The-Slight-Edge

ChAPTER 4
You have to Start with a Penny
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a small step.
— Lao Tzu
I’ve presented the story of the penny doubled every day to hundreds and
hundreds of audiences, and often I hear a comment like this:
Wow, that’s amazing ... to think that you could start with nothing and build
a fortune!
That’s not quite accurate: you don’t start with nothing. You
start with a penny.
No big deal, I mean, of course, you start with a penny, but, you know, it’s
basically starting with nothing.
No, it’s not: it’s starting with a penny. It may seem like an insignificant
difference (although you’re probably starting to have a little bit different view of
the word “insignificant”). The truth is, it makes all the difference.
To accomplish anything worth accomplishing, to create success, to achieve
your dreams, you don’t have to do impossible, extraordinary, superhuman
things. But you have to do something. You have to start with a penny.
Success doesn’t come from nowhere; it can’t be conjured up out of thin air. It
comes from a very small, tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. That
beginning is the thing people miss, the thing they don’t see. And they don’t see it
because it’s so tiny, it’s almost invisible.