The Slight Edge Philosophy 31 you to a healthy life. No matter what you learn, no matter how many books you read, CDs you listen to, or seminars you attend, if you don’t absorb this philosophy of simple steps and their compounded effect over time, you won’t successfully apply those things you learn to create the results you want. 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. That is my passionate belief—and I’ve seen it happen too many times to doubt it. But you need a place to start. The Slight Edge is that starting point. It’s the first ingredient. If you can learn to understand and apply the slight edge, your life will be filled with thousands of small seemingly insignificant actions, all of them simple, none of them mysterious or complex. In other words, you have to master the mundane. My entire life was a huge blame game until I read that quote. It changed everything for me. It’s so simple that most people won’t even see the power in its truth. Here’s the simple breakdown: I have failed many times… MANY times. You learn through failure. It’s a part of life. You show me someone who has never failed and I will show you someone who has never been successful. You reach success through failing. Although I have failed many times, I am NOT a failure. I will never be one and, therefore, I will never blame somebody else for my circumstances. choose to have the Slight Edge working for them, not against them. They build their own dreams, rather than spend their lives building other people’s dreams, and they achieve these dramatic results in their lives through making choices that are the very antithesis of drama—mundane, simple, seemingly insignificant choices. Every decision you make is a Slight Edge decision. What you’re going to do, how you’re going to act, what you’re going to read, who you’re going to chat with on the phone, what you’re going to eat for lunch, who you’re going to associate with. How you’re going to treat your fellow workers. What you’re going to get done today. Simply by making those right decisions, or making more of them—one at a time, over and over again—you will have enlisted the awesome power of the Slight Edge on your behalf. The unwanted circumstances, the poor results you’ve produced in the past, and the evidence of failures in your life, may all continue for a time. There may be no light at the end of the tunnel, or at least none you can see today. But by putting time on your side,

Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure. They

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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. Oh come on” you protest… Give us a break here! It’s one Saturday morning – a few minutes out of one Saturday morning! That hardly has life consequences” The single most important thing about The Slight Edge is this: it’s already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don’t wait. Our hope that you will put in place something. Perhaps a financial plan for yourself so that you are constantly building equity. Some simple, daily, weekly or monthly discipline that over time will buy you your financial freedom. 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 are looking for a breakthrough, looking for that amazing “quantum leap”—the philosophy of the Success Is Not a Race, It’s a Journey opportunity For many years I wanted to be my own boss, and when the a few years after nately, Unfortu s. busines first presented itself I started my alizing demor pretty a was It ing. everyth lost I and failed s the busines experience and one that I liked to deny responsibility for. Shortly my eyes afterwards I was given a audio copy of The Slight Edge and overnight, failed had s busines my like d seeme it h were opened. Althoug from the further when I really thought about it nothing could have been , and reverse in Edge Slight the g truth. For a long time I had been applyin ating. devast is out, found I as that, of the cumulative effect Edge I’m happy to say that since then I have been applying Slight (no principles in the correct manner, and although it has taken awhile in a forward moving now are things one said it would be easy, did they?) first my and family, lovely a wife, ul beautif a have I n. very positive directio d planne 12 of children’s book is being published this month, with a series bright, ely extrem looks family over the next two years. The future for our consistent and I know from the bottom of my heart that this is down to Edge. Slight the of tion applica ™ —Mark Hibbitts, Author of Alfie Potts the Schoolboy Entrepreneur

you’ve marshaled the forces of the Slight Edge. Your success becomes inevitable. You just need to stay in the process long enough to give it a chance to win. It starts with a choice. Cultivating Patience You’ve probably heard the story of compound interest before. In fact many times. What is the big deal about it all? Nothing… Unless you act on it. A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turns into negative results, which turns into a negative lifestyle."And these things are simple. They are tiny, positive habits that we do to make our lives much better in the long term. 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. You can always count on the Slight Edge. And unless you make it work for you, the Slight Edge will work against you.