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It’s never too late to start. It’s always too late to wait.
About patience and the understanding that little steps, compounded, do make a difference. That the things you do every single day, the things that don’t look dramatic, that don’t even look like they matter, do matter. That they not only make a difference—they make all the difference.
Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.
The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they’re also just as easy not to do.
What you do today matters. What you do every day matters.
People don’t consistently do those simple things for three reasons: 1) while they’re easy to do, they are also easy not to do; 2) you don’t see any results at first; 3) they seem insignificant, like they don’t matter. But they do.
The secret of time is simply this: time is the force that magnifies those little, almost imperceptible, seemingly insignificant things you do every day into something titanic and unstoppable.
But it is exactly those same undramatic, seemingly insignificant actions that, when compounded over time, will dramatically affect how your life turns out.
You need to base your choices on your philosophy—on what you know, not what you see.
The Slight Edge is all about living in the moment. For me, this is perhaps the hardest lesson to learn about the slight edge: you can’t find it in the past or the future, only right here, right now.
“If I stay on this road long enough, I’ll get the result I’m seeking.”
Slow down to go fast. In other words: you want big results? Good—then do the little things. Just do them consistently and persistently.
The Slight Edge is about doing key things that are easy to do and easy not to do.
Our entire health crisis is nothing but one set of little decisions, made daily and compounded daily, winning out over another set of little decisions, made daily and compounded daily.
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
slight edge + happy habits = success
I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else’s life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.
They understand that it is not what happens to them that’s important, but how they respond to what happens that makes the difference between their failure and success.
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.
And if you don’t take full responsibility for your thoughts and actions and circumstances right now, will that kill you today? No—but… But that simple error in judgment compounded over time will absolutely, positively destroy you.
Review the past, but only for the purpose of making a better plan.
