Chase The Kangaroo

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness, by Jeff Olson

This edition published: November 4, 2013

Description: “The Slight Edge” is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.

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Simply put, this is one of the best books I’ve read on the subject of making smart choices and seeing them thru.  Jeff Olson destroys the myth of the “over night success”, based on the principles of compound interest and making smart investments in your life.  As stated above, “The Slight Edge” is a way of thinking.  Most of us live thinking that the really big decisions are the only ones that matter, while failing to recognize that its the little daily decisions, the seemly unimportant or low impact decisions, that chart the course of future successes or failures.

Whether it is choices concerning health and fitness, relationships, career or our own personal development, its our daily choices, good or bad, that pay dividends in the future. Olson argues that, with simple daily disciplines, we can consistently experience success and happiness in our lives.  To sum it up, we reap what we sow.  It is such a simple principle, that most of us flip past it.

The good news is that it is never too late to take control of our lives and the daily decisions we make.  Olson not only shows his readers how to think anew about our daily decisions, he puts forth usable strategies that are sustainable.

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