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If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Bear Grylls

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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Jobs Moving Thinking
I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Down People Sitting Sweat
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Challenges Made Want
Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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Home Needs Nice
A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Men Pride Support
And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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Giving Heart Law
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Dangerous Desert Mountain
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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Determine Lines Self
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Embers Needs Sometimes
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Couple Running Swimming
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus
Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
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Detail Jesus Jobs Mind
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Climb Dad Thinking
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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Dream Give Up Winning
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

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