SLIGHT EDGE: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success and Happiness

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If you know when to trust the process and keep churning the cream. It was a lesson about the slight edge and how it can transform your life. It is the same choice we’re offered in every moment of our lives. If your professional life growing every day? Are you moving along a path that is taking you towards greater accomplishments and fulfillment in your chosen occupation? Success in life comes one day at a time and, as Jeff Olson suggests, one step at a time. The Slight Edge will show you how your daily decisions can be the ultimate key to your success.” —Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager® and Lead with LUV

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Olson explains that showing up means determining a goal to pursue and taking the first step to pursuing it. For example, if you want to become a psychologist, you have to apply for school and show up to class. Olson argues that showing up is the first step to achieving your goal, as no progress can occur without it. After all, you can’t go on a journey if you don’t show up to the train station. Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do. Easy to become health, fit, vibrant, financially independent. A simple positive action repeated over time. A simple error in judgement repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do. Answer: up or down…. First, Olson recommends, write your vision of success out or create a piece of visual art to represent it. For example, make a vision board: a handmade poster full of images that represent your goals (they can be magazine clippings, drawings, photographs, or anything else visual that inspires you). According to Olson, creating a tangible representation of your vision is critical because it allows you to get clear and specific with your goals.No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won’t see it happening at first. Are you living within your means and investing income into a program that will build equity? Or borring out of credit?

SLIGHT EDGE: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

Olson states that the number one obstacle to achieving our goals is neglecting to take the small actions that support them. This obstacle occurs because it’s very easy to procrastinate small, important, but less noticeable actions in favor of more prominent or exciting actions (for example, extending your gap year instead of starting college). We simply don’t feel as motivated without clear validation of our efforts, which small steps often don’t provide—instead, we want instant gratification. My thanks go to my mother, who has always believed in me; to Renée, my wife of eighteen years and now friend for life, who has always stood by me; and to our precious daughter Amber, who is our proudest accomplishment. They have all been my own personal Slight Edge. A special thanks to Jim Rohn, whose teachings have had a profound impact on me. It’s often his wisdom you hear in these words. To John David Mann, my co-author, who brought his craft, passion, literary magic and good cheer to the project and made our book shine. To John Milton Fogg for his insights and his support, and for helping to get the ball rolling. To Todd Eliason and Reed Bilbray who brought their brilliance to this revised edition. To my close friend Stuart Johnson for helping this book, a dream of mine for many years, to finally come to pass. To Amber Olson who has been the driving force in bringing to light this revised edition. It would not have happened without her passion and Slight Edge persistence. She continues to make me proud by living the Slight Edge in every area of her life. And to all who know they have greatness deep inside them—and that it’s just a Slight Edge away. A special thanks to those already living the Slight Edge philosophy, many of whose stories you will read in this book. They are the inspiration for this revised edition and are living proof of the power of the Slight Edge. Olsen also takes us through 5 key areas of our lives, including health, personal development, relationships, finances, and life in general. For each of these areas, list down the following:

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Are you building assets and putting money into a long term plan that will create true financial freedom? We all take pretty similar actions each day. Sleep, eat, think, feel , talk and listen. We have relationships and friendships. We have 168 hours a week and if we fill these hours one way or another with a sequence of little actions and tasks.

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If you base your choices on the evidence, on what you can see, you’re sunk. You need to base your choices on your philosophy—on what you know, not what you see. The book was so full of self-evident platitudes that I'm flabbergasted it is as well-rated as it is. Take some of these nuggets of wisdom for example. 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