The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life

The book was in excellent condition (like new) and had no signs of prior use. This was one of the quickest deliveries of a book purchased used through the store. I would highly recommend using the same seller. The Slight Edge is one of the best books on getting ahead in your personal and professional life.

This is the perfect book if you hang with losers, fat people and poor people. It will teach you how a simple error in judgement hanging around these kinds of people will ruin your life. so by hanging with such people a compound effect will happen to you. Over time you will become a loser, overweight or poor minded. So stop hanging with losers, put down the junk, and start reading the slight edge.

This book amplifies the concepts of all other books. Once you listen, you too might agree that this is one of the most inspiring, and practical books ever written. I have recently purchased ten books on tape to share with my clients. A must read!

Just a brief note from someone who is the ultimate skeptic of personal development books, or any book smelling like one: The Slight Edge is, and has been, very useful to me. I've heard the messages in this book a hundred times, but this time they've finally clicked. I think because they're so realistically presented.

Yes, you will fail sometimes. That's part of life and part of the road to success. The people you most admire for being successful, have failed many times. If you just take little bites of the problem, you too can succeed with hard work over time.

Very realistic messages. Thank you for this book, Jeff Olson.

Jeff Olson has done everyone on our planet a great service by providing a terrific insight into how to survice life and prosper. His understanding of life, and being able to present it by means of simple examples, can help people put their lives back on the right track. Mr. Olson explains that each of us is where we are today based upon the decisions/choices we have made in the past and are makeing every single day. Every decision counts. What is also vital to the health of every individual is to DECIDE on a "Main Goal or Purpose for their Life" and to work each day to achieve that main goal, that Dream. A dream which defines their life's DESTINY.

Robert Turra
Success Coach and President
Paradigm Strategies International

I love this book! Great read, very insightful! Its important to know how to have
a slight edge for success! Every little step towards success counts! My mastermind book
is reading this right now, its awesome!

I created an the store account to purchase the above titled book. I am very happy with my service from the store in getting to review the book, order the book and receive the book within a few days of ordering this book from the store. Also, I liked the price of the book.
I am reading this book because it was suggested to me by a couple of my family members. I will say that due to work etc. I have not finished reading this book yet, but I am enjoying Jeff Olson as an author. I would recomend using the store to anyone wanting a book that they cannot find in book stores. Also, I would recomend this book.

Clearly states the facts albeit repeatedly since human beings know this anyway, yet it seems we need the message said over & over in various ways. I did with a study group for business and it was good to get the perspective of others because I would not have felt it was that deep. The repeating message and style of writing made me question the choice of the book for a study group, yet as the title states it is important to realize the slight edge is of more importance than the BIG quantum leaps in life.

First of all, they sent me a completely different book than they advertised. I was supposed to get the original version and they sent me some kind of "revised edition" instead. Secondly, I ordered a "new" book, and they sent a book that had clearly been used (Both damaged corners and bent pages). So not only did I not get the book I wanted (the one they advertised) but the version they did send me was in a worse condition than advertised. Very deceitful. Stay away.

The slight edge is another self help book talking about how to improve your life. The main idea behind it is to do the small differences to start the big path.
Good examples for it are:
- Read 10 pages a day
- Start with a ten minute run for the first time

The slight edge is a term mentioned all along the book referring to the impact these small steps do. I really believe in them, because eventually these small everyday steps makes each ones capability to enhance slightly, but after several weeks/month/years they are huge gaps from the starting point.

The author introduction summaries the main idea of the book and is very effective. Other than that the book though thin is mostly a repetition of this mantra. It simply goes around and around supplying the same thing again and again.
I've seen very good recommendation for this book, and I believe it is worth them if it is the first self help book read.

Slight edge is a terminology worth learning and practicing

I've found a book that could literally change your life, improving it by .01% at a time. I read The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life by Jeff Olson and feel confident saying that if you read it, and grasp the concept that you can change any aspect of your life - professional, relationships, finances, health and on and on - through consistent, gradual, incremental progress, you could be in a completely different place in 30, 60, and 90 days from today.

