Success in anything is easy. It’s doing small and simple things continuously over time. The problem: these simple things are easy not to do.
I just finished reading ‘The Slight Edge’ by Jeff Olson, which I now consider to be one of my top 10 favorite books. The main point of the book: Success is easy; but so is failure. What is great is that we have the freedom to choose which path to take.
As we’ve gone through many times before, true success requires personal and professional development. Be careful here though; reading one book like ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ or attending a leadership seminar is not enough. If it were, you would see many more successful people in the world due to how many leadership books get sold and how many people are attending leadership seminars.
Success requires reading good books on success, and listening to good information. It also requires the slight edge principle that Jeff Olson tells us about.
The slight edge is about doing simple things consistently over time. (more…)