If you want to live a life of fear, it's pretty straightforward: Read the news Believe the worst about people Ignore any evidence to the contrary Read the fine print (every last word of it dangit!) Spend more time worrying about potential problems than solving them. It's a simple life, but the tradeoff is you spend it all worrying about things you can't control, instead of focusing on things you can. Sure there are dangers in life and things you ...
Archives for April 2011
12 Months Later: 12 People I Need To Thank
This past Saturday, BIT turned 1 year old... I wrote that sentence and just paused for a bit while I let it blow my mind... In January 2010 I decided I was going to do a triathlon. Beginning in April last year, I began to write a few things on this blog about the journey, my first few steps into the world of blogging, triathlon racing, and purposely living a story worth writing about. And one year ago Saturday, I officially "launched" this blog ...
Why Are You Here Anyways?
Why are you here? This is one of the first questions I aks you when you sign up for my email series, 1 Week To Impossible. I believe your reason why behind what you do is absolutely vital to any success you might have doing the impossible so I ask this question and ask for you to respond with your answer. Some people do and some people don't and every once in a while, I get a really good answer. Recently, reader Steve recently signed up for the series ...
The Unauthorized Guide To One Hundred Pushups
Photo By Bengt-Re So you want to do hundred pushups? Good luck. If you want the textbook answer, go to www.HundredPushups.com and follow the progression guide and in six weeks time, you'll be able to to do 100 like *that.* Boom. Presto. Done. Yea, Maybe if you're the Hulk. If you're starry eyed and perfect at following guide, you might be able to do it in six weeks. I know people have done it before and I'm not one to say it's impossible, but it ...
100 Pushups
3 months after this spectacular failure. [Click here to watch video] I'm not always the fastest...but I always finish. A more in depth post on this whole endeavor (including form critique, why it took me so long, etc) is coming next week, but before I write it, I need to go rest my arms…. ...
Climb A Mountain, Tell No One
What is is about public lists that we like so much? There's the aspect of accountability that's a big motivator. I'm not sure I would be nearly as motivated to finish things if I didn't have thousands of people checking in on me every week. There's an element of voyeurism. People like to see what other people are trying (and sometimes failing) to do. It's part of our natural instinct. That's why people watching is so much fun. I think there's an element ...
Take Your Seat
You walk into a room and everyone is sitting around a long dinner table. As you stand there, you look around the room and notice a lot of different faces there, familiar and unfamiliar, all sitting down. They're laughing, eating, and having fun but you also see serious conversations and business deals happening. Everyone in general seems very comfortable with their surroundings and at ease with each other. You start to notice the faces of people sitting ...
Twelve Steps To Sucking Less
Face it: people suck. I suck. You suck. We all suck...but not in the way you're thinking. The first time you try anything, there's a high probability that you're going to suck. If you think that's a good excuse for quitting, you might as well stop reading, shut your computer down and go home right now. Because it's not. Everybody sucks. You will suck. At some point. At some thing. You will suck. That's non-negotiable. That's how you start. From there, ...
What To Do When You Hit A Wall
I’m about 6 weeks away from running my marathon and it definitely hasn’t been all peaches and ice cream. I’ve been ramping up mileage the past few weeks and it’s been rough. A few weeks back I was on a 15 mile run along the beach in Kailua in Hawaii. The sun was shining, the weather was beautiful and it was one of the hardest runs I’ve ever had in my life I had run that distance before but for some reason that day I just didn’t have it. My legs were ...
