In Diana Nyad's final few yards, taking stroke-after-wearied-stroke to accomplish an unbelievable swimming goal, her inspiring words for the rolling cameras were: Never, never give up.
It took decades and 5 attempts to achieve her huge goal... to swim from Cuba to Florida. She wanted the swim to be a lesson for her life: Be fully engaged. Be so awake and alert and alive every minute of every waking day... My 2012 blogs identify with her fully-engaged and alert goal.
Nyad powered through relentless waves and continual vomiting. She separated her mind from her painful body by singing songs and counting in French, Spanish, and German. Diana's physical vomiting never, ever turned to "word vomit," as displayed in her inspiring, upbeat interview below.
64-year-young Nyad is grateful for a large crew of friends and experts that helped her through, as well as an eerie song that mentally pushed her on in the wee morning hours. This clip gently reminds me that my do-able challenge today is to be fully awake and inspired; and for some unknown reason, to relentlessly, keystroke-by-quiet-keystroke, keep on writing:
http://www.today.com/video/today/52911677#52904882
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