I’m sure that you have seen a micrometer at one time or another. It’s a very fancy sounding name for a very simple little instrument. The micrometer is a little screw gauge, which allows you to measure up to very fine limits, in fact, you can measure to one thousandth of an inch accurately.
When I first saw a micrometer I wondered why on earth anyone would want to measure to such fine limits and then I read about a building that collapsed killing large number of people and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. An inquiry into the accident revealed that it was due to a miscalculation in thousandths of an inch.
Apparently the building had been assembled with iron girders without making sufficient allowance for the expansion and contraction of the beams. Due to changes in the temperature and a difference of thousandths of an inch, it caused a girder to snap and the building to fall and a large number of people to be killed.
Such a narrow margin, such a tiny margin between the stability of a strong building and the failure of a tumbling building, and I thought to myself – how similar this it to our own lives. There is such a small margin sometimes between success and failure.
Success Could Be in the Next Moment
We all know individuals and organizations who have worked for years struggling in development or building toward an objective and then just when the objective appeared to be in sight, they ran out of faith, hope and strength and abandoned their project right when they were on the verge of success.
Henry Austin once said “There is no failure save in giving up.” There is such a tiny margin between success and failure, and it is only your determination which can bridge that tiny margin of a few thousandths of an inch– one more try that will lead from seeming failure to abundant success, and so many people give up just when success was theirs for the asking.
The micrometer measures down to thousandths of an inch and you may be at this moment, thousandths of an inch, micro seconds away from achieving your greatest success. One more effort is all it takes. There is no failure save in giving up.
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It’s quite extraordinary that I, an agent of free will, can even begin to think of success and failure in these terms … just a little more, just a little longer, just a little better … not as I push, push, push forward, but as I open, open, open to the flow.