To the finest people in the world…

I can no longer be excused as a young punk in my twenties, today I’ve walked around the corner to 30 and look back smiling at the years gone by.

I have been fortunate to have sunk everything I’ve got into helping make some of the things I think need to happen in this come to life, from PlanHQ, Silicon Welly, Made From New Zealand, Challenge for Change, StartUp and The Naked Trainer, and tried to turn the ideas and the things I love into businesses, so I can spend more time helping and working with people who love making stuff happen. Some of these ventures have gone great and are firing, others just starting, others simmering and have brought more lessons than money so far, but all of them have brought amazing people and the experiences that define a full life and the platform to do anything going forward.

I am surrounded by people who love, care, think, try! People who do what they do because it means something to them, because they have a vision for where they’re going, a fire in their belly that gets them up in the morning and keeps them going through all the challenges and into the night… Some are right next to me, some are around town, and the country, and world, they’re all part of the community that makes my life and the things I’m involved in happen… Everytime my face shows up somewhere, there is a world of people making it happen, everytime I launch a new site.. a world of individuals and their passion, their time, their hard yards… I am part of a community that makes things happen.

When I look around I see people I admire… proud to call my friends… and privileged to roll with as a crew. We rock it out working together on everything from running a entrepreneurial co-working space, developing New Zealand’s global business community to chatting to the Prime Minister. If you see us from the outside, you get a glimpse of what we’re upto, if you chant in person, you’ll start to se a story that runs deep into the viens of enlightened souls who will risk anything to move the world in the ways it needs to be.

And when it comes time for my birthday… While I don’t expect anything, I come and find the office filled with baloons, and the smiling faces of some of the great people in my life, happy to share another great day together.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me out over my life, and to everyone in the Silicon Welly who has heped me out, backed me up, hooked me up with people, stuff, confience and good vibves.

It’s early days, but we’ve all made a good start together, we will change the world, coz it’ll just be way better…

Enjoy your days and make the best of it.