Dig Deeper

Whether it is gold you are looking for or diamond or water, it is important to note that they are not laid bare for you to find. If they were laid bare, everybody would be rich. The difference between the rich and the poor, therefore, lies in the ability to dig deeper and discover what one is looking for. Our success in life is anchored on our ability to dig deeper and deeper until we find what we are looking for.

What this implies is that to achieve anything worthwhile, we must endeavour to strive and keep striving until we achieve it. We should never be tired or discouraged, we must keep digging deeper and deeper until we discover our goldmine.

An incident happened some time ago in a locality in Nigeria which vividly explains the need to persevere and never to give up until we achieve whatever we want to achieve. The incident is about a man who hired a workman to sink a borehole for him. After the contract was sealed and the workman was paid part of the payment, the workman took two boys along with him and they started digging.

They dug and dug and dug, bringing out mountains of sands of different colours – red, grey, brown, light brown, milk colour, white and even stones. They kept digging deeper and deeper. At a stage, they came across a pool of water which, according to them, was not the real water. They drew out the water and kept digging, yet there was no sign of water.

Discouraged, the workman informed his paymaster: “Oga, the way we normally do this our work is that if we keep digging and we still cannot find water, we will stop there and abandoned the borehole.”

Displeased by the workman’s lame excuse, the paymaster warned him that he would not take it lightly with him if he abandoned the job without completing it.

The workman had no choice than to take the two other boys with him to the borehole site to resume digging the borehole. Surprisingly, after digging for a few hours, they found water!

There are great lessons to learn here. Let us discuss just two great lessons we can learn from the above story. The two lessons are:

1. You Are Closer to Success than You Think 

The fact is, we fail many a time not because we lack the ability to succeed, but because we quit too soon. You are not a loser because you lost. You have not lost because you were defeated. You become a loser only when you quit. They only moment you become a loser is when you quit.

“QUITTERS NEVER WIN AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT,” says Napoleon Hill, author of the bestselling motivational book, THINK AND GROW RICH. What will guarantee your success in life is your willingness to persevere until you win.

If you are doing the best you can and it appears you are not making any headway, never be discouraged. Keep digging. Just when you are contemplating quitting, that is when you should hold on and never give up. This is because you are closer to success than you think.

In the above story, the borehole diggers, after digging and digging and digging and did not find water, became discouraged. They started making plan to abandon the borehole and quit. Little did they know that they were at the verge of finding the water. If they knew they were closer to the water, they would not think of quitting.

Many a time, we come very close to success, but because of discouragement, tiredness and frustration, we quit! Nearer so close, but victory so far, just because we quit!

The lesson we can learn from the borehole digger is that IT IS ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT. We get discouraged most times when we don’t succeed at the time we badly want success. Another reason we get discouraged is that we always expect to succeed at the shortest possible time. And when success doesn’t happen as soon as we expect, we lose hope and quit.

The fact is, that some time we succeed soon or sooner than we expect, and some other time, it may take longer time before we succeed. Pastor Robert H. Schuller, who started his church, Crystal Cathedral, with his wife, children and with the sum of $500, and grew it to a large church, said: “SUCCESS IS NEVER ENDING; FAILURE IS NEVER FINAL.”

Success may or may not come when you expect it. You don’t have to bother yourself over “how” and “when” success will welcome. Success won’t always come to you; you have to work your way to meet it. Of course, you should expect to succeed at the shortest possible time, but if you fail to succeed at the shortest possible time, don’t be discouraged, and don’t quit.

You may be tempted to say: “I’ve been doing the best I can and yet success seems to be a mirage. If I try it this time and I don’t succeed, I will never try again.” There may come a time when you will feel like abandoning your project, business, education, job or contract. But you know what? Anytime we start contemplating quitting, we should realise that discouragement is setting in.

And the reason you must not be discouraged is that you are closer to success than you think. It might be that one more effort that you put in may earn you the success you are craving for.

2. It is Unusual for a Successful Man to Quit 

The second lesson to learn is that successful people never quit. To a successful person, quitting is unusual, it is unheard of. A successful man does not quit no matter the weight of the odds that are piled up against him. At the worst moment of defeat, he looking for victory.

The distinguishing factor between a successful man and the unsuccessful man is PERSEVERANCE. It is your ability to endure the blows of failure, defeat and frustration that life deals at you, and your ability to persevere until life hands over to you what you demand of it, that will make you a successful man.

But if you can no longer endure the blows that life is dealing at you, then, you are at the verge of quitting. You will always find unsuccessful people who quit, but you can never find a successful man who quits. Quitting is not associated with successful people; it is associated with unsuccessful people.

The question life is asking you is: “Will you quit or will you keep digging deeper and deeper until you find the treasure you are looking for?”

QUITTING IS NOT THE SOLUTION; IT IS PERSEVERANCE THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!

Do you want to be super successful? Then, never, never quit. Remember, LIFE WILL NOT GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT UNTIL YOU PAY FOR IT. Life is neither a generous donor nor a Father Christmas. The price you will pay to force life to hand over to you what you want is to dig deeper and deeper. It takes perseverance to do so.

With perseverance, success is certain. But without perseverance, it is impossible to succeed. Make up your mind today that you will never quit but will continue to dig deeper and deeper and deeper until you eventually find your treasure.

Finally, remember dear reader, that it is always too early to quit. You are closer to success than you think. You are at the threshold of success. You have gone a long way. The distance between you and success is far shorter than the distance you have traversed in your journey to success.

Just one more effort could make the difference! Get back to work and roll up your sleeves again. Dig deeper and deeper one more time and you will surely find the treasure you are looking for.

Until I come your way soon, go and live victoriously!

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