Here, Impossible League member Patrick Hitches here is learning to surf in Peru. Obviously, his impossible shirt kept him completely waterproof throughout the entire experience (I told you!). After learning to surf, Patrick climbed Machu Picchu, ran a marathon with less than 30 days of training and sharks in the area reported human attacks as Patrick decided to get an afternoon workout session in-between waves by bench pressing them (okay maybe I made ...
Archives for 2011
Getting Bad To Get Better
We tend to focus on getting good at stuff a lot. This makes sense for obvious reasons - you'd rather get good at something than get bad at it. You want to get good. You want to get better. You want to progress. You want to be an expert. It's logical. I like getting good at things, sure but it's really easy to get caught up in getting good at something that you never try anything new. So I try to get bad at things. Take CrossFit I'm trying CrossFit for ...
Impossible Profile: Kristin & Shannon of Revolution Apparel
We're trying something new today. There's a ton of really interesting stories going on in the impossible league and there's almost 300 people involved in it. In order to highlight some of the impossible things people are doing, every Saturday from here until I decide to stop it, we'll be featuring someone from the League doing something impossible in their impossible shirt. First up: Kristin (1/2 of AllofUs Revolution) is repping her shirt during a busines ...
The Burn Notice Guide To Doing The Impossible
I don't watch much TV at all. But I watch Burn Notice. For the uninitiated of you, Burn Notice is a show about Michael Westen, a government spy that gets kicked out of the CIA and is left in Miami with nothing. No money. No job history. No identity. He's stuck in Miami and has to figure out how to make things work from scratch. So I watch Burn Notice. Partly because it's awesome, but mostly because I secretly want to be a spy. Someone who can do ...
Where The Heck I’ve Been
Taking photos 30,000 feet in the air, of course. Actually, I've been laying low and relaxing after running my half-ironman in Miami. Between that, coming back to Milwaukee, flying to Denver and back, moving and trying to find some sleep and some time to relax, I've been keeping pretty busy. That said, have no fear! There's a lot of really, awesome stuff on the horizon. Here's a quick rundown of what's coming up. IMPOSSIBLE: The Manifesto // Not actually ...
70.3 or Bust: Dominating The Miami Rhoto Half-Ironman
Greetings from Milwaukee. Things have been a little chaotic around here. In the last 10 days, I've had terribly unreliable internet connections while moving out of my old house, flying to miami, and flying back to the midwest. Somewhere in between all that, I ran a half-ironman. A HALF-IRONMAN! I'm shocked too. So, apologies for the delay on this, but I've been a little busy. Either way, I"ll shut up with the excuses - on to the story! (Warning: It's a ...
The Only Self-Help Post You’ll Ever Need
The subtitle should read "(and the only one I'll ever write)" The phrase "self-help" makes me cringe. To me it conjures up an image of people reading book after book about the same concepts, talking through the same principles and rehashed over and over again by different authors using different terms over and over again in an attempt to make a buck. There's a lot of money to be made in "self-help" because the people who consume it tend to keep reading ...
Be Prolific
You're waiting for that one idea. That one great big shiny idea. The one idea that will blow up beyond your wildest imagination and lets you turn to some investors and cooly say, "Sure I'll sell...for a BILLION dollars or so" while cooly gesturing with your hand while watching them not even bat an eye because they're know it's worth at least two billion. One day it will come. In the meantime, you wait. You're doing it wrong. I hate to be the one to break ...
How To Walk Across America
How To Walk Across America This weekend I flew out to San Francisco to see my really good friend Nate Damm walked across America. Well, he didn’t do it all yesterday. Back in February, Nate started walking in Delaware and headed west for San Francisco. For the past 7 months, Nate’s been walking…and walking…and walking some more. In between we took a short little road trip to Portland, but for the rest of the time he just walked. He got up in the morning. ...
Choose Doing
Some days you write. Some days you do. On some days, you're able to do both. Some days you can't. I try to write regularly but the best writing usually happens when you're writing about stuff you're actually doing. That's usually my plan, but the only problem is that sometimes doing doesn't always leave time for writing, so if you have to choose between the two - choose doing. The next two days I'm in San Francisco walking with Nate as he finishes up ...
