The-Slight-Edge

54 The Slight Edge
The Slight Edge is all about living in the moment.
For me personally, it is perhaps the hardest lesson to
learn about the Slight Edge: you can’t find it in the
past or the future, only right here, right now.
The reason Ekhart Tolle’s modest little 1997 book on enlightenment, The
Power of Now, took the marketplace by storm, selling over two million copies
in thirty languages, is that his core message is one that everyone knows they
need to hear: your life exists only in the moment. But you can’t really absorb or
live that truth through reading a book; you absorb and live that truth simply
by being fully in the process of living your life—not regretting the past, not
dreading the future.
The Slight Edge is about your awareness. It is about you making the right
choices, the choices that serve you and empower you, starting right now and
continuing for the rest of your life, and learning to make them effortlessly.
This book is about putting the Slight Edge to work for you, instead of
against you.
It’s easy to do. And it’s easy not to do. And if you don’t do it, it won’t kill
you or destroy your chances for success today. But that simple error in judgment,
compounded over time, will kill your chances for success. It will take you down
and out of your life forever. And that choice is always yours.
The choice of simple things, and the wisdom to make that choice. The
wealthy man was right: the third gift is one that you can only claim; it’s something
nobody can give you.
It’s also something no one can take away from you.
KEY POINTS OF CHAPTER 3
The most powerful force for change is time. Position your daily actions so time
is working for instead of against you. Because time will either promote you or expose
you. What keeps you on the path is your Slight Edge philosophy which includes your
understanding of the secret of time. Knowing that if I stay on this path long enough
I will get the results I want.
In today’s world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest. The
step we keep overlooking is the step of cultivating. And that, unlike planting and
harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time. The right choices
you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher up the success curve.