The-Slight-Edge

Two life Paths 109
If you don’t tell the truth about where you really are in your life—right
now—then you’re cheating yourself out of an extraordinary opportunity.
Because right now, this very minute, can be the time
you look back on as the moment your life changed
for the better—forever!
Life is not a practice session; there’s no dress rehearsal. This is it. This is for
real. So, play straight and true with yourself. Take a look at your life and tell the
truth about where you really are at.
Do this exercise with me right now. Take a pencil (not a pen—remember,
everything changes) and put a check in the UP or DOWN box next to each area
of your life as listed below. Which way are you going?
UP
DOWN
Your health ______ ______
Your personal development ______ ______
Your relationships ______ ______
Your life itself ______ ______
Where are you? Which side of the line do you fall on in each area of your life?
If you have more “down” checks than “up,” I have two things to say: the first
is thank you for being honest! And the second is, don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Remember, gravity has been pulling you down since day one. Remember that
you’ve heard eight no’s for every yes, and eleven negative comments for every
positive one! And those no’s and negatives are compounding with the force of the
water hyacinth, threatening to cover the surface of your mind with a suffocating
weed that blots out all possibility of sunlight reaching the life that’s wanting to
thrive there. The one or two “no’s” didn’t kill you—but those 40,000 can sure do
some serious damage to your sense of possibility.
That’s the Slight Edge working against you.
The Good News
Now, here’s the good news: where you are right now is poised in the present,
with the past stretching behind you and the future lying ahead. You cannot
change the past. You can absolutely change the future.
Are you heading up, or heading down? Right at
this moment, at this exact juncture in your life, you