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GN Nostriches ✨🌙💤 Just heard about this from a "Bitcoiner friend" who was nearby and whose other friend is helping with rescues. 🥲

The Salt Lake Tribune

Hiker dies after lightning strikes ‘Tin Shack’ on Mount Timpanogos

A 19-year-old hiker died and others were injured when lightning hit a small shelter on Mount Timpanogos on Friday morning.

#134 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web During this groundbreaking, free audio program you will discover, explore and learn to work with timeless principles that will help you to empower the evolution of your soul. Learn for yourself the great secrets of spiritual success that help you to make positive changes in your relationships at home, with friends and at work. (Link is below)

Seven Steps to Oneness: Journey to a Whole New Life by Guy Finley

Life Power Tip Fulfilling your life’s purpose makes you happy and leaves you satisfied. As quoted by Patanjali, “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be”. Action List five movies that you have been meaning to watch and rent them to view. Challenge Get enough ‘real’ food to keep from being tempted to eat ‘fake’ food. Quote If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a person of integrity is a promise keeper. When they gives you their word, you can take it to the bank. Their word is good. -Bill McCartney Clearing Gather together magazines, journals, periodicals, and catalogues. Question Rather than focusing on what you are ‘against’, ask, “What are you for?” Affirmation I choose to always take action. Uplifting Extra A morning ritual helps you begin your day in the best possible way. You’ll feel amazing and motivated after listening to this 10-minute program each morning. Start your day the way Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and Oprah Winfrey begin their days, using guided meditation and this iAwake technology. Tap into gratitude, a peak state, and intense motivation each morning. Begin your day with clear intention and rocket fuel to achieve your goals. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/waken-your-best/ 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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#132 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Before you plunge into action this week, start things off with these 2 free guided meditations. They were published by Mi Ka El Mindchanger through the Teach Out Loud self-publishing tool. Through these two 10-minute meditations Mi Ka El leads you through the practice of mindfulness meditation with insights on how to transcend your thoughts & feelings and come into awareness of your true Self. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/introduction-to-mind/ Life Power Tip Feeling good gets you more feeling good. Feeling bad gets you more of that. Take care of your health and mindset. Feeling good is a habit, just as feeling bad can be a well-developed habit. You know what you must begin to include and exclude from your life to increase the good feelings. Now go and attend to them, regardless of what your gremlins are telling you! Action Light a candle at the dinner table. Challenge Get an accountability partner for a personal goal that needs support. Quote If you want to build a ship do not drum up people together to collect wood and do not assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Clearing Which projects now need definite, next actions? Do, or discard them. Question Is there anything you are ignoring to which you should be paying attention? Affirmation I choose to feel that I am making more and more progress. Uplifting Extra This book is a gift from my good friend and “bounce back” expert, Sonia Ricotti. In the Bounce Back Big free ebook, Sonia actually gives you her exact “miracle blueprint” and formula to achieving the life you love and deserve (absolutely free)! Inside, she’ll guide you through how to overcome any and all challenges life may throw at you, so you can quickly and easily bounce back bigger and brighter than ever before. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/bounce-back/ 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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Thank goodness for Nostr. Notes copied/pasted from beneath Youtube video: They don't have to ban it. They just make it too risky for Big Tech to show you. The government says it's about a safer internet. But the new Digital Duty of Care proposal means platforms like Google, Meta, Apple, TikTok and Amazon get a legal reason to quietly hide lawful speech before anyone tells them to. No ban to challenge. No one to blame. You just don't see it. In this one I break down the exposure draft from 8 September - not law yet, which is why we need to talk about it now. I've enforced laws, I've prosecuted them, and now I beat them in court as a defence lawyer. The risk was never just what's written on the page. It's what companies do because they're scared of the penalty. Here's what I cover: → Why this is so much bigger than social media - search, hosting, app stores and internet providers are all in scope → The judgement problem - where's the line between discussing crime and encouraging it? → The 60,000 penalty unit math that makes hiding content the rational business decision → Why you get no review when a platform quietly suppresses first and never gets told to do anything This isn't a channel for advice, but it is a channel for clarity. If you want me to keep pulling apart laws before they become laws, you know what to do. EXPOSURE DRAFT & EMAIL CONTACT https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/publications/exposure-draft-online-safety-amendment-digital-duty-care-bill-2026 OBJECTION: 10 Tools For Thinking Clearly In a World Built To Influence You:

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Objection by James Glissan | Keep Your Judgement Your Own

A short, practical book about recognising pressure, framing, manipulation and weak arguments, and keeping your judgement your own.

I'm James Glissan - ex-police officer, ex-police prosecutor, now criminal defence lawyer. I break down how power actually works in Australia so you understand your rights before you need them. General information only, not legal advice. Read the exposure draft yourself - start at sections 25A-26A and ask: would you be happy with this if your view was the risky one? Let me know in the comments. I'll see you in the next one.

