Trucker and I hoped simply to try and stay gray men and not be noticed. To put our heads down and get on and quietly do the work.This didn’t exactly go according to plan.Where are the lads who speak l...
This quote from T.E. Lawrence means a lot to me:
This is your life. Be bold with it. Live it with energy and purpose in the direction that excites you. Listen to your heart, look for your dreams: they are God-inspired.
The other final memory, from growing up on the island, is of going on a monster run one day, and getting very bad groin rub on the last mile towards home. I had endured the rubbing for the previous ei...
The area became known affectionately by the other recruits as simply: ‘The asshole of the world.
The DS had told us the parameters – run, you pass; walk, you fail.
Sometimes the journey ahead can feel so daunting and so implausible that we lack the courage to take the first step. And there is never a shortage of good excuses: it’s not the right time; the odds ar...
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
Most people never reach their limit because they are never sufficiently tested. This means I’ve got two good pieces of news for you. The first is that whenever you do something beyond your ‘comfort zo...
Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet.
It’s not rocket science: the rewards go to the dogged.
In addition to these international climbers, we were supported by a climbing team of Nepalese Sherpas, led by their Sirdar boss, Kami.Raised in the lower Himalayan foothills, these Sherpas know Everes...
I look back now and can see how much my father also found his own freedom in the adventures we did together, whether it was galloping along a beach in the Isle of Wight with me behind him, or climbing...
But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand...
The place to start this life journey is with finding your dream.Dreams are powerful. They are among those precious few intangibles that have inspired men and women to get up, go to hell and back, and...
JOHN 10:10
Can you imagine how I felt after Chris had let me drink his last drops of water? Gratitude doesn’t come close.One of the regiment’s toughest, most hardened of soldiers was showing that he was looking...
Adventure is unpredictable, and you had better learn to be flexible and to swing with the punches, or you will get beaten - it’s as simple as that.If the adventure is an exciting one, you can bet your...
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
Positive word of warning, though: you might find that once you start eating more of the healthy stuff, your body will no longer like it when you eat the bad stuff.