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Battle Ready

Eliminate Doubt, Embrace Courage, Transform Your Life
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Battle Ready by Ollie Ollerton is a blend of personal experiences and strategies designed to inspire self-improvement and resilience. It combines the author’s military background with practical advice, helping readers develop mental strength and overcome personal challenges. Through engaging anecdotes, it offers guidance on enhancing focus, setting goals, and fostering self-discipline.
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If you're seeking a self-help guide filled with transformative insights and motivational strategies, this book dives into personal development through the lens of resilience and mental fortitude. Authored by a former SAS operative, it offers a framework inspired by elite military training that can help you overcome personal challenges, build confidence, and achieve your goals.

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Take control and transform your life with SAS: Who Dares Wins hero Ollie Ollerton.

Take Control and Transform Your Life with SAS: Who Dares Wins hero Ollie Ollerton

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How do you make a commitment and achieve your goals?

How do you end procrastination and hesitation that feeds self-doubt?

How do you learn to be courageous in all aspects of your life?

Ex-Special Forces soldier Ollie Ollerton knows more than his fair share about keeping going. As a recruit, he survived the infamously tough SAS selection process on a busted ankle with the Directing Staff pleading with him to give up. But it's in Ollie's personal life that he really had to dig deep. At his lowest, he was battling a failed relationship, substance abuse, depression, and a reckless disregard for his own life. In his new book, Ollie tells the story of how he turned his life around and passes on the lessons he has learned.

In Battle Ready, Ollie shares the step-by-step plan that changed his life. From finding purpose and visualising an outcome, to breaking bad habits and establishing positive new routines, his advice will help readers to overcome their own obstacles; to become ready for any battle.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788703383

Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 December 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BLINK Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Matthew 'Ollie' Ollerton is a former Special Forces soldier and was one of the founding Directing Staff on Channel 4's hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins and SAS Australia.

Ollie's military career began at the age of 18 when he joined the Royal Marine Commandos and toured operationally in Northern Ireland and in Iraq for Operation Desert Storm. He subsequently spent six years in the Special Boat Service rising to team leader, before working in Iraq as a private security contractor and carrying out anti-child-trafficking charity work in South-East Asia.

Ollie now spends his time as an entrepreneur running multiple companies including Break-Point, Battle Ready and has a busy public speaking business. He is passionate about helping veterans through the Break-Point Academy and lends his support to many veteran charities.

His books, Break Point and Battle Ready, have both been Sunday Times bestsellers.

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