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by Sharon L. Lechter CPA
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In the early twentieth century, a man named R.U. Darby caught gold fever. He was living in Colorado when the rush hit, and like thousands of others, he staked a claim and began digging. The work was brutal. Week after week, Darby and his uncle swung pickaxes into stubborn rock, driven by the conviction that they were close to a fortune.
**Author:** Sharon L. Lechter CPA
**Estimated Reading Time:** 42 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why most people give up just before they succeed - How to build your personal Success Equation - The difference between opinions and wise counsel - How to develop a Positive Mental Attitude that survives setbacks - Why your associations determine your destiny - How to turn failure into your greatest teacher - The role of faith and action in achieving breakthrough results
**Who This Book Is For:**
Anyone who has ever felt stuck, discouraged, or on the verge of giving up. If you have a goal that feels just out of reach, a dream that seems too distant, or a sense that you are capable of more but cannot quite break through, this book was written for you.
In the early twentieth century, a man named R.U. Darby caught gold fever. He was living in Colorado when the rush hit, and like thousands of others, he staked a claim and began digging. The work was brutal. Week after week, Darby and his uncle swung pickaxes into stubborn rock, driven by the conviction that they were close to a fortune. Then it happened. They struck a rich vein of gold ore. The discovery was everything they had hoped for. They quietly covered the vein, borrowed money from family, and purchased the drilling equipment needed to extract the gold at scale. The first carload of ore went to the smelter and confirmed what they believed: they had found one of the richest deposits in Colorado. Then something went terribly wrong. The vein of gold disappeared. The ore that had been flowing so abundantly simply stopped. Darby and his uncle drilled on, desperately searching for the continuation of the vein. They drilled and drilled, but the gold was gone. After exhausting their resources and their hope, they quit. They sold their equipment to a junk man for a few hundred dollars and went home defeated. The junk man, however, was not a quitter. He consulted a mining engineer, who examined the mine and calculated that the vein of gold would be found just three feet from where Darby had stopped drilling. The engineer was right. The junk man extracted millions of dollars in gold from that mine, not because he was smarter or harder working than Darby, but because he understood something Darby did not: success often lies just beyond the point where most people give up. This story, made famous by Napoleon Hill in his classic book Think and Grow Rich, is the foundation upon which Sharon Lechter builds Three Feet from Gold. But Lechter does more than retell an old parable. She takes the timeless principles…
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Get the complete summary in the app**You are three feet from gold.** Success often lies just beyond the point where most people give up. Keep drilling.
**Use the Success Equation.** ((P + T) x A x A) + F. Passion plus Talent, multiplied by Association and Action, plus Fai
**Seek counsel, not opinions.** Get advice from people who have done what you want to do, not from people who love you b
**Choose your associations deliberately.** You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
**Take action now.** You will never feel fully ready. Start where you are, with what you have.
**Develop a Positive Mental Attitude.** Your attitude is a choice. Choose to see opportunities rather than obstacles.
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