Setting targets

David Walliams recently swam 140 miles down the Thames.  Impressive considering the sewage he had to swim through and he raised £1m for his efforts.  Most people wouldn't consider anything like this but spare a though for Charlie Whittmack - never heard of him have you?  He completed a "world triathlon" which involved swimming the length of the Thames and the Channel in fact the swim was 275 miles.  He then cycled more than 8,875 miles across Europe and Asia to Nepal.  To complete the journey he ran (and hiked) 950 miles to the Bay of Bengal and finished by climbing Mount Everest!  Not bad for a lawyer and it all started as a wee boy's dream.
It just goes to show that we can achieve anything we set our mind to.  The biggest limiter is our own mind so we must learn to challenge it and the more we do, the more we will achieve.  So well done David Walliams and Charlie Whittmack and everyone who set a stretching target and achieved or even exceeded it.  You're a long time dead to let's make the most of the opportunity we have.