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My review of “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson is now at an end but the understanding and teachings in the book will be with me forever!

I have over the past twenty articles gone into detail how “The Slight Edge” affected me in business as well as my personal life.

I have learnt that to be successful at anything I have to make sure I do those easy to do things every single day, without fail!

I have also taken on board that FAILURE IS AN OPTION! This is one of the philosophies that comes to the forefront when investigating the meaning of Jeff Olson’s work. Because you can not have success without failure.

Making Money Internet style is what I do, and having a Home Business Internet Marketing I needed to learn the path to success “The Slight Edge” has put me on course, now all I have to do is to stay on it!

This review has also shown me that we are all the same, we are after all, all human, the differences between us are very finite, but the overriding fact is that it is our minds and the way we think that actually make us different!

If you think like a business executive or an internet entrepreneur or even the one thing you want to be, and learn how to become that by changing your mind set, then ultimately you will, with work, get there!

I am moving on to my next review very soon, so please look out for my next article and video!

Living “The Slight Edge”

To start or begin anything there is one rule that must dominate your mind-that is “assume nothing” the Zen Buddhists call it “beginners mind”

When I started out in network marketing and direct selling I was deluded enough to think that I knew what I was doing and ultimately failed, but with Slight Edge principles I have learned and changed so everything I do now, I do for the first time! Meaning that I plan correctly then do the work then I reflect on that work, change what is necessary and it gives me success which I can celebrate!

You also need to lay down something on paper, I use the principles laid out in this chapter to great effect, which are- and write them down as you go, you can always add to and refine them in the future –

Health

1/ My dreams for my health (be specific and have a time limit)

2/ Price to Pay: time, money, what to miss on t.v. etc.

3/Plan to start:

4/One simple daily discipline:

Personal development

1/My dreams for my personal development (again be specific and have a time limit)

2/ Price to Pay: time, money, what to miss on t.v. etc.

3/Plan to start:

4/One simple daily discipline:

Relationships

1/My dreams for my relationships (again be specific and have a time limit)

2/ Price to Pay: time, money, what to miss on t.v. etc.

3/Plan to start:

4/One simple daily discipline:

Finances

1/My dreams for my finances (again be specific and have a time limit)

2/ Price to Pay: time, money, what to miss on t.v. etc.

3/Plan to start:

4/One simple daily discipline

Life

1/My dreams for my life (again be specific and have a time limit) (what do I want my life to mean)

2/ Price to Pay: time, money, what to miss on t.v. etc.

3/Plan to start:

4/One simple daily discipline

Do these simple but effect things and you will be successful!

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Turning your Dreams In to Reality.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust).

For a goal or dream to come true:

You must write it down, make it specific and give it a deadline;

You must look at it everyday;

You must understand and pay the price;

You must have a plan to start with.

This is what I do -

Write it down – the most critical skill of achieving success in any area whatsoever is envisioning (being able, not only to dream, but to feel it, see it almost touch it) see the picture of your success vividly so vivid that it feels real.

Look at it every day – Put pictures, photos, reminders to your self this will compel you to keep going.

Know and pay the price – Aha, there’s the catch! I knew it! Here come the big sacrifice….so, what will I have to do? Throw away the television? Say goodbye to all fun and forego all my favorite foods? Give up a kidney?

NO chances are it isn’t that dramatic.

Remember small easy to do step’s and pay for your million dollar dream one penny at a time just double your efforts, if you do this you will find the price you pay will not be noticeable!

Start with a plan – You have to start with a plan but the plan you start with won’t be the plan that gets you to your success, it will however be a plan to get you out of the starting gate!

Remember this – DO THE THING AND YOU SHALL HAVE THE POWER. DON’T TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT! IF YOU WANT TWICE THE SUCCESS, DOUBLE YOUR RATE OF FAILURE!

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Mastering yourself!
In my last article we talked about, momentum, completion, habit, reflection and celebration.

Now we can talk about how you are the main resource in your business! And how to master yourself to fulfill each of these tasks to the best of your ability and beyond!

Strategies that concern your actions are extremely important Jeff Olson quotes Abraham Lincoln “Give me six hours to cut down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe”.

As Mr. Olson points out most of us, if asked to cut down a tree, would pick up the axe and start whaling at the tree. And if we don’t make a major dent in the tree pretty soon, we would quit and probably blame the axe or the tree!

The point of this is to show you that it is better to prepare yourself and be totally sure of what you want to achieve, make sure you have the right skills and tools before you do the task!

Then you do the task and complete it! Then you review it and make changes if necessary and prepare your next task, from the knowledge you have gained, and move on!

Results come last!
Here is the flaw in most failing business! Results matter, what’s the bottom line etc. How can you judge a course of action you’re taking by its results, when results come last? It is a fact that results come at the end of everything.

For more on how to impact this and other techniques on your business se my other pages by clicking Advertising internet business marketing, Home Business Internet Marketing, Making Money Internet.

Faces of “The Slight Edge” Continued “Celebration”

Celebration (People who feel good about themselves achieve good results!)

Nothing breeds success like more success!

Like Jeff Olson says “it’s easy to forget to catch yourself doing something right” or even someone who works for you.

By this I believe “The Slight edge” principle is to always look for the positives and forget about the negatives, whilst building on those positive and changing the negatives in to positives!

