The-Slight-Edge
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
36 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong><br />
independent. It’s easy to have a happy family and a life rich with meaningful<br />
friendships.<br />
Tapping into the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> means doing things that are easy. Simple little<br />
disciplines that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest<br />
accomplishments.<br />
It’s easy to have everything you ever wanted in your life. Every action you<br />
need to take to make any and all of your dreams come true is easy. So why is it,<br />
then, that the masses are unhappy, unhealthy and financially bound?<br />
Every action that any of these goals requires is easy to do. Here’s the<br />
problem: every action that is easy to do, is also easy<br />
not to do.<br />
Why are these simple yet crucial things easy not to do? Because if you don’t<br />
do them, they won’t kill you ... at least, not today. You won’t suffer, or fail or blow<br />
it—today. Something is easy not to do when it won’t bankrupt you, destroy your<br />
career, ruin your relationships or wreck your health—today.<br />
What’s more, not doing it is usually more comfortable than doing it would<br />
be. But that simple, seemingly insignificant error in judgment, compounded<br />
over time, will kill you. It will destroy you and ruin your chances for success. You<br />
can count on it. It’s the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong>.<br />
That’s the choice you face every day, every hour:<br />
A simple, positive action, repeated over time.<br />
A simple error in judgment, repeated over time.<br />
You can always count on the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong>. And unless you make it work for<br />
you, the <strong>Slight</strong> <strong>Edge</strong> will work against you.<br />
Invisible Results<br />
If I could have had a magic wand that day in the Phoenix airport as I sat<br />
thinking and having my shoes shined, one of the first things I would have done<br />
would have been to wave it at the little pile of paperbacks. I would have waved the<br />
wand and Presto! Now there would be a little reading table piled with Napoleon<br />
Hill, James Allen, Stephen Covey and George S. Clason. Because the simple<br />
truth is, how you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how<br />
you feed your body.<br />
Seeing how naturally open-minded and intellectually curious the shoeshine<br />
woman was, I have no doubt she would have dove into any one of these books<br />
with gusto.<br />
But then we would have run into a problem.
Change language