RALPH
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Post by RALPH on Mar 15, 2003 11:17:32 GMT -5
whenever someone makes a first time find,
(lets say, a silver Quarter)
Well-meaning (others) will inform the finder,
"WTG, That First One, is Always the hardest
to find, now there going to start jumping into
your pouch"
Ya, right, every time you go out now, your going to find
at least one or two silver quarters, check your pouch when you get home, they'll be in there.
Perhaps a more enlightened one can give me an explanation for this phenomena?
BTW, I found the Holy Grail yesterday, (my first) now I suppose I'm going to be inundated with Holy Grails'..................thats good, because Barbara took all my wine glasses when she left.
R~
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LodiTom
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Post by LodiTom on Mar 15, 2003 17:34:00 GMT -5
Hey Ralph i have no idea,but i'm just happy finding something.HH,Tom
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Ron (CA)
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Post by Ron (CA) on Mar 15, 2003 19:01:20 GMT -5
once you experience that feeling of silver--you try harder, are more focused and go out more!!
The First Step Is the Hardest
(© Max Stein)
If you can get up the courage to begin,
you have the courage to succeed.
Begin where you are, work where you are.
The hour which you are now wasting,
dreaming of some far off success,
may be crowded with grand possibilities.
The first essential of success is that you begin.
Once you have started,
all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Do not wait.
The time will never be "just right."
Start where you stand,
and work with whatever tools you have at your command.
Better tools will be found as you go along.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
HH
Ron (CA)
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Post by Enlightened Mole! on Mar 16, 2003 6:45:05 GMT -5
Mole math says... you get better knowing your machine and location potential. Now you are more in tune after you find something and raise your odds of finding the same item again in the future....besides there is always a first for something... Side story...when I was a Sky Diving Instructor....anytime a non-student said they did something "for the first time" that was sky diving related,it meant they had to buy a case of beer. I made sure that this was enforced! We had may happy nights in the hanger,and many unhappy monrnings waking up on the hanger floor! Now I don't drink or skydive anymore! Jjust have tall tales to tell!  |
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Post by goldhart on Mar 16, 2003 9:34:27 GMT -5
Ralphus it all has to do with one of my favorite subjects-ATTITUDE! Here is an example: My friend Pat went out for three years hunting for gold nuggets without finding a single one. Finally last year he got his first one. Suddenly his attitude (which I had been working on) changed. He knew he could do it! Now he always comes home with nuggets in his pouch from every trip.
It is the "knowing" that it can be done and the "expecting" to find good targets that takes a person to the next level.
Just my two corroded zincs worth. Dan3
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RALPH
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Post by RALPH on Mar 16, 2003 16:52:14 GMT -5
I tend to question the credibility of anyone
that jumps out of a perfectly good airplane.
But now that you seem to have come to your senses,
"I don't drink or skydive anymore" I'm' going to throw
your explanation into the pot.
What the Mole has described, I vaguely recognize as
"experience" Although I can't help remembering this
information comes from a man that once made a living,
pushing people out of airplanes. (I'll have to think about it)
As for Goldies friend, Pat, this rocket scientist spends three
years in the Sierras, can't find a flake of gold, one day,
he fall in a river, comes up with a handful of gravel, and,
Eureka! Goldie calls this "attitude" I call it dumb-ass-luck.
Now, every time the bell rings, Pat fall into the river. Like Pavlovs Dog, Pat has been conditioned. (experienced?)
Ronny, uncharacteristic of his one-liners, quotes Max Stein, then gives his version of, (what appears to be, The Little Engine, That Thought It Could) "if you think you can, you can" "so be it unto you as you believe" This thinking kinda goes along with Goldies theory of "attitude"
I don't think any of the above, adequately describes why subsequent finds should be any easier than the initial find, OR, (more importantly) where in the 'ell did the six new wine glasses I found in my cupboard, came from...............
I don't think I better ask anymore questions for a while.
R~
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Post by jim on Mar 19, 2003 8:14:51 GMT -5
Hey, you guy's are a real intertaining crew to say the least.
But Ralph!
I'll have to agree with the theory of
once finding the first makes the next easier, I went for 47 years without finding my first detector & since have
found 35 so I guess that should be ample proof the theory is correct.
Oop's, just remembered I have another arriving today, oh boy, oh boy, can't wait to get my hand's on that baby so I go out & rid the world of zinc's.
Later guy's, it's coffee time.........j
im
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Post by Enlightened Mole! on Mar 27, 2003 2:03:26 GMT -5
Hey Ralph!
The planes we jumped out of were held together with duct tape and spit! Far from perfect...rather take my chances than land with the plane!!!!!
Blue Skies!!!!
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Post by Mark on Apr 8, 2003 22:29:49 GMT -5
Hi Ralph,I,m new here but have life experience,and I believe generally people want to be winners there is nothing like the feeling of putting alot of effort into something that your doing and succeeding at it! Affirmation of seeing your goal achieved is a means of the Power of Positive Thinking!!! I will win I will succeed !!! I will find what I am looking for eventually!!! Just my 2 cs worth
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