Here's a true story I read in Sunday's paper.
Coober Pedy is an opal mining town located in the South Australian outback. With soaring temperatures 55 degrees C or more in the shade it's no wonder the 3500 residents choose to live underground.
Mining fortunes are made and lost here in the search for high quality opal.
One miner spent a lifetime looking for the elusive gem, found a little and then after a year of finding nothing packed in his claim.
His neighbour however, kept going.
In the SAME tunnel just seven centimetres away his neigbour found enough opal to quit his mining and purchase two homes in Adelaide.
The lesson?
Sometimes when we feel like quitting we may be only "seven centimetres" from success.
