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The Uncommon Start To A New Year: Spectacular Failure

January 4, 2011 By Joel Runyon 82 Comments

UPDATE: 100 Pushups Video Update I'm starting the year off a bit differently than a lot of people in blog-land. I failed. I've been saying for a while that I was going to do 100 pushups. Well, I didn't do 100. I WASN'T EVEN CLOSE. In fact, I didn't just fail – I failed spectacularly. It's a little humbling to write this actually. I'm a big advocate of telling other people your goals in an effort to hold yourself accountable. That strategy feels great ...

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Filed Under: The Impossible Tagged With: 100 pushups, 39 pushups really?, Failure, Impossible, Joel is an idiot, my arms are really tired, The Impossible, Ugly Pushups

[BIT] Update June 2010

July 3, 2010 By Joel Runyon 6 Comments

Apology: I'd like to start by saying I owe all of you a MASSIVE apology. I just talked with Haidn Foster from Reach Altitude and he informed me he sent me an email via my contact form earlier this week and was wondering why I never responded to it. I looked into it and realized I never actually got the message. It turns out that the contact form I've been so busy telling you guys to use to send me email has been broken...FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS! I ...

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Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: BIT Updates, Blogging, Failure, Goal Setting, Goals, RAAM

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