I recently packed up all my stuff (again) and moved to Austin. Unlike when I downsized to move to San Diego, I actually had quite a few things with me (I haven’t counted this time through). It's been 3 years since I officially had an apartment. Since then, I've finished 777, traveled the world, ran across 2 countries, did stints in New York, San Diego, Chicago, Portland, and Barcelona, and shot videos in Iceland and Denmark (keep your eyes peeled). I ...
You Have To Be Better
As I was outlining my 2019 goals, I could feel part of me start to shrink back. There was a piece of me that said “you can’t do that.’ And I almost started to believe that I could. But it was different than how I used to think about “you can’t do that.” Instead of not just believing that I could do that. I looked at my current habits and realized that “you can’t do that” if you keep doing things like you’re currently doing them. In some ways - ...
What Could You Be Wrong About?
In my latest annual review, not a lot of things went well. It got a little laborious to keep reviewing what specifically went wrong because the list just kept looking like "all of it." So after beating myself up a bit, I shifted and started to ask myself another question: What might you be wrong about? This is a lot less fun of a question so ask. With "what" went wrong - it's easy to blame stuff - not named you - for things that happened. It's easy to ...
2019 Goals
Part of me didn't want to do this after the debacle that was last year. That said, I am trying to be more explicit in my goals going forward. Life Get a Home Base I’m cheating here because I technically already signed the lease, but this is gonna give me momentum. Plus the lease technically starts February 1st, so I’m counting it. My list, my rules. Business Transition To Business Owner of The Paleo Business As I’m writing this - I’m realizing ...
2018 Annual Review
Alternatively titled: In which Joel screws up for 365 days straight. Well I f**ked up. Usually when I do the annual review I focus on what went well and what didn’t. Things are a bit different this year. 2018 - not a lot went well. About 4 months into the year, my entire life blew up and I had to rebuild everything from scratch. Instead of doing that - I just nicked off for the rest of the year. Don't get me wrong - I still had plenty of adventures ...
Going Pro
For a long time, I was playing business. Or rather, I was playing life. I wasn’t taking it seriously. I was being an amateur. I mean, I was serious - look at this face - but I wasn’t approaching my work or my life seriously. I had struggled to get out of a crappy job, escape the midwest winters, and then got to California and life was relatively good. Mission Accomplished. I was always wary of becoming a “Thailand entrepreneur” - the digital ...
What If You Didn’t Let Yourself Fail?
Let’s play a little thought experiment. What if for a week - you couldn’t let yourself down? As in, you physically were unable to let yourself down. What if for a week - you couldn’t let yourself fail? What if for a week - you had to do everything you said you were going to do? This is reminiscent of my integrity challenge from a few years back. What if you showed up every day for yourself? What if you took care of yourself like someone ...
The Problems That Grip You
https://youtu.be/sCHhgwRkY3Y?t=2760 The problems that grip you are the portal to your destiny. https://twitter.com/joelrunyon/status/1066740709351337985 I heard this on the version of Rubin Rerport and Jordan Peterson live. I saw them in Denmark (thanks Dave for the tickets!) and this was just a few days later. I've listened to Peterson a lot, but this quote struck me: The problems that grip you might contain your destiny. A lot of people ...
How To Never Check Another Bag Ever Again
I’ve been traveling for almost 3 years now. To be honest, I'm a bit tired of it (I'm ready to get a base for a bit to grow IMPOSSIBLE), but I have to admit, after traveling so much - I've gotten pretty good at it. Part of it comes down to streamlining the process for myself and having some rules set in place for traveling. Here's a couple of my golden rules for traveling: Pack half the stuff, bring twice the money. Noise-cancelling headphones ...
Back To Shipping
I realized I haven’t been talking about the things going on with IMPOSSIBLE. I have been handling a lot of things internally. But I haven’t talked about them publicly enough. I think that’s typically how I handle stuff. I’ve spoken before about how once I talk about something - it’s done. It’s just a matter of time until I do it. That’s how I felt when I relaunched 777 and that’s how I feel about most things. That said - that means that I tend ...
