I will definitely recommend this book to self help, self help lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, The Slight Edge pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Hot Hunters Trail by Melissa F. But something odd then happened He just sat exactly where he was. Ever so tentatively, he stretched out a foot The Choice A wealthy man nearing the end of his days summoned his twin sons to his bedside.
Before he died, he told them, he wanted to pass on to them the opportunity to experience the richness of life that he had enjoyed for his many years on earth. But there are three treasures I have had the good fortune to experience in my life, and it is my fondest wish, my dying wish, that you would both have these three treasures.
I have been giving it to you both since you were born, and die in peace knowing that you both already have it in abundance. For some, it never runs out, while for others, it constantly runs out. This gift I give you now, but whether or not you keep it will be up to you.
I have been showing it to you both your entire lives, but cannot say whether or not you have gained it. This gift I cannot give you, but I can give you an opportunity to see it one last time before I die. Do you know what the first gift is? Easy to give, and it never runs out The first gift is love! The boy was right. They again became quiet with thought. Easy to give, but not always easy to have Is the second gift money?
This time both boys remained buried in thought. Neither could come up with an answer. The father smiled again, a little sadly this time.
He lifted a beautiful lacquer box from the bedside table onto his lap, opened it and looked inside. I will no longer be with you, for my life has run its course.
On that day, thirty-one days from now, I have instructed my most trusted advisor to execute a document that will bequeath my home, my treasury, my estate—all that I possess—to the good people of this land, who have treated me with kindness all these years. This place, which has been our home together for these twenty-one years, will become a public trust. I will be well on my way to the next world, and the two of you will set off to make your way in this one.
My last gift to you, on the day of your departure, will be a purse to finance your adventures. One million dollars. In the other hand, he held a shiny new copper penny. However, if you choose the penny, my treasury director has instructions to double the contents of your purse every day. You each have the same choice to make.
Whatever you do not take, I will return to my treasury to add to my estate. Tomorrow morning, come back and tell me your choice.
Which should I take? What is the lesson? He had made his decision before his father had finished the sentence. Now he was making careful plans for what to do for the next thirtyone days.
When morning came, the second boy sprang into action. After securing the million in cash from his father, he hired a sharp consultant and a manager to help him execute his carefully wrought plan. They rented out a hotel suite, in which they conducted exhaustive, back-to-back interviews for the next six days.
By week three, the best plans had been selected, winnowed, examined, combed, explored, game-theoried, road-tested, computer-simulated and dissected. Off they went, into the battlefields of commerce and speculation. The boy spent the next few days keeping in close contact with his far-flung financial team by telephone; but by mid-week, it seemed clear that things were well in hand and he was not needed. He decided to pay a visit to his brother, whom he had not seen since breakfast on the morning after that long and sleepless night.
After that excited breakfast, the first boy had also paid a visit to his father, but without explaining why, he announced that he had made the second choice.
He had taken the penny, left it in the purse, then returned to his room and began reading from one of his favorite books. The second day, he visited again, and was allowed to peek into the purse: the shiny new penny had been joined by a companion. On the third day, he found four pennies. On the fourth, there were eight, and on the fifth, sixteen, then thirty-two.
By the end of week two—with nearly half the month gone—his piles of pennies had swelled to just shy of ninety dollars Later that week, the wealthy man called his sons to him one more time and spent several hours with them, sharing memories and telling stories. That night, the old man died peacefully in his sleep. The markets, it seemed, had gone a bit soft. Taken a bit of a tumble, actually. The team had acted quickly and salvaged what they could, but their earlier rosy projections would most certainly need to be revised downward.
The boy thanked them for their vigilance, and waited, fretting and anxious. At the close of the week, the team brought mixed news. Some investments had performed quite well, others had suffered. All in all, the boy had made a modest gain: starting with his one million in cash, his team had succeeded in parleying that into nearly one and a half million. Unfortunately, his expenses, including their commissions, tax, bills for the hotel suite, broker fees and the rest, came to just over half a million.
The boy had ended the month with just a bit less than he started! On day 29, the two-and-a-half million mark. Yesterday, on day 30, it had doubled to more than five million! A Question Two boys. Two frogs. Two powerful choices. Riches or poverty. Life or death.
You are making those same choices, every day, every hour, and the choices you make are spreading out through your life, just like the water hyacinth. You may not see the results today, or tomorrow, or even next year. In fact, by the time you do finally see the results, the process will probably be so far along that the surface of the pond will be completely covered. The question is, covered with what? When the wealthy man spoke to his sons, the second boy thought he was offering them a choice of which money to take.
