SLIGHT EDGE: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success and Happiness

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Are you frustrated with the results of your goals? Do you want to know what the secret is to achieving long-term success? You might be surprised to learn that the secret is, in fact, quite simple. In The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson teaches that success is built over time by committing to simple, small, daily disciplines. Is the number of friends in your life, meaningful exchanges with people, mutually enriching events growing each year? It has been scientifically established that space is curved. There are no such things as straight lines – everything, including your life, is curved. Your daily choices determine which curve you are on. If you are making the right choices every day, your life curve is on the upper half (which only 5% of people are on). If you are making simple errors in judgement daily, you are on the lower curve (where the majority of people are). By the time you can observe that someone has a competitive edge over you, it becomes too late to catch up on them. That is because the mundane things which are part of a daily routine seem invisible while you’re doing them, but as they add up in time, they’re building your future. Successful people know and leverage this concept for their benefit.

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The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success you desire. Our favorite endorsements are from our readers! “I have read personal development books for over 20 years, and I can say this is the one that tied them all together. The book is so easy to read and understand and so powerful in its simplicity.” —Mike Bishop, Wilsonville, OR The Slight Edge is a philosophy, a new way of thinking. It helps us to make simple daily choices and take small actions, creating the compound effect to deliver the lives we desire. In this summary, we’ll outline how you can use just one simple, daily discipline and consistently apply the 7 Slight Edge principles to turn around any aspect of your life in just a few years.The Slight Edge is about your awareness. It is about you making the right choices, the choices that serve you and empower you, starting right now and continuing for the rest of your life, and learning to make them effortlessly. 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 Three Stories 17 He heaved a big sigh, both sad and grateful, said a silent farewell to his drowned brother, then scrambled up on top of the big lump of butter he had just finished churning ... … and hopped out of the pail and off to the swamp, alone but alive. How many people do you know that you would call successful? Not necessarily financially, although it is something. But in all aspects of life, vibrant, healthy, plenty of good friends, full of energy and curiosity, always learning new things and are excited about life. Probably not many…

SLIGHT EDGE: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it. They understand that it is not any one single push on the flywheel, but the cumulative total of all their sequential, unfailingly consistent According to Olson, there are a number of core principles to creating continual success that builds over time. Let’s explore each in detail. Principle #1: Show Up to Take the First Step The slight edge is the first ingredient, the catalyst you need that makes all the how-to’s work. Master the MundaneThe most powerful part of The Slight Edge is the simplicity and practicality of the philosophy. Olsen summarizes many big ideas we may already know, and shows how to apply them in simple, daily steps. The book is sobering yet uplifting at the same time, because it presents so clearly how we can shape our lives, there’s no longer any excuse not to. Are you building assets and putting money into a long term plan that will create true financial freedom? There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don’t. Brushing your teeth is a habit that serves you; biting your nails is one that doesn’t. Thinking things through for yourself serves you; blindly accepting everything you read online or hear through the gossip grapevine doesn’t. Looking for the best in people serves you; anticipating their worst doesn’t. The first type of habit wields the force of the slight edge on your behalf and moves you along the success curve; the second turns the slight edge subtly but remorselessly against you and pulls you down the failure curve. Your Turn