Swim Lessons: Ten Secrets for Making Any Dream Come True (Signed Copy)

"I came up with the idea, and worried about the rest later," says Swim Lessons author Nick Irons. As crazy as this may sound, it worked for Nick, and it can certainly work for you. And "the rest" is exactly what Nick figured out-what it takes to swim 1,550 miles of the mighty, muddy Mississippi River in four months to raise money and awareness for multiple sclerosis, the disease his father has lived with for more than twenty years.

It's hard to think of a riskier, less-doable idea than that-especially when you have no idea how you'll pull it off. But he did! This book is Nick's highly entertaining story of the Swim and every pivotal lesson he learned along the way. What he shares here is not just inspiration-it is the rock-solid plan you need to make your biggest dream come true.

In 1997, Nick Irons became the second person in seventy years to swim the length of the Mississippi River, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the first to swim it with the locks and dams of its "modern" form, all in an effort to help raise awareness and funding for multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease his father has lived with for twenty years. In 2000 Irons completed a 10,000-mile bike tour around the perimeter of the United States, once again to further research efforts for MS. A gifted author and speaker, Irons shows the rest of us how to make our biggest dreams come true.