Welcome to 55th Monday Musings:
On July 4, 1952, Florence Chadwick was on her way to becoming the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel.
She had already conquered the English Channel.
The world was watching. Chadwick fought the dense fog, bone-chilling cold and many times, the sharks.
She was striving to reach the shore but every time she looked through her goggles, all she could see was the dense fog.
Unable to see the shore, she gave up.
Chadwick was disappointed when she found out that she was only half a mile from the coast.
She quit, not because she was a quitter but because her goal was not in sight anywhere.
The elements didn't stop her.
She said, "I'm not making excuses. If only I had seen the land, I could have made it."
Two months later, she went back and swam the Catalina Channel. This time, in spite of the bad weather, she had her goal in mind and not only accomplished it but beat the men's record by two hours.
Moral of the story :
Never Ever Give Up and always Keep your goals in mind.
Also, It is more important that we should take failure with the right perspective, and we should not give up on failure.
Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, stated, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Each failure moved him closer to success, He Never Gave Up as it eliminated what would not work. It was a lot like my experience with the lights.
The Only thing we should give up is the habit of Giving up, If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Make it a great Week !
Shailesh
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