Swimming the English Channel

How did I do it? I crawled.

This was really the lesson: the more people heard my story, the more people came out of the woodwork and became vested in my success. It was overwhelming. Such a great thing.

The mental part is the tougher part of the two. Because it's the mental part that tells the physical part to go or not.

When they told me it was the fastest time of the season, I was shocked. I was thrown so many challenges, I still get emotional talking about it.

When times get tough, think about persevering. Ultimately, the right resources will come to you.

Without you, things remain BROKEN. Your victories are the compilations of small wins.

It's 7 months to the English Channel, we went through our annual process of creating an Intention Wall. It's a lot more meaningful than a New Year's resolution. The first thing my partner Carol wrote on there was "Bob swims the English Channel." So that was it. It was written. It was going to happen.

So I leave you with my story, and good luck to those folks who are working on causes that are filling gaps that are broken.

People who are now my friends told me that they wrote me off when they saw me. And I crushed that guys time. :)

I'm not gonna be the first one to quit. I thought about all the people who became vested because I kept trying harder and harder and I said "no way." I just put my head down and I kept going.