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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

Bear Grylls

The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Differences Triumph Trying
I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Broken Cameras Snakes
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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Appeals Awareness Come Up
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Real Tasks
Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Adventure Thinking Travel
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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Animal Health Snakes
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Games Little People
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Intuition Night Quiet Voice
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
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Adventure Children Opportunity
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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Dream Fire Light
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 special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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Climbing Confidence Self Special
I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Body Week Yoga

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