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Archives for May 2013

A Tough Question

May 31, 2013 By Joel Runyon 9 Comments

Greetings from Colombia! I'm spending some time now in Bogota after spending the first part of the week with the Pencils of Promise team in Guatemala, checking out the brand new dedicated Impossible school we built during the first part of the year! I'll have more updates (and a lot of photos) on that soon but, as I've been traveling the past week or so, I want to talk about a great question that Jeff Sarris of the ever-talented Spyr Media brought up, ...

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5 Simple Motivation Hacks

May 24, 2013 By Joel Runyon 13 Comments

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Here are 5 simple motivation hacks. These aren't the common ones you'll find on Oprah. They're real ones that actually work - if you're brave enough to test them for yourself. I'm not even going to do a boring intro on why they work. They just do. Here we go: Hulk Up Get pissed. Get seriously pissed at your goal. Throw stuff. Break things. Yell. Scream. Call your goal names and punch it in the nose. Then go dominate it. It works for the ...

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My TEDxLUC Cold Shower Therapy™ Talk

May 17, 2013 By Joel Runyon 42 Comments

--- Back in March, I spoke at TEDxLUC, the independently organized TEDx event at Loyola University. It was my first ever TEDx talk. I almost didn't do it because I had a bunch of other things going on and I wasn't quite sure that I could pull it off in time. But one day I was taking a cold shower and I suddenly knew what I had to talk about. This wasn't my first speaking engagement (I've spoken at Target and at several colleges), but it's one of ...

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How To Impose Your Will On A Situation

May 14, 2013 By Joel Runyon 28 Comments

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This Saturday, I crossed another thing off my list and did a century ride for the first time (technically it was 112.5 miles). I thought it'd be a nice relaxing ride in flat, midwest Indiana where I could take my time, relax and finish at my own pace with a few friends. Of course, I've never done done anything close to 100 before and this was my first time on the bike this year, so this seemed like a great idea, but I'll get to the full story in a ...

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