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My Favorite Story of 2013

Watch this 20-minute video and get pumped to pursue any goal you may have set for 2014. Diane Nyad’s first-person account of swimming in the Gulf Coast from Cuba to Miami, Florida in 53 hours is awe inspiring.  In a previous blog, I posted Diane’s comments after she emerged from her harrowing swim.  She reiterates […]

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Feeling Lucky?

I’m not a big believer in luck.  And I’m sure it has a lot to do with the fact that as a kid I never won a bunch of stuff at fairs or had my name pulled out of the hat and declared the “winner” by my grade school teacher.  I’m more of a believer in hard work, […]

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3 Great Pieces of Advice

Earlier this month, 64-year old Diana Nyad gave three pieces of advice immediately after she emerged from the water, after swimming 52-hours from Havana, Cuba to Florida.  On September 2, Nyad became the first person to have accomplished this treacherous swim without the aid of a shark tank – a device that protects the swimmer […]

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