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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.

These are the actions that will create your success. But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time will ruin your chances for success. I know those steps will ultimately lead to a very successful and fulfilling life.

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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. What keeps you on the path is your Slight Edge philosophy, which includes your understanding of the secret of time. When you enter a darkened room, why does your hand reach out for the light switch? Because you know that when you hit the switch, the light will go on. Because you know what will happen.

You know. After all, a million dollars! In cash! Right now! It represents an entirely different way of thinking. An entirely different philosophy.

Is Time on Your Side? You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. Taking recreational drugs is an effort to go from plant directly to harvest. So is taking steroids to enhance athletic performance. So is robbing a bank; so is playing the lottery. The step we keep overlooking and overskipping!

And that, unlike planting and harvesting, takes place only through the patient dimension of time. Film is an amazing art form, television is a powerful medium, and in the hands of true artists, they can both teach us valuable lessons about life. Just not about time. But it all has to be finished in two hours. Can you imagine a nation being born in two hours? Meeting the person who will become the love of your life—the dating, courtship, romance, struggle, triumph, wedding and life thereafter—in two hours?

In a world filled with instant coffee, instant breakfast, instant credit, instant shopping, instant news and instant information, we have come dangerously close to losing touch with reality and believing we have access to instant life.

And that, oddly enough, is the challenge of it. This is not about making tough choices. The problem is, making the wrong choices—the ones that will tilt the Slight Edge to lean against you instead of in your favor—are also easy choices. If it were a dramatic, huge, difficult thing. Because then it would be obvious. The challenge is that making the right choices is not dramatic. Problem is, your life is not a movie.

Deciding whether or not to kill Darth Vader with your light saber is a dramatic choice. Deciding whether or not to fasten your seat belt is an undramatic, boring, mundane little choice that nobody will even witness.

But guess which choice has the power to take a few hundred thousand lives each year? An entire movie theater audience applauding, cheering or screaming. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you.

Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death results played out in Technicolor.

But it is precisely those very same, undramatic, seemingly insignificant actions that, when compounded over time, will dramatically affect how your life turns out. It comes at the end of the story, when the credits start to roll—which comes not in two hours but in two years. Making the right choices, taking the right actions. Ridiculously easy. Not today, anyway.

Not tomorrow. But over time? 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 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.

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. 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. You need to base your choices on your philosophy—on what you know, not what you see.

The statue itself, of the woman holding the scales and sword, has been around since the days of ancient Rome. That also makes it a very good representation of the Slight Edge.

You need to make them based on what you know. On your philosophy. Picture success and failure as the two sides of a pair of balance scales, like the one held by Lady Justice.

The scales are tipped badly, the negative side tilted way down. It sure would be nice if, somehow, you could do something dramatic. If you just wake up tomorrow and have it all turned around—snap your fingers and change it. That might happen, in a movie. But this is your life. What can you do? What happens if you add one small, simple, positive action to the success side? Nothing you can see. What happens if you add one more?

What happens if you keep adding one more, and one more, and one more, and one more Before too long, you see the scales shift, ever so slightly. And then again. No matter how much negative weight from the past is on the other side, just by adding those little grams of success, one at a time and by not adding more weight to the failure side , you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor. It frustrates nineteen out of twenty people so much, they quit.

And that is the saddest thing I can think of. Now imagine that your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and for as long as possible. Pushing with great effort, you get the flywheel to inch forward, moving almost imperceptibly at first.

You keep pushing and, after two or three hours of persistent effort, you get the flywheel to complete one entire turn. You keep pushing, and the flywheel begins to move a bit faster, and with continued great effort, you move it through a second rotation. You keep pushing in a consistent direction. Three turns Then at some point—breakthrough! The momentum of the thing kicks in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn Each turn of the flywheel builds upon work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort.

A thousand times faster, then ten thousand, then a hundred thousand. The huge heavy disk flies forward with almost unstoppable momentum. Was it the first push?

The second? The fifth? The hundredth? It was all of them added together in an overall accumulation of effort applied in a consistent direction.

Some pushes may have been bigger than others, but any single heave—no matter how large—reflects a small fraction of the entire cumulative effect upon the flywheel. Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

They choose to have the Slight Edge working for them, not against them. Every decision you make is a Slight Edge decision. Simply by making those right decisions, or making more of them—one at a time, over and over again—you will have enlisted the awesome power of the Slight Edge on your behalf. There may be no light at the end of the tunnel, or at least none you can see today.

Your success becomes inevitable. You just need to stay in the process long enough to give it a chance to win. It starts with a choice. Cultivating Patience Patience is a challenge for people who do not understand the Slight Edge. Often, in the beginning, the success path can be uncomfortable, even scary. Sometimes the path of success is inconvenient, and therefore easier not to do. Getting on the path and staying on the path requires faith in the process—especially at the start.

That makes you a pioneer. Courage means to have a purpose and to Is Time on Your Side? Once you are aware of and understand how to use the Slight Edge, you will naturally have both—purpose and the strength of heart to stay on that purpose. The important point is to start on the path and to remember that no matter what has gone on before, you can begin fresh and new and at any time you can choose to start with a clean slate. How long will it take? How long before you will actually see and feel and smell and touch and be able to spend and enjoy and appreciate the results?

But the truth is, in three to five years, you can put virtually anything in your life onto the right track. Yet this brief little period of time can change your life. Chances are it will take longer than you want it to Patience is not an issue for the water hyacinth. It simply goes about its business, calmly, quietly doubling, until it covers the pond.

You can do the same. The way your own shows up, good or bad, failure or success, win or lose, is, moment by moment, up to you. The problem is that most of us live with one foot planted firmly in the past and the other tucked timidly in the future—never in the moment.

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.

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.

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. 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. The step we keep overlooking is the step of cultivating. The right choices you make today, compounded over time, will take you higher up the success curve.

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It comes from a very small, tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. Take Facebook, for example. Mark Zuckerberg started with just a concept—a penny—in his small Harvard dorm room, and today it has become the largest social networking site on the Internet, with over half a billion users. But in the beginning stages, when it was just a penny, Mark Zuckerberg believed in it enough to continue to take consistent action in building his vision, no matter if people believed in his penny or not.

A dead-broke, struggling young English teacher named Steve had started writing a story about a troubled high-school girl. Why add yet one more to his large and growing stack of rejection notices? She straightened them out, dusted off the cigarette ashes, read them and took them to Steve: she thought he maybe had something worth finishing. She was right. He did finish it, and the paperback rights sold for nearly a half a million dollars. What Tabitha King recognized in the trash may have been a tarnished penny, but still, it was a penny.

Most of all, she was tired of being treated the way she was—and tired of every other person of her color being treated that way, too. So when she was told to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, she refused—even when the bus driver threatened her with arrest. It was no idle threat; she was arrested, then convicted and fined for violating a city ordinance. Her case was the catalyst for the formation of a new civil rights organization.

Rosa Parks was a penny. 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.

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