Life Beyond the Briefs
At Life Beyond the Briefs we help lawyers like you become less busy, make more money, and spend more time doing what they want instead of what they have to. Brian brings you guests from all walks of life are living a life of their own design and are ready to share actionable tips for how you can begin to live your own dream life.
Life Beyond the Briefs
Revisiting Brian's 2025 Vivid Vision Statement
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you wrote down your most ambitious dreams and revisited them two years later? In this eye-opening episode, I pull back the curtain on my "Vivid Vision" exercise—a powerful three-year life design framework that has quite literally transformed both my law practice and personal life.
Walking through my December 2025 vision that I originally created in 2023, I provide a brutally honest assessment of what materialized and what didn't. The revelation? While I missed many of my financial projections (hitting $5 million instead of $8 million in firm revenue), nearly everything that truly matters manifested exactly as written—from creating a self-sustaining practice with outstanding client care to finding our forever home with space for family and an outdoor oasis.
This episode isn't just about my journey; it's a masterclass in intentional life design for lawyers who want to build practices aligned with their deepest values. You'll learn why three years is the perfect planning horizon, how to create your own vivid vision, and why sharing it widely creates powerful accountability. Most importantly, you'll discover that when you focus on designing the life you truly want rather than chasing arbitrary revenue targets, extraordinary things happen.
If you're tired of showing up to a practice that drains rather than fulfills you, this episode offers a proven pathway forward. As I share from my beach house in Italy during a three-week family vacation (yes, that was in my vision too!): "You will be surprised at how much of this shit actually comes true if you just write it down."
Ready to design a practice you genuinely look forward to on Mondays? Listen now, then create your own Vivid Vision. I'd be honored to read it and provide feedback—just leave out the numbers, because as I've learned, they're the least important part of the equation.
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Brian Glass is a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer in Fairfax, Virginia. He is passionate about living a life of his own design and looking for answers to solutions outside of the legal field. This podcast is his effort to share that passion with others.
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What is up, my friends? It's your host, brian Glass, and this is Life Beyond the Briefs, the number one podcast for lawyers choosing to live lives of their own design and build practices that they actually like showing up to on Monday. Now here's the deal you can't build the kind of practice you actually like showing up to on Monday, which will serve the kind of life that you like showing up to every day, unless you actually know what the hell that means, and the number one way to figure out what the hell that means is to do this vivid vision exercise. I have talked a number of times about vivid vision. Probably once a year, I drop a podcast episode about it, and this episode is going to be very special because it's a re-release of an episode that I put out, I think, in 2023, where I shared my December 31st 2025 vivid vision, and what I'm going to do in this episode is let the audio, let the old audio, play, and then I'm going to cut in here and there and just give you an update on, like, what's going right and what's going wrong. I think that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1:While this episode is releasing, I am in Italy with my family on a three-week extended trip. That was born in part, born in part from this exercise and from goal-setting exercises that I've done with my GoBundance pod, so I really commend this stuff to you. Like, what you're going to hear, I think, throughout this episode, is that stuff that I wrote down in 2023 actually came true, and you will be surprised at how much of this shit actually comes true if you just write it down. And so I'm going to let the old audio run. I'm going to cut in from time to time with what went wrong, what went right, mistakes I made along the way, lessons that I learned. I don't mean for this to sound like bragging. If you're the kind of person who listens to an episode about somebody's goals and dismisses that person for bragging publicly about the goals, you should turn this off now. The goal of this podcast is to inspire you to do great things and to help you to get to where I am and beyond in your life faster than I got there, by sharing the lessons, sharing the hurdles, sharing the struggles that I went through, but also sharing the successes. And so, last warning on this actually I think there's something in the old audio about this. If you're going to get turned off by hearing about goal setting and somebody's success turn it off.
