A Bit of Inspiration for Next Year - Sponsored by Speedo

I was recently sent this video of Michael Phelps talking about how he first got into swimming and felt the immediate need to share it.

One of the things we get told all the time is: "If you want something bad enough you will get it", personally I get annoyed when I hear this. No matter how much I wanted to be an astronaut as a youth I don't think I could have ever achieved this. My lack of intelligence, and correctly functioning eye balls, are just two of the many reasons. 

Then I see this gentleman, who is widely regarded as the greatest olympian of all time (I think Sir Steve Redgrave may have a very good shout for that title too) revealing he was too scared to put his face in the water just 8 years before he broke his first world record.

Surely anything is possible?

After swimming the Channel next year I think I'll have another crack at becoming an astronaut (I use the word 'another' very generously, my first crack involved drawing a spaceship and saying "I want to be an astronaut")...