THE SLIGHT EDGE

When you were a tiny, little child, you made your way around the world on your hands and knees, crawling. Everyone around you was walking and one day, you got it into your head to give that a try. So, little by little, you worked on developing the skills you needed to walk.

You grabbed onto something above you and pulled yourself upright. You stood up, holding onto the table or chair or a big stuffed animal. Wobbly and unsure, you let go, fell down, and tried again and again, until you stood up by yourself.
Then you took a step. The older people you watched, took one step after each other: right foot, left foot, right foot, left… But you managed only one step then you crashed.

After a few days of sidestepping around the coffee table, awkwardly bringing one little foot out from behind you while you held onto Mum or Dad’s fingers, you eventually took your first couple of steps…all alone…all by yourself… Hopefully to the cheers and applause of the family.

Baby steps, one at a time and you were WALKING!

In the process of learning to walk, you probably spend more time failing than you did succeeding. But did you ever have the thought of quitting? Did you ever tell yourself, ‘I’m not cut out for walking,….guess I’ll crawl for the rest of my life?” No, of course you didn’t. So, why do you want to do that now?

Why don’t you do what you did when you were one or two years old?

The answer is alarming, yet simple:
Somewhere along the way of your life, you became unwilling to take baby steps. You lost faith in the universal truth that the simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would create your success.

You forgot about the most proven, powerful success philosophy on Earth… The Slight Edge.

Winning is always a matter of the slight edge.

If you were to improve just .003 each day that’s only 3/10 of one percent, a very Slight Edge and you kept that up for the next five years, here’s what would happen to you:

The first year you would improve 100% (You would already be twice what you are today in just one year!)

The second year, 200%.
The third year, 400%.
And the fourth, 800%

And by the end of year five by simply improving 3/10 of one percent each day you will have magnified your value, your skills and the results you accomplished 1,600%. That’s 32 times more than what you are today!

Just 3/10 of one percent per day and that’s NOT compounded. That’s just adding on 3/1 of one percent each day.

That’s the awesome power of The Slight Edge.

The Slight Edge is always operating. It never stops. It’s either working FOR you, or AGAINST you. And that’s up to you. It’s your choice.

The Slight Edge is easy to do.

And it’s easy not to do. Now, I’m defining EASY here as simply, “something you can do”.

The Slight Edge is based on doing things which are easy, little disciplines, which, done consistently over time, add up to the biggest accomplishments.

The problem is that all those things which are easy to do, are just as easy NOT to do.

Why is something easy NOT to do? Because if you don’t do it, it won’t kill you today. BUT, that simple, seemingly insignificant error in judgment, compounded over time, will kill you, destroy you, ruin your chances for success and demolish your dreams… You can count on in!

Take for example, the health issue of fat and cholesterol in your diet.

It’s easy to eat well…Right?

Is it easy not to?…Right

And when you eat that hamburger, you won’t die, will you? No, of course not. But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time will ruin the quality of your life and eventually take you out of your life forever!

Eating a hamburger won’t kill you today, but compound allow those greasy dead animal patties over 10 or 20 years. That one hamburger is just a simple, little error in judgment. But compounded over time, it can and will destroy you!

It’s easy to do
It’s easy not to do.

Either way, The Slight Edge is at work.

You’ve got to CHOOSE which way to go with The Slight Edge. And here is what makes doing the right thing such a hard choice for most people…

The odds are not in your favour!

Did you know that only five percent of people succeed and 95 percent of the people fail, no matter what realm of life or work you’re looking at?

It’s true. Just one out of 20 people will ever achieve their goals in life. That’s how the numbers crunch out; it’s just the way it is.

Back in the early 1950’s the Hartford Insurance Company did a survey of 100 brand new college graduates all approximately 25 years old.

They asked them this question:
“Will you achieve your financial goals within your working lives, within 40 years?” Every single one of them answered ‘Yes!”

Forty years later, in the early 1990’s, the Hartford went back and checked out what had happened to all those now 65 year old people. Here’s what they found:

· One was wealthy
· Four were financially secure
· Six were still working
· 35 were dead
· 54 were ‘dead broke”, having $200 or less left to spend each month after paying off their bills.

Five out of 100 had become successful. That’s only one out of 20.

Why? What was missing for those 95 others? The answer has to do with gravity – and the downward pull of life.

Remember when you were in the fourth grade? It was expected that you’d graduate and go on to the fifth grade, wasn’t it?

Your teachers, your parents and all your classmates expected you to graduate. The whole system was geared to you moving from fourth to fifth to sixth grade and so only. But what if nobody cared whether or not you graduated? What if the entire educational system, our society and culture had absolutely no interest or expectation that kids would ever graduate to the fifth grade? Would you have done it?