Speaker 1:Now there are a handful of things in the last five years that have had dramatic impacts on my life. The first is that in 2019, I left a firm where I was a partner, where I had practiced for 10 years, and I joined my dad in practice. The second is that around that same time, I began coaching with Sammy Chong, who's a coach really a life coach and a business coach for lawyers, who's helped me dive deep on what it is that I want to get out of my life and has helped hold me accountable to the things that are coming out of my mouth. And the third is that in December of 2021, I joined an organization called GoBundance and again I found great clarity and accountability partners in that organization.
Speaker 1:One of the men that I met very early on is my friend, omni Casey, and as we were sharing our goals for 2022, omni had a goal to rewrite his vivid vision, and I said what the hell is a vivid vision? And he says you have to read this book by Cam Harreld. It's going to change your life. So I went out and I purchased the book. It didn't go out. I bought the book on Amazon. It's an easy read it's about 160 pages long and I will admit that I didn't understand it at first.
Speaker 1:This is a book about modeling what you want your life to look like three years from today, and Cam Harreld's thesis is 10 years is too far to plan out because something might happen in your life that takes you off of that trajectory. And one year is too soon to plan out because you can't make big enough changes in your life to really plot out what's going to happen in one year and get yourself much further towards where you ultimately want to be. Three years really is the sweet spot, and the exercise in this book is to go and sit somewhere quiet, either in a coffee shop or at the beach, by a lake, somewhere that's tranquil for you, without any disruption, and just start brainstorming epic things that you would like to happen in your life. What would you like your life to look like? It's not a set of goals and it's really not a set of tasks. In fact, cam says in this book the job of the CEO of an organization and your job as the CEO of your life is to vision what you want it to look like, without thinking at all about how you're going to get there, and so you will hear, throughout my vivid vision end results, largely end results only. You will not hear a lot about how we're going to get there, because the job of the CEO, either of your organization or of your life, is to cast a vision that is large enough that the people inside of your life get excited about working on it because they see something for them, and get excited about finding solutions to get you there.
Speaker 1:And Cam says you take this and you don't put it away in a drawer somewhere. And you don't put it away in a drawer somewhere. This is not your set of New Year's resolutions that you maybe share with your spouse or with one or two friends and it goes in the drawer somewhere and you never look at again. This is a guiding vision for where you want your life to be in three years, and so you need to share it with your friends, with your family, with your colleagues, with your employees and with your vendors, because in many ways, this dictates who it is that we want to be as an organization in the business and who it is that we want to work with as an organization in the business. And this exercise is going to turn a lot of people off. As you share this vision with employees or vendors or friends, there are going to be people who don't want to be a part of that vision, and that has to be okay, because you are casting your vision for your perfect organization and for your perfect life and it's not going to be perfect for everybody and that's okay. And your vision should be polarizing. You should have that result where when your employees or your vendors or your friends read it, they go I want in on that, I want to do that. Or they say I don't want any part of that, and it's just fine if they don't want any part of it.
Speaker 1:And after you've spent a couple of hours, usually over the span of a couple of weeks, brainstorming in all of the areas of your life personal, physical work, finances, community, physical work, finances, community, what kinds of things you want in your life you come back, trim some of those things who makes this thing really pop? And then you put your three-year vision in your cafeteria, in your kitchen, somewhere where your employees and your staff will see it. I haven't gone that far, but the goal is that this end product gets shared with everybody who's in your life and that it exists for the next three years. So you will not rewrite this thing every year. So next year I won't sit down and write December 31st 2026. The year after, I won't sit down and write December 31st 2027.
Speaker 1:You will go through this vision over and over again, once a month, once a quarter, and you'll begin to see that a number of things in your vision have come true, and those things that have come through, you might highlight in green. Those things that are coming true, you might highlight in yellow. This is the thing that we're working on. Those things that aren't true yet might be highlighted in red so that your team can see the progress that you've made towards your goals and, if it's a personal vision for you, so that you can see the progress that you've made towards your goals, because progress builds momentum. Now this is very similar to the EOS and traction system, which has been impactful, highly impactful to my law firm and which I talk about a lot, in that we're visioning out what we want the three-year picture to look like and then, now that we know what the three-year picture looks like, we've set one-year goals and 90-day rocks, things that we are running at to get us closer and closer to the three-year picture.
