Three Feet From Gold
One of the common cause of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaking by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake 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 heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of man than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard,but lust for gold was definite.
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 few neighbors of the "Strike". They got together money for the needed machinery, 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 thet ore would clear the debts. then would come the big killing in profit.
Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! then sometime happened! The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer then! 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 junk man for a few hundred dollars and took the train back home. Some "junk" men are dumb, but not his one! He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do little calculation. the engine advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with "fault line". His calculations showed that the vein would be found JUST THREE FEET FROM WHERE THE DARBYS HAD STOPPED DRILLING! That is exactly were it was found!
The "junk" man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he know enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.
Most of the money which went into the machinery was procured through the efforts of R.U.Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives and neighbors, because of there faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, although he was years in doing so.
Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discovery that DESIRE can be transmuted into gold. The discovery came after he went into the business of selling life insurance.
Remembering that he lost a huge fortune, because he STOPPED three feet from gold, Darby profited by the simple method of saying to himself, "I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say "NO" when I ask them to buy insurance".
Darby is one of small group of fever than fifty men who sell more than a million dollars in life insurance annually.He owes his "stickability" to the lesson he learned from his "quitability" in gold mining business.
Befor success come in any man's life , he is sure the meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical, thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what th majority of men do.
Millions of most successful men has ever known, told that greatest success com just one step beyond the point at which defeat had over taken them. Failure is trickster which a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost with ion reach.
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