Today, I have a personal story for you. This is absolutely true, it really happened to me, and it really did change my life that day. It taught me a lesson I have never forgotten, and if you listen carefully, and understand, it might help you too, in many different ways, at that.

I was on holiday in Devon and went for a swim in the sea for the first time in many years. The water was beautiful, and I went into some form of far-away meditation with the whole situation, didn’t pay attention, and before I knew it, I found that the current had swept me out a long way, out to sea.

I started to swim back towards the shore, but I’m not very fit and after a while I realised with absolute horror that the current was stronger than I was, and I wasn’t making any headway, in spite of swimming as hard as I could and getting exhausted in the process.

I looked at the far away shore where my two boys were playing obliviously on the sand and I knew I was going to drown.

I stopped swimming because I just didn’t know what to do. I was too far away now to wave for help and have it even be noticed. To be honest, I don’t remember what I was thinking but eventually I began to notice that there were TWO movements in the water – the steady stream out to sea, but there were also the waves, going towards the shore.

That’s when it happened – that’s when I was saved.

I aligned myself with the waves going in towards the shore. I waited until they came, and when they came, I swam as hard as I could. When they receded, I stopped swimming to get my breath back.

By swimming with the waves, I made it back to shore eventually.

Since that day, I have become much more aware of such tides, and waves in my life.

I no longer attempt to swim against the tides.

But when I feel the lifting waves, I swim like crazy to make the most of it – and so I make progress, and achieve my goals, even though they seem impossibly far away and beyond my reach and capability sometimes.

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