Speaker 1:And, candidly, when I read this book for the first time, I had a hard time resonating with this because, while he gives you some examples of other companies' visions throughout the course of the book, I personally I didn't find really many of them terribly exciting. And that's okay. Like I shouldn't be, I'm not the model employee to go work at or work for any of those firms. Apparently, it really wasn't until I I revisited Cam Harold listening to a bigger pockets podcast, where at the end of the podcast, brandon Turner, the host, shared his company's vivid vision for where he wanted his realty company to be three years in the future. And I listened to that and I said, holy shit, I'm stealing a bunch of that stuff because that's a company that I want to work for. And so my hope is, in sharing my vision with you, that that gives you a framework or a sounding board and excites you to go out and create your own vision. And if you do, I hope that you share it with me. And if you don't know who I am like, if you made it eight minutes into this podcast you're like who is this guy?
Speaker 1:Let me just kind of recap for you. I'm a personal injury lawyer in Northern Virginia. I'm involved in two companies. I'm a partner at Banglass Law and I've stepped into the integrator role at Great Legal Marketing Recently. We teach lawyers in solo and small law firms how to run better businesses so that they can have better lives. I have three kids, which you'll hear about in the vision. I've been married for 14 years now my wife will kill me if I got that wrong, but I think it's almost 14 years and I invest passively in real estate investments. We own an Airbnb at the beach, but largely my investment thesis now is what can I invest money into not have to work on and have pay me on a monthly or a quarterly basis?
Speaker 1:On this podcast I talk about building great businesses, investing in passive streams of income, designing the life that you want to live, goal setting and hanging out with and being inspired by other high achieving entrepreneurs. So with that background, I'm about to dive into my personal vivid vision. Here's the caveat that I have for you If you're somebody who gets turned off by people with big goals, or if, in the back of your mind, you think that when you hear this, you're going to go that guy's bragging, or you're going to say he's so far ahead that I shouldn't even start, or you even have an inkling that you might feel jealous, then turn this off now because you're not going to like what I have to say and you'll like me less as a result, and I don't want that to happen and, honestly, I have a lot of trepidation in releasing this episode. I'm recording it on March 31st. It's supposed to be released April 8th. I may not release it for exactly that reason, like I don't want to turn off people who are friends of mine, family of mine, who don't like to talk about money, don't like to talk about success. So again, if that's, you stop listening. But I shared this with my pod and GoBundance the other night. I got some great feedback from them on it and they encouraged me to share it with other people, and the reason that I'm going to share it is that the thing that I've found over the last few years is that when goals are genuinely expressed and vulnerably shared, they're really inspiring to me. And so if you're the kind of person who gets inspired by other people's goals, then strap in and listen up and if you get to the end of this and you think those goals are too small, then hit me up, because I definitely want to get that feedback and I want to hear your goals. All right, hopefully we got all the naysayers out of the room. Here we go, december 31st 2025.
Speaker 1:Reflecting back on my now six years at the law firm, it would be easy to say that I should have joined BGL earlier, but I needed to be out on my own in order to cultivate the hunger and the skillset needed to drive this firm to new heights. Year after year, ben and I realized that, as the leaders of our law firm, our job is to cast a big enough vision that the dreams of our employees can live inside of our vision. All of our high-level decisions are made from this perspective. The culmination of all that hard work is that we consistently recruit people who are smarter than we are. We pay market salaries and above market bonuses for top performances and, as a result, the team collaborates and is aligned with our profit goals. We are great at identifying talent and slotting people into the right position for them. We hold quarterly team building events, including doing charity work, and our families are involved in the events as well, while many offices have gone to a work-from-home model. Our people like being together because this office is a great place to work and because they enjoy working with each other. We have a reputation in the legal community for being pragmatic problem solvers. We have a plan in place to purchase our own office space when our lease expires in 2028. Our employees know that if they work hard, ask for help getting better and show up with a great attitude, the leadership team will help them achieve any goal that they want.