GN Nostriches ✨🌙 A few spider 🕷️ stories to help you sleep. 💤 Fun fact about huntsman spiders... In Australia, huntsman spiders are infamous for causing traffic accidents. They love to hide behind car sun visors or dashboards to avoid the heat. When a driver flips down the visor, the spider unexpectedly drops into their lap or onto the steering wheel, causing sudden panic and sudden swerves. I can vouch for that. Happened to me, although I'm still proud of how I kept my cool in the right hand lane of the freeway, gradually indicating my way through two lanes to calmly guide my car into the emergency lane. Lucky that it was in the days of rolled up newspapers. I swatted it out of the car. 🤣 My other huntsman spider story is being on the phone to a friend to say I arrived home safely after a night out. Single women did that for each other back then. Maybe these days too. Anyhow, I hadn't yet turned on a light and while chatting I noticed a blob on the wall in the dim light. Thought to myself, "I don't remember hanging anything there". So I asked my friend to hang on while I checked. Turned on the light and immediately screamed in my friend's ear! 😂 Then asked her to hang on for a bit longer while I got the vacuum cleaner. After sucking up the monster sized huntsman spider, I got a plastic bag and elastic bands to seal it up and didn't vacuum for quite some time till I knew it was dead. 🫣🤣😂 I did once hear another funny spider story, of a woman walking past a house from which she could hear loud banging and a male voice aggressively calling out, "Die, you bitch! Die, you bitch! Why won't you #%!&*# die?" So the woman phoned the police to report what she heard. When a patrol car went to investigate, it turned out to be a guy trying to smack down a huntsman spider with his footwear. True story. Reported on news channel which is where I think I heard it, years ago. Hope I relayed it correctly. 🤭😂

Listening to these guys while I work ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:39 Welcome: the August edition 02:36 Who got hit: George's 5am drive 05:19 A word from Swan 05:56 Is the ETF the better option? 07:02 Bob's view: what Coldcard actually did 08:23 One in a quadrillion 09:15 Hide and seek in a drop of water 11:05 Entropy 101 14:28 Proving randomness & Chaos Enterprises 17:24 The future of self-custody 19:06 Larry's answer: Fidelity 20:07 The air-gap mistake & Trezor 21:45 "One bad company": answering the normies 23:02 The 6102 threat 27:42 Why wallets are built wrong 30:18 A word from Sazmining 30:51 One job 32:11 How to vet a Bitcoin company 34:45 The chain split is real 36:52 George: you don't leave people behind 38:06 Larry's verdict on BIP110 41:10 Bob's call with Brink 43:38 What it takes to change Bitcoin 44:15 Airdrop advice & sign-off

Parliament guillotined the ASIO Amendment Bill (No. 2) through the Senate today, super-sizing ASIO's coercive questioning and detention powers, while media attention is fixed on the government's NDIS and gambling reform packages. Disappointing to see the Bill passed. Well done to South Australian Liberal Senator Andrew McLachlan for also opposing the Bill, along with One Nation, the Greens and Senator David Pocock. The Bill has the support of the Labor and Coalition who are in lockstep on giving ASIO this unprecedented expansion of powers. This is the largest expansion of secret interrogation and detention powers this country has seen in over 2 decades and the major parties are hoping nobody noticed until it is made into law. You know a bill is a bad idea if the Government and Coalition want to restrict democratic debate to an hour despite mass opposition from the community and political resistance inside Parliament. Under these laws you can be locked up and interrogated in this country without ever being charged or even suspected of a crime. That should terrify every Australian. As young as a fourteen-year-old can be detained and questioned by ASIO with no lawyer and no court oversight and then when released they can't tell anyone. If while you're being questioned you stay silent or refuse to answer any questions you can go to prison for five years. Tell someone it happened and you go to prison. That's the choice this Bill hands to an innocent person. Labor and the Coalition are burying the bill they can't defend under the dirty NDIS and gambling headlines. Whatever it takes to keep the cameras pointed the other way. When they write 'politically motivated violence' into this Bill, they are writing a blank cheque to target anyone who criticises this Government. We have watched our governments use national security powers against people marching for freedom before. This Bill hands them the power to do it in secret, with no one able to challenge it in court.

#104 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Choices and Illusions does a great job at explaining, in a very down to earth way, how your mind works, why some changes can be so difficult to make and how you can take control of your own mind to create the life of your choosing. Eldon states that, his lifetime of work shows him clearly, that the only way you can possibly discover your true self and become the person you were meant to be, free of self destructive patterns and ideas, is by doing 5 things. (Link is below)

Forward Steps Personal Development Blog

What Are Your Life Choices And Illusions?

