OCTOBER 19, 2019

ERIK DAVISS NEW BOOK is at once a brilliantly original study and a recap of familiar themes the author has been pondering for the past two decades. Like his pioneering 1998 debut, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, High Weirdness explores the way modern networked society tends to inspire revivals of hermetic and other occult traditions. It thus updates Daviss analysis of the convergence of contemporary occult and psychedelic subcultures in Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010). And, like his 2006 volume,The Visionary State: A Journey Through Californias Spiritual Landscape, High Weirdness shows how this epochal conjuncture of mystical worldviews, magical practices, and psychoactive lifestyles expresses a uniquely West Coast sensibility, a fusion of NorCal hippie utopianism and SoCal punk paranoia.

High Weirdness is a revised version of Daviss PhD thesis, produced under the auspices of the Program in Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism in the Department of Religion at Rice University. As Davis remarked in a 2015 LARB interview, he had long contemplated stepping back from the challenges of freelance life and shoring up the more scholarly side of my writing and research through an encounter with an academic discipline. Happily, this encounter has in no way scotched his restless, omnivorous intelligence or defused the offbeat punch of his gonzo style; indeed, it has helped him to see himself as a kind of counter-public intellectual who brings rigorous theoretical and methodological approaches to bear on some seriously weird shit. While he still views his own writing as part of the same stream of feral, fringe, psychedelically-inflected thought that is his analytic subject, he can now scrutinize these oddball perspectives using all the tools of modern philosophy, cultural studies, and comparative religion. The result can be at times a bit overwhelming as Davis struggles to synthesize a welter of theories, from William Jamess radical empiricism to Bruno Latours Actor-Network Theory to the materialist psychoanalysis of Flix Guattari (and much more) but it is never pedantic or boring.

The core of High Weirdness is a careful study of three major psychonauts Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick all of whom, under the influence of far-out fictions, esoteric doctrines, and various controlled substances, were bombarded by a series of hallucinatory visions that were arguably mystical and indubitably life-changing. Seven chapters devoted to these thinkers lives and work are bookended by a wide-ranging exordium that develops a concept of weird naturalism to account for their quasi-mystical experiences, and a coda that explores why this freaky occultural mindset should have emerged precisely when and where it did: in early 1970s California. Daviss introduction makes clear that a key historical development was the psychedelic transformation of esotericism and the occult, which spawned a countercultural zeitgeist fusing the delirious whimsies of LSD gurus with a hybrid pop-hermeticism la Aleister Crowley and a Westernized Tao out of Mircea Eliade via Alan Watts. This potent brew was laced, as the dreamy 60s gave way to the fidgety 70s, with even more outr ingredients, from the tabloid conspiracy theories of UFO cultism to the posthuman pulp metaphysics of H. P. Lovecraft.

The result, in Daviss words, was a weirding of religious experience that ushered in a consciousness culture of intense, enchanting, and liberating altered states, navigated by a restless mode of subjectivity that I call the centrifugal self. This deracinated ego, adrift amid a kaleidoscopic relativism of arcane beliefs and alternative lifestyles, was less a coherent identity than an endlessly mutating project: On the one hand, the decentered self becomes a charged vector of exploration and creative re-invention; on the other, it spins like an aimless and lonely satellite through random space. As Davis argues in his concluding chapter, this nomadic subjectivity was particularly suited to if not outright engendered by the complex and abstract behavior of networks, systems, and information ecologies that emerged as a new social paradigm during the postwar years, especially in California (here, Davis builds thoughtfully on Manuel Castellss 1996 sociological classic, The Rise of the Network Society). The quasi-mystical perception that everything in a network is potentially connected gave rise to both libertarian dreams of empowerment, including the hacker ethos of information freedom, and conspiratorial fantasies of mind control, such as the belief that a psychic mafia of paranormal researchers might be soften[ing] peoples brains telepathically.