Speaker 1:The client experience is at the center of our philosophy and it drives everything that we do. This doesn't mean that we're slaves to the client's beck and call. It means that we recognize the experience of being a client and feeling well taken care of is every bit as important as actually being taken care of. We generate in excess of $8 million in revenue last year and we're maintaining 30% profit margins of $8 million in revenue last year and we're maintaining 30% profit margins. Specifically, the personal injury section exceeded $5.7 million in revenue this year. We have three lawyers and eight support staff one assistant for each lawyer, two paralegal case managers, two records collections clerks and a dedicated intake specialist. We represent only people who are seriously hurt. None of this bumper scratch whiplash stuff here. Maintaining a high average fee value allows us to have a high level of client communication and it frees up the team to maximize case value.
Speaker 1:On every case that we do take, we do not go outside of our box. We are great at doing auto accident cases and we aren't interested in handling complex cases like medical malpractice or products liability. Personally, I'm working on only 15 cases at any given time and they're all worth six figure fees and above. I'm assisted on these cases by an elite procedural and evidentiary associate and this helps me focus on the big picture, while the associate makes sure that we're abiding by all of the rules. We built a system where I'm giving advice to clients and putting the finishing touches on great work product. I'm no longer quote doing the work. As a result, I really enjoy the practice of law again and because I'm not slowing us down by putting off the work that I don't love doing, we're moving cases through the system faster than we ever have. I'm constantly being challenged by the team because we've deliberately hired people who are smarter, more innovative and harder working than I am.
Speaker 1:This team is proactive. Clients don't have to ask us for updates because we do such great work of keeping them apprised of what's going on in their case. As a result, our Google reviews just keep pouring in. We've got a reputation for being well-prepared, delivering complete, clean and well-organized demands and discovery. We're known for being really easy to work with but willing to go to the mat if necessary, and because of this, most of our cases resolve pretty easily, especially those cases that are being defended by lawyers who already know our reputation. Doctors' offices love working with us, and not because they think they're going to be receiving reciprocal referrals, but because they know that every client that they send here is going to be well-served, the communication is going to be timely and the relationship is going to be a win-win-win. Because my team is entirely self-sufficient, I'm able to spend a whole day out of the office every single week thinking about ways to make clients' lives better and make our employees' lives richer. The firm only accepts cases where we know that we can add value to the client's life. Often this means that we're putting more money in the client's pocket than they could get on their own, but sometimes it's as simple as understanding that we're saving them time so they can go on and live the lives that they want to live while we execute on their cases.
Speaker 1:On the long-term disability side of the firm, we are market leaders on the East Coast. Our avatar client's a doctor, lawyer or C-suite executive with a debilitating progressive disease. Not only does our team help them solve their complex insurance issues, but we softly give them life coaching. These clients are people who've reached the pinnacle of their profession and now need some guidance regarding what they're going to do next, now that the capability to perform has been taken away from them. We are the perfect law firm for them, because we've spent lots and lots of time thinking about what this means in our own lives. As a result, we're often able to thinking about what this means in our own lives. As a result, we're often able to coach people who find themselves in the same position. We have over 100 clients on claim and the team anticipates the needs of both the client and the insurance companies. We're able to maintain our clients on claim status, keeping them paid regularly and on a monthly basis because of this proactive action. This continuous, predictable pay stream reduces the stress on our clients' lives.
Speaker 1:The long-term disability team is known in the industry as the most technically proficient lawyers, as well as the best storytellers. We've got a system in place for running these cases through our playbook. While the cases are often medically complicated, they usually fit a mold and sometimes it feels like we're running the Ford assembly line of insurance. Appeals work Once our employees understand the system. Lawyers at the top simply have to spot issues and turn the staff loose on those issues to get them solved. People whose disability claims have been denied and who know who we are would have to be insane to hire anybody else to work on their case. Insurance companies would rather just pay us than fight with us. And the long-term disability revenue exceeds $2 million annually. All right, hey, it's 2025.
