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Develop a plan: Once you’ve written down your goals, looked at them every day, and asked yourself why they haven’t been achieved yet, it’s time to develop a plan for moving forward with them! Set your end goal and then divide it into smaller chunks and bite-sized objectives.

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Many people fall into the trap of thinking that overnight success is feasible, when in fact, achieving excellence is often the result of many years of hard work and daily commitment. When you look at the bigger picture, it’s easy to get lost and feel like the gap between the start and the finish ...

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In contrast, unsuccessful people live in the moment and go by the philosophy that what they’re doing at the moment doesn’t matter. Truth is, success is gradual, and so is failure. If you want to make your future self proud, you’ll have to do something about it in the present day, every day.

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Look at them daily: You should look at the list of goals every day—either right when you wake up or right before bed—and ask yourself if you’ve done anything toward those goals that day. If not, why not? What could you do differently tomorrow?

Try making some small changes in your daily rou...

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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...

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Here are my three favorite lessons from the book:

  • The choices we make every day define our future.
  • Be in the top 5% of successful people by understanding The Slight Edge.
  • Learn the three-step goal-setting process that can help you stay on track.

Now, let’s dive a little bit deeper into these lessons and see what ...

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The Slight Edge – Book Summary

The Slight Edge – Book Summary

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 – Book Review

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.

Say goodbye ...

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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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Who would I recommend The Slight Edge to?

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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Lesson 1: Every day we have to choose between success or failure

The philosophy behind The Slight Edge is that success is the result of repetitive productive actions over a consistent period. When you adopt this mindset, your actions have to follow immediately for them to work. Therefore, everything we do each day must coincide with our burning desire to achie...

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Author Quote

Author Quote

“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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However, these small, day-to-day choices will eventually define our future.

By the time you can observe that someone has a competitive edge over you, it becomes too late to catch up on them. That is because the mundane things which are part of a daily routine seem invisible while you’re doi...

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Lesson 2: Learn to appreciate the invisible results of your work to achieve what 95% of people don’t

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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This is where this book steps in by giving you a blueprint for your next stage in life. If you’re ready to make that change you’ve been waiting for, I strongly recommend this book.

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Lesson 3: Implementing the three-step goal-setting process can put you miles ahead of the game

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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  • Specific: It will be easier to see what you need to accomplish.
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