No matter how successful you become you still need to be able
to handle setbacks and short-term obstacles. 
Otherwise your motivation will fade away to nothing.
In this article 
we learn how to deal with temporary defeat...
Three Feet From Gold
by N.Hill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of 
quitting when one is overtaken by TEMPORARY DEFEAT. Every 
person is guilty of this at one time or another.
An uncle of R.U.Darby was caught by the "gold fever" in the 
gold-rush days, and went west to dig and grow rich. He had 
never heard that 'more gold has been mined from the 
thoughts of men than has ever been taken from the earth'. 
He staked his claim and went to work with pick and shovel.
After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of 
the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to 
the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his 
footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his 
relatives and a few neighbors of the 'strike'.
They got together the money for the needed machinery, and 
had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to work the 
mine.
The first car of ore was mined and shipped to a smelter. 
The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in 
Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the 
debts. Then would come the big killing in profits.
Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! 
Then something happened. The vein of gold ore disappeared! 
They had come to end of the rainbow and the pot of gold was 
no longer there. They drilled on, desperately trying to 
pick up the vein again - all to no avail.
Finally, they decided to QUIT.
They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred 
dollars, and took the train back home. The junk man called 
in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little 
calculating. The engineer advised that the project had 
failed because the owners were not familiar with "fault 
lines".
His calculations showed that the vein would be found just 
three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That 
is exactly where it was found!
The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine 
because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving 
up.
FAILURE is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and 
cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when 
success is almost within reach.
You are even closer to a personal breakthrough than you can 
imagine. If you only knew the difference some powerful new 
motivation strategies will make you would feel a chill 
running up your back.
Enjoy!
Peter Murphy
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Remember. You are only three feet from gold.
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