How to deal with temporary defeat

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.