I can go after anything and know that without a doubt I will be successful, because of The Slight Edge. An amazing and simple strategy anyone can apply, if they are willing. I was very wrong. This book has given me the power of wanting to have some failure in my life, and made me see the point behind the one penny. Before reading this book, I thought being average and unhealthy and overweight was just the life I was meant to live. This book moved me in ways I never thought I could be.
I wish I would have had it when I was The Slight Edge has taught us the principle to be patient with ourselves, to look toward improving 1 percent at a time. I wish someone had taught me this when I was young. I was able to correct my negative outlooks.
It is a must-have and a must-read. Through the Slight Edge mentality, I was able to lose 25 pounds in just under three months. I also convinced my father, 69, who lost 20 pounds in less than three months. My father and I are both testimony to the fact that The Slight Edge works! So it is not willpower that is helping me to lose weight, it is The Slight Edge. What an amazing revelation this has been!
The Slight Edge showed me how to get that last edge I needed! After having it recommended four different times from four different people in one month, I finally purchased it.
It was the first nonfiction book that I can remember not wanting to get to the end of because I loved what I was learning! I came to America 13 years ago at age 18 by myself, with nothing but a dream. I am a college dropout and a former pizza delivery driver. A friend gave me The Slight Edge book and by implementing its simple principles, I am today living the American Dream. After putting the principles of The Slight Edge in place, I have made over a million dollars and it has also helped me in every area of my life.
Easy to do, easy not to do. The examples Jeff Olson provides are easy to understand and truly show how The Slight Edge affects the world. I have quit focusing as much on the goals, and am focusing more on the little things I do every day, since I can control those. As a result, my life is going SO much better than it ever has!
Thanks for refining the processes into an understandable and workable format, Jeff. My wife and I have used it to improve our health and now we have lost over pounds combined!
A blueprint for life can be founded on the Slight Edge philosophy. I found myself discarding old bad habits and replacing them with new positive habits; the result is a successful life.
I was very reckless in my daily decisions, as well as my family positioning. My son noticed a huge change in my character and life perception. I no longer spend money haphazardly and my priorities are up to par. The Slight Edge! Have a savings plan but your bank account just refuses to grow? When applied correctly, The Slight Edge will show you how to get things back on track in your life. The principles have definitely helped my life. I was a broke college student conforming to the masses.
This book has changed the direction of my life dramatically by mentoring me on a new path filled with positive and disciplined philosophy. It was amazing to see results in my business, in my health, and in my personal life. It expanded my vision and took the fog away from my eyes.
The Slight Edge is one of them! The Slight Edge challenges me daily in business and in life. Vanessa R. Booker, Glendale, AZ The Slight Edge principles are so powerfully uplifting and inspirational that they are a catalyst for action. The Slight Edge gives me the momentum to achieve my daily goals in life.
I have started a business, and have gotten in better physical shape. What you do today matters. What do you every day matters. As a former professional athlete, coach for over 25 years and wellness consultant, I strongly recommend The Slight Edge to everyone. If you want success in your health, finances and relationships, embrace this book and create a new mindset, thereby a new future for yourself.
The Slight Edge is empowering! The philosophies and thoughts will hit home with everyone who reads it. I have literally shared the concepts in this book with thousands. Louis, MO The Slight Edge took years of personal-development study and rolled it all into one, easy to understand book. They will understand that it is not all the fancy words many of the television hosts talk about, but the small things Mr. Olson writes about in his book—things that make absolute sense and are easy to do.
I enjoy this book and have plans to make it part of my daily routine. I plan to give my family and myself a slight edge lifestyle. Thanks Mr. Doing the daily activities compounded over time has led me to the kind of success most people only dream about. As a single mother of three boys, it is the principles in this book that have made me over a million dollars in just a few short years, and have allowed me to achieve levels of success in business and in life.
The Slight Edge will help anyone. Practicing the basic philosophies of mastering the mundane has given my entire world a complete paradigm shift. The Slight Edge is a lifer in my arsenal of personal development. It was refreshingly different than other self-help books, as it focused on the hundreds of little daily and weekly decisions that build up to deliver the big hairy goals that one wants in life.
My problem was that I can dream big and expect a lot from myself. But saying I wanted something huge next month and failing month after month just led to reluctance overall.
Instead, after reading The Slight Edge, it was easier for me to focus on the daily schedule and on making daily progress. I have used it to help pay off debt, build my savings and investments, and improve my relationships with my children. 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. This ultimately leads to a very successful and fulfilling life.
