1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. Sleep for 7 hours.

4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

5. Play more games.

6. Read more books than you did tthe previous year.

7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, or prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink plenty of water.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.

14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.

15. Don't have negative thoughts about things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.

18. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires at bay.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.

20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Forgive everyone for everything.

26. What other people think of you is none of your business.

27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

31. The best is yet to come.

32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

33. Do the right thing!

34. Call your family often.

35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.

36. Each day give something good to others.

37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

38. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special!

39. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time!

40. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

42. Life isn't fair, but it's still good!

43. Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disneyland and you certainly don't want a fast pass. Make the most of it and enjoy it.

Hey guys,

I'm going to hold a piercing party (like a tupperware party but more stabby) early next year (Jan/Feb) and require a whole heap of people who want pierced to turn up. All stabbings will be done, under professional conditions, by me and supervised by Craig (from Funk That). Only people 16 and over are invited (consent reasons) and I.D is required.

SO if you are keen for some super-cheap piercings please let me know A.S.A.P how many you want, what you want and how available you are so I can sort out a suitable date for everyone! Tell your friends

xx

Long before quantum mechanics, the German philosopher Husserl said that all perception is gambled. Every type of bigotry, every type of racism, sexism, prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition, written religion, every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realising that all our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it. We don’t even know we’re making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. In philosophy that’s called naïve realism - what I perceive as reality. Philosophers have refuted naïve realism every century for the last 2,500 years, starting with Buddha and Plato, and yet most people still act on the basis of naïve realism.

Now the argument is that maybe my perceptions are inaccurate, but somewhere there is accuracy… the scientists have it with their instruments! That’s how we can find out what’s really real! But relativity and quantum mechanics have demonstrated clearly that what you find out with instruments is true relative only to the instrument you’re using and where that instrument is located in space time. So there is no vantage point from which real reality can be seen. We’re all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realise that we are all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. And the ones who don’t have the same reality tunnel as us don’t seem ignorant or deliberately perverse or lying or hypnotised by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel and every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world… if we’re willing to listen.