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The Slight Edge and Your Personal Development
You will become as small as your controlling desire,
or as great as your dominant aspiration.
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
If you could wave a magic wand and have either a million dollars in the bank
or a million-dollar mindset, which would you choose? I wouldn’t hesitate for an
instant: I’d rather be worth it than have it. Why? Because if I’m penniless but
I have a million-dollar mindset, then it won’t be long before I have the million
dollars. But even if I don’t have a million-dollar mindset, even with a cool million
in the bank, it won’t be long before I’m back to being penniless again!
Your income will never long exceed your own level of personal development.
It may take a jump through happy circumstance or a lucky break—but if your own
development does not quickly rise to meet that new level, it will quickly bounce
back to the level where your personal development limits it, sure as if it were on a
rubber band.
The same is true of your health; and of your relationships; and of your career;
and of every aspect of your life. Over the long term, the limiting factor is never
circumstance or fate; the limiting factor is always you. In the same way, and for the
same reasons, the limitless scope of possibilities is also defined by one factor: you.
You already know of my passion for this area, and my number one Slight
Edge recommendation. I teach everyone I work with to read at least ten pages
of a powerful, life-transforming book each and every day. At the back of this
book, I provide a list of some of my favorites; please add to it. Building your
own personal self-improvement library may be the single most valuable and
important investment (after your personal health) that you can make.
In addition to reading ten pages a day, I also teach people to listen to a selfimprovement
CD or audio download for at least fifteen minutes every day. The
average person spends between 250 and 350 hours every year driving to and from
this place and that. That’s about forty minutes to an hour each and every day.
If you spend that time listening to educational and self-improvement material,
you’ll have the equivalent of a Ph.D. on any subject you choose in just a few
years. That’s the Slight Edge.
When you’re in your car, you can listen to music; but why build Kenney
Chesney’s dream (even though he is my favorite!) or Taylor Swift’s dream
when you could be building your own? Listen to Jim Rohn’s audio programs;
he’s a master at helping you build your dreams. Turn your car into