Speaker 1:Brian cutting in now to report that in listening to that section back, we got all of, or almost all of, the soft stuff correct and we overestimated the revenue numbers, right? So in the projection I said we generate in excess of 8 million in revenue last year. This year we're on track to do 5 million. So 30% profit margins. That's probably going to be kind of close. And I said the PI section would do 5.7 million. That's way off. We're going to do somewhere around 2.5 or 2.8.
Speaker 1:But I'll tell you all of the soft stuff I got right. The referrals from doctors, the culture that we've built where clients are proactively updated on their cases, firm only accepting cases where we know we can add value to the client's life. And then everything that I said about the LTD side the market leaders on the East Coast check Our avatar clients. Our doctors, lawyers, c-suite executives check and we're the perfect law firm for them because they've been spending lots and lots of time thinking about it. And then the system that we built to run those cases through our playbook like check, check, check. If you came into our office, you'd see exactly what I described in that section of the vivid vision. You just wouldn't see as many dollars in the operating account, and that's okay. The important thing when you're doing this is like the revenue numbers are the least important thing and I say that not as like sour grapes, as somebody who missed the revenue projections that I set back in 2023. But at a certain point, the amount of money is so much less important than the amount of enjoyment that you get out of showing up to your practice and being proud of the practice you're showing up to on Monday. And so, if everything else in there is true, but I missed on the revenue numbers. I consider that a success. You might disagree, but I think we're good.
Speaker 1:Shifting now to great legal marketing, in the past couple of years, glm has experienced explosive growth. We did over $5 million in revenue this year. We're building on tribal lawyers that have great lives and we are grateful to be able to reach more and more of them each year. Our entry-level niche is talking to solo and small firm lawyers, who are making $500,000 in annual revenue and taking them to a million dollars and beyond. A million dollars is a real inflection point in the lives of many lawyers because it allows them the time and the space to take actual, real vacations away from their offices, away from their phones and away from email. We are returning lawyers to time with their families and making them happier by allowing them to build real businesses that can function without their presence. We're redefining what it means to be a successful lawyer, and what attracts many lawyers to us initially is the desire to make more money. But we know that that's not why they stay. They stay because we've shown them that we can change their lives by changing their practices.
Speaker 1:Most people think lawyers are supposed to be boring. Lawyers aren't supposed to have epic lives. Our example gives lawyers permission to spend more time out of the office doing things like coaching, youth sports, buying real estate, traveling the world and doing things that light their own lives on fire, whatever that is. People often leave the GLM events wondering why didn't I think of that and I've been doing this simple basic thing wrong all of these years. And here's the thing None of our ideas are really novel. It's simply that most lawyers have never been exposed to them before.
Speaker 1:Our lawyer members have an abundance mentality that's uncommon to most lawyers. They refer their friends to work with us because they know that somebody else doing well doesn't mean that they're taking something away from you. Man, we have great events. Once a year, we hold our summit and we invite subject matter experts to come and speak to the tribe. We also rely heavily on member-led content. We celebritize those lawyers that have been in the tribe and are doing great things. They host panels on topics like how to hire, how to raise your pricing and how to have a better life. In addition to Summit, we've begun having one-off mastermind experiences. These usually involve some level of adventure. We go to the islands, we sail, kayak, we go skiing all kinds of fun stuff. We spend half the day working on our businesses and the other half reminding ourselves that life is great and it's meant to be enjoyed, and if we aren't having fun, what's the point of doing this?
Speaker 1:On a personal note, I found my voice. I'm a speaker and a podcast guest on the topics like building office culture, financial wellbeing for lawyers and, above all, lawyer happiness. My podcast is known as the Best Lawyer Lifestyle Podcast and I interview interesting guests and the audience looks forward to each new episode coming out. About half of our guests are in the law and the other half are entrepreneurs somewhere outside the law. All right 2025, brian again, and a lot of air balls in this section.
