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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.

Bear Grylls

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
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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Fire Important Water
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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Dream Fire Men
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Coming Danger Feelings Home
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
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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Done Jobs Procrastination
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
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Exercise Tree Vines
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
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Differences Give Up Ordinary
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past
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
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Baptist Growing Robins Up
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 said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Men Survivor Three
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk

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