Off for a random location with no itinerary planned at all ...

Run a marathon. Visit every continent. Complete an Ironman. Skydive. Start my own business. Break a world record. Write and publish a book. Learn to scuba dive. Get rid o clutter and only keep what matters most. Raft through the Grand Canyon. See the Grea Wall of China. Learn a new language. Pursue my passion. Climb a mountain. Offer my se vice to a humanitarian cause. Do public speaking in front of 10,000 people. Play a musi cal instrument. Live in a different country for at least 6 months. Pack my bags and set off for a random location with no itinerary planned at all. Learn a martial art . Start a

T H E M A N I F E S T O social movement on a cause I believe in. Learn to dance. Go to the Opening Ceremony o

he Olympics. Go parasailing. Star in aBycJoomelmRuenryconial. Swim in the Dead Sea. View the amous Northern Lights in Iceland. Run with the bulls. Bungee jump. Do 100 consecutiv pushups. Fly a plane. Build a home for the poor in a less developed country. Establish a oundation in my name. Learn how to paint. Conquer my fear of heights. Create meanin ul work. Ride on a horse into the most amazing sunset. Build a computer. Release an

THE MANIFESTO

Push Your Limits. Tell A Great Story. Do Something Impossible

Copyright ? 2011 Joel Runyon. All Rights Reserved. Impossible HQ. Layout by Steven Musngi | Edited by Elisa Doucette

Acknowledgements

Do Something Impossible.

If you're reading this, thank you. I really appreciate your time and attention in this high-speed world of distraction. Also, thanks to everyone who took the time to listen to me as I hashed out thoughts for this book. Special thanks to my friend Elisa Doucette (Ms. Forbes) for helping me edit this book and finally get it out there and to Steven Musngi for all the incredible design work put into this book and the Impossible brand. Thank you.

"It's kind of fun to do the Impossible."

- Walt Disney

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Table of Contents

Introduction

2

What This Is

3

What This Costs

4

Who Should Read This

5

Who I Am

Life As An Adventure

7

Life As An Adventure

8

Waiting to Get Picked: My Story

9

The Question That Changed Everything

11

How to Tell a Good Story with Your Life

17

Why Your Story Needs to Be Good

Limits And Other Non-Existent Things

20

Limits

21

The Blind Man Who Can See

23

The Dyslexic Virgin Billionaire

24

The Hall of Fame Paraplegic Triathlete

25

The Expanding Universe of Impossible

26

Perspective Shifts & Subjective Reality

27

Do Something

28

Vicarious Living & Inspiration Cocaine

29

How to Fight Off Vicarious Living

Final Thoughts

31

The Impossible Isn't

32

Dealing with Fear

35

The Fear Barometer

37

One More Thing

39

What I'm Doing

40

Do Something Impossible

41

Thank You

42

Resources

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This is a manifesto that will help you do the Impossible.

This is a manifesto that will help you do the Impossible: ? The things you never dreamed you'd be able to do. ? The things others said you'd never be able to do. ? The things that people say can't be done. In the next few pages, you'll realize that life isn't meant to just happen to you. That when you decide to live life without limits, things finally begin to get interesting. Doors begin to open and people begin to listen when you refuse to accept the standard issue life that most people live. You'll hear about a few of the people who've decided to start doing the Impossible. By the end of this, you might even be convinced to start living a life of adventure and meaning by taking an active part in crafting the story of your life. All by doing what can't be done. By doing the Impossible.

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