Greetings from South Bend, Indiana of all places :). I'm back in my college town to speak at my Alma Mater and spread the love about discipline & cold showers. Speaking of cold showers, we just released an update to our Android version (as well as a smaller update for iOS). The new android version now has: Squashed a bunch of bugs. Added the ability to add a +1 for a missing CST Added a completion notification after each timer is ...
Why I’m Launching Impossible.org
Today, I'm excited to introduce you to Impossible.org - a new site for all of the philanthropic initiatives at Impossible. Since I've started Impossible, I've had an eye towards giving back - specifically on a global scale. This is mostly because when you realize how fortunate you are (and if you're reading this blog, that includes you - no matter how bad you think your current situation is - you have the freedom to read this and the leisure time to ...
Cold Shower Therapy for iOS is Brand New
http://instagram.com/p/5g3yESTFve Cold shower therapy is the best way to get over your fear of action in a real, visceral way. About 3 years ago, we released our first app ever. It was ugly, primitive and very basic. But it also got us started for the first time, got us in the Apple store and developing apps. Over the past couple years, we've moved on to bigger and better apps, building a Top 20 iTunes health & fitness app and an awesome ...
The 2014 Annual Review
As 2014 comes to a close, I’ve been working through my annual review of things. I've been doing this for a few years ever since I read about it from Chris Guillebeau. You can see his here. I also quite enjoyed Nathan Barry's review here (if you're looking for another great read). Personally, as far as things go, 2014 had a lot of ups and downs. I’ll take a look at a few areas before diving into specifics of what went well & what ...
Best of 2014: The Most Popular Articles at Impossible This Year
2014 has been an interesting year. I had a lot of personal changes happen both in my now life and in my business. I don’t talk about my personal stuff as much I used to, but I’m going to be changing that with a few changes here. Here's a snapshot of what happened in 2014. I moved across the country. I got rid of a ton of stuff. I moved across the country with 97 things. I got a bunch of new stuff, I got rid of more stuff. I scaled one new business, ...
Impossible Gear 2014 Fire Sale
Hey guys, So I got a box of impossible tees (blue and grey) plus women's tanks that I need to clear out. Long story short - we're changing stores for a final time to help us streamline handling orders. That said, we're going to be running a whole new batch of inventory with a few slight design changes. That means I've got an entire box of extra merch that needs to be moved. And now. Seriously, it's taken over my ...
The 777 Project – Race #1 – The Patagonia International Marathon (63km)
I'm safely back in San Diego. After tackling trains, flights, layovers, bus rides, truck rides, shuttles, and loads more forms of transport, I've finally had the time to put together a massive 777 update for you. It's a doozy, but here's the good and the bad news: The good news: Race 1/7 is in the bag and I'm not dead (yet)! The bad news: Well, you'll have to read the whole thing to find out! The 777 Challenge If you're not familiar with the 777 ...
The Biggest Challenge of My Life: The 777 Project
Today's a big day. For the last few months I've been hinting at a big, upcoming impossible project. Today it's here. I want to share with you The 777 Project. - the next impossible thing. The 777 Project The 777 Project is my next impossible challenge. It's a challenge to run 7 ultra marathons on 7 continents as an effort to help build 7 schools with Pencils of Promise.. This project will be the most challenging thing I've ever done and take ...
Why I Started My Blog
The why behind what you do is often more important than what you actually do. Here's my why. --- A little over 4 years ago, I started a list. I was an out-of-work college grad, 9 months out of school who couldn't get a job for the life of him. I had started a couple blogs while trying to figure out this "internet" thing, but kept accidentally overwriting the databases on my Bluehost box. Doh! I applied for jobs everywhere I could and everyone ...
A Few Updates on Cold Shower Therapy™
Cold Shower Therapy™ (daily five minute cold showers) has become one of the most interesting things I've talked about since starting IMPOSSIBLE. I've received more stories and more hate mail about this one concept than about almost anything else I've written. Here's the premise of CST: If you can’t do something uncomfortable and difficult for five minutes in the shower, how the hell are you going to do something uncomfortable or difficult in real ...