Wallace's Weekly Wrap
Happy Friday you wonderful humans.
Today is my 28th Birthday.
I'm going to carry on the tradition and write a birthday list, 28 Things I (think I) know to be true.
If you'd like to read last years list of 27, you can click here. Or for 2018s list of 26, you can click here.
I find it interesting that each year, as we get older, we tend to celebrate birthdays less and less. In reality, I think it should be the opposite. We have another opportunity to stop and appreciate all we have in our lives, to bookmark and celebrate a milestone. I'm stoked to be 28 and incredibly grateful for all of the people who have contributed to my development over the past 28 years. It's been a hell of a ride and I can't wait to continue it one magnificent day at a time.
- Becoming a parent is all it's cracked up to be. KP is a wonderful mum.
- Sincerity, Kindness, Integrity, Love & Gumption. Are the big 5 personality traits I admire in others.
- You can become the person you want to be, but you'll have to prove it to yourself daily by doing the things that person would do.
- Work and rest are synergistically linked
- Before pressing go on your business ventures make sure it'll bring ROI and JOY.
- Daily Journalling = Life improving.
- Solitude is independence. Use this superpower to navigate your way through the craziness of the attention grabbing culture we live in.
- Simplicity is an art form.
- Most of life's problems aren't technical. We know what we need to do, we just decide not to do it. Make the harder choice, change your story. Do the thing.
- Before you start something. Know what winning looks like.
- Do hard things. Sign up for the marathon, start the business, commit to your thing. Then figure out how to execute.
- All great questions in life are paradoxes.
- Apple, Samsung, etc, get your shit together and create universal cables. The world does not need more adaptors.
- You can both be dissatisfied with life, and love yourself. Improvement does not need to come from self loathing.
- Leadership is hard.
- Life is chaos, you're responsible for building meaning and structure into it.
- Everything worth having is going to take much longer to acquire than you'd like it to.
- Hit your 10000 steps per day. It'll make you a better person.
- Listening > Talking.Life is hard.
- Know that bad things will happen, prepare for them, especially during the good times.
- Today is the best day of the week. This mindset will drastically improve your life, and how you approach each day.
- Never underestimate the benefits of a moment or two of quiet self reflection.
- Be reliable. Be consistent.
- You will never regret committing the time to understand how something works.
- Trust and Willingness are imperative for any group progress.
- Find things in life that are a means within themselves.
- I am an incredibly biased individual. Actually, I think we all are.
28 Lists are fun.
I appreciate you all. Thank you for your attention. Have a magnificent Friday.
Wallace
Below: Our team photo with Rye man from last weeks Disabled Surfers Association event. An incredible day with wonderful people. Very humbling to be involved.