There is thus a key ambivalence a strangely doubled gnosis at the heart of the visions Davis anatomizes: they seem to give access to higher states of reality while at the same time suggesting that this contact could be manipulative or delusional. A deep strain of doubt underlies the surface credulity: all three psychonauts reported encounters with enigmatic nonhuman intelligences they could neither shake nor entirely believe in. A cautionary counterexample is provided by another figure who didnt quite make it into Daviss mystic pantheon: neuroscientist John Lilly, who used sensory deprivation as a trigger to extra-human communication and supraself metaprogramming, but who eventually became convinced, under the dissociative influence of ketamine, that a Borg-like Solid State Intelligence was in the process of conquering all biological, carbon-based life in the universe. McKenna, Wilson, and Dick all came close to surrendering to such crippling chimeras themselves, but each was saved, finally, by a capacity for wry humor, cool pragmatism, or skeptical self-analysis. Moreover, Davis is less interested in appraising the putative truth of their mystical visions than he is in exploring the rhetorical and conceptual resources these garage philosophers marshaled to narrate and interpret their experiences, in a series of highly imaginative, curiously engaging, and boldly genre-bending texts.

The first and in many ways the least interesting figure Davis discusses is McKenna, a modern techno-shaman who, when he wasnt hymning the ethno-botanical (if not extraterrestrial) powers of psilocybin mushrooms, was claiming to have discovered a fractal math underlying the I Ching that, when read alongside the patterns of the Mayan calendar, forecast an imminent global apocalypse. (McKenna died in 2000 and so was not around to see the failure of his prediction or of the big-budget film based upon it, Roland Emmerichs silly 2009 spectacle, 2012.) While all three of Daviss psychonauts were a bit sketchy and egotistical, willing to shade the facts in the service of a good story (Davis defends them, fondly but cogently, as bullshit artists), it is McKenna alone who comes across to me at least as a flamboyant fraud. Like Wilson and Dick, he was a voracious autodidact, and he could vent his weird fund of erudition a compound of pulp sci-fi, McLuhanist media babble, half-digested Buddhism, and drug lore in intense and witty raps of cannabis-fueled eloquence. (In later years, he became, like his friend and fellow con man Timothy Leary, a fixture on the college lecture circuit, and budding bohemians can readily access his loopy musings online.)

Davis does his best to argue for McKenna as a genuine counterculture intellectual, a psychedelic alchemist who used DMT, magic mushrooms, and other potent substances as metabolic triggers for extra-dimensional experiences. A less generous way to put it is that he was a drug nut not that theres anything wrong with that, but his motives, frankly, come across as more shallow and self-serving than the other two pop-mystics Davis groups him with, whose drug use was more incidental to their visions and who, for all their nascent messianism, never really fancied themselves as gurus.

That said, McKenna was, of the three, the most ardently and admirably peripatetic: rather than waiting for enlightenment to arrive, he actively hunted it down. Davis chronicles his youthful 1971 foray, accompanied by brother Dennis, into the Amazon jungle in search of indigenous psychoactives rare plants and fungi that put Terence in touch with a higher intelligence, either posthuman or nonhuman, which he dubbed the Logos (for his part, Dennis was either transformed into an oracle or had a gibbering breakdown in later years, he wasnt quite sure himself). The brothers Experiment at La Chorrera led to two co-authored books: The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (1975), which ambitiously constructs a syncretic folk science of New Age shamanism, and the flipped-out, psy-phi Magic Mushroom Growers Guide (1976), in which the drug, personified as an alien ambassador, peddles a dreamy fantasy of cosmic symbiosis. (Ever the huckster, Terence had returned to the States with a hoard of psilocybin spore-prints that he marketed to avid heads under his Lux Natura brand.) Caveat emptor.

The second psychonaut to whom Davis introduces us Robert Anton Wilson was, I think, an altogether more intriguing cat. Born in 1932, he was 14 years older than McKenna and thus had been compelled to carve out a social niche for himself before the 60s made hippie entrepreneurialism a feasible option. A modestly successful freelance journalist, he served, for much of the 1960s, as associate editor for Playboy magazine, where he was in charge along with his friend and colleague Robert Shea of the letters Forum, which the duo remodeled into a clearinghouse for [] alternative views, from right-wing libertarianism to psychosexual anarchism. A bookish pothead with a pronounced trickster streak, Wilson proposed to Shea that they consider the worldviews animating the missives they received as all equally valid, a hypothesis that fed into a lengthy manuscript the pair drafted between 1969 and 1971, eventually published in three volumes as The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975).