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They have all been my own personal Slight Edge. A special thanks to Jim Rohn, whose teachings have had a profound impact on me. 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. 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. Having time before my plane left, I looked around to see if there was a place where I could get my shoes shined.
There was hardly anybody in the airport at that time of the morning. I strolled around. Before long, I found a shoeshine stand. It was open; a woman in her mid to late forties sat in one of the customer chairs, absorbed in a paperback book. She was dressed in black stretch pants, a black apron and a white shirt. She seemed like a nice, solid person. I walked over to her stand. The woman greeted me warmly. She was friendly and happy—not always an easy way to be before the sun comes up, I thought.
Her stand was located right next to a service door through which a constant stream of maintenance men and janitors came and went. Got to be at work by seven, I guessed. As they passed by our shoeshine stand, every one of these men stopped and exchanged greetings with the woman. She knew them all by name and they knew hers, too. It was clear they were all friends. She went to work on my shoes, and we started talking. Her daughter, she told me, had just won a cheerleading contest.
Boy was she proud of her! The girl was hoping to go to a cheerleading camp in Dallas. She loved her family, and for that matter, liked people in general. She made friends easily and was a natural-born communicator. It was also clear that she enjoyed her work. She was well spoken, carried herself well, and was friendly and affable. With different clothes and a little attention to her hair, she could easily pass for a successful businessperson.
There was a little heap of them sitting dog-eared by the wall. What if, instead of spending ten or fifteen minutes here and there, tucked in between customers, sinking into the pages of those forgettable novels, she had spent the last five years reading books that were genuinely life changing? Where would she be today? The shoeshine woman was a hard worker. Good with people. She knew how to read and clearly enjoyed doing so. She was a superb communicator. She obviously had the talent, personality and basic life skills to accomplish a lot more than just living off tips from shining the shoes of people who could afford to buy their kids new uniforms and tickets to Dallas.
Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends, I mused. What if she had spent time around people with significantly higher incomes than her own? What if, instead of hanging out only with her colleagues here in the airport, she had cultivated a different group of friends? If she had, where would she be today? She wanted more, it was plain to see. She reads. She listens. Five years ago? Managing a chain of shoeshine stands is more like it. Would she be having any trouble sending her daughter to Dallas?
What was missing? Feelings welled up in me, a mix of frustration and sadness. I felt for a moment as if I were going to cry, and I wondered, Why are you so moved by all of this?
My dad died when I was eleven; I remember being handed the flag from his casket. My mom held everything together; she was a great, loving mom.
In third grade, my teachers informed my mom that I had a low IQ. I quickly gained a reputation for mischief and troublemaking. While my mom worked her way through the years, I struggled my way through school.
At college, I built on my previous academic career and succeeded in taking my C average to a D average. I did learn one thing, though: I learned that when spring break came, all the students went to Daytona Beach for a week.
I thought I could do one better—I quit school and moved there. At Daytona Beach, I pursued my first profession: I became a beach bum. I lifted weights and chased girls. I let my hair grow long and curly. I got a job at the Orlando Country Club cutting the grass on the golf course.
One day, as I was cutting the greens in the hot Florida sun, I paused to watch the wealthy club members playing golf on the grass I had cut. As I watched them hum to and fro in their zippy golf carts, in dapper fine golf outfits, with their classy golf bags filled with expensive golf clubs, I felt a burning question simmer up inside.
How do they get to have it ten times better than me? Are they ten times better than me? Are they ten times smarter? Or do they work ten times harder? In that instant, standing there sweating in the Florida heat, I came to a moment of decision. I knew that for things to change, I had to change. For things to get better, I had to get better. I left the golf course. I loaded my stereo and clothes into my Dodge Dart slant-six all my possessions fit easily into the back seat with room for a passenger and took off for Albuquerque.
It took me six days just to get to Texas because the car kept overheating. It was the longest trip of my life. I went on to business school and graduated at the very top of my class. I was then recruited by Texas Instruments TI. I hated the idea of sales, knew nothing about it and was terrified of it, but sales it was. I then decided to start a solar energy company. I knew nothing about solar energy; I barely knew whether the sun came up in the east or in the west.
But with four hundred solar companies in the state, New Mexico was the capital of the budding new industry, so ignorance or not, the smart course of action seemed clear. And at first, it looked like I had indeed made the smart decision. Within two years, my company was in the top 20, and eventually we became the fifth-largest solar-air energy company in America.
