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40 The Slight Edge
“But what if I’m not twenty-four—what if I’m forty-four? Or sixty-four?
Does that mean I’ve missed the boat—are you saying it’s too late for me?”
Not at all. You’re never too old, and it’s never too late, to start applying Slight
Edge tactics to achieve your dreams, financial and otherwise. In fact, best-selling
author David Bach has written an excellent book titled Start Late, Finish Rich,
addressing exactly that issue. Like all the other books I list in the Appendix, it’s
a great companion to The Slight Edge. My point is simply that there is a cost
to waiting.
It’s never too late to start.
It’s always too late to wait.
Just ask Ramona B. Jenkins of Baltimore, a fan of The Slight Edge:
Before reading The Slight Edge, money management wasn’t one of my strong
suits. After reading and re-reading the book several times, I began depositing a
designated amount from each paycheck into a savings account, which soon became a
compound interest-bearing account. It has been amazing to see the results of a simple
decision to consistently save.
I hope like Ramona you decide to make a Slight Edge commitment to your
financial future.
What You Do Matters
I am as passionate about personal health and fitness as I am about financial
health. I believe your health is your most prized possession. It amazes me how
many people pay no attention to their health.
Do you know anyone who would eat a quart of Crisco or a pound of butter
a day? Hey, my cholesterol’s down to 239, I need to get it up over 400. There are
still a few arteries flowing and I need to get ’em all clogged, right now, today! Does
anyone believe that’s the way to good health? Of course not. Then why do we
act like we do?
You know what you’re supposed to eat. We all do. Fresh fruits and
vegetables, complex carbs, salads, whole foods, lean meats, more fish and
poultry than beef ... You know it, I know it, we all know it. So why do so many of
us still go out and chow down cheeseburgers and fries every day?
I’ll tell you why: because it won’t kill us. Not today.
If you ate a cheeseburger and immediately suffered a near-fatal heart attack,
would you ever go near a cheeseburger again? I doubt it. It may take twenty or
thirty years, but when you add up the compounded interest on all that high-fat,