The-Slight-Edge

is Time on Your Side? 49
The right choices you make today, compounded
over time, will take you higher and higher up the
success curve of this real-time movie called “your life.”
The wrong choices you make today, compounded over time, will absolutely,
positively and inevitably take you down and out.
Either way, there will be dramatic results, just like in a movie. Unlike a
movie, it will just take time before you see them.
Jerry Sanchez, of El Paso, Texas understands fully that making the right
choices daily can add up to good things:
After reading The Slight Edge, I decided to apply it to business (my
job). I didn’t do anything drastic, or make any major changes in my life. I
simply began to read 10 pages of a good book per day. I also started to think
before I made a decision. I would ask myself, Is this decision going to help
me or hurt me? It was the day-to-day decisions that transformed everything
in my life. After a year and a half of putting this in place, I got the position
I always wanted at work, and an increase of $12,000 a year.
I had worked for the company six years before putting the principles of
The Slight Edge in place. The greatest joy was when my boss called me into
his office, and said that I had changed over the last two years. I told him
that I didn’t notice, and he told me that everyone else had!
Making the Choice to Make the Choice
For twenty-one years, the wealthy man gave his sons everything he had,
including all his love, all his care and a magnificent place to live. But when they
turned twenty-one, he gave them the most valuable gift of all. He gave them
a choice.
That most valuable gift of all is a gift that you
always have. You always have a choice.
No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where
you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start
fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now.
But you need to have faith in the process, because you won’t see it happening
at first.
If you base your choices on the evidence, on what you can see, you’re sunk.
You need to base your choices on your philosophy—on what you know, not what
you see.