GM Just made it before midday! :)

GN Nostriches Chill out. We are still oh so early. 🧡🧡

Enjoying watching the Moneyball movie 🍿 tonight. Good movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/

Listening to How To Stop Tyranny in the West by Topher Field. Keynote address from the Galt's Gulch conference, San Diego 2026.

Awesome video on data centers (centres in Australian lingo). 🤭🧡

#31 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Are you ready to take control of your life and unlock the full potential that lies within you? If so, then I strongly recommend (ad) this new book as the perfect tool for you! It’s called Awakening Your Greatest Self and it reveals how to break through your internal blocks and self-sabotaging habits in order to live a life of resilience and great success. If you want to transform from surviving into thriving then this book will help get you there. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/awakening-greatest-self/ Life Power Tip Be at peace with yourself. Accept yourself, you are unique and very special. Only when you know yourself fully and accept every part of you can you begin to make changes that benefit the desires and goals you wish to pursue. If you are still rejecting aspects of yourself, they will get in the way of true and long-term progress. Action Connect with somebody online and say hello, just because. Challenge Be happy all day, for no reason. Quote Be still. Be quiet. While you are verbally quiet, you may find that quiet space inside of yourself. You may have a burst of sudden joy filling up around your heart area. Bliss. It may feel as though you can feel your heart singing. This experience can only occur when you can look out of yourself, without mental comment. -Wisdom Master Maticintin Clearing Check expiry dates in medicine cabinets, and top up low volume items. Question Are your life areas in harmony, or simply hanging in balance like a stagnant set of scales? Affirmation I choose to feel that I am wise. Uplifting Extra With so many personality tests out there, it can feel a bit overwhelming to start on the journey to better understanding yourself and others. Want to learn about your personality and what comes naturally to you? Use (ad) these free tests available right here. Crystal has compiled a list of the most popular online personality assessments so you can easily pick the one that’s right for you. These assessments can help you begin to learn more about your own personality, as well as your potential strengths, blind spots and more. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/personality-tests/ Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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Brilliant. I'm not a Melbourne supporter, however I love seeing Collingwood beaten. 👏🙌🏆

Great sky this evening, lots of intermittent rain. 🌧️

#30 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Wisdom For Everyday Life is an inspirational video with 15 quotes about life. Here’s the list of quotes used in the 2:30 minute motivational video for you. (Link is below)

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Wisdom For Everyday Life 15 Quotes Video

Wisdom For Everyday Life is an inspirational video with 15 quotes about life https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/wisdom-for-everyday-life/

Life Power Tip Be active and engaged or you will stagnate. Find ways to keep yourself in ‘creation’ mode and gratitude mode. Stay interested in global developments and in the people around you. Learn something new try something new and different. Action Comment on a blog that you really like. Challenge Be determined to accomplish more by doing less. Quote Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -Thomas à Kempis Clearing Check all electronic equipment for cleaning, storage, or maintenance. Question Are your goals written down? Affirmation I choose to always be authentic. Uplifting Extra Do you know your most dominant character trait? Give this quick quiz a try for yourself. It may expose something new about yourself that you’d not yet considered. Looking for yet more personality traits to develop? At that link you will also see a list of more than 100 positive character traits, for you to explore and nurture. (Link is below)

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What's Your Dominant Character Trait?

Do you know your most dominant character trait? Give this quick quiz a try for yourself https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/dominant-character-trait/

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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GN Nostriches Watched movie called The Departed tonight. Had seen it a long time ago. Great film. 🎥 With Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone and other great actors, what could go wrong? 😑

Tax reform in Australia! The government is here to help everyone again. 😳🥴🫪🫣😱 Oh, and just when we might think that leaving the country might be a solution? @Tony | thebitcoinway.com ⚡️ You'll need to do all this calculation and have it sorted with the ATO on the way out the door, right? Beginning to feel physically ill at the thought of it all. 🙁

