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Make Your Bed - Bird Rock Surf Report

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life ... and Maybe the World

Make Your Bed was written by former Navy SEAL, William McRaven and inspires its readers with ten lessons he learned while training that can be translated in helping with the matters of our daily lives. 

Whether you are social distancing from home or just need to start building better habits, how do you start? Well ... make your bed! A Navy SEAL needs to follow basic requirements, such as making your bed, in order to best perform and avoid facing any repercussions during training. The act of making your bed and starting the day with an accomplishment as small as this one can provide enough strength and encouragement to continue making better habits. 

The ten lessons outlined in his book is as follows:

      1. Start your day with a task completed
      2. You can’t go at it alone
      3. Only the size of your heart matters
      4. Life’s not fair—drive on!
      5. Failure can make you stronger
      6. You must dare greatly
      7. Stand up to the bullies
      8. Rise to the occasion
      9. Give people hope
      10. Never, ever quit!

Read more to find out what these lessons entail. Watch Admiral William H. McRaven's commencement speech that inspired the book. 

Team Highlights

The Pets of Bird Rock

Working from home is better when your coworkers are your furry friends! From bunnies to puppies, check out some of the pets of Bird Rock Systems! Swipe through ➡️

Upcoming Events

Fundamental Frameworks 101

Live with Larry Card - EP 3

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Go Live with Larry and listen in as our Enterprise Solutions Architect, Larry Hoehn, virtually sits down with Bird Rock System's VCISO, Jeremy Rouse to discuss  how to deploy a secure framework.

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Murder Mystery Night 

Murder Mystery Event - 10.22

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WHODUNNIT?! Join Bird Rock Systems for another fun virtual experience figuring out the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, and, HOW for a virtual murder mystery event.

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Tech Highlight

Team As A Service 

Despite budget constraints, skill gaps, and the necessary time to hire a qualified team, your organization still expects you to execute key initiatives in addition to maintaining everyday operations.  

Bird Rock Systems specializes in building high performance teams and then applying agile methodologies, such as SCRUM, in order to ensure that projects are done the right way. We assemble a crew with varied skill sets and scale up or down according to your needs. This prevents time loss that inevitably surrounds the hiring, onboarding and offboarding processes. 

Watch our video to learn more! Interested in deploying Team as a Service for your organization? Contact us here. 

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Happenings in So-Cal

Since most public events have been cancelled or postponed, we wanted to highlight some organizations in Southern California that are helping out our local communities. Learn more about how you can get involved!
SD Food Bank

The San Diego Food Bank is continuing their efforts to provide food assistance and resources during this pandemic. Through their different food programs, they are committed to provide these to the 350,000 people they serve every month. 

OneOC

The Emergency Volunteer Center(EVC) under the coordination of OneOC matches volunteers to urgent needs based on skill, geography, and availability. Volunteers can be assigned for different projects such as Animal Services, Information and Referrals, and Recovery-Response in light of COVID-19.

UCSD Health

Support the frontliners in the fight against COVID-19! UC San Diego Health is accepting donations of Protective Equipment and Supplies. You can also send monetary donations to the Emergency Response Fund. 

Baby2Baby

Baby2Baby is a Los-Angeles based organization that provides children living in poverty with basic necessities such as diapers, formula, and food. During this pandemic, they are accepting monetary donations from the public to continue sending essentials to low-income families across the nation. 

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