Steve Core

A few weeks ago I had the real privilege of meeting and working alongside Miles Hilton-Barber.

I was facilitating a workshop for a large company in Holland with leaders from all around the world. On the second day we had arranged for Miles to give a motivational talk to inspire and fire up the delegates. He did exactly that sharing his story of what he has accomplished since he really began to connecting with his dreams after he passed the age of 50. He shared with us in a humorous and animated way many of the feats he has accomplished in the last 11 years. These include:

• Undertaking a 55-day, 21,000 kilometre microlight flight from London to Sydney
• Man-hauling a sledge over 250 miles across Antarctica
• Completing “The Toughest Foot-race on Earth” – 150 miles across the Sahara Desert
• Climbing to 17,500 feet in the Himalayas and climbing  Kilimanjaro and Mt. Blanc
• Running the 11-day Ultra-Marathon race across China from the Gobi Desert to the Great Wall
• Completing the “Coldest and Hottest Marathons on Earth”- the Siberian Ice Marathon and across Death Valley California
• Circumnavigating 38,000 miles around the world using 80 different forms of transport
• Driving on the Malaysian Grand Prix track at 230kmph
• White-water rafting down the Zambezi River
• Completing more than 40 skydiving jumps
• Cage-diving with Great White Sharks
• Undertaking extreme aerobatics in a +600 MPH Hawker Hunter fighter jet with an ex-Red Arrows co-pilot
• Undertaking a solo kamikaze skeleton run down the 5G Olympic bob-sleigh track in Lillehammer, Norway
• Broken the sound barrier- attaining speed of Mach 1.4/1,060 MPH during vertical climb to 50,000 feet in just 90 seconds in an English Electric Lightning fighter jet.

Miles has been blind now for 25 years and his core message to all of us was to start with our dreams and goals and not our circumstances.

In other words to start with connecting with what we care about, connect to what we want to achieve in our lives, to connect with the future we desire.

Leadership nudge: Are you focussing on your dreams and goals or on your circumstances and limitations?

By Steve Core

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