The apotheosis of 1970s conspiracy culture, a cross between the pomo delirium of Thomas Pynchon and the earnest hysteria of a Xerox pamphleteer, the trilogy is a bracing tabloid bath of satiric paranoia that I seem to like rather better than Davis does (he claims to find its blend of pulp indulgence and ironic, avant-garde affectation off-putting). Davis is interested in Illuminatus! primarily as a gateway drug that leads to Wilsons later work, as well as for what it reveals about the Discordians, a real-world group of social and spiritual pranksters with whom Wilson was closely associated. Davis warmly defends Discordianism as more than a parody religion; it is rather, he claims, a life-affirming neo-paganism that forges a deep link between anti-state politics and the esoteric imagination. Certainly, its impish ironies are vastly more entertaining than McKennas mycelial metaphysics.

In his later solo effort, Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), Wilson started to weave the raw material of the trilogy into a more personal, meditative brief for pluralistic psychedelic pragmatism. After leaving Playboy in 1971, the author finally took the plunge into the swirling currents of acid evangelism and pseudo-liberatory eroticism; he joined a small coven in Mendocino, performed rites of Crowleyan and Tantric sex magic, used a tape machine for consciousness re-programming, and generally let his freak flag fly. After a few years of this bizarro diet, Wilsons innate skepticism began to fray in the face of hypnotic patterns of synchronicity and visionary trances that seemed to channel transmissions from higher dimensional intelligences [in] the star system Sirius. The author had entered what he called the Chapel Perilous: either he was truly experiencing an epochal brain change that gave him access to astral realms, or he was being seduced by madness into scripting his own life as a four-dimensional coincidence-hologram.

Happily, this great satirist of conspiracy theory managed to shake off the grip of the hallucinatory schemes in which he had trapped himself, surfacing as a kind of bemused agnostic armed with the practical counter-magic of reason itself. Much of his later writing was devoted to constructing an elaborate but highly playful personal mythology (he remained active well into the 1990s, including penning a sometime column for the pop-hacktivist journal, Mondo 2000). This dialectic of development is considerably more arresting and provocative than anything McKenna put himself through; indeed, as Davis argues, Cosmic Trigger was a major attempt both to communicate the pathological extremes of extraordinary experience and to rescue its author from mysteries whose infectious charisma is nonetheless sustained, and even broadcast, through the act of writing itself. (The book is still in print from Hilaritas Press, but I would personally much rather locate a copy of the authors ultra-rare hippie porn novel The Sex Magicians [1973], which Davis describes as a goofy romp that draws as much from Playboy as from the sleazy excesses of underground comix.)

The final section, on Philip K. Dick, stands out for three reasons. First, it is longer by half than the previous parts, thus suggesting that Davis considers Dick to be a more complex and/or interesting figure than the other two psychonauts. Second, it focuses on someone who had a long career as a celebrated SF writer before his early 70s mystical encounters turned him into a purple sage; he thus had greater narrative skills and generic resources to draw upon when fashioning accounts of his otherworldly exploits. (He was also, quite simply, smarter than either McKenna or Wilson that is to say, more learned, as opposed to just well read.) Finally, this section is the only one that doesnt feature a collaborator, a doting brother or Playboy buddy; instead, Dick had to struggle through his perplexing cosmic baptism more or less alone (though Davis does explore the network of friends and correspondents he regularly bounced ideas off of). As a result, these chapters are more sober and contemplative in tone, and the experience of reading them can be both painful and profound, especially if you are already a fan, like me, of their subjects body of work.

On the one hand, its unfortunate that the wild spiritual ride Dick endured during the final decade of his life, which has generated a host of subcultural responses ranging from a Tarot deck to an R. Crumb comic, has somewhat eclipsed or, rather, subsumed his specifically literary achievements. On the other hand, if it werent for the interest generated by the authors purported brush with extrahuman otherness, his work might well have slipped down the memory hole that has engulfed so many of his genre contemporaries. Instead, Dicks fiction is widely available in editions that are often now shelved with Literature instead of SF in bookstores, and 13 of his best novels have been enshrined in a three-volume set from the Library of America, under the editorship of avid Dickhead Jonathan Lethem. It was also Lethem, along with scholar-editor Pamela Jackson, who persuaded Houghton Mifflin, in 2011, to publish a thousand-page curation of fragments from Dicks Exegesis a personal journal the author began keeping in the wake of the theophanic irruption that scrambled his life in early 1974.