But the first boy listened more carefully. He remembered that money was only the second gift. He understood that the choice was not whether to take the penny or the sheaf of bills—the choice was whether or not to take the third gift. The lesson was not about money: it was about wisdom. It was a lesson about compound interest, leverage, geometric progression and growth. It was a lesson about the Slight Edge. The choice the wealthy man offered his two sons is the same choice the world offers you, every day, every hour: sickness or health; sinking poverty or abundant wealth; deepening loneliness and alienation or a rich and growing circle of friends.
It will keep you paddling until your cream becomes butter. It will give you the power to choose what to plant in your life, so that you will end up completely blanketing the surface of the pond with the blossoms of your choice. One wins, the other does not. They have all had the exact same opportunity. But the great majority of them, faced with exactly the same opportunities, have gone nowhere.
Nor is it timing, nor fate. Actually, it was quite the opposite. In every case, I did the exact same thing every time, using ridiculously simple strategies made up of ridiculously simple lists of ridiculously simple actions. The strategies I used—none of them invented or devised by me, incidentally—are so simple that if you and I sat down together in a room for twenty minutes, I could show you exactly what I did to create four different, separate, independent multimillion-dollar organizations—and teach you how to do the exact same thing.
In twenty minutes. Why not? Because how to do it is not the issue. People everywhere are clamoring for the formula, the secret, the path to improve their lives. Tell me how you did this, so I can do it, too. Give me the definitive plan. Tell me how to be healthy. Tell me how to be rich. Tell me how to be happy. Tell me, tell me, tell me How to do it is not the issue. And most of us are none of those things. We already have enough of those—maybe more than enough.
Because what you need to transform your life is not more information. It may work for me, but it may not be the how-to that works for you. There is a secret that, once you know it, will cause you to find those answers, apply them, live them, and achieve those results you want. The secret ingredient is your philosophy. The secret is to change the way you think.
It simply means changing your thinking. Your philosophy. So, what I need is an attitude adjustment Your emotions change. You feel like doing your twenty minutes on the treadmill. To find the path to success, you have to back up one more step.
Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold it, and how it affects what you do. Yes, you have to know the winning how-to actions, and you have to possess the winning attitudes—but what generates all that and keeps it all in place is your philosophy. A negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turn into negative results, which turn into a negative lifestyle.
Life Wisdom What do I mean by philosophy? Not something lofty or abstract; not something you need to go to graduate school or learn Greek to understand. I mean something so simple, so basic, a six-year-old child can understand it. Here is an example.
Do the thing, and you shall have the power. The sort of wisdom you can actually apply in everyday life. There are two prevalent types of attitudes: entitled and value-driven. Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold what you know, and how it affects what you do.
Watson, Sr. It had better be an option! Because not only did Babe Ruth set a world record for home runs, he also led the league in strikeouts. The next two years he grew four inches, honed his game … and the rest, as they say, is history. Abraham Lincoln had an extraordinary record of lost elections and publicoffice failures over the course of his career.
For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. In his efforts to find a stable filament to make his electric light bulb invention work, he tried out thousands of different versions and every single one failed. The Slight Edge Philosophy Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions.
By and large, people are looking in the wrong places. They happen through the Slight Edge. The purpose of this book is to have you understand the Slight Edge philosophy, to make it part of how you see the world and how you live your life every day. To understand patience; to understand that little steps, compounded, do make a difference. That they not only make a difference—they make all the difference.
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest. Then go back regularly and read through just those highlighted sections: your own personal guide to the Slight Edge philosophy. The Slight Edge is also the philosophy embodied in the three stories you read in the beginning of this book. It is understanding the tremendous potential of something as seemingly insignificant as a penny.
It is knowing how to recognize and harness the power of the water hyacinth. Just Add Life and Stir The Slight Edge will help you apply all the information you learn from the health book, the sales book, the investment book, the positive attitude book. The Slight Edge is the book you need to read, highlight and reread along with your fitness class, your career planning, your continuing education and pursuit of new skills.
The Slight Edge will prepare you to be able to absorb all that other information, guidance and education from all those other books, classes, situations and experiences. Whatever your deepest desires are in life, I want you to have them, and I know you can.
But you need a place to start. The Slight Edge is that starting point. Key Points of Chapter 1 People everywhere are clamoring for the formula, the secret ingredient, the path to improve their lives.
The secret ingredient is your philosophy: what you know, how you hold it and how it affects what you do. They not only make a difference—they make all the difference. Apply the Slight Edge Principles and Stir! I have used the principles of the Slight Edge to improve my physical fitness, starting with one push-up and one sit-up a day, adding another each day and building to over per day.
Chunking every project into annual goals, monthly outcomes, weekly agendas and daily disciplines has helped me accomplish massive improvements in every area of life from health to relationships, to communication skills, to finances. By identifying the daily disciplines in every area of life, I was able to move from cancer to outstanding health; from non-communication with siblings to best friends; from struggling as a single mom to creating a net worth of over 1 million dollars! The Slight Edge principles, compounded over time, will make a massive shift in any area we choose.
