These Success Waters Are Lovely!


All the money in the world couldn't buy the experience I had today.

If you've got children...you'll understand.

After a rare hot day...we decided to go to a nice sandy beach about 20 miles from where we live.

A very pleasant four hours were had by us all (even me who hates sand!).

But...seeing eight-year-old Katie's face as the ice cold English Channel hit her full in the face as a wave crashed over her was worth ANY money you could pay me!

Yeah...I'm a 'cruel' father...but she soon got her own back when she made me swim for about 6 inches in water that seemed to have ice in it!

Yet...even though it STARTED off as freezing...eventually you DO get used to it, don't you?

It's always a shock when you first dip your toes in the water...yet ten minutes later you're swimming away quite happily.

Yet...the temperature of the water didn't change - YOUR perception of how cold it was did.

I sped the process along a little more quickly by sitting myself and Katie at the edge of the water and told her to imagine that the water was really warm...like bath water.

We soon got used to it...yet...if I had been on my own - I would have just dipped my toes in - convinced myself it was too cold to bother...and just walk back up the beach again!

And I wouldn't have had some FUN!

It's like ANYTHING 'new' in YOUR life.

It may feel strange when you first 'test the water'...yet in most cases...what you most fear about what MIGHT happen - NEVER does.

Plus...it proves to you that you CAN do it.

So...I haven't got an excuse NOT to go back into that freezing water next time I am down on the beach (alone or otherwise)...and YOU won't be able to have an excuse NOT to carry on doing something new once you've started it already!

Just try it and see - these success waters are lovely!