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10 Impossible Things I Did In 2011

December 29, 2011 By Joel Runyon 28 Comments

We're a few days out from the New Year. While there's nothing really special about the new year, but it's a nice arbitrary way to look back on what you've done the  past 365 days. I've been looking through old blog posts and journals from the last year and it's been a little bit of a crazy ride as I go through and knock some things off the impossible list. Here are 10 impossible things I did in 2011. 10 Impossible Things I Did In 2011 I Ran A Marathon I ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, The Impossible, The Impossible List, Updates Tagged With: impossible review, year in review

The Victim vs. The Conquerer

December 27, 2011 By Joel Runyon 26 Comments

The victim wonders why nothing ever goes their way. The conquerer wonders how lucky they are. The victim wishes things were different. The conquerer makes things different. The victim passes blame and points fingers. The conquerer accepts blame and moves on. The victim argues minutiae. The conquerer understands what matters. The victim accepts reality and waits for for someone to create their own utopia. The conquerer rejects reality and chooses ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: to hell with circumstances

When Was The Last Time You Felt Like Puking?

December 23, 2011 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

When I played basketball, we would run a lot of sprints. We ran drills sometimes, but we did a lot of sprints. Someone on the team would screw up a play and coach would line us up on the line and have us run suicides until we'd feel sick. There'd always be one or two team members who couldn't keep up so we'd run more to make up for them. Someone would curse because we were running so much, so we'd run more. When we finally finished, there was a mass ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible Tagged With: crossfit, milwaukee crossfit, puking, vomit, wanting to puke

Epic ≠ Long

December 20, 2011 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

This is a note that I jotted down from a conversation I had with Nate Damm when he was walking across America: Epic ≠ Long. Too many people mistake writing something epic with writing something long. You don't have to write 3,000 words to make something worth reading. You just have to make it worth reading. ...

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Filed Under: Hacks Tagged With: epic, epic ≠ long, long, Writing

There Are No Safe Choices

December 16, 2011 By Joel Runyon 12 Comments

There are no safe choices. There are common choices. But there are no safe choices. *** Common choices seem safe, they aren't. Uncommon choices seem risky, they are. The truth is all choices are inherently risky because every decision involves risk. Some risk people are comfortable with. Some they aren't. The risk people are comfortable with is called the "safe choice." The ones they aren't comfortable with is labeled "risky." The key is to work on ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: life is risk, no safe choices, safe choices

Things Will Never Be Perfect – And That’s Okay

December 14, 2011 By Joel Runyon 23 Comments

My name is Joel Runyon. I used to be a perfectionist. There used to be a time where I was an absolute perfectionist. Everything always had to be perfect. Down to the very last detail and I wouldn't ever, ever, ever let something go live until it was absolutely perfect. There was only one problem... I never got anything done. I was waiting for things to be perfect and they never will be. Ever. I waited for the perfect job. It never came. I waited for ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, Resources, The Impossible Tagged With: impossible manifesto, manifesto

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