WHAT DO SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO?

[Pravin Kumar]

WHAT DO SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO?
by Jeff Olson (excerpted from The Slight Edge book)

You've probably read and heard lots of statistics. Happy versus unhappy marriages, health versus illness, how many retirees barely survive on fixed incomes versus how many reach their golden years in comfort and security. There are 101 ways to measure it, but if you simply look around you, you can see it: most of us aren't making it.

My observation is that about one person in twenty is achieving a significant measure of his or her goals in life: financial, professional, personal, marital, spiritual, in terms of health, in whatever terms you want to look at. Ninety-five percent are either failing or falling short.

What are the five percent doing that the ninety-five percent are not?
Do you find yourself missing the one thing in life that would help you achieve a desired goal, realize a long-held dream, or push you up the ladder to success? Then this is the book for you! The Slight Edge will teach you how to achieve success in all aspects of your life -- in your health, your finances, your personal relationships and family life.

You'll learn:
How to tap into the power of daily discipline
How to increase your success by doubling your rate of failure
How to identify habits that serve you and replace those that don't
How to harness the powers of reflection, completion and celebration
How to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be

Successful people do what unsuccessful people do not -- and The Slight Edge will show you how to do what successful people do!


There is only one difference. It is not heredity, education, looks, talent or inheritance. It is not "preparedness opportunity," and it's not chance, either. There is only one difference, and that difference is the Slight Edge.

If you will learn to understand and apply the slight Edge, I will guarantee you that in time - and chances are, less time than you would imagine - you will have what you want. You will be among the five percent. You will be successful. And you will achieve those aims, goals and dreams by doing simple things.

A bold claim, I know, and I make it only because I know it's true, I've seen it too many times to doubt it. If you learn to understand and apply the Slight Edge, your life will become filled with hundreds of thousands of small, seemingly insignificant actions—all of them easy to do, none of them mysterious, complex or difficult. And those actions will create your success. That's what successful people do: simple things that are easy to do.

-- Jeff Olson

[cherokeelady]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all learn these secrets.  Not only learn them but be able to actually put them into practice in our daily lives.