The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

by Jeff Olson

It’s never too late to start. It’s always too late to wait.

do the thing, and gain the power.

It’s just a matter of mastering the mundane—of

consistently repeated daily actions + time = inconquerable results.

You supply the actions; the universe will supply the time.

You need to base your choices on your philosophy—on what you know, not what you see.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Winning is always a matter of the slight edge.

They are victims of the quantum leap myth.

Life is a curved construction; time is its builder, and choice its master architect.

You’ve heard the expression, “Be careful what you wish for—you just might get it.” But it’s not even a question of wishing: take care with what you think. Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

Don’t Complain About What You Allow

Responsibility is declaring oneself as cause in the matter. It is a context from which to live one’s life. Responsibility is not a burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame, or guilt. All these include judgments and evaluations of good and bad, right and wrong, or better and worse. They are not responsibility… Responsibility starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from and with the point of view, whether at the moment realized or not, that you are the source of what you are, what you do, and what you have. It is not “right,” or even “true,” to declare oneself as “cause” in the matter. It’s just empowering. By standing for yourself as cause, “what happens” shifts from “happening to you” to “just happening” and, ultimately, to “happening as a result of your being cause in the matter.”

You cannot change the past. You can absolutely change the future.

We are all either building our own dreams or building somebody else’s. To put a sharper point on it, we’re either building our own dreams—or building our nightmares.

When you start at the beginning of anything, you’re at the highest level of anxiety. As you learn—through study and doing, information and experience, book smarts and street smarts—you gradually lower your level of anxiety by raising your level of mastery. As

Nothing breeds success like more success.

The cables made from your right choices uphold and support you. Those made from wrong choices imprison and restrain you. These cables are your habits of thought and attitude.