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34 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong><br />
Why is it some people never seem to manage the time to stay in shape, while<br />
others run a few miles each day even though their lives are just as busy? Why are<br />
some people digging deeper and deeper into debt, while others just keep earning<br />
more money?<br />
Why is it that some people seem to make dream after dream come true, while<br />
others spend their lives building someone else’s dream? Why are some people<br />
successful, and some people failures?<br />
What’s the difference—really?<br />
What Do Successful People Do?<br />
You’ve probably read and heard lots of statistics. Happy versus unhappy<br />
marriages, health versus illness, how many retirees barely survive on fixed<br />
incomes versus how many reach their golden years in comfort and security.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a hundred and one ways to measure it, but if you simply look around<br />
you, you can see it: most of us aren’t making it.<br />
My observation is that about one person in twenty is achieving a significant<br />
measure of his or her goals in life: financial, professional, personal, marital,<br />
spiritual, in terms of health, in whatever terms you want to look at. Ninety-five<br />
percent are either failing or falling short.<br />
What are the five percent doing that the ninety-five percent are not?<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is only one difference. It is not heredity, education, looks, talent or<br />
inheritance. It is not “preparedness meeting opportunity,” and it’s not chance,<br />
either. <strong>The</strong>y all understand the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> and how it is working for or<br />
against them.<br />
If you will learn to understand and apply the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong>, I will guarantee<br />
you that in time—and chances are, less time than you would imagine—you will<br />
have what you desire. You will be among the five percent. You will be successful.<br />
And you will achieve those aims, goals and dreams by doing simple things.<br />
A bold claim, I know, and I make it only because I know it’s true—I’ve seen<br />
it too many times to doubt it. If you learn to understand and apply the <strong>Slight</strong><br />
<strong>Edge</strong>, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly<br />
insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex<br />
or difficult. And those actions will create your success.<br />
That’s what successful people do: simple things<br />
that are easy to do.
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