Get iCloud contacts on my mac

Ok im sure there must be a simple solution here. I am trying to sync everything on icloud with outlook mac, contacts/cal/notes etc, but I believe outlook will only sync with what is on my mac. Everything is in icloud and in my mac address book, i have nothing 'on my mac' its all in 'icloud'. Can someone please tell me how I sync with 'icloud' and 'on my mac'? 

Calendars can be listed either under 'On My Mac' - these, as you might expect, are stored on your Mac and cannot be synced with iCloud - or under 'iCloud', meaning that they live on the iCloud server and are read from there by your Mac and other devices (it's not really syncing as such, though people use that term as a matter of course).
Outlook can only sync with 'On My Mac' calendars, so you can't sync any one calendar with both it and iCloud.

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