This blog post is part of a series from the tremendous book The Slight Edge.
It’s amazing.   To see my introduction, click here.

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The Slight Edge V

You Must make it specific, give it a deadline, and write it down.
You Must look at it Everyday.
You Must have a plan to Start

Living the Slight Edge

Set a specific and measurable goal in a couple areas of your life.

Damnit – Do it!

Now I’m going to ask you to make a simple roadmap for each one, consisting of three elements: 1) your dreams for that area, expressed as goal—specific, vivid, and with a timeline; 2) a simple plan to start (siiimmmpplle); and 3) one simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each and every day from now on.

Step One: Write it Down
  The most critical skill for achieving success in any area whatsoever – from sports to high finance, radiant health to fulfilling relationships- is the skill of envisioning. Envisioning something simply means having the ability to create vivid picture of something that hasn’t factually happened yet.  To make that picture so vivid that it feels real.

Speaking it out loud to another person is the most powerful of all. But at the very least, write it down.  Make your dreams more concrete: what and when.

Step Two: Look at It Every Day
After faith and a burning desire, the third factor Napoleon Hill found when studying 500-plus of the most successful men and women of his day was what he called autosuggestion: the power of regularly, consistently telling and retelling yourself what your goals are. He found that on average, achievers did this twice a day—every day – searing it into the subconscious..

We also need to surround ourselves with messages that tell you that your dreams are real, your dreams are real, your dreams are real.  Not only are they possible: they are inevitable.

Step Three: Start with a Plan
The point is not to come up with the brilliant blueprint that is guaranteed to take you all the way to the finish line. The point is simply to come up with a plan that will get you out of the starting gate.

There is no perfect plan.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.  Do the FIRST THING.  Don’t try to figure it all out.   But absolutely and positively DO IT.   Hell, it can even be to “think of an idea.”   As long as take action on specific and dedicated time to coming up with the idea.

If you want twice the success, double your rate of failure.  You need a First Plan so you can get to your Second Plan, so you can get to your Third Plan, so you can get to your Fourth Plan.

Just stay at it.  Slightly changing things.  Over and over.

In that great classic of personal development, As a Man Thinketh, James Allen put it this way:

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration.

Nineteen times out of twenty there is no single big, significant answer. It is the little things, day by day, that add up over time to unshakable contentment or unsalvageable misery.  Successful people don’t look for shortcuts, nor they hope for the “big break.”

Habit#1: Show Up

Habit#2 :Be Consistent

Habit#3: Have a Positive Outlook

Habit#4: Be Committed for the Long Haul

Farmers know that they have to wait a full season to reap their harvests.

Habit#5: Cultivate a Burning Desire Backed by Faith

Most people wish for big things but can’t really see themselves getting them. The few who achieve great things are those who not only passionately wanted to achieve them but also clearly see themselves achieving them.

Habit#6: Be Willing to Pay the Price

Remember this: whatever price you pay, there’s a bigger price to pay for not doing it than the price for doing it.

Habit #7: Practice The Slight Edge Integrity

While everyone has different approach to goal setting, there are three simple, fundamental steps you need to take for you dreams to turn into reality. Everyone who has created success, whether or not consciously framed it this way or used this specific language to describe them, has gone through some version of these three steps. They are the three universal steps to reaching for a big dream.

Nineteen times out of twenty there is no single big, significant answer. It is the little things, day by day, that add up over time to unshakable contentment or unsalvageable misery.  Successful people don’t look for shortcuts, nor they hope for the “big break.”

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