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Archives for January 2011

The Inescapable Truth About Every Book, Guide, or Blog Post You’ll Ever Read [Including This One]

January 27, 2011 By Joel Runyon 46 Comments

There’s one problem with every single thing you've ever read. It affects every book you've read, every guide book you've downloaded and each and every blog post you've ever read – including this one. They all have the same issue: They don't do the work for you. You can read inspirational quotes until your vision gets blurry. You can read and re-read about writing a better story with your life. You can even laugh at me when I try to do triathlons on a ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible

4500 Miles, 70+ Hours And Going Big: The BIT Road Trip Roundup

January 25, 2011 By Joel Runyon 13 Comments

I’m back! After more than 4,500 miles and 70+ hours in the car in less than 14 days, I’m back in Indianapolis. Here’s what the final itinerary looked like: Indianapolis --> Chicago --> Dallas --> Austin --> San Antonio --> South Padre Island --> San Antonio --> Austin --> Dino World --> Dallas --> South Bend --> Indianapolis --> Woodstock, Canada --> Indianapolis While it was a little colder throughout the trip than ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Updates Tagged With: BIT Roadtrip, Chicago, Go Big or Go Home, Going Big, Roadtrip, South Padre

I’m Jumping Out Of A Plane At WDS – Who’s Coming With Me?

January 20, 2011 By Joel Runyon 71 Comments

Most of you know already about the World Domination Summit. If you don't, you can find out a lot about it here. Here's the one sentence synopsis of the event - "In June 2011, a small army of remarkable people will converge on Portland, Oregon for a weekend of strategizing and adventure." The World Domination Summit [WDS] is a conference being organized by Chris Guillebeau, so like most things he does, it should be nothing short of amazing [no pressure, ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, The Impossible, The Impossible List, Updates Tagged With: Chris Guillebeau, falling, peeing your pants, portland, skydive, wds, world domination summitt

Specificity Matters

January 18, 2011 By Joel Runyon 14 Comments

Hello from Woodstock - the dairy capital of Canada. I'm a little over 4,000 miles total into my road trip and I've been to both the Mexican and Canadian borders so far and I'll be enjoying the Canadian snow and ice for the next few days – turns out it's a little colder in Canada in January than it is when I last visited in August. Back then, I was able to snap a photo with Woodstock's pride & joy – the SpringBank Snow Countess – the World Champion ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: Dairy Capital of The World, Specificity, Urgency, Woodstock Canada

Do More Online by Doing More Offline

January 13, 2011 By Joel Runyon 22 Comments

Greetings from San Antonio [again!]. I just got back from a few days at South Padre Island [and the Mexican border] and started my just-over 1900 mile trek north to the great country of Canada over the next week. Here's a picture of Bobz World – possibly the world's biggest attraction of useless SPI tourist paraphernalia – but they did have a giant gorilla that I thought was worth sharing :). I do a lot of work online. I usually work 8-9 hours/day [at ...

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The Hidden Dangers Of Surrounding Yourself With Like Minded People

January 11, 2011 By Joel Runyon 48 Comments

Greetings from San Antonio, Texas! We're 3 days and 4 cities into the trip so far. It's a little chilly down here, but not quite as cold as Indiana [which got almost 3 feet of snow the day we left–warmth is a relative thing, right?]. We'll be trying to outrun the cold as we head down to South Padre Island for the next few days and I'll being doing my best to shoot a bunch of video postcards on the way. -- Surrounding yourself with like minded people can ...

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Filed Under: Hacks Tagged With: Challenge, Like Minded People, Status Quo

Announcing The 2011 BIT Border to Border Road Trip

January 6, 2011 By Joel Runyon 43 Comments

Everyone these days seems to be going on road trips, book tours, or just visiting other parts of the country. It looks like I've got the memo too, but my reasons are a bit more conventional – I'm going on vacation :) I've mentioned before that I actually have a normal 9-5 job. As part of that, I've got a few days of vacation left that I need to use before they expire in February, so I'm going on vacation to someplace warm. Specifically, I'll be escaping ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Updates Tagged With: Roadtrip, Texas Road Trip, Video Postcards, Videos

The Uncommon Start To A New Year: Spectacular Failure

January 4, 2011 By Joel Runyon 82 Comments

UPDATE: 100 Pushups Video Update I'm starting the year off a bit differently than a lot of people in blog-land. I failed. I've been saying for a while that I was going to do 100 pushups. Well, I didn't do 100. I WASN'T EVEN CLOSE. In fact, I didn't just fail – I failed spectacularly. It's a little humbling to write this actually. I'm a big advocate of telling other people your goals in an effort to hold yourself accountable. That strategy feels great ...

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Filed Under: The Impossible Tagged With: 100 pushups, 39 pushups really?, Failure, Impossible, Joel is an idiot, my arms are really tired, The Impossible, Ugly Pushups

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