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ChAPTER 11<br />
Turning Your Dreams into Reality<br />
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.<br />
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.<br />
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are entire books written about how to set, pursue and achieve your<br />
goals, and some of them are actually pretty good. You may or may not need an<br />
entire book; that’s up to you. I like to keep things as simple as possible, because<br />
simple is usually far more effective—and most importantly, simple is what works<br />
best with the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong>. Remember “easy to do,” and you won’t stray far from<br />
having your hands on the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong>.<br />
While everyone has a somewhat different approach to goal setting, there<br />
are four simple and fundamental steps you need to take for your dreams to turn<br />
into reality. Everyone who has ever created success, whether consciously or not,<br />
whether using this specific language or not, has gone through these four steps.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are the four universal truths of reaching for a big dream.<br />
For a goal to come true:<br />
You must write it down, make it specific and give it a deadline.<br />
You must have a plan to start with.<br />
You must understand and pay the price.<br />
You must look at it every day;