Sean Rasmussen

Darby stands as illustration to both failure in the face of temporary defeat and success in the face of persistence. In the end, we are able to look back with Napoelon Hill and learn how each instance had an effect on Darby’s ultimate financial success.

“After Mr. Hill described to Mr. Darby the power the girl unwittingly used on his uncle, Darby quickly reassessed his thirty years as a life insurance salesman, and frankly acknowledged that his success in that field was due, in large part, to the lesson he had learned from the child.

Darby pointed out: “every time a potential customer tried to bow me out, without buying, I saw that child standing there in the old mill, her big eyes glaring in defiance, and I said to myself, ‘I’ve got to make this sale.’ The majority of all the sales I have made were made after people had said ‘No’.”

Darby did acknowledge his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold; “but,” he said, “that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”

Work Through Your Obstacles

To be sure, that is a lesson that must be learned by all who will succeed and become wealthy. Perhaps with our help you’ll be able to forgo learning the lesson the ‘hard way’ like Darby did, and learn it instead from these pages. Either way, as I’ve said before, working through obstacles and temporary defeat is empowering; once you know you can succeed by pushing forward, success is quick to come.

I will see you back here Monday and Thursday every week for the continuation of the Mindset Mastery series.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008

Picking up where we left off with Darby and his Uncle, let’s see what happens next.

“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 all debts. Then they would make a killing in big profits.

“The drills went down as the hopes of Darby and his Uncle excitedly went up! Then something happened. The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was gone! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again–to no avail.”

Journey To Wealth Creation

These are the times that every one of us is destined to face on our journey to wealth creation. These times are the true test of our ‘metal’ so to speak. And what you choose to do in times like these is what separates you—makes you the one who succeeds to go on to build great wealth, or makes you fail and continue to struggle in financial stress.

Let’s remember what Napoleon Hill said was one of the biggest reasons people fail to get rich…”…they quit when faced with temporary defeat.”

So did Darby and Uncle let temporary defeat put an end to their success? We’ll find out soon enough…

I will see you back here Monday and Thursday every week for the continuation of the Mindset Mastery series.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2008