Top day today. Expected rain tonight and wet day tomorrow. 🧡

#29 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web You might be extremely skilled, talented, educated and brilliant. Yet, if you’re not resilient, persistent and gritty, you might never make the most of those other attributes. Use these 9 techniques to increase your resilience and grit. Think about the five most successful people you know. On average, they’re possibly not all too talented. However, they know how to get things done and they persist. Resilience and grit might just be the missing ingredients in your quest for success. (Link is below)

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9 Ways To Develop Resilience

Use these 9 techniques to develop your own resilience. @forwardsteps https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/develop-resilience/

Life Power Tip Be able to experience anything. This is the ultimate in personal growth and in developing personal power. When you are so satisfied with where you are and so comfortable in your own skin, that external events will not affect you to such an extent that you ‘react’. Rather, you are centered, calm, and are able to ‘choose’ a ‘response’ to the event. What habit or thought pattern could you put in place today, to begin strengthening that ‘muscle’? Action Clean out closets and donate toys, clothes, and anything else that are a dust collector. Challenge Be super decisive, all day! Quote Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out, it is the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert Service Clearing Check all electrical leads for safety. Question Can you see your failures and successes as simply a result? Affirmation I choose to feel increasingly appreciated. Uplifting Extra Did you know that unconscious, unresolved trauma is impacting every aspect of your life right now? You know that constant feeling of overwhelm? Unresolved trauma is causing a focus on the wrong things in your life, lowering your vibration. Those strange symptoms that doctors can’t seem to diagnose? It’s unresolved trauma and the unconscious coping mechanisms used to deal with daily life that is taking energy from your body’s natural healing intelligence. Those moments where you seem to overreact beyond what the circumstances call for? It’s unresolved trauma fueling reactions and conflict. Jennifer McLean has a remarkable and radical solution that is fast, gentle, safe and extremely powerful. It starts with a powerful quiz that will reveal what trauma response you use to cope with your life. (Link is below)

What Trauma Response Are Your? Quiz

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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GN Nostriches Watched some football this evening and my Brisbane Lions team finally won again. Love what Freo did to Nth Melb too. :)

Dropping this one here so I can view it tomorrow. I agree with the premise and always love @Jeff Booth’s take on things. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 03:04 Bitcoin miners chase clean energy 06:18 Bitcoin funds hydroelectric power in Africa 08:01 Grid & the Stranded short film [my commentary] 08:41 Bitcoin as neutral money 09:22 "All prices are falling forever against Bitcoin" 10:47 "You could hate Bitcoin and it still benefits you" 12:21 Is this the first time in history? 13:40 AI is advancing exponentially 14:42 AI will be used against us — unless this changes 14:50 Bitcoin divorced money from the state 15:31 The people who control money change the laws 16:36 Bitcoin and climate change 19:20 "Inflation equals climate change" 19:53 We should only be working 10 hours a week 21:14 Prices fall to the marginal cost of production 22:31 "Abundance and money equals scarcity everywhere" 23:22 What's next

Can’t get enough @Jeff Booth 😂 LOL Saturday afternoon therapy session! 00:00 Exploring the Abundance Narrative 06:53 The Role of Mental Models in Understanding Reality 09:22 Desperation and Naivety: The Allure of False Hope 11:56 The Structural Problems of the Current System 14:55 Agency and Control: The Choice We Face 17:42 Navigating the New System: Finding Agency 20:47 The Future: Embracing Change or Clinging to the Past 25:16 Building Value in Agency Direction 25:22 The Tangibility of Technology vs. Debt 26:25 Questioning Economic Norms 27:29 Inflation and Employment: A Paradox 28:11 Bitcoin as a Vessel for Time 29:49 Agency and Control in a New System 30:42 Protocols vs. Companies: The Future of Ownership 32:50 The Evolution of Bitcoin as a Protocol 34:56 Empowerment through Bitcoin 37:21 AI as a Horizontal Technology 38:46 Changing Mental Models in Investment 40:37 Waiting for the Right Moment 42:46 Leading the Conversation in Architecture