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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.

Bear Grylls

Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Attitude Job Running
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
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Air Running Special
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
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Expecting Happen Stuff Unpredictable
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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Eye High Injured Looks
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Overcoming Quality Self
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Comfort Grows Steps
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
I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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Clothes Fire Thinking
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified

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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