WOW!
Have you read The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson? My suggestion, purchase both the book, the book on audio and the “Gift” book of the same title.
As I was doing my reading this AM while eating my breakfast — (eating to feed my body and reading to feed my mind — as Charlie Umphred, our company owner says! (I LOVE that little phrase he uses) I came to the section on …
“Making the Choice to Make the Choice” followed by The Power of Compounding Effort
And I quote, “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!
But you need to have FAITH in the process, because
you won’t see it happening at first.”
and then skip down just a bit and it reads ….
“If you want to understand and apply the Slight Edge to create the life of your dreams, you can’t make choices based on the evidence of your eyes. You need to make them based on what you know. On your philosophy.” (Clouse students, specifically those on The Free to Relax Team, hear anything familiar?)
skip down just a bit more …
“Let’s say you’re in a tough place in your life. The scales are tipped badly, the negative side WAY DOWN. Whether it’s your health, or your finances, or your marriage, or your career .. (or a combo of them all .. or just a couple) — WHATEVER it is, you’ve reached a place where many years of SIMPLE errors of judgement have compounded over time and you are FEELING IT!
You are behind the eight ball.
It would be nice … if you could 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! (that you can see)
What happens if you add one more? NOTHING! (that you can see)
What happens if you keep adding one more and one more and one more … before long, you see your scales shift, ever so slightly. Then again .. and eventually that heavy ‘failure’ side starts to lift and lift and lift … and the scales start swinging YOUR WAY!
Please … in the beginning, don’t judge your choices by the evidence of your eyes, you won’t see the scales move at all and that will frustrate you.
It frustrates nineteen our of twenty people so much they QUIT! And that is the saddest thing I can think of.”
End of my sharing of today’s reading …
This is only 1 1/2 page pages of my 10 pages of reading today from The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson today ..
get the book! It will change your life — if you apply the lesson.
Jordan, my daugher and I are having fun with it .. with one another. She comes over in the mornings to feed her horses. I’ll say, “hum? a Cream Cheese Pastry sure sounds good for breakfast .. or we can have yogurt and fruit.” Jordan will remind me with her reply of just three words, “The slight edge!” LOL and then we eat the fruit and yogurt!
Good book and if applied it can help move the scales (in any area of your life) from failure to success!
Kathy Schneider | 
04 14th, 2009| 
