Life is full of obstacles and opportunities. 

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The important thing is to appreciate that the obstacles themselves are commonly opportunities when viewed from a positive angle.

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There were several keys to Steve's 20 years of racing success that can be applied to anything in life. Mostly it’s the attitude, because adventure racing is about problem solving. That’s what defined his races: challenges and obstacles. The winner is the one who finds the most opportunities in those obstacles.  It’s a healthy kind of thinking.

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During the Raid Guloises Adventure Race in Borneo, Steve was infected with Leptosporosis by bat dung as his team raced through the Mulu caves. 

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Steve suffered circulatory collapse and pulmonary oedema followed by renal failure while being dragged through intensive care wards in Malaysia and Singapore.  He came very close to death. Read more of this story in Lucky Legs, and on kidney researcher John Pickering's blogs.

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It is Steve's fight back to winning form (winning 7 Coast to Coast races in a row afterwards) in just 2 years, in the face of medical professionals' scepticism and doubt that spawned many requests for speaking engagements.

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Learn how he turned this, and many other of his life's large obstacles into a winning opportunity.

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Favourite obstacle/opportunity topics:
 

• Getting out of the comfort zone, and into the growth zone by embracing risk & failure as part of the adventure
   

• Hey! I'm not dead yet!
  How to stage a come-back.
   

• Success is a skill
   

• Turning stumbling blocks
  into stepping stones
   

• Resilience Seminars
   

• "Energy flows where attention goes."