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The Secret of Easy Things 35
Simple Things
“Wait a minute. How are these simple, everyday actions supposed to create
all this wonderful happiness, health and success for me, if they’re all easy to do—
if anyone could do them? If these are things anyone can do, why are only five
percent successful?”
Excellent question. Because they’re all also easy not to
do—and while anyone could do them, most won’t.
Fundamentally, we all take pretty much the same actions every day. We eat,
sleep, think, feel, talk and listen. We have relationships and friendships. We each
have twenty-four hours a day, 8,760 hours a year, and we each fill these hours one
way or the other with a sequence of little tasks and actions, any one of which is
seemingly insignificant.
Gold medal marathon runners eat and sleep. So do people who are thirty
pounds overweight. Successful entrepreneurs think and feel and have relationships
with other people. So do those who are unemployed or even living on the streets.
People who make lots of money read books. People who are broke read books, too.
The successful and unsuccessful both do the same basic things in their lives,
day in and day out. Yet the things successful people do take them to the top, while
the things unsuccessful people do take them down and out.
So what’s the difference? The difference is their awareness, understanding
and use of the Slight Edge in their life and work.
Successful winners understand the Slight Edge.
Unsuccessful people do not.
The difference that will make all the difference between success and failure,
between achieving the quality of life you want and settling for less than you desire
and deserve, lies one hundred percent in which of those little, “insignificant”
actions you choose to do. This is why we are all capable of doing what it takes to
be successful. We are all capable of being winners ... and yes, that includes you.
The Slight Edge is always working. For you or against you, the Slight Edge
is already, always at work in all our lives. The purpose of this book is to help you
become aware of it—how it is working in your life, every day, every hour, every
moment, in every step you take and every choice you make.
Easy to Do ... Easy Not to Do
Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do.
It’s easy to become healthy, fit and vibrant. It’s easy to become financially