SLIGHT EDGE: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success and Happiness

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Where you end up in life isn’t about whether you are a good or bad person, whether or not you are deserving, or your karma, or your circumstances. It is dictated by the choices you make – especially the little ones. I know it doesn’t seem like it. It seems like you’re just choosing how to spend the next hour, not the next 40 years. But you are choosing how you’ll spend your next 40 years. Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision Part 2 - Living The Slight Edge Two Life Paths 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. That’s the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time.

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The Water Hyacinth The water hyacinth is a beautiful, delicate-looking little plant. 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. Although a single plant can produce as many as 5,000 seeds, the method it prefers for colonizing a new area is to grow by doubling itself, sending out short runner stems that become “daughter plants.” If a pond’s surface is fairly still and undisturbed, the water hyacinth may cover the entire pond in thirty days. On the first day, you won’t even notice it. In fact, for the first few weeks you will have to search very hard to find it. On day 15, it will cover perhaps a single square foot of the pond’s surface ... a barely significant dollop of color dotting the expanse of placid green. 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. You would be easily forgiven if you mistook it for a boy’s inflatable life raft, left behind during a family picnic. On day 29, one-half of the pond’s surface will be open water. On the thirtieth day, the entire pond will be covered by a blanket of water hyacinth. You will not see any water at all.PHILOSOPHY  ATTITUDE – ACTIONS – RESULTS – LIFESTYLE W h at ’ s c o m f o r t a b l e e ar l y b e The 5% don’t want success more than the others. They don’t wish, pray or envision for it more. The difference is the slight edge. The first category likes to play the victim, and blame their misfortune in life for their failures. The second type of people takes responsibility for their actions, especially when life throws challenges at them. You should aim to become more like the second type, and then examine your focus. Are you oriented toward the future or the past?

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive

To get started, simply start by doing one daily discipline in each of these 5 areas. Review these factors daily, model successful people, and spend quality time with people who have achieved similar goals and dreams. The Slight Edge independent. It’s easy to have a happy family and a life rich with meaningful friendships. 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. It’s easy to have everything you ever wanted in your life. 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. Here’s the Making the Choice to Make the Choice For twenty-one years, the wealthy man gave his sons everything he had, including all his love, all his care and a magnificent place to live. But when they turned twenty-one, he gave them the most valuable gift of all. He gave them a choice. Key Points of Chapter 3 The most powerful force for change is time. Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you. 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. Knowing that if I stay on this path long enough I will get the results I want. In today’s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. The step we keep overlooking is the step of cultivating. And that, unlike planting and harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time. The right choices you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher up the success curve. Just Add Life and Stir ... The Slight Edge philosophy is the missing ingredient you need for all the personal-development books, how-to’s and life guides to work. If you don’t grasp the truth of the Slight Edge, then no matter what health books you read, you’re not going to be willing to do the little things that lead

you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today’s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. We plant the seed by joining the gym, and then get

The Slight Edge Book Summary by Jeff Olson - Shortform The Slight Edge Book Summary by Jeff Olson - Shortform

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it. 📒 Summary + Notes Reason #2: The Results Are Invisible The second reason people don’t do the little things that add up to success is that at first, they don’t add up to success. The doomed frog quit paddling in the cream because he’d been doing it as hard as he could, and it obviously wasn’t having any effect. At least, not one he could see.Chapter 10 Invest in Yourself...................................................................................139 Chapter 11 Turning Your Dreams into Reality........................................................157 Chapter 12 Living the Slight Edge..........................................................................169 Chapter 13 Where to Go from Here......................................................................185 Afterword: The Slight Edge Next Generation by Amber Olson...................................189 A Special Invitation..........................................................................................................199 Life-Transforming Resources...........................................................................................201 About the Author..............................................................................................................203 This is something that’ll occupy your mind even when you’re not actively aware of it, such as when you’re thinking about what you should eat, or when you choose to go to bed earlier instead of losing sleep. First, you have to choose your predominant state of mind. Either you have the blaming mindset or the winning mindset. The lesson of compound interest shows the tremendous potential of something as seemingly powerless. About patience and the understanding that little steps compounded do make a difference. That the things you do every single day, the things that don’t look dramatic do matter. About having faith in the process of simple, positive actions, repeated over time – the faith that miracles do happen.