In a 2012 LARB review of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, I attempted to summarize the authors experiences:

Recovering from oral surgery in February 1974, pumped full of Darvon, lithium, and massive quantities of megavitamins, he began experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations initially sparked by a Christian girls fish-icon necklace but eventually taking the form of a pink laser shooting highly coded information into his opened mind during a series of hypnogogic visitations. Over time, the intrepid author developed an elaborate vocabulary to describe the transfiguring effects of these extraterrestrial dispatches. According to this private argot, on 2-3-74 [i.e., in February and March of 1974] Dick underwent a powerful anamnesis, stimulated by mystical contact with VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System, sometimes also called Zebra or, more simply, God), that unshackled his genetic memory, permitting him to see through the Black Iron Prison of our world into the macrometasomacosmos, the morphological realm of the Platonic Eidos, in the process revealing himself to be a homoplasmate, an incarnation of the Gnostic Logos subsisting in orthogonal time.

As this breathless litany perhaps suggests, the Exegesis is a phantasmagoric rats nest of deranged erudition, feverish guesswork, and scathing self-analysis, with Dick like Wilson in Cosmic Trigger painfully pondering whether he just might have lost his mind. In my previous review, I question[ed] whether this manuscript should have seen print at all, given its often embarrassing rambling and autodidactic fanaticism, with Dick latching onto any stray thread to spin out his cosmogonic web, and I said that it was hard to imagine that there is a widespread audience for this strange assemblage of obiter Dick-ta, even among PKDs more hardcore followers.

Daviss High Weirdness, with its three long chapters parsing Dicks unruly speculations, will very likely test that assumption. Over the course of his own career, Davis has stoutly put his shoulder to the Dickian wheel: the first glimmering of this book project was an undergraduate thesis he wrote at Yale on Philip K. Dicks Postmodern Gnosis, and he labored heroically alongside Lethem and Jackson to midwife the Exegesis, soliciting, coordinating, and in many cases drafting the books superb arsenal of annotations. While Davis does take a few nose-dives down beguiling rabbit holes in his chapters on Dick in High Weirdness, he also provides the most comprehensive and convincing account of the authors mystical experiences I have read, shrewdly navigating between the Scylla of reducing these visions to phantasms of madness or drug abuse and the Charybdis of embracing them as emanations of godhood (the excellent footnotes cite the full range of extant views, and there are a lot of them). Above all, Davis is superbly attentive to the textual nature of Dicks experiences, the way narrative retrospection and redaction both in the Exegesis and in his later published fictions worked to give shape to amorphous events usually experienced on the hazy brink of sleep. Indeed, the authors speculative frenzy in some ways simply shows Dicks plot-weaving imagination in paranoid overdrive.

I will leave it to scholars of religious studies to assess the fitness of Daviss mobilization of Neoplatonic and esoteric discourses in his analysis of Dicks supermundane visions. In terms of the sociocultural contexts Davis cites, I was particularly struck by the evidence he musters for the influence of the 1970s Jesus Movement on at least the outward symbols, if not the redemptive heart, of Dicks evolving creed; these Jesus Freaks were especially active in Orange County, a locale the author quite understandably viewed as emblematic of a foul, fallen world. Whatever the triggering phenomenon, Dick came to believe, at least some of the time, that he was still living in apostolic times, and that the intervening centuries of history were a fabulation. As Davis meticulously documents, this conviction led the author to recast his earlier novels, many of which had depicted delusory worlds manipulated by cynical puppet-masters, as looming prefigurations of the Black Iron Prison he now glimpsed all around him. Conversely, his nocturnal oracles obsessively masticated and transformed in the Exegesis came to provide the numinous fodder for a series of late-career novels, including the cryptic, metafictional VALIS (1981) and the deeply poignant Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), published shortly after the authors death. As Davis movingly puts it, Dicks final novels were more than disguised testimonies, they were also self-cures for the ravages of revelation.

The proximate cause of Dicks untimely death was a series of massive strokes, though his lifelong abuse of amphetamines was undoubtedly a contributing factor. Unlike McKenna and Wilson, Dick was not particularly fond of psychedelics, or street drugs of any kind, as his 1977 quasi-memoir of his years shepherding a crash-pad of hippie drop-outs, A Scanner Darkly, makes plain. A knowledgeable and compulsive pillhead, he preferred the quantifiable mood modulations of psychiatric scripts. By the time the Gnostic Logos came a-calling, he had already transformed himself into a kind of pharmaceutical cyborg, stuffing his face with Benzedrine tablets he kept in a jar in the refrigerator, along with doses of Stelazine to take the edge off. Davis describes the astonishing regimen in some detail, but he doesnt fully explain how this teeming pharmacopoeia fits into the counterculture scene his other psychonauts inhabited. And while he does discuss the way that amphetamine use shaped and supported the rapid-fire, immersive, and deeply personal way [] Dick wrote his [SF] books, he doesnt really speculate about its impact on the composition of the Exegesis, much less attempt to describe the way a speed-freak mythopoesis might differ from the psychedelic kind generated by a classic head such as McKenna.

