The most expensive mistake you can make

Hello friend,

There is a classic story from the gold rush days about a man named R.U. Darby.

His uncle went west to dig for gold. He staked a claim and started digging. He found a vein of ore and realized he needed machinery to bring it to the surface. He covered up the mine, went home, raised the money, bought the machinery, and went back.

He dug and dug. The first car of ore was mined and shipped. The returns were huge. He was steps away from millions.

Then... the vein of gold disappeared.

He drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again. Nothing. Finally, he quit. He sold the machinery to a "junk man" for a few hundred dollars and took the train home in defeat.

The junk man called in a mining engineer to look at the mine. The engineer calculated that the project had failed because the first owners were not familiar with "fault lines." His calculation showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darby family had stopped drilling.

The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine.

Darby stopped three feet from gold.

This happens to almost everyone. You have a big dream. You start working. You hit the "Dip." Things get hard. The results stop showing up. You think, "This isn't working," and you quit.

Usually, you are right on the verge of the breakthrough. The darkest part of the night is right before the dawn.

Persistence is not just stubbornness. It is faith in action. It is the ability to maintain your vision when the physical reality looks messy.

The more you read my emails, the more success you will have in building the mental muscle of endurance. You will learn to look at a setback and say, "This is just a test. I’m passing it."

You will be grateful for having clicked the links in my email because this path is paved for the long haul, helping you push through the dips that stop everyone else.

Don't stop digging. Find your gold mine here.

Now, sometimes the thing holding us back isn't a lack of persistence. It's that we are carrying too much heavy luggage. You can't fly a jet if you have an anchor tied to the wing.

Reply and tell me: Have you ever quit something, only to see someone else succeed at the exact same thing later?

Keep digging,

Bradley Woods