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Dream Extreme
A few weeks ago, I watched a
documentary about the life of Diana Nyad and her XTREME DREAM to swim from Cuba
to The U.S (Read More about Diana)
I had heard about the amazing
athlete and had seen footage of interviews with her after completing the incredible
feat but to be honest with you, I had been like, “So what? Why do adrenalin
junkies always have to rope me up in their amazing lives?”
I had no idea what I was talking
about. I was misjudging the success of another, simply because it was something
that I would not do.
As the
documentary unfolded, I learned that as a child, Diana had suffered terrible
and repeated sexual abuse. Her 35 year struggle to swim from Cuba to the U.S. was
in part, a way to get rid of her shame and guilt about being violated.
Time after time
she tried to complete the Xtreme Dream, and time after time she came closer and
closer.
As the
documentary unfolded, I learned several important things; that to do anything in life, we have to let go of the extreme
defeat of our past and hold fast to our extreme dream.
For this you need a partner, a team,
discipline, preparation, all of the tools necessary (you may even have to
invent them yourself,) and most of all you have to keep believing.
This year,
instead of a resolution; why not dream?
Take your
heart and mind to the most wonderful place you can imagine. Make a list of the
things that are keeping you for getting there and then take the necessary steps
to arrive at your destination.
The only
person you can change is you, but when you do, you light a pathway for others
to follow.
Let go of the guilt and
shame of your past, and dream.
I love you.
Be you, be well, be
dreaming.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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