 Are you three feet from gold in your engineering career? In these Monday morning motivators we strive to inspire engineers to become better managers and leaders and in this week's motivator I want to talk about a story called three feet from gold now you can google this story and you can read all about it but essentially it's about a group of men that were digging for gold and they were very close just a few feet away but they decided to quit sell their equipment to someone else and that gentleman became very wealthy this is very applicable to an engineering career because there's going to be many times that you're so close to being successful yet you get tired and maybe you give up maybe you didn't pass the PE exam the first two times but you're going to pass it on the third if you just keep studying and being determined and being focused maybe you thought you were going to get promoted to project management level two but you didn't keep going you may just be months away now what i will say about this is if you're going to keep pursuing a goal kind of put your head down and be very determined you do want to try to measure your progress i mean if you didn't pass the PE exam twice and you were nowhere close that doesn't mean you're going to pass the third time if you were passed over for a project manager promotion why not ask your boss am i a year away six months away or two or three years away so you can understand the realistic timeline of these goals but the three feet from gold story is still a good one because if you put time effort energy maybe even money into something and you're close it doesn't make sense to give up just make sure that you know how close you really are have a great week and please subscribe to our youtube channel here we do put out videos like this on a regular basis to help engineers become great leaders