Hearing her excitement is making me SUPER NOSTALGIC for when I used to do that. On the same note though, it feels nice to a routine going on.

While Jaime was here, she gave me a book that she created for my birthday. The book was freaking AMAZING… so I made a video where I read it to you.

And like I said, other friends gave me ridiculously heartfelt and awesome things as well. I know I already blogged about it but you guys didn’t get to SEE it. In alphabetical order:

Brian sent me a beautiful bouquet of roses.

Joshua surprised me by putting this swoonworthy poem in my screen door:

And Otto gave me this AWESOME framed letter that made me positively melt:

I know you can’t read the picture, so I typed everything out that it says:

50 Things I Love About Rachel Rofe

1. You’re super-loving
2. You’re amazingly smart
3. You care about others
4. You’re perfect at listening
5. You’re adventurous

6. You’re kind
7. You’re more talented than you realize
8. Your smile brightens the room
9. You’re giving & charitable to others
10. You look for win/win solutions

11. You have immense integrity
12. You’re trustable
13. You’re sweet
14. You’re always there for a friend in need
15. You give your best 100% everyday

16. You live life to the fullest
17. You create that which you want
18. You’re creative
19. You read
20. You’re honest

21. You always express how you truly feel
22. You’re super positive
23. You look at the good in everything
24. You make friends easily
25. You’re funny

26. You love learning
27. You travel
28. You’re great at business
29. You’re open to new things
30. You always do good by people

31. You’re playful
32. You do whatever it takes to succeed
33. You’re spiritual
34. You always bring your A game… especially in Uno
35. You’re a striver

36. You’re very enlightened
37. You work hard
38. You never complain
39. You’re wise beyond your years
40. You think for yourself

41. You’re independent
42. You’re a great cuddler
43. You inspire others
44. You’re calm and centered
45. You’re thoughtful

46. You’re extremely considerate
47. You cherish quality moments with friends and family
48. You build people up
49. You’re confident
50. You’re constantly growing youself

Bonus: You’re Great at life!

I love you Rachel and wish this is the best year of your life to date and things only get better and better from here forward.

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I just had to share, because all of these made me feel SO MASSIVELY GRATEFUL and reading Jaime’s book opened up all the memories from my birthday again.

One of the people who bought it was Andrew Wee. We ended up in email dialog, and have been friends ever since.He’s really an amazing guy. Once, out of nowhere, he made a blog post about me. Completely made my day.

Another time, he did an interview with me. I haven’t even told him this yet, but I met a great guy on Venice Beach a few weeks ago… gave him my blog URL… and he listened to that interview. Now, this guy is a stand-up comedian, but he was so inspired by the interview that he immediately went and created a bunch of blogs. 50, to be exact. Considering that he had NO Internet Marketing experience (and I don’t know if he planned on having any) and is now making money, in part to the interview (he says it’s directly because of it)…  craziness.

That’s completely thanks to Andrew. He had to talk me into it, because I really didn’t see myself as successful enough to be on an interview at the time.He also invited me into his incredible mastermind, which is full of brilliant people that I’m honored to meet with every other Tuesday.

Here’s my newest reason why Andrew’s so stellar:A few days ago, I mentioned to him that I wanted to enroll in Strategic Coach at my friend Chad‘s recommendation. This got us talking about life purpose, and I told him how I was feeling a little stagnant.

He recommended a few things to me.

First, he told me about 2 articles by Po Bronson. First, he mentioned Do We All Have A Story and then Tao Of Dough. Those are both fantastic articles that I really enjoyed.He also told me about Randy Pausch. Apparently he was in mainstream media for a while, but I had never heard of him. Randy was a 47 year old college professor who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was told that he only had 3-6 months to live, and decided to give his last college lecture on everything he had learned in his life. Basically he talked about how he was able to accomplish his childhood dreams, how he helped others, and then he talked about how others could meet their dreams too.

The talk was ridiculously inspiration, and I got a lot out of it. Even though it was over an hour and videos make me insanely restless, I was captivated the entire time. I really recommend watching it if you haven’t already.

I was going to mention some of my favorite takeaways, but I have 4 pages of notes and I’m sure your experience will be different.When (not if) you like it,  go thank Andrew for generously sharing it.

Jaime just walked in from her massage appointment and handed me a bouquet of flowers.

I. Love. Her!

Brian has spent a year in Haiti, trying to bring higher communication to the communities.

Right now, he’s running a donation marathon to raise $10,000 for Haiti’s first rural university.

You can either chip in right here (goes directly to his fund):

Or you can go to his website. Either way, the cause is wonderful.

In the meantime, here’s a picture that Jason Henderson took at JV Alert.

(Made that a bit smaller. )

Jason works with Better Posture Guaranteed and is also running for The Next Internet Millionaire.

Check out his blog… he’s really working hard to win Internet Millionaire, and he has posted all sorts of hilarious videos with random people endorsing him.