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Setting Goals to Turn Your Dreams Into Reality
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LIFE
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3 / 1986 |
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Nancy Lee Fernas
Nancy Lee Fernas is a free-lance writer and associate editor
of Mercury Magazine, a publication of the Los Angeles Athletic
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It was still dark when John Hill, a 49-year-old attorney, slipped into the cold, churning water off Catalina Island, due west of Los Angeles. For eighteen months, he had been training with only one goal paramount in his mind…to swim the treacherous twenty-two-mile Catalina Channel, which, at that moment, loomed before him, a seemingly infinite distance.
"It was as if my whole life had been leading up to that second when I entered the water," Hill explained. "Yet, I had no idea if I could make it. It was by far the toughest goal I had ever set for myself."
Nineteen hours, fifteen minutes, and thirteen seconds later, a nearly delirious, but proud Hill inched his way out of the surf. He was the fifty-fourth--and oldest--swimmer to accomplish the marathon feat since the first official completion recorded in 1927.
Once again, a dream turned goal becomes reality.
The story, it seems, is as old as mankind. One man, for one moment, raises his arms aloft amidst the glow of achievement.
But why? What motivates an athlete to train for countless hours, reaching in his mind for that distant dream? What drive mankind to strive for goals? To dream the impossible?
According to Dr. Leon Tec in his Targets--How to Set Goals for Yourself and Reach Them, the answer lies in the fact that humans are, by nature, problem-solving creatures with a need for objectives, focus, and
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