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You have to Start with a Penny 59
The Slight Edge reader James Paris of Daytona Beach, Florida, knows the
power of the penny.
Six years ago I learned that my accountant had embezzled $2 million
from our company. I ended up in bankruptcy and languished in depression
for five years. About six months ago I purchased The Slight Edge and I
was able to find the motivation to just take a small step every day toward
rebuilding my life.
Now I am back on TV and radio and writing again. I have rebuilt
my website ChristianMoney.com and have had multiple financial
breakthroughs. I realized that I could not change my past but that I could
rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right
direction, just like the power of the penny. In just a few months I am well
on the way to regaining the success I had prior to losing everything.
Let’s do one more bit of time travel. There was a time, a certain number of
years ago, when a tiny blob of gelatin began to pulse with hidden potential. It
was barely more than a speck of matter, about the thickness of a dollar bill, at the
very threshold of human sight: any smaller and it would have been invisible to
the naked eye.
Though tiny, this insignificant little dot of matter (you could have fit about
twenty of them on the head of a pin) contained chemical instructions that, if
printed out, would have filled more than 500,000 pages; in fact, it was among the
most organized, complex structures in the universe. Over the next nine months
of Slight Edge compounding, this little blob of gelatin would blossom into over
thirty trillion cells before being born into the open air ... and letting out a wail as
it took its first breath.
It would become you.
You started as a penny.
A Penny for Your Thoughts ...
Now imagine that instead of a penny doubling every day, it’s your health
that you’re increasing by one penny’s worth ... and then by two pennies, and
then four.
If you could come up with something that would make you feel one penny’s
worth better, could you do that every day? Of course. A little moderate exercise,
a brisk one-mile walk, a quarter of an hour on a treadmill, not going that fast. Get
your heart rate up slightly, no big deal.
And your reward? When you get up the next morning, do you feel better?