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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, and never; give up! See the

reaching, commit to it, and you will surely see your goal realized.