For the slight edge to work, you have to do something, and keep doing it until you succeed. You need to follow the Plant-Cultivate-Harvest cycle . However, many people either expect something from nothing, or they want to go directly from plant to harvest. The Slight Edge is constantly at work; once you make a firm decision to step onto the upper curve and consistently apply the 7 Slight Edge principles, you can turn any area of your life around in a few years. In fact, genuine success in any one area of your life tends to spread to other areas. 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. 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.

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That’s the only reason our lives follow that roller coaster. It’s that simple. As soon as we get away from failure and up past the line of survival, we quit doing the things that got us there. You know what that means? It means you already know how to do everything it takes to make you an outrageous success. That’s how you’ve survived up to this point. And if you can survive, then you can succeed.Look at them daily: You should look at the list of goals every day—either right when you wake up or right before bed—and ask yourself if you’ve done anything toward those goals that day. If not, why not? What could you do differently tomorrow?

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If you read my summary, you really don’t need to read the book. Despite the audiobook not being very long (~3 hours), it was still too long as the ideas aren’t all that original. There’s material in the book from Jim Rohn (what’s easy to do is easy not to do). The concept the author espouses is covered in Darren Hardy’s book “ The Compound Effect.” Darren made the same exact claim Jeff makes in the Slight Edge. Bottom line, there’s nothing really new here, but as it is with many self-help books, maybe this book contains the example or story that flips the switch for you and actually gets you to act on the thing you know you should do. Earlier in this book you walked through a brief exercise where you assessed your life as being on the success curve or failure curve in these seven specific areas. Now let’s revisit them, only this time I’m going to ask you to make a simple roadmap for each one, consisting of three elements: The Superachiever That semester, for the first time in my life, I got straight A’s. I went on to business school and graduated at the very top of my class. Fresh out of college, I Beyond simply being a useful way to keep yourself inspired on your path to success, putting your vision and goals on paper has other neurological benefits:It’s the Little Things That Matter As an actress living in New York, it is so easy to get overwhelmed by everything that comes with this competitive business. The Slight Edge helped me to understand that the small choices I make every moment of every day make a huge impact on my life. Living in a society with so much emphasis on success, I found that The Slight Edge redefined what success is for me. It helps me to take the next step forward in my everyday life and do the next right thing. I know those steps will ultimately lead to a very successful and fulfilling life. Essential Points from Chapter 12 The wisest investment you can make is to invest in your own continuous learning and development. Learning by studying and learning by doing—book smarts and street smarts—are the two essential pistons of the engine of learning. On the path to a goal you will be off-course most of the time. Which means the only way to reach a goal is through constant and continuous course correction. Most of your life—99.99 percent—is made up of things you do an automatic pilot. Which means it’s essential that you take charge of your automatic pilot’s training Momentum 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. Is the number of friends in your life, meaningful exchanges with people, mutually enriching events growing each year? We are all capable of being winners in life. And yes that includes you. Because the slight edge is always working. Working for you or against you. It is working now and always will be.

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Our philosophies shape our attitudes, actions and results, which in turn shape our lives. The Slight Edge is a philosophy; it represents a way of thinking: what we know, how we hold that knowledge, and what we do. One simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each and every day from now on. Final Thoughts Two Life Paths.........................................................................................95 Profoundly simple and just as powerful. The sort of wisdom you can actually apply in everyday life. Nike simplified it for the MTV generation (“Just do it”), but I like the Emerson version better, and we’ll be using it a good deal later on when we talk about applying the Slight Edge to your life. come dangerously close to losing touch with reality and believing we have access to instant life. Where’s the Drama?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. 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, 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.