If you’ve got a friend who’s always putting you down, or always telling you that your ideas are naff, or who takes the mick out of your taste in clothes, music or books, then I bet you go home after s...
If you’re always thinking about what you want to say, then you’re never really listening to what other people are saying. And that means you are missing out.Likewise in life, if you talk too much, you...
I have met enough unhappy millionaires to know that money alone does not make you happy. I’ve seen people work so hard they do not have any time for their families (or even time to enjoy the money).Th...
Expeditions into jungles or across deserts or raging oceans are never easy. However much we might romanticize the lives of explorers, when you are in the middle of an inflatable boat with 50-foot wave...
But why was Churchill telling them that those bleak, uncertain, life-threatening and freedom-challenging days were also the best days of their lives?He knew that it’s when times are tough, when the co...
So get out your paddle, take a deep breath, smile and get going. And watch the journey unfold.You are now living the adventure for real, master of your own destiny. You are no longer waiting for someo...
Luckily those simple values meant much more to him than my school reports - which weren’t always glowing!I have always tried to follow his advice, but I also adapted his mantra to take it one stage fu...
I’m going to trust that if you are smart enough to build a successful life then you should be smart enough to understand that giving money is as much about the spirit as it is about the actual amounts...
It’s good training for the rest of your life, too. If something is important, always check - never assume. It’s usually ego that stops us from asking the ‘silly’ questions, but I know a lot of ‘smart’...
It was during the first time I attempted SAS selection. I was totally lost in a vast boggy wetland, torrential rain was driving down, and I was utterly spent.I was also way behind time, and I knew it....
In my experience, many people cross their arms, sit back and say ‘Why should I?’, and then let great possibilities slip by them.A champion in life always goes against the grain and takes the path less...
I am human.It is always best not to deny to yourself that you might occasionally suffer from a little bit of stinkin’ thinkin’ - so give it its moment, then boot it out!So don’t beat yourself up about...
I thought. My goodness, that was a beautiful prospect.Somehow I had to get on that chopper with him.I packed in thirty seconds flat, everything from the past three months. I taped a white cross onto m...