BURN THE BULLSHIT: How To Live Before You Die (eBook Version) by Stephen Doran

Author:Stephen Doran [Doran, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inferno Books
Published: 2016-02-03T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER CHALLENGE

TARGET PRACTICE

Get into the habit of stating what you do over what you don’t. Be specific. How much of it do you want? How will you know when you have reached that goal?

Set 3 positive goals:

_ 1 month goal

_ 3 month goal

_ 12 month goal

CHAPTER 12

F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real

Everything you want is on the other side of fear - Jack Canfield

There are only two innate fears that we have from birth: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. These are likely engrained in us as survival mechanisms. The rest we inherit through the course of our lives (and interestingly we tend to share the same fears); fear of being rejected and fear of not being good enough tend to rank highest on the list. Most other fears can be routed back to these.

In between what happens and the interpretation of our ‘natural’ response lies the opportunity to change our lives.

In 2015 I was a semi-finalist on a TV programme called Ultimate Hell Week. Shot in the Brecon Beacons (the training ground of the British SAS), the series pitted ‘the fittest men and women’ against ‘the toughest challenge of their lives’. The aim was to push each contestant’s mental and physical strength to the limit. As a recruit on the show I suffered some of the most unbearable physical anguish of my entire life.

The show was specially constructed to reflect the Special Forces' selection and training from around the world. Every two days a different nation was in charge of destroying what was left of the 30 original recruits that had begun on Day 1. The US Navy SEALs, the Philippine’s NAVSOG (Naval Special Operations Group), the Australian SAS, the Israeli Counter Terrorism, the Russian Spetsnaz and the UK’s SAS took it in turn to put us into a world of suffering in order to separate the weak from the strong.

On the morning of Day 9, in his opening speech, the Officer representing the Russian Spetsnaz told us that we must face our fears. I have no problem with this concept; although fear is no more than a concept, I can recognise the positive intention behind the proposal. The difficulty arose when, at the verge of a cliff before abseiling down, I was asked “What are you afraid of?” Instantly I knew this would spell the beginning of the end for my position on the TV show.

On the one hand I could play the game and proclaim to hold a regular fear of spiders, heights or perhaps death – but this would be at the sacrifice of my integrity and also everything that I stand for (as you've seen so far in this book). I answered with the truth.

”I have no fears Sir”.

Not intending to undermine the fundamental aims of the process we were engaged in, I presented my justification in the most amicable and non-challenging way I could by going on to say that, “I believe fear is a choice”. The next two days were tipped to be long ones (as the theme was fear).

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