Happy Thanksgiving From [BIT] Hopefully you're spending today eating too much, drinking too much and enjoying the company of family and friends. I talk a lot about what I'm doing here, but I wanted to let each of you know, thank you. Thank you guys for doing your own impossible things and challenging me to do mine. Thank you for reading, commenting, tweeting, sharing and thank you for all the emails. It means a lot. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, ...
Archives for 2010
Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving week. Thursday is going to be a big day here in the US and we'll celebrate like we Americans normally do, eating entirely way too much and watching football. Somewhere in there we get together with relatives and we're reminded of how good we have it. I think it's a great tradition (the "how good we have it" reminder part, although the food + football part is pretty good too), but I don't see the need to confine it to once a year. ...
You’re Not ADD
You're Not ADD I get it. ADD is a real disorder and a lot of people have it. I know. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the people who use ADD their reason for doing nothing. Instead of taking one or two tasks from start to completion and taking pride in doing it, they bounce around with 7 (or 70) different "amazing" ideas and never do any of them. They end up giving into their lizard brain and having 5 half-finished projects and nothing to ...
Get Motivated
This is the first installment in a series titled "5 Ways to Live the Life You Were Meant To." The series will run over the next 3 days on 5 different blogs run by some of my favorite bloggers. I’m honored to have been asked to write the first installment of this series. Part One: Get Motivated by Joel Runyon [You're Reading It!] Part Two: Be Your Own Boss by Eric Pratum Part Three: Living The Dream by Mark Lawrence Part Four: How to Build Your ...
Stretch Regularly
Stretching is one of my least favorite activities. It's painful, it's boring and it takes forever. It's also entirely necessary if I expect to keep running triathlons, half-marathons and more races in the future. I'm learning this the hard way. This whole week I've been hobbling around since tweaking my IT band early last week and making it even worse during the half-marathon. It was so bad I could barely stand on my left leg Sunday, and spend most of the ...
The Indy Monumental Half Marathon: Half as hard, Twice as Painful
The Race I woke up at 4:30am the day of and got down to Indy. It had snowed Friday night and Saturday morning was not warm. I tried to warm up by jogging around, but my knee was sore the whole time and I could barely eek out a jog. How am I gonna run a half-marathon with this? I hate drugs, but I downed a few [more] ibuprofen to try and dull the pain in my knee and kept stretching as we waited for the starting line to start to fill up. I wasn't seeded ...
Originality is Overrated
Originality is overrated There's such a pressure in everything we do to be original. Original goals blog posts, music, products, etc, etc etc. It's so prevalent that it actually makes me tired. I'm convinced the pursuit of originality is just a cover. A cover for procrastination. A reason not to do anything. Instead of taking action, we wait and wait and wait for something 100% original: That one idea That one product That one business model That ...
[Impossible Update] October 2010
Usually I begin with some sort of interesting lead-in here that's representative of the whole month, but It's been a crazy month with lots of things happening, so lets just dive in. Around The Blog It's been a busy month around the blog. I knocked another thing off of my impossible list when I ran a 10K and learned a lot about what you can do by just showing up. I talked about how waiting can be fatal, how adaptability can be the most important trait you ...
When Do You Give Up? Pt. 2 [Or How To Stop Banging Your Head Against The Wall And Become A Champion]
WARNING: THIS POST IS LONG. PROBABLY TOO LONG. IN FACT, IT’S THE LONGEST ARTICLE I’VE EVER WRITTEN. IT’S OVER 3000 WORDS AND CONTAINS SEVERAL INTELLIGENT READER COMMENTS, AN IN-DEPTH STORY AND MORE INFO ABOUT MY LIFE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS THAN YOU PROBABLY CARE TO KNOW. I ALSO USE NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO THE 90s BULLS DYNASTY. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. Last week Reader David asked me a really thought provoking comment on twitter: @ ...
6 Things I’ve Learned In 6 Months of Blogging
Saturday was the official 6 month birthday of the blog. *Commence Applause* Honestly it’s not really much. When this whole thing started off as a personal project 6 months ago, I can't say I expected it to turn into what it did. Wow. 70 posts later, along with 3 triathlons, several other races, lots of new readers and some good friends, I've learned a lot in the last 6 month. Here are six key lessons: 1. Writing is the most important part of a ...
