Everyone needs a goal in life

Ollie Ollerton is a former UK Forces Special Soldier who appeared on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins. He is also the author of several books including the Sunday Times best-seller, Break-Point, which reveals his story and life lessons the Founder of. He now runs corporate Break-Point, which delivers a range of corporate and individual training programmes that help people change their limiting beliefs and unlock their potential events to change the way people think.

DH: Tell us about Break-Point.

OO: Break-Point has gone from being something that’s more about health and wellbeing to what’s the journey? We started off in 2014. I came back from overseas and I put myself through a mental reset.

I needed to make some changes to my habits which were quite destructive. I shut myself away in a house for three months and made so much progress mentally and physically that I wanted to share that with the world. I wanted to help as many people as possible. And that was the birth of Break-Point.

Quite simply, you can’t just change your environment and think that’s going to change everything because you’ve got to change you. A lot of people are like: ‘I want to start a business, I don’t know what to do’, they’re looking for the answer answers externally, but if they just focused aren’t able to make an investment i on themselves initially. We need a goal to know where we are going, otherwise we’re incapable of change and we’re prone to arriving back at that infamous place they call ‘the comfort zone’.

But there’s no comfort there, and certainly, no growth.…

DH: What was it like going from having that military routine to coming out of it?

OO: The military is so disciplined. There’s a difference between discipline and self-discipline. I look at my career in the special forces, in the military in general, and that is the one thing that kept me in check. I know it sounds bizarre, but it’s the safest I’ve ever been, because it kept me from myself.

Because there’s a difference between discipline and self-discipline and, my time in the military was stable in comparison to both pre-military and post-military.

First, you know when you come out of something like that you have to learn, or you have to appreciate that you need to take a step down before you can stand back up again and not expect the world to be at your feet.

It was almost like expecting: ‘The world owes me’.

And I think this a problem with the military. The attitude of: ‘I’ve done my service and I expect this and that because I was at the top of my game.’, and but it doesn’t work like that. I just spiralled out of control. Looking at it now, I understand what was going on because I didn’t have an underlying sense of purpose. And that led me to I just spiralled out of control.

DH: Do you think you’ve decided on a path now and that’s what you’re going to stick to?

OO: Really for me it’s like, ‘We are here now’ and it’s my focus is now on about pushing Break-Point out to a broader audience and, stepping forward but pushing out more. That’s why we’re starting to build an online platform. where we can start to bring people in. We want to get more people to understand their true potential. At the end of the day, I believe each and every person creates their own economy and we want to get more people to understand their true potential. You must adapt of course, but there’s always opportunity in crisis. and it’s important to realise what you can and can’t control. Helping people put aside All the things you they can’t control, helping them discover their potential, helping them supercharge their lives – absolutely that’s the path I’m on and there’s nothing more powerful for me to not concentrate on because you can’t do anything about it. But really, you are responsible for your own economy.

DH: Any big challenges? Is there any other thing in your sights that you would like to do?

OO: Doing what I set out to do with the business, that is a massive task for me. I’m not great at sitting in offices. I would much prefer to climb Everest but next year I’ve got to concentrate and give all my focus and attention to Break-Point and that for me is the biggest mountain. That’s a lot higher than Everest.

DH: What would be your three takeaways?

OO: When it comes to the mind, you must set goals. Every person on this planet is driven by goals, and our subconscious mind is driven towards our dominant thoughts.

Our mindset is if we don’t have any control, it’s predominantly negative. That’s just the way we’re wired – it’s a survival thing from back when we were hunter gatherers, always assessing the things that could go wrong, like being eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger. So that’s why everyone needs a goal in life. Something to really having clearly defined goals that we’re following. And listen, it’s not just about getting the goal – it’s about who you become in the process. That is so important and as far as your soul is concerned it’s simply about the fact, so we understand that we’re making progress towards something, regardless of what it the goal is, and listen, it’s not just about getting the goal – it’s about who you become in the process. That

A lot of people wonder why they’re struggling with mental health. You ask them if they’ve got any goals, and they are saying, ‘No, not really’. They have no direction, nothing to get excited about, they are all they’re ever going to be no wonder they have mental health issues. This is the reason why.

Let’s go onto the body. If you’re not exercising, you need to bloody start – not only does it release endorphins, but it also makes you live a longer and happier life.

Moving on to nutrition, people have got to understand that the gut has a direct correlation to the mind, and a lot of people put better quality fuel in their car than they do in themselves. The things that we supply our body with when it comes to supplements as well, you know, choosing some crap brand without even looking at the ingredients. Really understand the quality of the things that you’re consuming.

I’m a big advocate of drinking good quality water. Our molecular structure is 99% water. I distil all my own water and put my own minerals in. I have cheat days where I enjoy myself. But 80% of the time I’m conscious about what I consume so really mind, body and nutrition. It’s almost like a pyramid tripod and you can’t that you take one side away then otherwise the other things are going to fall. I think you’ve got to focus on all three.

And the last thing I’d like to say is stop pleasing the audience. There’s too much faking perfect with the likes of Instgram but it’s not about your audience, it’s about you –you’re in this life not as a guest at your own party. You’re the host.

For more info on Break-Point and Ollie’s books, visit his website at www.ollieollerton.com www.break-point.co.uk @ollie.ollerton