2012 has been a crazy year. It's been absolutely wild. I think the picture of me skydiving in Wadi Rum sums it up pretty well. Thrown out of a comfortable, stable situation and hurtling out of control at ridiculous speeds towards an unknown landscape while trying to make sense of it all, enjoy the ride and land without dying. Yup, that sounds about right. This year I quit my job, and took a shot at the solo entrepreneur lifestyle. This year, we had our ...
Archives for December 2012
Start Your New Years Resolutions Today
Start your New Years Resolutions Today If you're serious about your new years resolutions. Start them today. You don't need permission. You don't need a new year. You don't need a new week. You don't need to tell anybody. You just need to start. Climb a mountain & tell no one. Blackmail yourself if you need to. Today. Now. Go. --- If your new years resolution is fitness related, you can download the no excuses workout for fr**. Get after ...
Blackmail Yourself: How To Set & Accomplish Goals More Effectively
Blackmail Yourself Forget New Years Resolutions. They don't work. If you want to really accomplish some new impossible challenge this year, you need something a little more drastic. I call this strategy blackmailing yourself and I've used it extensively along with cold shower therapy when I need a kick in the butt and the extra push to get something done. Here's how it works. Pick A Challenge Pick a challenge, we've already talked about this before. Make ...
Merry Christmas From Impossible HQ
Merry Christmas from Impossible HQ! I hope you're enjoying the holidays and spending time with friends and family. We've got another present under your tree…er…waiting in your inbox for you. If you're worried about falling off the routine during christmas or want to get started throughout the new year, I've put together a new workout routine for you for f*ee. Introducing The No Excuse Workout The no excuse workout is just that - a no excuse ...
Why Physical Fitness Is A Terrible Goal
Physical fitness is a terrible goal. I might ruffle some feathers with this post but it really is. Sure, it sounds like a great goal, but it's a terribly misleading. Lets break it down. Why Physical Fitness is a TERRIBLE Goal There's a whole bunch of reasons. It's Not Defined Physical fitness is a state of being, but it's not a goal. It sounds nice if you could just magically float around in a state of fitness on a cloud while eating "healthy" foods ...
How to do so many diverse and awesome things that people will want to punch you in the face
This is a guest post by Johnny B Truant. Johnny is the co-founder of Sterling & Stone and the author of almost 100 books. My problem is that I never wanted to settle for doing any one thing. Maybe you can relate. I mean, in business, you're told to pick a niche. I couldn't pick a niche. People asked me what I did, and I couldn't tell them. For a long time, I set up websites while writing blog posts on topics ranging from triathlon training to tattoos ...
My One Focus For 2012
No, that's not a typo and I didn't mean 2013. Most people are thinking about setting lots of goals for 2013 and what they want to do over the next year. I'll get to that in a bit, but first I have some unfinished business to finish up with 2012 first. Building An #IMPOSSIBLE School In August, we committed to building an #impossible school in 2012 with Pencils of Promise – an organization dedicated to equal education for all. We are really close. If ...
How To Kill A Project
I'm a big proponent of starting lots of things. I think it's a really good exercise in learning to become a doer. But there comes some times when you have to admit that some things fail (or even just didn't go the way you wanted them to go). Chris called this "letting go of a project." Letting go sounds really nice, but I've found it to be much more difficult than simply "letting go." The truth is that "letting go" often means a project dies, and you're ...