If you take the time every day to celebrate and praise success you will find that success flourishes and grow exponentially so take your leadership skills to a new level and try looking for the positives and what is going right!

Most executive business training will include some sort of positive spin on any aspect of the business it is training, because successful business men and women know that to dwell on the negatives will only produce negative results!

The only thing you need to be careful of is TIME! Do not spend too much or too little time celebrating your success; break it down in to your daily routine, I for instance always look at what I have done right that day and then after reflection I can celebrate and pat myself or people who work with me on the back and move on to the next day, this only takes a couple of minutes at the most!

Every morning I remind myself of what was right the day before to give myself a positive start to the day, again this only takes a minute or two!

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Faces of  The Slight Edge! Continued! Reflection!

Reflection (Doing things won’t create your fortune but doing the right things will!)

Reflection is the thing that can make or break your success! By this I mean that, if you reflect on what you have done correctly and change the right things, then you will become successful.

However if you don’t use reflection to its fullest potential then your success is doubtful to say the least.

So to use reflection wisely I keep track of everything I am doing and what is happening as a consequence of my actions in my Home Business Internet Marketing, I therefore can manage my reflection time to correct the things that do not work, for future planning and Make Money Online.

You could go so far as to say that reflection is the mainstay of planning!

A little exercise that I practice every day is this-

Using “The Slight Edge” principles; ask yourself specific slight edge questions-

In each area of my life, what are the critical, simple little things that are easy to do, and easy not to do?

Did I do them?

Did I move forward?

Did I ride the success curve?

Did I continue my momentum on the success curve?

Ask yourself these questions every day and more importantly impact the answers on tomorrow!

If you do this every day it will become a habit which is what I talked about in my last article!

My next article is to be on celebration so come on let’s celebrate together!

Faces of The slight edge Continued! Habit!

Habit (Nothing is stronger than habit)

Where do I start with habit!

We all know how hard it is to break a habit, like smoking, not doing the washing up before going to bed, biting your nails, picking your nose, getting up late, staying up late or even lying! They are not impossible to break; some are more difficult than others!

Creating a new habit can be just as demanding as breaking an old one! Again they are not impossible to create!

If you take the decision to consciously over ride your brain and do something everyday with intention, you will find eventually it becomes habit! And you won’t even need to think about doing it!

A habit is programming of the brain, it is that simple! Unfortunately our brains need to be programmed regularly and often to keep them in perfect working order. So use your new found habits to build your Home Business Internet Marketing!

If you do not challenge your brain then it will not challenge you!

If we do not get into the habit of completion or momentum we get the following scenario!
Starting with-

Momentum Lots! But not always
Completion sometimes!
Habit, only bad ones!

Reflection, poor memories and some but small results to work forward with!

And the only celebrations will be for your birthday or Christmas!

Faces of The slight edge Continued! Completion!

Completion (All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough, so do something!)
Even the biggest of buildings is built one brick at a time!

Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood!

Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

I used to find that I never managed to complete hardly anything in my life! I was always too rushed to finish anything but I was also to busy trying to move on!

Now I find that if a set myself a task and complete it I find it extremely easy to move on and do more! I also find that I get better at things because of the confidence of completing other things!

This then becomes habit which is the next article!

So set yourself some simple goals and tasks and complete them! Then do some more and so on!

If we do not complete things we get the following scenario!
Starting with-

Momentum Lots! But not completed!
Completion never!
Habit, only bad ones!
Reflection, poor memories and no results to work forward with!
And the only celebrations will be for your birthday or Christmas!

Faces of The Slight Edge
Momentum, Completion, Habit, Reflection and Celebration!

All of these are as important as one another because even if only one was not worked on the others would be lacking and not working fully so eventually you will fail. I will look at the faces individually over the next few posts and videos starting with -
Momentum (Be not afraid of going slowly be afraid of standing still!)

What do we really know about momentum? It is, for an easy to understand example, movement in a known or desired direction! This is however not totally or fully true; yes it is movement but it is also a growing movement, one that gets bigger or faster the more you do!

It is no good doing a couple of weeks work to get to your life goals’ you will create some success but not that much, you need to first create movement (by doing your desired work) then build on that movement, everyday do a little bit more and try a little bit harder!
As an example, momentum in business is quite difficult to achieve, but not impossible! Starting a business most people work very hard to get going but then stop building, it’s like building a house and stopping half way, the house is there and the foundations laid but not completed and will, if left, decay and fall down!

So we get the following scenario!
Starting with-

Momentum none!

Completion never!

Habit, only bad ones!

Reflection, poor memories and no results to work forward with!

And the only celebrations will be for your birthday or Christmas!

Mastering The Slight Edge.
All that’s required is taking the first step!

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If you want something badly enough, it hurts to think about, the maybe instead of wondering how to get it why don’t you try something, to get you to where you want to be. If at first you don’t succeed try again but in a slightly different way. Keep doing this every time you fail, you review what you have done and do it better the next time, eventually you will succeed!

I have tried and failed quite a few times in my life, but what’s so different about me I hear you ask, well I keep trying, I have reviewed my past mistakes and failures and learnt from them, so I can be more certain of success now, because I have taken a lot of small steps towards my ultimate goal!

Making Money Internet style is easy to do if you follow the easy to do steps and things I have written about in my articles.

From this chapter there are probably two things that really stand out for me-
1- Just Do It!
And
2- Never Give Up!