The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
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The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
accomplishment … and success recedes ever further from your grasp. Can you guess why? That’s right: it’s the slight edge—working against you. Before you know it, life has become heavy. Welcome to the 95 percent. And as always, all you need to do is turn over the coin to find the good news here: it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succ
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will look like the lower half of the graph. The upper curve is the formula for success: a few simple disciplines, repeated every day. The lower curve is the formula for failure: a few simple errors in judgment, repeated every day.
John David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
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.
John David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
The personal development movement has been driven largely by individual people’s personal experience and the teachings of compelling teachers, people like Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy, and Jim Rohn.
John David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
A habit is something you do without thinking.
John David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
The people on the other side are hanging with the masses, and their lives are often more comfortable during that long early stretch. But they become more uncomfortable later on. Suddenly they find they don’t have the finances, don’t have the health or the happiness, no longer have the relationships, and their lives become very uncomfortable. By con
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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
John David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
You can break down the bulk of happiness research into three areas. Your happiness is affected by 1) your outlook, that is, how you choose to view the events and circumstances of your everyday life; 2) specific actions with positive impact—things like writing down three things your grateful for, or sending appreciative emails, doing random acts of
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in my experience, in three to five years you can put virtually anything in your life solidly onto the right track.