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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;

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