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Aug 16 2010

Visualize Your Goal

Visualise your Goal 
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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Written by Raghavendra Satish Peri · Categorized: others · Tagged: goal, success

About Raghavendra Satish Peri

Raghavendra Satish Peri is a digital Transformation specialist working with small & large enterprises in the areas of digital accessibility & digital marketing. He authors an Accessibility Blog at DigitalA11Y.com & is galvanizing the adoption of accessibility by inspiring the local tech community with meetups and mentorship. He propelled this thought by founding HelloA11y.com, a community of accessibility professionals, developers, and enthusiasts. When away from his computer, Raghava can be found at local cafes & restaurants sampling cuisines, attending local meetups, listening to audio books, or writing on his Personal Blog at raghava.in.

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  1. Sanjukta Basu says

    August 22, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Raghav, one of the first rules of social media. You must put a disclaimer on this post mentioning that you are not the author. I read it and immediately sensed you didn’t write it. Then I did a simple google search and found out there are hundreds of posts with this same story and none of them have a disclaimer. Since you don’t know who exactly is the author, you can simply say “I found this on the internet and it is not written by me.” Hope you don’t mind my pointing out this 🙂

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  2. Anonymous says

    August 22, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    sanjukta i knew that i need to put a disclaimer and give the author credit for the story. Actually this was sent to me by my dad and i wrote my post….but when i copied and posted i found that what ever i wrote did not actually come on microsoftword only. Found that there was a bug in the screen reader or i might have used a wrong key stroke….you see i don’t get the same feel again so i thought to update with the post some time later and left it….

    Any way’s thanks a lot for pointing this out….will update with this..

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