How To Perform At Your Best When You’re Feeling At Your Worst - with Darren Grigas

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m on a mission with British adventurer and endurance athlete Darren Grigas who has pushed himself to the limit by undertaking some of the most extreme challenges around the world. He now inspires others to find their limits and surpass them through delivering his message: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO FAST, OR FAR, JUST GO!" Darren regales us with some incredible stories and the ways in which he has upgraded his mindset in order to achieve the impossible. It’s a pleasure to share with you some of the incredible adventures he's experienced, how he turned life's challenges into the fuel that accelerated his personal growth, and how he has used his own journey to inspire the journeys of others. David Goggins has nothing on this guy. KEY TAKEAWAYS After suffering a physical setback, Darren applied himself to incrementally repairing the damage done, and became stronger than he had ever been before. It shows that with the right mindset we can always come back from the bottom and rise to the pinnacle of success. If our goals are small ones then our progress will be slower. If we aim far higher than we believe we can reach, then the development we achieve through working towards this distant dream will yield far greater results. We often profess that we do not have enough time to work on ourselves, but then waste time on trivial matters. Growth requires discipline. Always set aside time to work on yourself and stick to it. Accountability is the best way of remaining motivated. When others are counting on us, it forces us to keep focused. When the work we do makes others proud, it urges us to do more. BEST MOMENTS 'It was a life-changing moment - I just opened up' 'I want to look back and say that at least I did something great - something epic' 'A massive thing that makes it easier is accountability' 'Even if I only inspire a handful of people to go and do a park run - brilliant!' VALUABLE RESOURCES On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission Darren Grigas - https://darrengrigas.com Darren Grigas Instagram - https://instagram.com/darrengrigas?utm_medium=copy_link YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllieMckay

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the on-emission podcast. I am really excited to bring this one to you because I'm with a friend of mine at the fabulous Darren Griggus.
0:08.8	Now he's a man of many talents, he's a property entrepreneur, he's a public speaker, he's an ultra-marathon runner, but he's also a worldly adventurer.
0:17.6	Now I was going to give you just a brief synopsis of some of the stuff he's done, but I don't want to miss anything out because everything he's done is absolutely incredible.
0:27.2	So I'm going to give you, I'm going to read a few of these out because it really is phenomenal.
0:32.0	Darren has ran a hundred and fifty six mile race across the
0:37.2	Sahara. Was that the marathon to subs Darren? Yes, yeah that was my first big one to be
0:41.2	honest. That was the first big one, and I love the story behind that.
0:44.6	He's in a 248 mile run across the West Highlands.
0:48.9	He came second out of only three finishers from 600 stars of the SES designated intrepid series.
0:57.0	Again, I've heard a few of the stories from that, I can't wait to go into it.
1:01.0	The second person ever to run 100 miles across the frozen lake in outer Mongolia,
1:06.7	which I just thought was a fictional place. My mom used to refer to when I was younger.
1:10.8	World's first foot crossing of the 55 million year old NAMI, I'm going to
1:16.6	to mispron out, NAMI. It's in Namibia, it's the Namib, yeah.
1:22.4	World's first traverse of the Panama Canal,
1:26.0	which was running, kayaking and jungle trekking.
1:29.0	A three-peak run across Cape Town finishing on the table by then. World's first coast-to-coz-runing attempt of Panama.
1:36.7	World's first 177-mile relay carrying 20 kilogram backpack and running in Iceland the Grand Canyon, lapse of Rome and many more
1:46.7	incredible places. I think by the way that is by far the longest introduction I've ever done.
1:50.7	That's quite at least a lot of them. I was like going cool yeah yeah and actually all of them each and every one of them are amazing for different reasons but yeah it's actually good listening to those all again going oh right yeah yeah that was cool that was great.
2:06.0	Well like I said I was just going to do a little highlight reel and I thought you know what they're like each and every one of them's just like I mean that would be if I had done one of those
2:16.1	I would literally be dining out on it for the rest of my life and having had the
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