Become a Digger for Gold

Look for the Gold…..

As a young Scots boy, Andrew Carnegie came to America and started doing odd jobs. He ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in the United States of America. At one time he had 43 millionaires working for him. Several decades ago, a million dollars used to be a lot of money.

Someone asked Andrew Carnegie how he dealt with people, to which he replied, "Dealing with people is like digging gold. When you go digging for an ounce of gold, you have to move tons of dirt to get an ounce of gold. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking for the gold." What is your focus? Become a digger for gold. If you are looking for what is wrong with people or with things, you will find many. What are you looking for? Andrew Carnegie's reply has a very important message!

There is something positive in every person and every situation. Sometimes we have to dig deep to look for the positive because it may not be apparent. Besides, we are so used to looking for what is wrong with other people and situations; we forget to see what is right.

People in the organizations should be developed, the same way the gold is mined. Leaaders should look for the gold not the dirt; the good not the bad. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look in people, the more we are going to find.

Someone once said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day!