{"id":1206,"date":"2011-08-09T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2011-08-09T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:24:46","slug":"who-is-diana-nyad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Who is Diana Nyad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Late last year I introduced you to Diane Nyad per the post below.  She&#8217;s a great example of a baby boomer seeking to stay young through physical endeavors. An inspiration to all.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today she abandoned her record 103 mile swim &#8230;her life&#8217;s dream since age 30&#8230;&#8230;.29 hours into the attempt&#8230;after training for it for 2 years, swimming up to 12 hours per day&#8230;at age 60-61.<\/p>\n<p>The question over the next few days and subsequent interviews; Will she make another attempt?  Will she interpret this event as a success or failure?  Will she use this experience as an excuse to shrink &#038; play small? OR as fuel to do something even greater?<\/p>\n<p>Tony Robbins often says;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s in your moments of decision that your Destiny is created<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right here, right now this very moment you could make a decision to Go for it, to Be, DO, and Have your dream.    Inside you &#8211; there is that one thing you yearn for, ache for, go back to in your mind over and over.  Only you know what &#8220;It&#8221; is for you.  Only you know if you&#8217;re &#8220;settling&#8221; for something less. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>When would now be the very best time in your life to Make a Decision, Take Massive Action and change your physiology, outcome and legacy?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s email;<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; In today&#8217;s health news I was moved by a piece on Diana Nyad. <\/p>\n<p>There is nothing more powerful than a human being with a burning desire!<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1978, she attempted the 103-mile journey from Cuba to<br \/>\nKey West, Florida. After 41 hours and 49 minutes in the water, Nyad&#8217;s<br \/>\nhandlers gave her the bad news: Because of high waves and strong currents,<br \/>\nshe was so far off course that completing the swim would be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the handlers were dream stealers or smart coaches? &#8211; only Diana<br \/>\nknows for sure.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, she completed what still remains the longest swim in<br \/>\nhistory without a shark cage &#8212; 102.5 miles from Bimini in the Bahamas to<br \/>\nJupiter, Florida.That day was her 30th birthday, and the last day of her<br \/>\nswimming career.  &#8220;I was so burned out. You couldn&#8217;t pay me to take one<br \/>\nmore stroke,&#8221; Nyad said. &#8220;For 30 years, I did not swim a single stroke<br \/>\nanywhere at any time, except in the ocean, paddling on a board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But swimming from Bimini to Florida wasn&#8217;t her dream.  That swim &#8211; even<br \/>\nthough a record that still stands &#8211; wasn&#8217;t the &#8220;it&#8221; she was striving for.  For<br \/>\nDiana that was &#8220;settling.&#8221;  And 30 years later on her 60th birthday;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was having an existential crisis about being 60,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I told myself,<br \/>\n&#8216;You have to get real with life&#8217;s lessons, one of which is you can&#8217;t go back.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In what she now realizes was an ironic moment, Nyad says she looked into<br \/>\nthe rearview mirror in her car and decided; &#8220;I realized there was one thing I<br \/>\ncould go back for, and that&#8217;s the dream swim from Cuba to Key West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Robbins often says; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s in your moments of decision that your Destiny is created<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right here, right now this very moment you could make a decision to<br \/>\nGo for it, to Be, DO, and Have your dream.    Inside you &#8211; there is that<br \/>\none thing you yearn for, ache for, go back to in your mind over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Only you know what &#8220;It&#8221; is for you.  Only you know if you&#8217;re &#8220;settling&#8221;<br \/>\nfor something less. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>When would now be the very best time in your life to Make a Decision,<br \/>\nTake Massive Action and change your physiology, outcome and legacy?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Late last year I introduced you to Diane Nyad per the post below. She&#8217;s a great example of a baby boomer seeking to stay young through physical endeavors. An inspiration to all. 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