I Wish ….. Three Feet From Gold
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
I Wish ……Three Feet From Gold
We would be very rich indeed if we got a dollar for everytime we heard this expression …..
Everyone single one of us wishes for something in their lives whether that be better health, better wealth, more money, to be slimmer etc etc
But here’s the thing …… you have to do more than wish. You have to take action to get from where you are to where you want to be. It just isn’t going to happen any other way. We are none of us any different – the thing that makes the difference is having a BIG reason why and that is what will drive the action to go beyond the wish and on a journey to achieve whatever it is that you wish.
There has to be a motivating factor that changes “I wish I could …..” to “I will ……”
By co-incidence we are reading Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill at the moment and he talks about how late autumn 1923 he was without money, without a plan and couldn’t see a way to work out the difficulties he was in – he was in fact in his words “totally at sea as to what I could or should do ….. I felt like one who was lost in jungle without a compass. Every attempt I made to work my way out bought me back to the original starting point” …… “my experience has taught me that a man is never quite so near success as when that which he calls ‘failure’ has overtaken him ….. he discovers that so-called failure usually is nothing more than a signal to re-arm himself with a new plan or purpose”
We call this the reason why.
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. A negative mind-set and self doubt can be the primary obstacle to success.
With the current economic downturn, far too many people who have, all their life, done everything right are now, for the first time, facing severe economic adversity. The greatest barrier to their recovery is their own fear and self-doubt instilled by their recent experience.
Have you allowed the current economic downturn to overtake you? Have self-doubt and self sabotage held you back from reaching your dreams? Are you your own worst enemy?
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill told the story of R. U. Darby, a gold prospector. Frustrated when a rich vein of gold apparently ran out, Darby sold his gold claim for a pittance to the town junkman. The junkman brought in the right expert advisers and found Darby would have re-discovered the vein – had he moved his digging by a mere three feet! Had Darby persevered he would have made his fortune, but he gave up and abandoned his dream – when he was only three feet from gold. Rather than being crushed by his error, Darby learned from his experience and went on to build an insurance empire.
So our question to you is “will you abandon your quest just before reaching great success, when you are only three feet from gold?”
Will you stop wishing and just get on with it?
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