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Archives for September 2010

Unconventional Book Tour Indianapolis Meetup [+Secret Mission Inside]

September 30, 2010 By Joel Runyon 22 Comments

One of my favorite parts about blogging is the people. I love connecting with you guys on here, twitter, facebook and through email, but my favorite part is meeting up in person. So when I get an opportunity to do so, I jump at it. Tuesday night, Mr. Chris Guillebeau himself came through Bloomington, Indiana as part of his 63 city Unconventional Book Tour. We had about 20-30 people come out [including ManVsDebt himself] and it was a really good time. ...

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Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: AONC, Art of Nonconformity, Blog of Impossible Things, Bloomington, Chris Guillebeau, Indiana, Joel Runyon, Unconventional Book Tour

Introducing The Yes Policy

September 28, 2010 By Joel Runyon 31 Comments

If you missed it, check out my guest post on Nerd Fitness that went up yesterday: How To Upgrade Your Life: Lessons Learned From Chuck. Nerd Fitness is one of my absolute favorite blogs and I was pumped he decided to run it. Thanks Steve :). I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately from different readers on a lot of different things. Some want to interview me, have me write a guest post or help out with a project. I’m tired of people being timid about ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, Updates Tagged With: Giving Back, Gratefulness, Thankfullness, The Yes Policy, Yes

The Vacuum Theory

September 23, 2010 By Joel Runyon 17 Comments

[Warning: The following blog post may contain physics. Weak minds you have been warned] Last month I sat down with the owner of a multi-million dollar company. He’s one of our clients and his story is one of amazing success. After coming to the country with $18 in his pocket, he went to work, bootstrapped his own business, created a whole new industry and now owns several multi-million dollar companies. Without getting into specifics of what he does, a ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: Business Advice, Business Strategy, Creat a Vacuum, The Vacuum Theory, Vacuum

Travelers vs. Tourists: The End of the Debate, Why Labels Don’t Matter and The Real Purpose of Travel

September 21, 2010 By Joel Runyon 32 Comments

Travelers vs. Tourists. Which is better? If you've traveled at all, you find that everyone has an opinion on this debate. The debate ends today. Here are the two sides: The Tourists Tourists are quite obvious. They’re usually the large group with cameras near any semi-important monument/site. They’re usually fully outfitted with fanny packs and cameras and depending on their time in the location, they may or may not all be wearing identical T-shirt as ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks Tagged With: Conferences, England, London, McDonalds, Tourist vs. Traveler, Traveling, Traveling Strategies

The Numbers Game [The Quick Way To Kill Your Creativity & Become Amazingly Unproductive]

September 18, 2010 By Joel Runyon 14 Comments

Want a quick way to kill your creativity & become amzingly unproductive? Want to stop doing meaningful things and just spent hours staring at your computer screen doing nothing but thinking about doing something, someday? Here's what you do: Focus on the numbers They'll convince you that they're really important. That they're great for "metrics" and that by analyzing them incessantly you'll be much more effective than you've been previously. ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, Updates Tagged With: Kill Your Creativity, Shiny, SQUIRREL, The Numbers Game, Unproductivity

[Video Post] Structure vs. Specifics [London Edition]

September 14, 2010 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

This is official the first international post at BIT. You may or may not know, but traveling is a HUGE part of my life. I've written for some other sites about it, but I love traveling and am working on structuring my life to include a lot more of it. Since I'm out of the country, I figured I'd do another video post since you guys didn't seem to mind the last one so I gave it another shot. Also, I have a little something for those of you that comment early ...

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Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: England, International Trips, London, Trafalgar Square, Trip Planning

Short Update From London

September 10, 2010 By Joel Runyon 6 Comments

Greetings from London. Excuse any typos in this. As of right now, I've been up for 30+ hours straight or so. I left Chicago on Thursday afternoon & this is the first few seconds of internet time that I've had since. I don't have a "normal" post today because I've been busy writing for some good friends. In case you didn't see them on twitter, I had two guest posts go live this week: Think Traffic | The Sure-Fire Way To Double Your Blog Comments Every ...

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Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: Baker's World, Corbett Barr, Guest Posts, Kevin Jacinto, London, Think Traffic

Intention vs. Direction: The Difference Determines Your Success

September 7, 2010 By Joel Runyon 26 Comments

I was talking with Tim Morris from Intentional Influence last night via Skype. At some point in the conversation we touched upon being more "intentional" and Tim said something that really stuck with me. Direction not intention determines destination. – Tim Morris I can “intend” to do all sorts of things, but until I point myself in that direction and start dong them, I won’t ever get to my destination or reach my goals because I’m not headed towards ...

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Filed Under: Hacks Tagged With: andy stanley, destination, direction, directional, intentional, tim morris

Double Product Review: Rebel Fitness Guide & Abs Diet Recipes To Results

September 2, 2010 By Joel Runyon 3 Comments

Joel’s Note: I know that it seems that every time a blogger does a “product review” it’s a cover for tossing in affiliate links at an attempt to make money. That’s not the case here. This review has no affiliate links and I don’t have any financial incentive for doing this. I'm doing this review for 2 reasons. 1) I really personally like both of these guys and 2) I think both products they might be relevant to some of you, so I wanted to take a minute to ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks, Resources Tagged With: Abs Diet Recipes to Results, My Foundation Fitness, Nerd Fitness, Patrick Hitches, Rebel Fitness Guide, Six-Pack Abs, Steve Kamb

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