Sound revolutionary? Probably not. But, this book could be the companion text for any other self-improvement path you're on. It's not an easy read, per se. It doesn't have a ton of examples or personal stories, which always helps keep my interest and keep me reading. However, what The Slight Edge may lack in liveliness or personal testimonial, it makes up in usefulness, the possibility for immediate practical application, and the universal nature of the techniques. There's no fluff, no hype, and no "get rich quick" applications (or get thin quick, or get promoted quick...). Solid, proven, dependable, and necessary - those are the best descriptions for the "secret" to success.

This book is still being adopted as a text in companies (and field teams) around the country - and it's a 4-year-old book! Success-driven groups have experienced incredible results by instilling the principles.

The very simple, common sense message inspires you to change the little things in your life daily.
Incorporating it widely in an organization can harness that power and help the group as a whole, as much as it helps the individuals.

The question The Slight Edge answers is "How do some people make dream after dream come true, while others spend their lives building dreams for someone else?" Olson's premise is that the people who achieve their dreams are gauging every choice on whether it serves their goals. That awareness of the slight edge (or advantage) they give themselves daily when making small, seemingly insignificant decisions.

Because it truly leads the reader to reflect on their life, where they are, how they got there, and what choices they can make daily to get to where they want to go, I recommend this book to anyone who aspires to be more, accomplish more, experience more, or have "more" in their life. The path to it is taking responsibility daily for correcting your course bit-by-bit, step-by-step, to get where you want to be.

read the glowing reviews of this book and had hopes of feeling similarly inspired by it, but it didn't have that much of an impact on me.

Jeff Olson offers some simple, sensible, helpful and constructive advice to his readers, and it's presented with friendly intent, but there is nothing new. The book starts off with the promise, not that we are going to discover new techniques for personal success, but that we will learn a new way to use the techniques we already have. I kept waiting for this 'new way' to be presented. Olson's basic premise is that small actions taken over time add up to big effects, and that taking some kind of action, however small, is better than doing nothing. Good advice, but not original. The book started to feel overlong quite early on, and I skimmed through the latter half because I felt I was reading the same information and ideas over and over again. Olson does make the point that making life changes involves paying a price - a fact that many self-development writers gloss over, and the most constructive bit of advice in the book, I feel.

A well-inentioned book that promises something different but takes a long time to say the same thing.

The Slight Edge is about the simple decisions in our lives that over time have a profound effect on who we are and where we are, and the compounding effect that our daily decisions have. The idea is that the decisions which can greatly improve our lives are both simple to do, and simple not to do.

One example of this which the author gives is healthy eating habits. If I eat a slice of pizza today instead of a plate of vegetables, it isn't going to make me unhealthy. But if I eat pizza every day instead of vegetables, over time I would become very unhealthy. Likewise over time I would become very healthy if I chose the vegetables.

There are many areas we can apply this principle: relationships, our prayer life, daily bible study, daily reading of positive and enriching material, financial decisions, exercise, etc. All of these areas are very easy to maintain, but they're also easy to neglect if we aren't disciplined and determined to keep them up. It is very easy to brush my daughter's hair, but it would also be easy not to brush her hair. On day one, the difference might be hardly noticeable, but over time it will become very obvious which decision has been made on a continual basis.

For me, one simple decision I have made is to read every day, usually a book on either relationships or finances. I have definitely noticed a great leap in maturity since I've started to read these types of materials on a daily basis.

Very good concept. Since chapters were very valuable, and others were really repetitive. Very wordy. The author doesn't write in a very efficient way. The book could have been written in about a third of the length and it would have been more value for the time invested in reading. It's a good book. You just might get frustrated by the repetition and stop reading before the end.

It has great thoughts. Some of them sound old and outdated, almost not applicable anymore. But you think about the results of this ideas from the past and compare them with those of today's beliefs and come to the bitter realization that those things that form a good character are the ones that actually lead you to a successful life. Very challenging. I already started to adopt some of the philosophy taught in this book and when I think I have them down, I know I'll have to read it again and get whatever I haven't learned yet. It was a little hard for me to read because the author conveys so much in this little book.

This is truly a book I would recommend to anyone...and the only reason I would ever recommend a book is if it's had significant, real personal impact on my life in practical ways...and this book has done just that. It's caused me to be more consciously aware of the slight edge when making small, seemingly insignificant decisions throughout the day.

