People
with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. - Earl Nightingale
The
trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and
down the field and never score. – Bill Copeland
Florence Chadwick…have you ever heard the name? Florence was an American long-distance open
water swimmer who was the first women to swim the English Channel in both
directions in record time and then swam the Catalina Channel, Straits of
Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles.
When Florence swam between the Catalina Channel and the
California coastline, she had been going for 15 hours and a heavy, dense fog
set in. Growing tired and frustrated,
she told her mother who was in one of the small boats nearby protecting her
from sharks that she wanted to quit.
Continuing to swim for another hour, she continued to doubt herself and was
frustrated because she was unable to see the coastline/destination/goal. Finally, she asked to be pulled from the
water. Sitting in the boat, she soon
discovered that she was only a mile from her destination. Disappointed she told a report, “I’m not making
excuses. If only I had seen the land, I could have made it.”
Two months later, she attempted the same swim along the Catalina
Channel. The same dense fog set in, but
this time she kept imagining the shoreline in her mind and accomplished her
goal!
CHALLENGE: We
are almost halfway through the year and next week Terri’s Tuesday Tip of the
Week will be on completing a mid-year goal review. As you go about the week, think about the
goals you created for yourself and you review daily (Remember Florence needed
to have her goal in sight and so do we!).
Reviewing your goals will help prepare you for the tough,
thought-provoking questions that I hope to challenge you with next week about
how you are progressing in 2016!
If you
want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ― Albert
Einstein
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