Do You Want the Real Secret to Success?

Written by Lynn Jones on Jun 8, 2011 9:40 pm

Do you find yourself struggling in life to achieve a desired goal, or to realize that long-held dream, or to find the “something” that will push you up the ladder to success?

Then strongly consider reading The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. The Slight Edge will teach you how to achieve success in all areas of your life. Your health, your finances, your business, your personal relationships, your family life can all be dramatically affected by just applying this simple philosophy that Jeff teaches.

Many people rave about the book and how it has helped them. There is even a Slight Edge community that you can join and be a part of. If you are interested the address is http://www.slightedge.org

Personally, after I read The Slight Edge it gave me tremendous hope. I was a new Networker, didn’t have a lot of time and knew that I needed to learn so much to make this work. I could have been overwhelmed before I started.

However, Jeff says that everything you need to do to transform your life is easy to do and it is also easy not to do. It’s the choices we make everyday, even if they are small, that add up to important things in the long run. We have the choice to repeat a simple positive action over time or to repeat a simple error in judgement over time. At the moment, one action does not seem like much, but over time all those many simple actions can carry a lot of weight.

Speaking of a lot of weight........The Slight Edge has helped me in another way.
Much to my dismay, I found myself gaining 5 pounds a year. How did I do that?
Well, for starters I went from regular walking and playing basketball to sitting on my tush in front of the computer. Plus I was at that woman’s age where weight wants to glob on in those places. Thirdly, I ate the wrong foods too often and at the wrong time of night. I kept practicing the wrong things and over time those wrong decisions added some extra baggage I did not want.

Well, I was at that point where I was determined to make some changes. I was on a mission!
So, back in Nov of 2010 I joined a gym for the Winter months and worked out 5 times a week for 45 minutes.
Then beginning in January (after more Holiday pounds!) I purchased the new Weight Watcher Points Plus cookbook and a points counter. I am not trying to push Weight Watchers here. In fact I did not even join, I just used the cookbook, planned my meals from there, counting my points very carefully. You can lose weight without spending a lot of money for special eating programs.

Weight Watchers taught me that just changing my choices can make a huge difference! Hmmm, that sounds just like what Jeff says in The Slight Edge.
Losing 11 pounds may not sound all that weighty for some, but for me on my 5 foot frame, I was delighted. And I am not done yet.

The Slight Edge can work against me too, if I am not careful. Choosing to add double dipped chocolate malt balls, or blue corn chips, or cheesecake, or any other food that contain a higher point value on a regular basis will cause pounds to creep back on.

Practicing The Slight Edge is simple but needs to be constant. The more we understand it and become familiar with it, the more we will recognize its influences in our life in so many ways.

Jeff says, 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.....like they don’t matter.
They do.

Wisdom is to do now what you will be satisfied with later. That’s the power of The Slight Edge.

Your Networking Friend,