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 ...
25 Things To Do With 25 Dollars
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 ...
An Update On The #Impossible School Campaign
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 ...
Impossible Ones: A Brand New Impossible Thing (or Two) And How You Can Help
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 ...
Introducing Impossible: The Manifesto
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 ...
The Burn Notice Guide To Doing The Impossible
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 ...
3…2…1…Launch Launch Launch!
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 ...
A Whole New Era of Impossible + Free T-shirts Giveaway
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 ...
The Intricate Balancing Act Between Ambition And Insanity
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 ...
Introducing The Impossible League
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, ...