Indeed, the main failing of the book, in my view, is the relative lack of comparative analysis of the three authors and their visionary worldviews. There is a bit of this work in the concluding chapter, but it seems half-hearted, with Davis toting up shared motifs like UFOs, the star system Sirius, and H. P. Lovecraft before proceeding to his anatomy of the nascent network society within which their mystic schemas emerged. Ultimately, High Weirdness displays the weaknesses of many PhD dissertations: an opening chapter choked with theoretical references is followed by a series of more or less discrete case studies, the whole capped by a too-brief conclusion that belatedly seeks to sketch some essential connections.

But I have very seldom encountered a dissertation as engaging, as insightful, or as compellingly written, much less one so clearly driven by a personal passion for its subject. High Weirdness is a richly rewarding study of three maverick talents, the occult incubi that plagued them, the ambiguous gospels they formulated, and the sun-kissed, dope-saturated milieu that cradled and nourished it all. I recommend this book very highly indeed.

Rob Latham is a LARB senior editor.

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1. Sleep less. This is one of the best investments you can make to make your life moreproductive and rewarding. Most people do not need more than 6 hours to maintain anexcellent state of health. Try getting up one hour earlier for 21 days and it will developinto a powerful habit. Remember, it is the quality not the quantity of sleep that isimportant. And just imagine having an extra 30 hours a month to spend on the things thatare important to you.

2. Set aside one hour every morning for personal development matters. Meditate, visualizeyour day, read inspirational texts to set the tone of your day, listen to motivational tapesor read great literature. Take this quiet period to vitalize and energize your spirit for theproductive day ahead. Watch the sun rise once a week or be with nature. Starting the dayoff well is a powerful strategy for self-renewal and personal effectiveness.

3. Do not allow those things that matter the most in your life be at the mercy of activitiesthat matter the least. Every day, take the time to ask yourself the question "is this the bestuse of my time and energy?" Time management is life management so guard your timewith great care.

4. Use the rubber band method to condition your mind to focus solely on the most positiveelements in your life. Place a rubber band around your wrist. Each time a negative,energy sapping thought enters your mind, snap the rubber band. Through the power ofconditioning, your mind will associate pain with negative thinking and you will soonpossess a strongly positive mindset.

5. Always answer the phone with enthusiasm in your voice and show your appreciation forthe caller. Good phone manners are essential. To convey authority on the line, stand up.This will instill further confidence in your voice.

6. Throughout the day we all get inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep a set of cards (thesize of business cards; available at most stationary stores) in your wallet along with apencil to jot down these insights. When you get home, put the ideas in a central placesuch as a coil notepad and review them from time to time. As noted by Oliver WendellHolmes: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its originaldimensions."

7. Set aside every Sunday evening for yourself and be strongly disciplined with this habit.Use this period to plan your week, visualize your encounters and what you want toachieve, to read new materials and inspirational books, to listen to soft soothing musicand to simply relax. This habit will serve as your anchor to keep you focused, motivatedand effective throughout the coming week.

8. Always remember the key principle that the quality of your life is the quality of yourcommunication. This means the way you communicate with others and, moreimportantly, the way you communicate with yourself. What you focus on is what you get.If you look for the positive this is what you get. This is a fundamental law of Nature.

9. Stay on purpose, not on outcome. In other words, do the task because it is what you loveto do or because it will help someone or is a valuable exercise. Don't do it for the moneyor the recognition. Those will come naturally. This is the way of the world.

10. Laugh for five minutes in the mirror each morning. Steve Martin does. Laughter activatesmany beneficial chemicals within the body that place us into a very joyous state.Laughter also returns the body to a state of balance. Laughter therapy has been regularlyused to heal persons with varied ailments and is a wonderful tonic for life's ills. While theaverage 4 year old laughs 500 times a day, the average adult is lucky to laugh 15 times aday. Revitalize the habit of laughter, it will put far more living into your life.