I have quit focusing as much on the goals, and am focusing more on the little thin gs I do every day, since I can control those. As a fath of om isd w imparting the. You know whom I mean: that woman with the easy, engaging smile, the one who makes you feel instantly at ease, even as you stand in awe of her accomplishments. People who not only are successful, but also seem to breathe success and fill the space around them with it.
They live in beautiful homes, travel to exciting places, fly first class. Are surrounded by people who love them and admire them. Are appreciated, respected and recognized. Happy, healthy, creative and fulfilled. Winners in the game of life. Why do some families have such great relationships, such warmth and fun and caring closeness, while others are perennially angry with each other, so distrustful and distant they might as well live on different planets?
Why are some people positive and upbeat while others are miserably negative, constantly complaining and criticizing? Why are some people digging deeper and deeper into debt, while others just keep earning more money?
Why are some people successful, and some people failures? What Do Successful People Do? Happy versus unhappy marriages, health versus illness, how many retirees barely survive on fixed incomes versus how many reach their golden years in comfort and security. My observation is that about one person in twenty is achieving a significant measure of his or her goals in life: financial, professional, personal, marital, spiritual, in terms of health, in whatever terms you want to look at.
Ninety-five percent are either failing or falling short. What are the five percent doing that the ninety-five percent are not? There is only one difference. It is not heredity, education, looks, talent or inheritance. They all understand the Slight Edge and how it is working for or against them.
If you will learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, I will guarantee you that in time—and chances are, less time than you would imagine—you will have what you desire.
You will be among the five percent. You will be successful. And you will achieve those aims, goals and dreams by doing simple things. If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult.
And those actions will create your success. If these are things anyone can do, why are only five percent successful? Fundamentally, we all take pretty much the same actions every day. We eat, sleep, think, feel, talk and listen. We have relationships and friendships.
We each have twenty-four hours a day, 8, hours a year, and we each fill these hours one way or the other with a sequence of little tasks and actions, any one of which is seemingly insignificant. Gold medal marathon runners eat and sleep.
So do people who are thirty pounds overweight. Successful entrepreneurs think and feel and have relationships with other people. So do those who are unemployed or even living on the streets.
People who make lots of money read books. People who are broke read books, too. The successful and unsuccessful both do the same basic things in their lives, day in and day out. Yet the things successful people do take them to the top, while the things unsuccessful people do take them down and out.
The difference is their awareness, understanding and use of the Slight Edge in their life and work. Successful winners understand the Slight Edge. Unsuccessful people do not. This is why we are all capable of doing what it takes to be successful. We are all capable of being winners The Slight Edge is always working. For you or against you, the Slight Edge is already, always at work in all our lives. The purpose of this book is to help you become aware of it—how it is working in your life, every day, every hour, every moment, in every step you take and every choice you make.
Easy to Do Easy Not to Do Everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do. Tapping into the Slight Edge means doing things that are easy. Simple little disciplines that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest accomplishments. Every action you need to take to make any and all of your dreams come true is easy.
So why is it, then, that the masses are unhappy, unhealthy and financially bound? Every action that any of these goals requires is easy to do. Why are these simple yet crucial things easy not to do? But that simple, seemingly insignificant error in judgment, compounded over time, will kill you.
It will destroy you and ruin your chances for success. You can count on it. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. You can always count on the Slight Edge. And unless you make it work for you, the Slight Edge will work against you.
Invisible Results If I could have had a magic wand that day in the Phoenix airport as I sat thinking and having my shoes shined, one of the first things I would have done would have been to wave it at the little pile of paperbacks. I would have waved the wand and Presto!
Because the simple truth is, how you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body. Seeing how naturally open-minded and intellectually curious the shoeshine woman was, I have no doubt she would have dove into any one of these books with gusto.
But then we would have run into a problem. If you read ten pages of a good book today, will your life change? Of course not. Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge in her. Would she do it?
On day 1, sure. And day 2. And maybe day 3. But would she still be doing it by the end of the week? If she did keep reading, over the course of the year she would have read 3, pages—the equivalent of one or two dozen books of life-transforming material! Would her life have changed? No question. At least, not today. We live in a result-focused world. We expect to see results, and we expect to see them now.
Push the button, the light flicks on. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Failure is also just as gradual. And chances are, at the time you actually made those choices, nobody noticed but you. Invisible results. What makes this time different? Nothing—unless you act on it. My hope for you—my request for you—is that before you reach the last page of this book, you will have put in place a Slight Edge financial plan for yourself so that you are consistently building your equity.
