"The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson
/"The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson is an inspiring book about human nature. Human beings are essentially creatures of habit. If you know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there, use the power of habit and small daily actions to take you in the direction of your goals.
The Slight Edge describes the path of Prāṇāyāma exactly!
The Slight Edge mindset means changing how you see small daily actions you take everyday. It is the small actions that matter most.
The correct viewpoint is that everything matters. Small simple daily actions become habits which over time take you to success or lead you to failure.
The Slight Edge is either working for you or against you!
This is the key statement of Jeff Olson's work.
The Slight Edge works on your life whether you want it or not. The Slight Edge goes BOTH ways.
If you let yourself snooze, eat junk food, watch Netflix all day, the Slight Edge starts working against you. This will become your habit. The Slight Edge will start taking you in the opposite direction of your dreams. It will become hard to change those habits once they are ingrained.
Master The Mundane
Little daily actions are easy to do, but also easy not to do. You could skip them and no one would notice.
Results are invisible in the beginning.
Little actions seem insignificant, but they are cumulative.
Small daily actions are not always exciting.
Sometimes they are boring to the mind.
Sometimes they might even be emotionally "hard."
They take time.
You will not see results right away.
That’s why most people don’t do them.
Mastering the Slight Edge is all about bringing attention to your daily routine. By putting the Slight Edge to work for you, you focus on repeating small little actions day after day.
The Big Score
Many people have a “jackpot powerball” mentality. They want a big result now, without any application of effort or will. They really don't want to change themselves or their lifestyle, but they want some goal they desire. They are unwilling to work for it. The want a huge result, even if the possibility is remote, to happen now. They don’t apply the Slight Edge principle because The Slight Edge is easy not to do. It takes time and in the beginning results are unnoticeable. Powerball ticket after Powerball ticket, they are now applying the Slight Edge to their disadvantage.
It won’t make nany difference today whether I exercise or not. It won’t make a difference today whether I eat healthy or not. But in the long run, it makes a huge difference.
If you work The Slight Edge, far down the road, you WILL experience a quantum leap. It is destined to happen. When you keep applying these small action steps, the Slight Edge is “brewing.” One day, it explodes.
We become our habits. We either use the power of habit to our advantage or disadvantage. The Slight Edge is either working for you or against you.