11. Light a candle beside you when you are reading in the evening. It is most relaxing andcreates a wonderful, soothing atmosphere. Make your home an oasis from the frenziedworld outside. Fill it with great music, great books and great friends.

12. To enhance your concentration and powers of focus, count your steps when you walk.This is a particularly strong technique. Take six steps while taking a long inhale, holdyour breath for another six steps, and then exhale for six steps. If six steps is too long forthe breaths, do whatever you feel comfortable with. You will feel very alert, refreshed,internally quiet and centered after this exercise. So many people allow their minds to befilled with mental chatter. All peak performers appreciate the power of a quiet, clear mindwhich will concentrate steadily on all important tasks.

13. Learn to meditate effectively. The mind is naturally a very noisy machine which wants tomove from one subject to another like an unchained monkey. One must learn to restrainand discipline it if one is to achieve anything of substance and to be peaceful. Meditationfor twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the evening will certainlyprovide you with exceptional results if regularly practiced for six months. Learned sagesof the East have been advancing the many benefits of meditation for over 5000 years.

14. Learn to be still. The average person doesn't spend even 30 minutes a month in totalsilence and tranquility. Develop the skill of sitting quietly, enjoying the powerful silencefor at least ten minutes a day. Simply think about what is important to you in your life.Reflect on your mission. Silence indeed is golden. As the Zen master once said, it is thespace between the bars that holds the cage.

15. Enhance your will-power; it is likely one of the best training programs you can invest in.Here are some ideas to strengthen your will and become a stronger person:

a. Do not let your mind float like a piece of paper in the wind. Work hard to keep itfocused at all times. When doing a task, think of nothing else. When walking towork, count the steps that it takes to get all the way to the office. This is not easybut your mind will soon understand that you hold its reins and not vice versa.Your mind must eventually become as still as a candle flame in a corner wherethere is no draft.

b. Your will is like a muscle. You must first exercise it and then push before it getsstronger. This necessarily involves short term pain but be assured that theimprovements will come and will touch your character in a most positive way.When you are hungry, wait another hour before your meal. When you arelabouring over a difficult task and your mind is prompting you to pick up thelatest magazine for a break or to get up and go talk to a friend, curb the impulse.Soon you will be able to sit for hours in a precisely concentrated state. Sir IssacNewton, one of the greatest classical physicists the world has produced, once said:"if I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought." Newton had aremarkable ability to sit quietly and think without interruption for very longperiods of time. If he can develop this so can you.

c. You can also build your will-power by restraint in your conduct with others.Speak less (use the 60/40 Rule = listen 60% of the time and speak a mere 40%, ifthat). This will not only make you more popular but you will learn much wisdomas everyone we meet, every day has something to teach us. Also restrain the urgeto gossip or to condemn someone who you feel has made a mistake. Stopcomplaining and develop a cheerful, vital and strong personality. You will greatlyinfluence others.

d. When a negative thought comes to your mind, immediately replace it with onethat is positive. Positive always dominates over the negative and your mind has tobe conditioned to think only the best thoughts. Negative thinking is a conditionedprocess whereby the negative patterns are established over and over. Rid yourselfof any limitations and become a powerful positive thinker.

16. Make an effort to be humorous throughout the day. Not only is it beneficial from aphysical viewpoint but it diffuses tension in difficult circumstances and creates anexcellent atmosphere wherever you are. It was recently reported that members of theTauripan tribe of South America have a ritual where they awake in the middle of thenight to tell each other jokes. Even tribesmen in the deepest sleep wake to enjoy the laughand then return to their state of slumber in seconds.

17. Become a highly disciplined time manager. There are roughly 168 hours in a week. Thissurely allows plenty of time for achievement of the many goals we desire to accomplish.Be ruthless with your time. Set aside a few minutes each morning to plan your day. Planaround your priorities and focus on not only those tasks which are immediate but notimportant (i.e., many telephone calls) but especially on those which are important but noturgent, for these allow for the greatest personal and professional development. Importantbut not immediate activities are those which produce long-term, sustainable benefits andinclude exercise, strategic planning, the development of relationships and professionaleducation. Never let the things which matter most be placed in the backseat as comparedto those that matter least.

18. Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will notdrain your valuable energy with complaining and uninspiring attitudes. By developingrelationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the bestthat life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatevermountain you seek to climb.

