The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the coast
of California, and many people have taken the challenge to
swim across it.
On July 4th 1952, Florence Chadwick stepped into the water off
Catalina Island to swim across to the California coast. She
started well and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the
weather became cold.
She persisted, but fifteen hours later, numb and cold, she
asked to be taken out of the water.
After she recovered, she was told that she had been pulled out
only half a mile away from the coast. She commented that she
could have made it, if the fog had not affected her vision and she
would have just seen the land.
She promised that this would be the only time that she would ever quit.
She went back to her rigorous training. And two months later she
swam that same channel. The same thing happened. The fatigue
set in, and the fog obscured her view, but this time she swam with
faith and vision of the land in her mind. She knew that somewhere
behind the fog was land.
She succeeded and became the first woman to swim the
Catalina Channel. She even broke the men's record by two hours.
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
When you set your goal, keep pressing on even when you are
tired, physically and mentally, and even though there are
many challenges ahead.
Keep the vision of your goal crystal clear before you and never,
never, never… give up!
See the reaching, commit to it, and you will surely see your goal realized.
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