The-Slight-Edge

104 The Slight Edge
i went on to make public appearances, win contests and i eventually resumed
business. i am a loving single mother of 11-year-old identical twin sons. i was in my
wheelchair when i had my twins and raised them for many years from the wheel
chair. i had many reasons to blame others or circumstances throughout my life,
but i chose to take responsibility for my future no matter what circumstances were
presented to me.
By doing the things that are easy to do, yet make no difference in the act of
doing them over a long period of time, i was able to, as a single mother, become
a successful business owner, servant leader, speaker and friend, as well as go from
wheel-chair bound to Ms. America ® 2011!
A true testimony to the Slight Edge!
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Now, clear your mind, walk around a minute, then come back and do the
second half: Take the same comfortable, seated position, only tilt your head up so
you’re looking at the ceiling. Spend the next five minutes thinking about your life.
Anything and everything, whatever that means to you, just think about your life.
Go ahead and do that now ...
I don’t know what results you had, but here’s what most people find: when
looking down, it’s pretty hard not to start thinking about the past. When gazing
upward, it’s pretty hard not to start thinking about the future.
I can promise you, that morning in the Phoenix airport, every single person
I saw rushing around was looking either straight ahead, or down!
People on the failure curve tend to focus on their past—and it pulls them
down. People on the success curve focus on their future—and it pulls them up.
People on the success curve don’t ignore the past, but they use it as a tool,
one of many with which they build their futures. People who live on the failure
curve use the past as a weapon with which they bludgeon themselves and the
people around them. Regrets, recriminations, remorse and retribution.
It seems most people live with one foot in the past,
saying “Only if things had been different, I would
be successful.” And the other foot in the future,
saying “When this or that happens I will be happy/