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Understanding the psychological rewards of bad habits
Creating new habits to replace old ones
Developing self-discipline
Either you have the blaming mindset or the winning mindset.
The first category likes to play the victim, and blame their misfortune in life for their failures. The second type of people takes responsibility for their actions, especially when life throws challenges at them. You should aim to become more like the second type, and then examine your focus. Are you oriented toward the future or the past?
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The Slight Edge outlines the importance of doing small, little improvements in our everyday life to achieve a successful bigger picture, and how by focusing more on making better day-by-day choices you can shape a remarkable future.
Everybody wants to be successful. No matter the field you’...
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The Slight Edge will give you all the right tools to start creating the life you desire. If you’re always stuck in your head, you find it hard to stick to a plan and follow a routine, or you fall for trends rather than keep on pursuing your objective, then this book is for you.
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Instead of living in regret, you should take your past experiences and turn them into life lessons. The two sets of people differ not because life treated one better than the other, but because of how they chose to respond to it. Every day you have a choice between actively building a successful ...
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The 30-year-old who is looking to adopt healthier habits and become more productive, the 40-year-old who feels stuck and wants to turn their life around, or the 28-year-old entrepreneur who wants to become successful and build a long-lasting business.
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“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Sucessful 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.”
-Jeff Olsen
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It is estimated that only five percent of people achieve their goals in life. These people not only understand what The Slight Edge is all about, but they’re also willing to put in the work that 95% of their peers aren’t. Therefore, if you think that small everyday choices don’t make a difference...
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If you want to meet your goals, you need to be able to set them. Implementing the three-step goal-setting process can put you miles ahead of the game. It all starts with writing down your goals, then visualizing them daily, and developing an action plan.
Write down your goals clearly and si...
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