I might be going out of my mind, but this Monday is gonna be off the chain. For the last 6 months, I’ve had a bunch of things incubating in my brain and on Monday, we’re finally taking a lot of those ideas live. It’s going to be on. Like Genghis Kahn. Wearing Sean Jean. In Bhutan. Yea, like that. So what’s going on anyways? Introducing Impossible T-Shirts I’m launching t-shirts on Monday. WHAAA? For the last 6 months, I've gotten email after email from ...
Archives for September 2011
The Intricate Balancing Act Between Ambition And Insanity
I must be completely out of my mind. The past 3 weeks I've been busy blowing up my previous limitations of what I thought this blog could be and remaking it into an adventure bigger than myself. I'm busy expanding things, making them bigger, making space for others to join in, but that means I've got a ton of things on my plate. Here's a brief (incomplete) list of some of them at the moment: My day job. The Blog of Impossible Things. The ...
Finding The Door: The Secret To Never Ever Stopping – Ever
If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can't see yourself doing it, usually you can't achieve it. - David Goggins David Goggins is a Navy Seal, endurance athlete and all around hardcore dude you probably dont want to mess with. I could talk about him all day, but this video does a much better job with a lot less words. Take just 6 minutes and watch this video. We'll be talking about it the rest of the ...
3 Simple Steps To Eating Well
I'm going to talk about something I've never talked about before. COOKING. Now I'll fully admit, for most of my life, my range of cooking expertise was limited to peanut butter and jelly and eggs. No, not together, that's gross, but for 20+ years of my life, those things basically consisted of a large portion of my diet, spotted every once in a while with large amounts of pudding (yes pudding). When I first started switching up my eating habits, I would ...
Introducing The Impossible League
I'm getting serious about doing. [Hugh MacLeod] I've said for a long time that the best way to write something that matters is to do something that matters, and then write about it. I'm getting serious about doing. In the next few weeks, I'll be rolling out at least 5 new projects. The first project comes out today. What I'm Starting For a while we've had a league around here. A few thousand people or so doing some incredibly inspiring things. But, ...
Being “Right” Is Overrated
Do Something. Learn From It. Adjust. Don't worry about being "right." Whenever someone does something important, people come out of the woodwork to debate pointless intricacies. You said it wrong. You did it wrong. I would have changed this. I would have done that. Tsk Tsk Tsk. And they wag their finger at the doer as they hypothesize the dozens of better ways they could have done it better. There's only one problem with that. They didn't. However, it ...
The Exception For Awesome
There are rules for most things in life. We don’t allow people past this point We’re not open at that time. We don’t do that sort of thing here. We require X qualification to work here. We only talk to people with serious $$$ in their bank account. But there’s always an exception. It’s an exception they might not tell you about directly, but it’s implicit, because most people are human (most). There’s always an exception for awesome. There’s ...
The Archer vs. The Captain
The Archer The archer spends all him time preparing. He has to prepare the bow, inspect the arrows, steady himself and anticipate anything that might shift the arrow off path as he sends it on it's course. Once he's ready, he pulls back, aims and lets go. That's it. He's done everything he's can to control it. He better have made sure his preparation was solid and hope that he made all the correct assumptions. The Captain The captain prepares for the ...
Creating An Adventure Bigger Than Yourself
So you started something. You embarked on an adventure. You began a story. You started out doing the impossible. Something you believed in. Something you thought was a great idea. So you forged ahead. Threw off the excuses and got going. "Surely people will line up to join me!", you thought. So you got started and kept going and kept going, but slowly, as you began your journey, you began to look around and the followers you thought would come, ...
