely different way of thinking. An entirely different philosophy. Is Time on Your Side?
You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. Taking recreational drugs is an effort to go from plant directly to harvest. So is taking steroids to enhance athletic performance. So is robbing a bank; so is playing the lottery. The step we keep overlooking and overskipping! And that, unlike planting and harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time. Film is an amazing art form, television is a powerful medium, and in the hands of true artists, they can both teach us valuable lessons about life.
Just not about time. But it all has to be finished in two hours. Can you imagine a nation being born in two hours? Meeting the person who will become the love of your life—the dating, courtship, romance, struggle, triumph, wedding and life thereafter—in two hours? In a world filled with instant coffee, instant breakfast, instant credit, instant shopping, instant news and instant information, we have come dangerously close to losing touch with reality and believing we have access to instant life.
And that, oddly enough, is the challenge of it. This is not about making tough choices. The problem is, making the wrong choices—the ones that will tilt the Slight Edge to lean against you instead of in your favor—are also easy choices. If it were a dramatic, huge, difficult thing. Because then it would be obvious. The challenge is that making the right choices is not dramatic.
Problem is, your life is not a movie. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in The Slight Edge may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.
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