Calling All Contest Finishers Almost exactly two months ago we launched the New Years Contest To End All New Years Contests. If you don't quite remember it, the gist is that EVERYONE wants to use the New Year to start getting in better shape. I wanted to help people actually DO that. So I decided to bribe you. More and more I'm realizing that my real goal is to remove any and all excuses you have from working out and/or doing the things you really want ...
We’re Building A School In Guatemala ≠ Impossible
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 ...
The New Years Contest To End All New Years Contests
Shake off your hangover and wake yourself up. It's 2013 and we're not wasting anytime with getting started on your new years resolutions. We are not wasting any time. Today's the day you can get started and get after it. I'm willing to bribe you to help do it. Introducing the Ridiculously-Massive-New-Year-Giveaway-Shamelessly-Bribing-You-To-ACTUALLY-Do-What-You-Keep-Saying-You-Want-To-Do-But-Never-Do-Contest. The ...
The Best of Impossible HQ in 2012
2012 has been a crazy year. It's been absolutely wild. I think the picture of me skydiving in Wadi Rum sums it up pretty well. Thrown out of a comfortable, stable situation and hurtling out of control at ridiculous speeds towards an unknown landscape while trying to make sense of it all, enjoy the ride and land without dying. Yup, that sounds about right. This year I quit my job, and took a shot at the solo entrepreneur lifestyle. This year, we had our ...
How You Can Help Sponsor The Ultra & Get A Personalized Video From Me
A little over 6 weeks ago, we announced we were going to build an #impossible school through a partnership with Pencils of Promise. The goal was big – really big – $25,000 to build a school by the end of the year. As part of the effort, I'll be running my first ultra marathon at the end of the month and running a 50k along the south short of Lake Michigan in Chicago and invited everyone to join in and do something impossible, set a goal and raise money for ...
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 ...
A Crash Course Intro To Impossible HQ
We've had a lot of new people in the last 10 days so I thought I'd take the time to review exactly what it is we're up to at the site (we have a lot of things happening). If you've been around for a while, you'll still want to read this. We've got a ton of projects going on and you may have just missed a few things. First things first, there are a lot of sites that are about inspiration, feeling good and happy self-talk a-la a virtual internet ...
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 ...
Plummet at the Summit 2012
Interested in coming along on some Impossible Adventures in the future? Sign up for future impossible adventures here. Plummet at the Summit 2011 was an unexpected success. I wanted to go skydiving and was too scared out of my mind to do it, so I committed to doing it and asked if anyone wanted to come with me. I thought I'd have 4 people or so to sign up with me and I ended up taking 41 adventurers along for the ride. It turned out to be fantastic ...
Introducing Cold Shower Therapy™: The Challenge
Cold Shower Therapy™ is officially here. --> Take The Cold Shower Therapy™ Challenge <-- The Backstory I get a lot of emails from people who feel stuck. They're bored and frustrated and they just want to make a change in their lives, but they don't know how. They look around them and see people doing stuff they want to do, but they just feel like everything is impossible. They're stuck. I used to be there too. Two years ago, I was living in ...