Speaker 1:I think I, when I wrote this, this, underestimated the amount of time and effort that it takes to run two businesses at the same time and also raise three kids, and so there's a lot of stuff in here that is still aspirational, that we're still working on. I think again, culturally, we've gotten most of this right. There's also way more competitors in the space. It's challenging, challenging, to run a consulting business in the law firm space. If you look around, there's just tons and tons and tons of us. I think we're the best. I think we are certainly the best for somebody who's doing less than a million dollars in revenue and wants to cross the million-dollar mark without spending an arm and a leg on digital marketing and on website marketing, but this is a challenging space to be in. I'll just tell you that. Leave it there.
Speaker 1:Shifting now to the state of our finances, we're earning $10,000 a month in passive income, and Krista no longer needs to work because of this stream. We're approaching the time where our passive income pays for all of our expenses of daily living, especially now that the boys are out of daycare. Much like a snowball rolling down a hill, it feels like we'll be there shortly and without much additional effort. Our net worth crossed the eight-figure mark this year and while net worth isn't a big deal, for us, it was a big marker and we celebrated as we sailed by. For years, we've taken all of our excess earnings and invested the money into cash-flowing assets. I call this a brick-by-brick approach, and it now allows us to live a life of our choosing. We're getting to a point where we don't have to work, but because the work is so mentally stimulating and because we enjoy the people that we work with, we continue to choose to do so.
Speaker 1:At the law firm, we built a place where people can thrive, and I'm teaching others in our firm how to achieve financial independence and live the life of their own creation. I've identified a trusted group of investors that I partner with and I invest as a limited partner in their deals, and I don't have to do any work. The money just shows up in my mailbox once a quarter or once a month. Over the past few years, I've invested approximately 50% into paper assets and 50% into real assets in the form of real estate deals and oil and gas deals. This allows us to have a broad diversification of asset allocation, income stream and tax treatment. All of our assets are held in the family LLC, which allows us to do things like expense travel and vacations while we're working on the family business, and it allows us to pay the boys for their work and to license their images. It also gives the boys enough real world experience and an understanding of how to manage money. Though it sounds complicated, we built a really easy system for managing all of this. We've got a comfortable cash position. If the world stopped tomorrow and, for some reason, even our passive income ceased, we'd be okay for six months of expenses. We're also well positioned to deploy capital into the market as we find opportunities. While we're working, we're continuing to maximize our use of tax-deferred investment vehicles, including 401ks, hsas, and we've even set up IRAs for the boys. The older two are actively selecting assets that they want to hold in those accounts. I'm seen as a resource to our family and to the employees for financial education.
Speaker 1:All right 2025, brian, again with what is a recurring theme Uh, anytime. I projected numbers like we missed, so we missed. So not doing nearly the passive income numbers as we were as I projected or aspirationally wrote down. Not quite to the net worth mark that I wrote down. Directionally correct though, although I would say the market has shifted since 2023 when I wrote this and so is my investment philosophy right Far fewer real estate deals, in fact, no money. I don't think any money has gone into real estate deals this year. I have in 2024 did another oil and gas deal for some tax diversification.
Speaker 1:What I'm doing primarily is as an investment thesis these days is just plowing it into index funds. It is again back to like the time value of your money, right, or the time value of your time. Again back to like the time value of your money right, or the time value of your time. Actually, I'm just busy between, again, two businesses and a family and coaching and traveling and all those things, and I have my investment thesis favors things that I don't have to put a whole lot of work into, and if you are investing in real estate syndications and oil and gas deals without putting a whole lot of work into them, you will make mistakes, as we have seen in that syndication space in 24 and now in 25, the water, the tide, as it were, is going out, has gone out, and many people were not wearing bathing suits. I haven't gotten caught in. Maybe one of mine has gone bad. The rest of them are okay, but there are far fewer out there now, and I think the thing that I learned over the last few years is you really have to appreciate why you have the opportunity to invest in this deal, and if you aren't close with the syndicator or the general partner and you're coming to it because you've stumbled on it somewhere, I think you have to appreciate how many people have already passed on the deal, and that's a lesson that I've learned.