Some simple, daily or weekly, or monthly discipline that, over time, will buy your financial freedom. Easy to do? Surprisingly so. Easy not to do? Tragically so. To give you a sense of the cost of waiting, look at the following example. Your friend starts doing it now. You wait. At the beginning of year 7, you ask your friend how his IRA is doing. Or sixty-four? In fact, best-selling author David Bach has written an excellent book titled Start Late, Finish Rich, addressing exactly that issue.
My point is simply that there is a cost to waiting. Just ask Ramona B. 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? Then why do we act like we do? 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? 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. And so do you. It has been said that we dig our graves with our teeth. Eating the burger is just a simple error in judgment. Not eating it, a simple positive action. But compounded over time, it can and will.
A simple, positive action. A simple error in judgment. For example, if you read 10 pages of a good book today will you see success? They look the same today. Why do you walk past the exercise bike? No, of course not.
You know what you need to do to stay healthy and feel fit and live a long life. Get your heart rate up, a little over normal, for twenty minutes, three times a week. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time, will take you down and out. It is the same with your health, your diet, your exercise, your financial habits, your knowledge, your relationships, your marriage.
With anything and everything. With your life. You see one person eating a good meal, and the person next to him eating an awful meal. One person saving a penny, another spending a penny. One taking a brisk walk, another sitting and watching the news.
Is there any difference between the two? Nothing you can see The difference between success and failure is not dramatic. In fact, the difference between success and failure is so subtle, most people miss it. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
Those little things that will make you successful in life, that will secure your health, your happiness, your fulfillment, your dreams, are simple, subtle, tiny things that nobody will see, nobody will applaud, nobody will even notice. They are those things that, at the time you do them, often feel like they make absolutely no difference They do. Key Points of Chapter 2 If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult.
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With that thought, I got up the next morning and every morning after that. I look forward to them. I never thought I would look forward to working out. You have to be pretty well along the path to see any significant results.
What keeps you doing this simple thing, day after day? Will power! I just need more will power. Will power is vastly overrated. For most people, will power ends up looking and feeling like some sort of grim self-tyranny, and involves creating an elaborate, artificial reward-and-punishment system. Do you want to change? If so, I can show you how to tap into the most powerful force for change there is. Would you like to know what it is?
Are you ready? Here it is: TIME. Because time will either promote you or expose you. Reading The Slight Edge is perhaps one of the most eye-opening things one can do. Easy to do, easy not to do. Suddenly its shocking how many things you really havent been doing. The examples Jeff Olson provides are easy to understand and truly show how The Slight Edge affects the world. By applying the principles of The Slight Edge, ive lost 35 pounds in just three months, and am still going strong.
As a result, my life is going SO much better than it ever has! This is a very simple, easy-to-follow book that can lead anyone from where they are to whatever level of success they want to achieve. Over the course of the last year, by putting the Slight Edge concepts in practice, i have stopped using tobacco, and lost 25 pounds through diet and exercise. Following the principles outlined in Jeff Olsons The Slight Edge has helped me become a millionaireseveral times over.
Thanks for refining the processes into an understandable and workable format, Jeff. The Slight Edge principles apply to everything. My wife and i have used it to improve our health and now we have lost over pounds combined! I led a life of errors in judgment until I came across this magnificent book. A blueprint for life can be founded on the Slight Edge philosophy. My son noticed a huge change in my character and life perception. See Full Reader.
Post on Nov 8. Category: Documents 64 download. Tags: orthe slight edge slight edgeas edge theslightjeff olson wealth success progress i pressure i important success principles personaldevelopment. Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and Lead with LUV This fast-moving book teaches you one of the most powerful, practical and important success principles ever discovered.
Mike Bishop, Wilsonville, OR The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success you desire. Over the past twenty years, Jeff has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve better levels of financial freedom and personal excellence.
Jimmy Williams, Austin, TX A unique view on how small changes or actions done repeatedly can change your personal, family and business life. Pierre Rattini, North Myrtle Beach, SC I had read self-help books before and they did very little for me, so at first I didnt think this book would be much different. Michael Clouse, Seattle, WA This book is a treasure and i use it in every aspect of my lifebusiness, personal, and fun!
Jane Lehman, Lexington, MI i use this philosophy throughout my day. Pedro Garcia, Middletown, NY i, like many people, get frustrated when i do not see quick results. Christopher Mangano, Boynton Beach, FL I find the book to be one of the best diet books I have ever read, and I have read quite a few of them through the last few years. Julie Jonak, Houston, TX i have read numerous personal-development books through the years, and by far, this is one of the best!
Richard Green, Franklin, TN This is a very simple, easy-to-follow book that can lead anyone from where they are to whatever level of success they want to achieve. Alex Serrano, Las Vegas, NV Over the course of the last year, by putting the Slight Edge concepts in practice, i have stopped using tobacco, and lost 25 pounds through diet and exercise.
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