The-Slight-Edge

Two life Paths 107
On which side of the Slight Edge curve are you standing right now? Which
way are you headed? Are you one of the five-percenters, one of those individuals
living on the success curve and going up—or are you among the great majority,
the ninety-five percenters on the failure curve and sliding down?
Not sure? Perhaps, in the middle, you say? Sorry, there is no middle. You
are either going up or going down. The early part of both curves are fairly flat,
so it can certainly look like you’re moving along on a nice, even keel, heading
neither up nor down. But appearances can be deceiving. (And usually are.) In a
constantly and rapidly changing world like ours, you simply cannot remain the
same as you were yesterday. You are in motion—you have no choice in that.
But in which direction? You have total choice in that.
You are either improving or diminishing in personal and professional value.
Your relationships are growing deeper and richer, or growing more stale and
distant. You are learning more and more about the truths of life, or slipping
deeper and deeper into denial about the truths of life. You are building your
long-term security and financial freedom, or dismantling it. And your health is
building day by day ... or ebbing slowly away.
There is no treading water in life, no running in place, because everything is
in motion. If you’re not improving, enriching, building, unfolding, if you’re not
adding assets to your personal and professional value every day—then you’re
headed down the curve.
So, let’s take an honest look at your life. Where are you right now?
Let’s take an honest look at your health.
Are you building it every day? The way you eat, the way you exercise, the
kind of schedule you keep, the ways in which you take care of yourself—are all
these building a greater feeling of health and vibrancy every day? Or does it
feel like you’re making more and more withdrawals from your life-energy bank
account, and the balance is steadily decreasing?
Is your health on the success curve or failure curve?
Let’s take an honest look at your personal development.
Are you learning more about yourself, about the world around you, and
about how life works every day? Are you learning new skills and sharpening old
ones? Are you becoming a more capable person, one more interesting to know
and valuable to be around? Or is your character being gradually etched with the
age-lines of disappointment, disillusionment, boredom and bitterness?
Is your personal development on the success curve or the failure curve?
Let’s take an honest look at your relationships.