Jeff doesn't necessarily offer up a new philosophy or idea in this book. But he uncovers the simple, eternal truths about success and failure, and he calls it the "slight edge": simplified disciplines (good or bad) compounded over time. This principle, which is true to everyone, everywhere, can be recognized and applied to EVERY area of life.

He explains how our society has been inundated with what he calls the "breakthrough mentality": how we expect success and completion to come easily and quickly. He breaks down the slight edge and how it affects your financial prosperity, health, relationships, etc. This book really causes you to look at your life, where you're at, how you got there, and the choices you can make daily to get to where you want to go.

I have read the book, I have listened to the audiobook. I will continue to refer back to it's principles.

Bottom Line: It's easy reading, it's practical, it's useful. It's not fluff or hype, but it's written by a realist who knows what it is to fail, and what it takes to succeed greatly. Not only would I recommend this to everyone (which I RARELY ever do for a book), but if I was in charge of things, I would make this a required text in high schools.

Out of thousands of personal development books on the market, this is definately one of the TOP 5. I had just finished reading Achievement by David Byrd, and this book by Jeff Olson seemed like the logical "next-step."
Anyone who has ever achieved anything great will tell you that they read about ONE such book EVERY WEEK! I know now that this holds true.
The Slight Edge gives you simple step-by-step instructions on how to apply it in your life and your business to totally change EVERYTHING. Follow Jeff's "10 Core Committments" and you will gain The Slight Edge over everyone else!

Having recently joined a networking group, I was given a copy of The Slight Edge to read. It is compendium of positive daily steps and attitudes to feed success, instead of failure - as we so often do when left to our own devices.

Olson explains how small daily tasks can make or break our outcomes when compounded over time, and he reminds readers that the rhythm of nature is to plant, cultivate and then harvest; not plant and jump to harvest.

The Slight Edge is a book I highly recommend for shifting perception from one of survivor to one of thriver.

I listened to the audio version of this book first. After my first time, I wanted to understand every tiny part of it, so I listened to it several times in my car. Then, I wanted to highlight certain aspects of it, so I read the book so I could highlight information that was most important to me. I have been reading self-help, personal development books for over 30 years. This is THE most useful one I have ever read. I would have gained more from the others if I had read this one first (of course it had not been written yet!) If you are interested in personal development and/or helping yourself become successful in any part of your life, this little book is the first one you should buy. It is definately life changing!

What an awesome book. If you are intersted in finding success, this is the book to read. Jeff Olson is a gifted writer and has given me a new insight on how to respond to my choices in life. Thanks for sending this book so quickly, I will be purchasing several to send to family and friends. I am keeping this one for myself!!

This is a fabulous little book that gives you great insight into what it takes to be successful while you're not looking. It's the little things in life that matter, not the big stuff. Make small, slight edge changes, and watch the power of compounding in your life!

Just about finished reading The Slight Edge. Very useful information in making an impact in my life as I put into place some of the suggestions outlined. Certainly a book which I will revert back to often to remind me of the concept of using the Slight Edge to my advantage!

Jeff Olsen greatly simplifies the life of success into doing simple things everyday. Jeff's methods teach patience; as Rome wasn't built in a day neither will a successful life but the rewards are oh so great.

This book is very inspirational. Makes you realize that sometimes we are just a step away from becoming better or the best we can become if just push ourselves forward. We are just steps away from becoming as successful as we want to if we just reach the slight edge!
Great HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

This book changed my life. Jeff Olsen's teaching in this book really helped me to understand the importance of stick-to-it-ness in business and personal matters. After I read this book, I was able to stick to my workout regimen that I had been struggling with, and I lost about 20lbs. Whenever I don't feel like doing the things that I know are necessary in order to achieve my goals, I think about the slight edge curve - do I want it to go up or down. This principle will stay with me forever.

This book changed my life , now I read almost everyday few pages of great books.

"Successful People Do What Unsuccessful People Are Not Willing to DO !" ---(Quote from the Book)

Thank you
Naman

I love this book! It should be required reading for high school graduation, so that they don't have to spend like 30 years monkeying around like I did before developing the brain cells to really enjoy a successful life.