I was this close to quitting real estate. Not metaphorically. Literally one month away from walking out and never looking back. And what I didn’t realize at the time was this: I wasn’t failing because real estate didn’t work. I was just three feet from gold. That phrase comes from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, where he tells the story of a miner who gives up drilling for gold—only to discover that the richest vein was just three feet beyond where he stopped digg