{"id":688,"date":"2023-01-10T03:32:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/12-things-ive-learned-from-running-impossible-for-12-years\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T03:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T07:32:09","slug":"12-things-ive-learned-from-running-impossible-for-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/12-things-ive-learned-from-running-impossible-for-12-years\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Things I\u2019ve Learned From Running IMPOSSIBLE \u00ae For 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was meaning to write this last month, but life came up.<\/p>\n

Some point over the past 6 weeks, Impossible<\/a> turned 12. Wow!<\/p>\n

A lot has happened, from running my first triathlon, to an ultra marathon on every continent, to getting sued (twice), starting multiple businesses, getting in the best shape of my life<\/a>, and knocking a ton of stuff off my impossible list.<\/p>\n

My life changed dramatically when I spun up some bluehost servers to start my blog<\/a> (while inconveniently deleting it multiple times due to me not knowing what the hell I was doing).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned a lot over the years. Here\u2019s a few of the things that seem top of mind today.<\/p>\n

You physical limits affects your mental limits<\/h2>\n

You can change your life by changing your body. In a world that talks mental health and says you can do a, there\u2019s a lot o people giving mental health advice behind a keyboard.<\/p>\n

Get out of your head and into your body.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Run an ultra marathon<\/a>. Climb a mountain. Jump in some ice.<\/a><\/p>\n

Conquering real, physical, tangible challenges changes your entire neural wiring.<\/p>\n

When do you conquer physical challenges, you realize you can do hard things. They change in ways you\u2019ll notice and ones you won\u2019t realize until later.<\/p>\n

But \u2013 either way \u2013 you\u2019ll never be the same.<\/p>\n

You write what you need to hear<\/h2>\n

Sometimes people tell me \u201cI think that blog post was meant for me.\u201d I\u2019m glad they think that (and maybe it was), but I\u2019ve said before that one way to read the entire blog is a long, ongoing letter to myself \u2013 and that wouldn\u2019t be inaccurate.<\/p>\n

You write what you need to hear \u2013 or wish you would\u2019ve had someone tell you.<\/p>\n

When you see someone you admire teach something and then struggle with something \u2013 it doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re a hypocrite (although they might be) \u2013 they may be just teaching the things that they need to hear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This happens more with best-selling authors and personalities you read than you would actually believe. They need to hear the thing the thing they teach the most.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t focus on the big goals. Focus on the next goal.<\/p>\n

Big goals can be exciting, but they can also be really, really scary. So much so that they scare most people off from even trying.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t focus on the big goals. Focus on what\u2019s next.<\/h2>\n

When I started with an indoor triathlon \u2013 I didn\u2019t know what would happen. Ultras weren\u2019t even in the picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I started my little blog <\/a>\u2013 I had no idea all the different things that it would grow into.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t focus on the big things. Focus on what\u2019s in front of you and see how fast you can do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n

You literally don\u2019t know what you\u2019re capable of<\/h2>\n

This is why bucket lists fail. You make a bucket list thinking from the perspective of the person you currently are.<\/p>\n

But if you do life right and you push at something on the edge of your limits \u2013 you will literally transform who you are and what your concept of possible is.<\/p>\n

You quite literally \u2013 early on \u2013 have zero concept idea what you\u2019re capable of. You don\u2019t even have a map of the terrain. You\u2019re just guessing on a blindfolded goal-version of battleship.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re capable of. So stop preemptively disqualifying yourself and just start doing.<\/p>\n

You can make your own things<\/h2>\n
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everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you<\/strong>. And you can change it-you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This quote by Steve Jobs was one of the first things that made me think I could build my own things.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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