The Impossible List is NOT a Bucket List. There’s a difference. Not just in the name, but in the entire concept. Lots of people have a bucket list. They’re static things made up at one point in time that most people don’t end up actually incorporating into their lives and discard when things get tough. The impossible list is different. It’s fluid, updating status [...]

I had a really fun time racing with with Johnny at the Sylvania Triathlon last week. It was a lot of fun to not only do the race, but do it with someone, and then be able to hang out with them afterwards and talk for a bit. It was a really good time. There’s a seeming under-representation of bloggers in [...]

The Sylvania Triathlon After my last race, I needed to bounce back in a big way. I was disappointed because I knew I could do better than I had. And I knew that I was stepping it up in a big way this week. I was doing my first Olympic distance race of the year and I was meeting Johnny B [...]

I was talking with Johnny at Starbucks after we finished the Sylvania triathlon together this past weekend. We went back and forth about the race and blogging until he paused at one point and said, “You know Joel, I should point out, the things you do aren’t literally impossible things – they’re more like unlikely things. The fact that they’ve [...]

I’m working on some pretty big things behind the scenes lately. They’re not quite ready to share, but sometimes when working on projects, I start and stop and start again, but little things come up that threaten to stop them from happening. This is one of those little things. *** The site keeps getting bigger and bigger and a few [...]

Every once in a while, I’ll have a race that doesn’t go as planned. This race this past weekend was one of those. I woke up late for the race. I didn’t have directions to it. My bike got stuck in 2nd gear for half the race. I didn’t run a decent pace at all. At the end, I crossed [...]

Remember the choose your own adventure books? They were my favorite. You’d start reading a book and it’d start out just like any other story you’ve read and then all of a sudden something different happens. You have a choice. Does the character do option A or option B? You, the reader, get to intervene in the lives of the [...]

A few months back, Mark Lawrence introduced me to his friend (we’ll call him Josh) who has an incredibly interesting job. Josh is a distributor. He buys things in bulk for cheap. Then he turns around and sells them to people who want it. He deals in tiny markets with huge volumes. It’s incredibly obscure and wildly profitable. Josh is a cool [...]