"Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do. It's easy to become healthy, fit and vibrant. It's easy to become financially independent. It's easy to have a happy family and a life rich with meaningful friendships." (p. 55)
However, it is just as easy to not do the things that will transform your life. I began reading The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson about two weeks ago. Truth be told, I'm not even finished the book yet, but I have already taken away a lot of good points that are worth sharing.
It's easy to set your alarm for 5:00 a.m. to workout before work, but it's also easy to hit the snooze button until you have just enough time to rush out the door.
It's easy to choose an apple instead of a doughnut for your morning snack.
It's easy to put money in a savings account a little at a time until you have the money to purchase the item that you want, but it's just as easy, if not easier, to put the purchase on your credit card.
"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." (p. 74)
In order to have the slight edge you need to make the correct choices and continue to make the correct choices after you have reached your first goal. How often have you lost 5 - 10 pounds of weight by watching what you eat and exercising frequently only to quickly gain that weight back because once you've reached your goal you stopped doing the things that got you to where you wanted to be.
The slight edge seems like such an easy thing to do. Olson claims that by following the slight edge he has become the successful person that he is today. He also claims that having the slight edge is easy; you just have to commit to it.
"Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time. No success is immediate or instantaneous; no collapse is sudden or precipitous. They are both products of the slight edge." (p. 85)
Do I know if the slight edge going to work for me? No...
But will it hurt me to give the slight edge a try? No...
"How you realize happiness is by doing some simple things, and doing them every day." (p. 96)
Who doesn't want to realize happiness? It's definitely worth a shot and I'm beginning my slight edge today! Who's joining me?
I found my copy of The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson on amazon.com.
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