How do you know if you're living your life on the Slight Edge?  How can you be sure if you are improving your future...or just perpetuating the present?

Well, besides doing the obvious, daily habits that you are already aware of as necessary for daily improvement in the different areas of your life...

I think being on the Slight Edge should literally feel like you are on the edge.  On the edge of your fears, on the edge of your comfort zone, on the edge of your self-imposed limitations.  I think 99% of the "battle" is realizing that the edge is a good place to be.  The pull of what's comfortable and known wants us to think that the edge is bad, that it's foolish and risky to try things we've never tried before.  But the edge is the best place to be.  The edge is where things happen, growth happens, opportunities happen, epiphanies happen, your better future happens. 

Living on the edge is a lesson in the art of learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.  This is a practice, a skill even, that will take you far.  Remember the Slight Edge: "What's uncomfortable early becomes comfortable later."

Been a while since I watched Cinderella Man, but I was listening to a CD in which someone recounted the story.  It was the Great Depression and James Braddock could not get enough work to support his family.  At one point his kids were sent away because there was no food left.  Determined to change his circumstances he decided to get in the boxing ring against the number one contendor in the world.  When asked why he would fight someone who had viciously killed two other boxers in the ring and could quite possible kill him too, Braddock replied, "I'm doing it for bread and milk."

What represents "bread and milk" for you?  What desire/dream/goal burns you enough to get you in that ring with your weaknesses, fears, and doubts?  You can't overcome what you don't face.  Braddock won that match.  He should have lost.  It would have made more sense if he had lost.  But when the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.  Is your dream big enough?

I discovered this girl in a little story featured about her in Oprah magazine.
She's built a business designing aprons that will really make you feel like you're Queen of the Kitchen even if you don't know how to make anything beyond ramen noodle soup and scrambled eggs!  Up to this point, I've disliked wearing aprons, but these are cute enough to make me convert.  ;)  So, if you see me wearing on of these at the cafe, you know where I got it from.


So neat - she packs each apron up in a homey, mason jar.  How did she start?  By simply doing what she loved - sewing.  And then turning that into a entrepreneurial venture.  You go, girl.  You go.
Check her and her company out at:
Ice Milk Aprons