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Impossible League

September 24, 2011 by Joel Runyon 4 Comments

What Is The Impossible League?

Table of Contents

  • What Is The Impossible League?
  • The Rules of the League
  • Want To Be A Part of Something BIG?
  • Join The Impossible League

The Impossible League is the community behind the blog. While, I’m the face of the blog, the League are the hundreds of readers and subscribers, just like you, that not only read the blog but are doing impossible things in their everyday life.

Key word: doing.

It’s easy to talk and write and pretend like you’re doing something impossible. It’s much harder to actually do something impossible. In the league, we cultivate doers, people who are actively pushing their limits, telling great stories and doing the impossible.

Put simply, the Impossible League is the community behind the movement. Here are the rules:

The Rules of the League

This is how we roll. No apologies:

1. It’s Not About Us

We know the best way to spread ideas is to help others. Getting what we ultimately want is best done by genuinely helping others. We know life is a marathon, not a sprint and short term gains aren’t worth sacrificing the long term goal. When we build our foundation around genuinely helping, others we’re able to set up the most people for success.

2. We Tell Great Stories With Our Lives By What We Do

We know our lives are a story and there’s no point in living out a story that you’d be bored to death reading. We know there are no good stories about people who did what they were always supposed to do (unless those people are robots and the story is about the end of the world – either way it doesn’t end well). We focus our actions around crafting what we can in the story we’re in with the things we got and refuse to believe the end is already written.

3. We Know There Is No Such Thing As “Good Excuse”

If we don’t really want to do something, we admit it, but there’s no need to deny it . We know that life is short and there’s no excuse to not do something amazing. We might be able to make up all the excuses in the world, but that doesn’t mean any of them are good. Excuses are like obstacles, they might exist but we will find a way around them.

4. Doing > Talking.

‘Nuff said.

5. We Know Most People Don’t Really Fail, They Just Give Up Too Soon

Persistence alone will outlast even the strongest competitor. Endurance lasts. We know we can beat most people simply by wanting it more. We’re able to do most things just by sheer persistence. When other people go home, we keep going. We don’t give up. We never give up.

6. We Are Never Finished

Good enough isn’t. We want to be great. We want to live amazing lives. There’s time to reflect and enjoy and that’s part of life, but we also know that if we’re not actively growing, learning or stretching ourselves, we’re moving backwards.

7. Impossible

The impossible isn’t. Impossible is just a word most people use to describe things they’re scared to bring into existence. It’s an artificial barrier we put up to keep us from living an amazing life and doing what we really want to do. Once we get past that word, we realize that, like Walt Disney said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

Want To Be A Part of Something BIG?

Join The Impossible League

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About Joel Runyon

I started IMPOSSIBLE to push myself to try to live a life worth writing about by pushing my limits, living an adventure & telling a great story by doing the impossible. You can get free updates in your inbox via your new favorite newsletter, free fitness training tutorials, and see all my businesses at Impossible X and our philanthropic efforts at Impossible.org

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  1. Sheldon Arnold says

    February 19, 2012 at 7:03 am

    THIS WEBSITE IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR, FOR SUCH A LONG TIME. READING SOME OF THE MATERIAL LITERALLY LEAVES ME FOAMING AT THE MOUTH LIKE A WOLF HUNGRY FOR MORE LOL. I THOUGHT I WAS WEIRD FOR THINKING THE WAY I DO “PUSHING MYSELF TO THE ULTIMATE OF LIMITS, AND THEN GOING BEYONG”. IT’S SO REFRESHING TO SEE SOMEONE DOING THIS (JOEL), AND ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME.

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