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As you know, this month Alvaro and I are "living" in Greece. Alvaro continues its work, and I'm taking advantage to study, read and prepare materials and content for next year.

Just today I finished a book I would like to share with you. I know I usually do not talk about the books I read on the blog, but I think it's good to share the positive experiences, and we believe that they can bring to others as provide us.

The book I read called “The Slight Edge” de Jeff Olson. I read in English, but but I wrong, the title in Spanish is "the slight edge".

Why I will speak of this book?

On the one hand, because I think that most of the books of "personal development" are not entirely unrealistic. Most of these books go round and round on the same to convey a very simple message: "If you're happy with yourself this happiness will be translated into all areas of your life"; "If you want something with force meeting you will end"; etc. I'm not saying they are not powerful messages and real, but I think when it comes to talk about how to achieve our goals we must be a little more realistic.

Throughout my life, my parents have tried to instill the idea that work slowly every day provides more results than do much one day. They, like this book, They treated both my brother and I we apply this philosophy to all areas of our life, and I believe that through it we have not done too badly.

Obviously it is difficult to make arrive, en un solo post, everything this book aims to convey. So what we are going to leave the key ideas, I hope you encourage reading.

The book begins with three stories. Each represents somehow Slight Edge philosophy. I'm not going to tell these stories, because I hope you read the book, but what the author intended them to convey is the idea that Life is full of small decisions, decisions that mark how will our way, decisions that may not see results immediately, but if we continue to take a consistent and constant we will lead us to the result we seek.

That is the main problem the author sees in people who do not put into practice Slight Edge. The 95% people want to see immediate results. With vague aims attempts, achieve a certain goal, and when he sees that you are not able to achieve, they do not see results, then stop trying. But Slight Edge is to work slowly and day. It is to fill our lives with little habits that will make our way to achieve our goals.

This philosophy It can be applied to any area of ​​life: to studies, to work, health, our state physicist. Do you think it is more effective to eat healthily and balanced provided? or to do a timely diet and still eat excessively? Are they better study binge night? o daily studying a little?

Slight Edge actually has invented nothing. As I said earlier, in my house we were brought to this philosophy. But it seems that, even something as obvious, is that not many people wearing it out and rightly someone reminds us.

As I mentioned at the beginning, I do not want to get into too much detail, but I'll leave the main ideas.

• It's how you make the "how", what really matters. If all we knew how to get rich, all we would do, Truth? The question is not should we do, but how we do each.
• The philosophy with which we face life is fundamental to achieving our goals. On the other hand, the objectives of each person and how to reach them is different, so there is no recipe applicable to all.
• Not that what you're doing is wrong, It is to stop it too soon. Many people throw in the towel too soon. We all have cases of fulminant successes. People who rode his first company and became millionaires. But the truth is that most large companies were created after many failures. The trick ": persevering people behind them.

This book picture taken pretty much sums up these two points.

This is as simple as that, a bad philosophy leads you to have a bad attitude, some wrongdoing and, therefore, bad results. And all this, create your life.

• Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do: Take risks. To succeed we must plantar, cultivate and harvest. Sometimes even several times until you have the desired harvest. No people with more or less luck. There are people willing to take more risks.
• What makes successful people? Successful people do not do anything that other people can not do. Successful people do simple things that are at our fingertips, but we have to want to do. Read a book instead of watching TV, continue working when they reach home instead of jumping on the couch ... They are simple things that may at first not see results, but that if we persist and continue making, We end up seeing and reaching our goals. Then, but they are so easy why do people not do? Because just like they are easy to make, They are also easy to do.
• When you see the result, the hard work is already done. In most cases, you look at the results and not the process. Is much the people who hear them say things like,: "Often bombing, It has set up a company and has lined…"But the question is: How long had working on it? Usually, when we see the results, hard work, much of the process, already it has done. And long it had made.
• Never too late to start. It's always late to wait. How many times have we said this phrase. How often have you heard someone. The people who succeed are people who never says "too late". It is people who do not wait for opportunities to reach him, the search, creates. Acts so that the time to act on your behalf, not against you.
• Everything you do matters. What you do every day matters and adds up in your life. That nothing will happen if you do the little things that take you to reach your goal, but if you do it consistently every day, you will see results.