I was thrilled. I was on top of the world. What I did not yet know was that nothing ever stays the same: everything is in motion. Everything changes. Times changed. Tax laws changed. Our industry was hit hard. Before I knew what was happening, I had lost everything, gone back to zero and below—owing more money than I thought I could ever even hope to make again.
After living as a failure all my life, I woke up one day and came to my senses, went back to college, applied myself like crazy, entered at the bottom and graduated at the top, worked for a major corporation for five years and went to the very top, built my own company in less than five years and went to the top Twelve years of blood and guts, and I was more of a failure than ever.
Was life just inherently unfair? Was that it? Was there simply no rhyme or reason for anything? Was there no point in even trying? That was when I began to examine more carefully what had happened in my life. I had been a college dropout, a beach bum and a complete financial failure. And all of those had been the same person. So what was the difference?
It made no sense. Or did it? For the first time, I began to see that over the years of my roller-coaster career, I had gone through a rich sequence of experiences that held the secrets to success as well as to failure. I had proven to myself, beyond any shadow of doubt, the depths of failure that simple daily errors in judgment could produce.
I had also seen what simple daily disciplines could accomplish. It was time to pull away the veil of circumstance and look right at the heart of the matter.
To go behind the results and examine the actions, and behind the actions to find the attitudes, and behind the attitudes to discover the thinking that held them there.
That was when I began to discover and explore the Slight Edge. Since that time, I have built some extraordinary businesses and earned more money than I ever dreamed of back when I was a corporate manager or solar energy entrepreneur. I could lose it all tomorrow. But there is something I cannot lose, and with that one thing I could start from scratch and build it all back up again.
That one thing is the Slight Edge. Another customer lost in his early morning thoughts. And another job well done. I looked down: I could see my reflection in my shoes. Indeed I am. Thanks very much. I paid her, gave her as big a tip as I could without I hoped having her feel I was being patronizing, and walked away with clean shoes and a heavy heart.
But why the beach bum and not the shoeshine woman? I now walked through a growing throng of travelers as I worked my way toward my gate. I noticed all the faces filing past me. Hardly anyone was smiling. Most of my fellow travelers were trudging with their heads bowed down. I saw bored expressions. Everybody looked so tired. Failing is exhausting.
I heard angry words. I stopped for a cup of coffee and heard a young couple arguing with each other. A burly man scolded his young son to the point of tears. A heavy woman complained about the service, then the prices, then her food, and then started back in on the service again. The other people in line nodded their heads.
A few joined her in a chorus of negativity. Why is everyone so … down? Everything these people need to know to change their lives for the better is already available. All the information they could possibly need to put them on a path of extraordinary success and fulfillment is out there, in books and CDs, DVDs and workshops.
There are people to help them—rich, living resources to guide them, be their mentors, teachers, coaches and allies. It was all already available. I looked around the airport as the early morning rush hour swelled its ranks of busy, hurrying, scowling, unhappy people shambling past with no spark in their faces, no bounce in their step.
I wished I could somehow address them all, that I could touch all their lives with my silent soliloquy. If only you were aware of the Slight Edge. If only you knew what it was doing in your life and how easy it is to have the Slight Edge working for you—instead of against you. If only you were making the right choices, doing those simple, little disciplines that would change your life for the better forever … where would you be five years from today?
If only you learned to recognize the Slight Edge If only But it was only in my head. Not a soul heard my words … nobody, that is, but me. That day, on the plane, I started writing this book. The Slight Edge is not just more good information.
Nobody needs that. Once you got it, then you will discover how your philosophy Plus, Jeff shares with you "the key" that will make all of the other self-help information you read, watch and hear actually work in your life!
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Tags: orthe slight edge slight edgeas edge theslightjeff olson wealth success progress i pressure i important success principles personaldevelopment. Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and Lead with LUV This fast-moving book teaches you one of the most powerful, practical and important success principles ever discovered. Mike Bishop, Wilsonville, OR 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.
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Michael Clouse, Seattle, WA This book is a treasure and i use it in every aspect of my lifebusiness, personal, and fun! Jane Lehman, Lexington, MI i use this philosophy throughout my day. Pedro Garcia, Middletown, NY i, like many people, get frustrated when i do not see quick results.
Christopher Mangano, Boynton Beach, FL I find the book to be one of the best diet books I have ever read, and I have read quite a few of them through the last few years. Julie Jonak, Houston, TX i have read numerous personal-development books through the years, and by far, this is one of the best!
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