Heroes.

Thirty years ago, most of my heroes would have been my family. Or my mates from school.

Twenty years ago, most of my heroes would have been athletes. Or musicians. Or entertainers.

Ten years ago, most of my heroes would have been people who lived their life while travelling and being challenged by living in remote places or difficult circumstances or in a developing country with little infrastructure or modern influences. Basically, people who were still doing what I had been doing for the decade or so earlier.

Five years ago, most of my heroes would have been working in the tech space, entrepreneurs, engineers, coders, people who were changing the world by building things that engaged the masses.

Now, my heroes are much different.

People who see kindness as something that should be spread, and are spreading it.

People, like my wife Kelly, who challenge themselves every day to be better and more empathetic and more educated — particularly about their own stuff and what makes them better people.

People like Brené Brown or Elizabeth Gilbert or Seth Godin, people who are thinking about things like vulnerability and shame and inclusion and the future of interpersonal relationships and communities.

People I wouldn’t have even known existed even three years ago.

In each of those periods, I aligned my hero worship to people who I could relate to at the time: my mates and family as a 15 year old, musicians and sportspeople when I was playing sport and music at that age, travellers and ramblers like I was when I was a 35 year old, and people working in tech and social media and futurism when I was very much in that space five years ago.

But now, when my heroes are thinkers and feelers and vulnerable consciousness-shapers and authors and influencers, storytellers and kindness-spreaders, NOW is when I feel for the first time, that I could actually live up to my heroes and that I am truly aligned with them.

I feel comfortable now that my future is in the same place as theirs. I know what I want to do. For the first time in my 45 year old life.

I want to spread kindness.

I want to help others find their kindness.

I want to be happy.

And I want to be my own hero.

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