I think this phrase Harvey Mackay, from the book, sums up this idea of ​​time use.

“Time is free, but it’s priceless.

You can’t own it, but you can use it.

You can’t keep it but you can spend it.

Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

• Plant, grown and harvested. It is essential to follow the three steps. Now people want to move from plant to collect directly, and things do not work well. We planted when we started going to the gym, but we must cultivate, constantly keep going to see results, gather.
• Small "disciplines" can lead us to success. Small errors of failure. Therefore, how we take our time is so important.

Fountain: “The Slight Edge”

• That is the greatest gift that life gives us. Nothing happens that you have passed or what you've experienced so far. In the life you choose, You can choose to change your way from now. You can always start from scratch. Always.
• Learn to be patient. When you put time on your side, and you begin to carry out habits that will lead to success, you only need to follow that process long enough to start seeing results, and win.
• No excuses. Start from scratch! Much of the success stories started from scratch. With a simple concept. Una idea. It can! But be willing to risk ...
• To do great things do not have to be "super heroes", we just have to start. The important thing is to do something, start with something. Do you think you can improve your health, your diet, your relationships ...? Starts!! Do not postpone. The hardest thing is to start. So there are people who do not.
• Have you ever said these words ...? "Someday", "I have to wear but now is not a good time", "When you have more time". I'm afraid there's no tomorrow, there is now, today, and if not you do something to change things TODAY, you never will. You are putting. Successful people do not postponed, Acts!
• Neither success nor are instantaneous fall. They are the result of the decisions and the path taken. "Luck" is the result of the efforts made and the path.
• Belief in "the bombing" is dangerous. Because you is holding back when making decisions you should to go the way of success.

• The 7 Slight early Edge:

1. Get going. Sure you have thousands of reasons not to get going, show ... Money, time, but as noted above, start is the hardest.
2. It is consistent. A little every day is what will make you successful. No matter if you do not see results at first, thereby follows. You will see!
3. Have a good attitude. As Winston Churchill said "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference". It is difficult to have a good attitude when society is as it is. Sometimes it seems, even, to have a good attitude is bad, you should be sad and depressed as are the others. ¡No! Do not be afraid to have a good attitude, and if you have to get away from you to those who do not have! They do not add anything.
4. Commit for a long period of time. Just like when we grow we have to wait a long time until the fruits appear. You will have to do the same. The results do not appear immediately. Date Time!
5. Have faith and a desire to achieve your goals. Successful people see opportunities in the problems facing.
6. You are willing to pay the price. Leaders are not born, become. But they are people who are willing to pay the price of being a leader. When you want to go far there are things that must be willing to "suffer".
7. Honesty. It's not what you do when others are watching, They are the little things you do when nobody sees you that you will go far.

• Two ways… Want to be the 5% or 95%?

Fountain: “The Slight Edge”

The main condition of those who are in the 95% is the guilt. They are people who blame their situation to everything and everyone but themselves. Conversely, the main condition which characterizes individuals who are in the 5% is the responsibility. These are people who are responsible for what happens to them and make decisions to solve. They know that there are no excuses, and they know that if they want things done have to make them, that nobody will do for them. The first thing is to be sincere, autoanalicemos and we see where we find us.

• Live with one foot in the past will not change things. The phrase "If things had been different ..." Do not solve anything. We must be practical and get going. The past can not be changed. The future yes.
• When we begin to improve some areas of our lives, others also begin to improve. If you improve your health and your relationships you'll feel better, and that will give you energy to improve other aspects of your life. All aspects of our life are intimately linked.

CONCLUSION.

I do not want to extend more because in the end I'm telling you the book almost complete… 😉 But in conclusion I would say that if we want to be good teachers, Good parents. First we must be good about ourselves. We must not only teach and educate our kids. We must convey a philosophy, a way of life. They should feel that they can do whatever they propose. That can go far. The daily work and effort will pay off. But they must be constant and consistent with their actions. This is what comes to convey "The Slight Edge" and that's what I've tried to convey today.

With this post I leave until early September. "I close" for a couple of weeks 'vacation', in order to fully prepare and polish everything to the beginning of course 😀

A hug and thanks for being there!

Cristina

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”

Ovid

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