In every race, there’s a few glamorous steps forward you take. The step across the starting line, the step across the finish line and possibly the steps in front of the water stations where you smile at the volunteers as you try and convince them that you’re not actually tired yet. Those steps are the easy ones. When you’re starting [...]

Something to help you cultivate wonder in your own life and do the impossible.   Now go do something impossible. [All photos via me & my iPod Touch] Tweet

Two weeks ago, my friend Nate and my brother Justin piled into a car and headed to Portland, Oregon. Over the next fifteen days, we spent countless hours in the car, saw monument after monument, jumped out of a plane and off a bridge and clocked over 7,000 miles on the odometer of my car. While we knew that driving [...]

After driving 24 hours in the last 36 hours, I haven’t had much time to do a normal written post. After sleeping in the car in a picnic area conveniently marked “no overnight parking”, I woke up at 5am to the sunrise and watched it come up over the Black Hills. It was pretty cool, so we decided to shoot [...]

There’s a week left until I take 40+ people jumping out of a plane in Portland. I’ve got the deposits in, head counts finalized and all the tiny little details taken care of except for one small thing. I didn’t know how I was going to get there. I had organized a trip from 2,000 miles away, convinced 40+ people [...]

That thing you love. That thing you were meant to do. That thing you keep putting off. Start that. Right here. Right now. Go. What are you waiting for? Start [Photo by jakeandlindsay] Tweet

I lot of people have been telling me that my Hawaii trip looks awesome [which by the way, it is]. It’s usually accompanied with one of the following two questions: How do you do what you do? How can you get to do something so awesome? I usually just answer “Just like everyone else…I hop on a plane and fly [...]

It’s interesting how obsessed we can get with popularity. At some point we’ve been convinced that popularity is the key to success. If a lot of people like you, you’re set. It’s funny because the people I see doing really influential things around me, aren’t necessarily the ones people talk about. They’re not the “popular” ones, but they’re the ones [...]

Everyone these days seems to be going on road trips, book tours, or just visiting other parts of the country. It looks like I’ve got the memo too, but my reasons are a bit more conventional – I’m going on vacation I’ve mentioned before that I actually have a normal 9-5 job. As part of that, I’ve got a few days of [...]