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We’re Building A School In Guatemala ≠ Impossible

January 4, 2013 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

We did it. We freaking did it. I remember shooting this video in LA back in July and wondering "What the heck amI getting myself into?" Apparently the answer was: An Awesome Adventure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvaQICpAcOM The goal was $25,000. We smashed that a week early (on Christmas no less), and raised $26,406 Because of you guys, 1,000 kids in Guatemala are literally going to have the chance to do something they thought might be ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: big win, generosity, Impossible, impossible ones, mind blown, pencils of promise, pop, we built a freaking school

25 Things To Do With 25 Dollars

October 25, 2012 By Joel Runyon 8 Comments

Greetings from NYC. I'm here meeting with the crew from Pencils of Promise for a few days and visiting the city for the first time in over a decade before coming back to Chicago tomorrow and running the 50k ultramarathon this weekend. Things are busy! --- If you're like me, you rarely use cash anymore. Nevertheless, I probably have about $25 on me at all times for random purchases, cash fare, or in case of emergency, etc. Here's 25 things to do with the ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible List Tagged With: adam braun, giving, Impossible, impossible ones, impossible school, justin bieber, pencils of promise, scooter braun, sophia bush

An Update On The #Impossible School Campaign

September 14, 2012 By Joel Runyon 4 Comments

At the beginning of last month, we launched our first every charity intiative with Pencils of Promise. You can read the full announcement here, but here's the gist: We going to raise $25,000 to build an #impossible school in Guatemala and make education possible for 1,000 students. Since then, we've raised $7,184.31 of $25,000 – almost 30% BOOM! Nicely done team! But there's still a ways to go and still few months to make things happen. Here's an update ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: education for all, guatemala impossible school, Impossible, impossible charity initiative, impossible school, pencils of promise, pop

Impossible Ones: A Brand New Impossible Thing (or Two) And How You Can Help

August 8, 2012 By Joel Runyon 43 Comments

In case you haven't noticed, we've got a lot of things in the works around Impossible HQ and the blog lately. We're releasing a fitness program in a few weeks, and over the weekend we  murdered our servers from last week's post (thanks to Jeff for un-murdering them), but that's not all. Today we're announcing 2 new impossible things: you ready? This is going to be fun. --- The BackStory A key thread throughout everything we do here an HQ is focused on ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, The Impossible, The Impossible List, Updates Tagged With: do the impossible, do things that havent been done before, Impossible, impossible hq, impossible ones, pencils of promise, pop

Introducing Impossible: The Manifesto

December 6, 2011 By Joel Runyon 24 Comments

Impossible The wait is finally over and it's here. I've talked about this enough so you can read about it more over at Impossible HQ. I know, I know, you all thought it was impossible for me to actually finish this, but it's finally here :) What is the Impossible Manifesto? It's a challenge to push your limits, and live a life worth writing about by doing the impossible. What's In It? I'm not big into promoting word counts or page numbers (they really ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, Resources, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: Impossible, los manifestos, manifesto, the impossible manifesto

The Burn Notice Guide To Doing The Impossible

November 18, 2011 By Joel Runyon 19 Comments

I don't watch much TV at all. But I watch Burn Notice. For the uninitiated of you, Burn Notice is a show about Michael Westen, a government spy that gets kicked out of the CIA and is left in Miami with nothing. No money. No job history. No identity. He's stuck in Miami and has to figure out how to make things work from scratch. So I watch Burn Notice. Partly because it's awesome, but mostly because I secretly want to be a spy. Someone who can do ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: burn notice, Impossible, michael westen

3…2…1…Launch Launch Launch!

October 3, 2011 By Joel Runyon 36 Comments

Launch Launch Launch! Launch Day Is Here  I literally haven't slept for the last 36 hours. I've been downing red bull and eating bacon the last few hours (yes, that's a completely healthy diet) testing things and I'm about to head out to work. I'll be running on adrenaline all day...but it's all going to be totally worth it. If you want to skip to the chase, you can get your Impossible T-Shirts here. If you want to read the stories behind it all, read ...

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A Whole New Era of Impossible + Free T-shirts Giveaway

September 30, 2011 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

I might be going out of my mind, but this Monday is gonna be off the chain. For the last 6 months, I’ve had a bunch of things incubating in my brain and on Monday, we’re finally taking a lot of those ideas live. It’s going to be on. Like Genghis Kahn. Wearing Sean Jean. In Bhutan. Yea, like that. So what’s going on anyways? Introducing Impossible T-Shirts I’m launching t-shirts on Monday. WHAAA? For the last 6 months, I've gotten email after email from ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: Impossible, impossible apparel, impossible athletics, impossible hq, impossible league, impossible shirts, tshirt giveaway

The Intricate Balancing Act Between Ambition And Insanity

September 27, 2011 By Joel Runyon 16 Comments

  I must be completely out of my mind. The past 3 weeks I've been busy blowing up my previous limitations of what I thought this blog could be and remaking it into an adventure bigger than myself. I'm busy expanding things, making them bigger, making space for others to join in, but that means I've got a ton of things on my plate. Here's a brief (incomplete) list of some of them at the moment: My day job. The Blog of Impossible Things. The ...

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Filed Under: Hacks, The Impossible, Updates Tagged With: ambition, breaking the limit, Impossible, impossible hq, impossible league, insanity, pushing yourself

Introducing The Impossible League

September 15, 2011 By Joel Runyon 21 Comments

I'm getting serious about doing.  [Hugh MacLeod] I've said for a long time that the best way to write something that matters is to do something that matters, and then write about it. I'm getting serious about doing. In the next few weeks, I'll be rolling out at least 5 new projects. The first project comes out today. What I'm Starting For a while we've had a league around here. A few thousand people or so doing some incredibly inspiring things. But, ...

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