Speaker 1:With time right, so that happens Directionally correct, though, in terms of um shifting out to personal life, I turned 42 this year and I'm fit. My body fat hovers around 15% and I can run 10 miles at the drop of a hat. My relationship with Krista is wonderful. We maintain regular date nights and travel without the kids. We have a rhythm of checking in with each other regularly to see how we're doing as a spouse and how we can improve. Our marriage feels easy and we're in sync with each other. The boys participate in family goal setting and we have a family bucket list. Each year, our family is able to check at least one item off the list and add even more. As we see our friends living bigger lives than we are and we want to steal some of their ideas, we see the possibilities for what we can accomplish in this world is endless.
Speaker 1:I continue to make myself available to participate in whatever sport or activity the boys need, in whichever role makes the most sense, whether that means head coaching the team or playing a supporting role. I'm open to sorting myself into the roles that the boys team needs or whatever the organization wants. The boys are 12, 10, and 7, old enough that we can now travel wherever we want with them In summer 2025, we took an entire month off to travel and as the boys have gotten older, this has become a lot more fun. When we vacation, we make sure that we're mixing in fun, enrichment and also exposing our kids to the fact that not everybody has what we have. We spend long weekends at our beach house in Ocean City. We got plans to visit every continent before the Gilead and we have plans to visit every continent with our kids before the last one leaves the house. I've found a charitable cause that resonates with me and giving to it feels easy, because over the years, we've stripped away 10% of our passive income out of the reinvest pile and put it in our giveaway pile.
Speaker 1:Krista and I are looking for our forever home. It's a five or six bedroom house in Fairfax County with enough space for our family and an in-law suite for Krista's parents. On our list of musts is an outdoor oasis including a pool, large indoor outdoor grilling area and a bar, and Krista and I each have our own office in the house that serves as a thinking space. I'm excited to wake up every single day and face new challenges and opportunities. The highs wouldn't be highs without the lows, and my family and I embrace them both. Yeah, boom, I feel like I knocked this part out of the park.
Speaker 1:Right Can run 10 miles at a drop of a hat. Did that this morning? Great relationship with my wife yes. Regular date nights yes. Travel without the kids yes, boys participate in family goal setting. Dude, my kids have started just this week. They are tracking their fitness and we have some goals around that and I didn't even tell them, so I wrote that down. It happened. Continue to make myself available to participate in whatever sport the boys choose. Yes, I'm coaching soccer and I show up and help out with baseball when I can, although actually, my baseball player is going to go play soccer in the fall, so that's awesome. Took a month off to travel in the summer of 2025. Like directionally correct right Three weeks in Italy.
Speaker 1:This section makes me feel really, really good and so I think the lesson. Oh, one more. Well, I'm scrolling down this transcript as I read this, looking for our forever home. It's a five or six bedroom house in Fairfax County with enough space for our family and an in-law suite for her parents. We bought that two months ago now, by the time this episode comes out, six bedroom house, fairfax County outdoor oasis bang, bang, bang. Like, fuck, yeah, for this last part, right.
Speaker 1:And so, as I review this, directionally correct on all of this and maybe just leave out the numbers Like, if you go back and you listen to the episode that I released just after our annual retreat for the law firm this year, they said 10, 15, 25 million like it doesn't matter, right? What really matters is all of the soft stuff what are you able to do? Where are you able to go? What is your life with your family? Like that's the shit that actually matters. And so, as I'm thinking about what I'm going to write in my next version of this for 2028, I think I'm going to leave all the numbers out, because the numbers don't matter.
Speaker 1:Fuck, I'm fired up about that last part. That's awesome. I really like this exercise, and if you would like to take a crack at this and send me yours, I would feel super honored to read yours and give you some feedback on yours. Just, maybe don't include any numbers, because the numbers don't matter. Either that or sour grapes, who knows. So that's the episode. That's the recap from 2025 of the things that I got wrong, things that I got right and the things that I'm really excited about. I hope you guys dig it and I'll see you when I'm back from Italy.
