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Greetings everyone. Today I have two more simple tools you can use to gain more power and excitement in your body, your mind, and your life.

August 10 is the 222nd day of 2009!

The Magellan Space Probe landed on Venus on August 10, 1990.

I offer you these experimental possibilities in honor of these two fine events. May all of us find our way to Venus more often!

Ok, here goes:

9. Take responsibility for ALL and EVERYTHING in your life. If you find yourself complaining or blaming, make an effort to STOP. Take a deep breath and use one of the other 8 tools to put you back in your own driver’s seat.

Now, make a declaration, “I now take responsibility for my own life.”

I went hitchhiking from Minneapolis, MN to Asheville, NC over 10 years ago. In a tiny town on the southwestern edge of Iowa, I wandered around a truck stop asking the truckers where they were headed. One of them invited me in for dinner to see if I would make interesting enough company to ride along with him.

Indeed I did. He told me one of the first Great Secrets anyone has ever told me. He said, “You get two choices in life. You can laugh or you can cry, and there ain’t nobody who gives a damn which one you choose.”

Write this quote, or your own equivalent, on a notecard and carry it around with you. Take a look at it every time you start to blame or complain about ANYTHING.

Next, you can choose to accept yourself and your circumstances how they are, or you can choose to take actions, no matter what the actions happen to be, to make changes to your circumstances. If other people are upset, spread cheer and joy. If your home is a mess, take the time to clean it up. If you have put something off, do it. If you let yourself or someone else down, forgive yourself and take action to make things right.

This leads me to:

10. Laugh and smile. For at least 5 minutes. Inhale fully and laugh for the entire exhale. It does not matter if you are “faking it” or not. The very same muscles and brain matter are activated when you move your face and belly in a laughter pattern. By doing this for 5 full minutes each time you feel overwhelmed, upset, frustrated, or uncomfortable, you send powerful messages to your brain on physical, emotional, and intellectual levels.

Just laugh whenever you remember to do it. Think of funny things. Watch funny videos. Laughing brings a few added bonuses when you laugh about things that you were taught never to laugh at. No one will read your mind and know what you are laughing at. Just laugh at everything and see how it changes your perception and experiences.

A long time ago in a land far far away from here, there was another dimension. The creatures who inhabited that dimension used something like what humans call, “magic mushrooms” as sacraments. One of them came back with an important key scrawled on top of the text in a book of magic, “Piss Yourself In Laughter.”

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All right, Enjoy your Life! Look out for your Star Player!

Cheers!

-GTD