Choices and Illusions explains how the real meaning in life comes from what you give. https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/choices-and-illusions/

Life Power Tip Do your very best to clearly visualize and feel. When you have identified what you want to create in your life, you will then need to strengthen that clarity and develop your comfort zone around receiving it into your life. Practising, through visualizing and feeling the experience does that. Our mind does not distinguish between tangible and intangible experiences; they are all real to our subconscious mind. You will also heighten your vibrations in relationship to what you want, and be like a magnet in attracting that to you. Action Go to the store, pick out a food you have never eaten before, and try it. Challenge Engage in a couple of activities for both left and right sides of your brain. Quote I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. -Angela L. Wozniak Clearing Create quiet sanctuaries for yourself around your home. Question How long have you consistently stayed with singular focus on a project? Affirmation I choose to see the fulfilment of my purpose. Uplifting Extra Just imagine… You sleep more deeply and peacefully than you’ve ever done in your life, then you wake up knowing exactly how to achieve anything you desire and solve all your problems. Yes, it sounds unusual yet this works like a charm. It’s a little known secret weapon of the world’s richest, happiest and most successful people. So powerful, that it can literally bring you more wealth, happiness and success than any other techniques available. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/free-sleep-book/ 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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GM I’m not sure I agree wholeheartedly with today’s quote. That may work in chess and it’s fine to look for the better one, yet if you wait too long you may miss out on any good move at all. I decided to check AI’s take on this and here’s its expanded description: The famous advice "When you see a good move, look for a better one" is attributed to the second World Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker. It warns players against impulse and settling for the first acceptable option they spot on the board. Why This Advice Matters Avoids tunnel vision: Finding one decent move stops your search, making you miss hidden tactics. Combats impatience: Pausing forces discipline, especially in critical game moments. Deepens calculation: Comparing multiple candidate choices improves overall board vision. Modern Context and Chess While valuable, applying this maxim requires good time management. Spending too long hunting for perfection in fast modern games can lead to time trouble, meaning the "best" move must be balanced against the clock.

Great crescent moon 🌙 tonight with Venus right alongside. I can never seem to get good moon photos from my iPhone. Guess I don't know best settings. 📸🤳🧡

#99 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Skill alone will not make you a winner, because just under that top 5% are thousands of very highly skilled people who fail to actually win. 95% of all winning is accomplished by 5% of the participants. What’s going on beneath the surface? How are we tripping ourselves up at an invisible level? (Link is below)

Forward Steps Personal Development Blog

Skill Alone Will Not Make You A Winner

How are we tripping ourselves at an invisible level? https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/skill-alone/

Life Power Tip Do you have the ability to control or redirect, disruptive impulses, and moods. Learn to “self-regulate”. Develop some tools to help you suspend judgment – to think before acting. It is important to know what ‘programming’ gets in your way so that you can rewrite your plan and overcome, or rewrite, those ‘programs’. Action Go to a coffee shop you have never been to, with yourself. Challenge Each hour, stop for one minute – or at least slow down! Quote I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. -Katharine Hepburn Clearing Create a theme for your year; it will give you clearer direction and focus. Question How do you raise your energy level? Affirmation I choose to feel more and more like a champion. Uplifting Extra We all carry within us, two caged tigers. One tiger has the potential to be destructive and resonates with anger and fear. The other tiger has the potential to fill us with love and compassion. The tiger that we let loose depends on where we place our conscious attention. Energy flows where attention goes. (Link is below)

Forward Steps Personal Development Blog

Energy Flows Where Our Attention Goes

Energy flows where attention goes. Splitting our attention between two places doesn’t work.https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/energy-flows/

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.

"The goal should not be freedom from work. It should be freedom to work (on what you want to work on)." -Mark Moss Listening to this while I work on what I want to work on. :) IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 Episode trailer 01:00 Why our last "Retire on Bitcoin" video went viral 03:52 Owning assets you never have to sell 05:00 The Bitcoin "cheat code" 09:00 Why the price hasn't done what people expected 11:04 Is sentiment worse than past cycles? 13:38 What the Coldcard hack changed for him 16:53 Purity tests in Bitcoin 20:15 Spread your keys, or concentrate? 25:24 Your bank is insured. Your Bitcoin isn't. 28:08 What happens when block space runs out 31:44 Inside Satsuma: what really happened 40:27 How to judge a btc treasury company 46:22 What will bring the money back to Bitcoin 48:03 Could we have a 2008 repeat? 52:31 The K-shaped economy 55:10 What AI is doing to ordinary work 59:55 The mistake that costs people everything 1:03:28 What changed in 1913 1:07:05 Retiring without ever selling Bitcoin

GM “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” -Najwa Zebian