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Discipline is… Creating. Doing. Acting. Every single day. Even when you don’t feel like it. Even when you forget why you’re doing it. Even when you don’t think it matters. Discipline is imposing your will on today. Over and over again. Refusing to be overcome by whatever is staring back at you. Because someday. You’ll wish you “felt” like it [...]
You need to have more fun. There I said it. Stop taking yourself so seriously and have some fun already. There’s been a glaring lack of fun happening lately and it’s time we did something about it. We’ve Forgotten How To Have Fun It seems like all anyone ever talks about online these days are the same old blogging ideas: [...]
Sometimes I struggle writing a blog. I’ll sit down to write a post I know I need to write and instead of writing it, I’ll come up with a thousand other posts with catchy titles and interesting stories that I’ll want to write instead. Of course, I don’t actually write them, it’s just a convenient form of mental escapism that [...]
The world is full of average people. They’re everywhere. Average people of average height and average weight with average looks. They do average work at their average job with an average amount of effort. They have an average marriage to an average spouse with their 2.3 average children, who of course, perform right at the average in school. They have [...]
“In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking” – Sir John Lubbock The #1 excuse I hear when people want to do something impossible is that they don’t have the time. It’s a common excuse but one that falls apart pretty quickly when [...]
Today is day 3 of freezing rain, lots of snow, bad roads and generally terrible weather for anyone in the U.S. east of the Rockies. If you’re outside the U.S. and have no idea what all the ruckus is about, or if you just happen to be a visual learner, here’s a quick illustrated summary of what’s happening stateside (via [...]
Indianapolis, IN Greetings from Snowpocalypse, 2011. It seems like the Mayans got the whole doomsday thing wrong and 2012 is actually coming a year and a half early for those of us in the midwest. While we’re pretty insulated here from natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes, we do get hit occasionally with the freak ice storm. Last [...]
My name is Joel Runyon and I write about pushing your limits and telling a great story by

