In every race, there's a few glamorous steps forward you take. The step across the starting line, the step across the finish line and possibly the steps in front of the water stations where you smile at the volunteers as you try and convince them that you're not actually tired yet. Those steps are the easy ones. When you're starting out, you're not quite tired yet and the steps are pretty easy. When you're finishing, you see the end goal and they get ...
Archives for 2011
Are You Building Something That Matters?
What are you building? What are you building? Is it something worthwhile? Is it something that's going to last? When someone like Steve Jobs passes away, the world watches as we literally see the changes that happened in the last 30 years due to some of his technical innovations. But more than his 317 patents, what's more compelling to me personally, is how he approached them. While his technology, the ipods, the iphones, the macs and other all the ...
3…2…1…Launch Launch Launch!
Launch Launch Launch! Launch Day Is Here I literally haven't slept for the last 36 hours. I've been downing red bull and eating bacon the last few hours (yes, that's a completely healthy diet) testing things and I'm about to head out to work. I'll be running on adrenaline all day...but it's all going to be totally worth it. If you want to skip to the chase, you can get your Impossible T-Shirts here. If you want to read the stories behind it all, read ...
A Whole New Era of Impossible + Free T-shirts Giveaway
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 ...
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 ...