If the structure were not in place for children to learn all the fourth grade stuff and pass tests, graduation and moving on and up to the new challenges of fifth grade, only five percent of us would ever do it!

Ask yourself this question:
Where is the expectation and the structure to support me in being a success in y life and work?

The alarming fact is that outside of our formal system of education, which most experts believe to be fatally flawed anyway, there is no expect6ation and no structure for your success – NONE!

We get what we expect… and only five percent of us ever expects to win and keeps on expecting that!

Plus, we have no structure, no system to support us succeeding in life.

Isn’t that heavy!

Well, life is heavy. And it’s heavy because the predominant force in life is gravity and it’s always pulling us down.

It pulls 19 out of 20 people down.

The Slight Edge is a success system anyone can use to break free of the downward pull of life and become the best you can be. Here’s how you can make it work for you.

Your philosophy is the source of your failure or success. And the philosophy I recommend you adopt is The Slight Edge.

What do you think is the key that unlocks the Slight Edge?

‘The Key is Belief”
Belief in yourself.
Belief in Neways
Belief in network distribution
You build belief by gaining knowledge:
There are three ways for your to get this knowledge:
1. Studied knowledge
2. Activity knowledge
3. Modeled knowledge



1. Studied Knowledge
Books, tapes, seminars, trainings; read, listen and attend everything you can, then read listen and attend some more.

Study, read 20 pages of and inspiring information rich book everyday.

When you read Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, a book that took 20 years to write, that interviews the richest and most successful men and women in the world and reveals their 13 success secrets, whose dream are you building?

Read just 20 pages a day of an empowering book.

Is that easy to do? Sure.

Listen to a self improvement Audio CD for 15 minutes every day. Is it easy not to do? Do a self-improvement seminar or training every few months. If you don’t have the time to do that, because you’re playing softball every Tuesday and Thursday night, you just don’t get it! If your bowling average is over 180, you’re loosing your Edge right now!

Skip the bowling league. Take a class instead.
Is that easy to do?…
Is it easy not to do?
Studied knowledge for prospecting:
Read the prospecting books, listen to the tapes on prospecting, attend seminars and trainings where recruiting is taught and practiced.


John Kalench’s “17 secrets of the Master Prospectors” and Tom Schreiter’s “Big Al” series are great books. Read 20 pages of one every day.

Go to every meeting and training you can. Attend every company opportunity meeting, every leadership training, and all your upline’s and downline’s meetings.


2. Activity Knowledge
Life is not a spectator sport: Lead, follow or get out of the way. Life is the process. The road to success is always under construction. Just do it.

“What’s the one thing I can do to guarantee my success?”

My answer is always the same: Be here, actively immersed in the process one year from now.

Commit to the process
The process IS the Slight Edge
Is it easy to do?…
Is it easy not to do?…
It’s up to you!!!

Do three-ways with your up-line so you can get feedback and make adjustments in your presentation and communication skills. Tape your presentation and review the tapes, again to make adjustments. Review your “pitch” over and over until it’s as natural as breathing.

Above all Prospect, Prospect, Prospect. Activity knowledge comes only from, guess what?…

Activity.


3. Modeled Knowledge
Did you know that your income will tend to be the average of your ten best friends’ income? (if having more income is a goal of yours, either get new friends or raise the income of the friends you have now!)

If you want to raise e the quality of your life, hang out with people who have been there and done that.

If you want to be a great public speaker, hang out with great public speakers. If you want to be a terrific parent, spend lots of time with men and women who have mastered parenting.

It’s called the Law of Association. It’s a Law, because it always works.

The First Commandment of The Slight Edge: Thou shalt educate thyself.

Is it easy to do? Is it easy not to do? And if you don’t do it, will you fail today6? But that simple error in judgment, compounded over time will absolutely, positively, guarantee your failure!

Do whatever it takes to soak up as much mentoring as possible…then do more!

Clearly we live in a world of change. Constant change.

Today, we accomplish in five years what our grandparents and parents took 50 years to do. And everything’s getting faster.

Learning to learn is mandatory for success today and especially, for tomorrow.

Learning to learn is committing to the process.

Choose to read 20 pages a day, and you’ll have to make that choice every day.

Choose to model and associate with winners, and you’ll have to make that choice every day as well.

You have to choose to make The Slight Edge work for you, moment to moment.

Is it easy to do?
Is it easy not to do?

Ask your new 'New Neways Member' to complete a brief outline of what The Slight Edge means to them.

Failure will never overtake you
IF
Your determination to succeed is strong enough.

By Jeff Olson