19. Stephen Hawking, one of the great modern physicists of the world, is reported to havesaid that we are on a minor planet of a very average star located within the outer limits ofone of a hundred thousand million galaxies. Are your problems really significant in lightof this? You walk this Earth for but a short time. Why not become devoted to having onlya wonderful experience. Why not dedicate yourself to leaving a powerful legacy to theworld? Sit down now and write out a list of all that you have in your life. Start first withyour health or your family - the things we often take for granted. Put down the countrywe live in and the food we eat. Do not stop until you have written down fifty items. Onceevery few days, go through this list - you will be uplifted and recognize the richness ofyour existence.

20. You must have a mission statement in life. This is simply a set of guiding principleswhich clearly state where you are going and where you want to be at the end of your life.A mission statement embodies your values. It is your personal lighthouse keeping yousteadily on the course of your dreams. Over a period of one month, set a few hours asideto write down five or ten principles which will govern your life and which will keep youfocused at all times. Examples might be to consistently serve others, to be a consideratecitizen, to become highly wealthy or to serve as a powerful leader. Whatever the missionstatement of your life, refine it and review it regularly. Then when something adversehappens or someone tries to pull you off course, you quickly and precisely return to yourchosen path with the full knowledge that you are moving in the direction that you haveselected.

21. No one can insult or hurt you without your permission. One of the golden keys tohappiness and great success is the way you interpret events which unfold before you.Highly successful people are master interpreters. People who have attained greatnesshave an ability which they have developed to interpret negative or disempowering eventsas positive challenges which will assist them in growing and moving even farther up theladder of success. There are no negative experiences only experiences which aid in yourdevelopment and toughen your character so that you may soar to new heights. There areno failures, only lessons.

22. Take a speed reading course. Reading is a powerful way to gain many years ofexperience from a few hours of study. For example, most biographies reflect thestrategies and philosophies of great leaders or courageous individuals. Read them andmodel them. Speed reading will allow you to digest large quantities of material inrelatively small periods of time.

23. Remember people's names and treat everyone well. This habit, along with enthusiasm, isone of the great success secrets. Everyone in this world wears an imaginary button thatscreams out "I WANT TO FEEL IMPORTANT AND APPRECIATED!".

24. Be soft as a flower when it comes to kindness but tough as thunder when it comes toprinciple. Be courteous and polite at all times but never be pushed around. Ensure thatyou are always treated with respect.

25. Never discuss your health, wealth and other personal matters with anyone outside of yourimmediate family. Be very disciplined in this regard.

26. Be truthful, patient, persevering, modest and generous.

27. Soak in a warm bath at the end of a long, productive day. Reward yourself for even thesmallest of achievement. Take time out for renewal of your mind, body and spirit. Soonall your more important goals will be met and you will move to the next level of peakperformance.

28. Learn the power of breathing and its relationship with your energy source. The mind isintimately connected with your breathing. For example, when the mind is agitated, yourbreathing becomes quick and shallow. When you are relaxed and focused, your breathingis deep and calm. By practising deep, abdominal breathing, you will develop a calm,serene demeanor that will remain cool in the hottest of circumstances. Remember therule of the Eastern mountain men: "to breathe properly is to live properly."

29. Recognize and cultivate the power of autosuggestion. It works and is an essential tool inmaintaining peak performance. We are all performers in one way or another and it isparticularly valuable to use such techniques of athletes and public figures for our ownenhancement. If you want to become more enthusiastic, repeat "I am more enthusiastictoday and am improving this trait daily". Repeat it over and over. Purchase a legalnotepad and write out this mantra 500 times. Do it for three weeks with regular practiceand feel that this quality is developing. Very soon it will come. This is a strategy thatIndian sages have employed for thousands of years to aid their spiritual and mentaldevelopment. Do not be discouraged if the results are not immediate, they will certainlydevelop. The spoken word is a powerful influencer of the mind.

30. Maintain a diary to measure your progress and to express your thoughts. Writing out notonly your successes but your troubles is one of the world's most effective methods oferasing the worry habit, staying in optimum state and developing precision of thought.

31. Stress is simply a response which you create in the interpretation of an event. Two peoplemight find that a given event results in quite different responses. For example, an afterdinner speech might strike fear into the heart of an inexperienced speaker while a strongorator views it as a wonderful opportunity to share his thoughts. Understanding that theperceived negative effects of an event or task may be mentally manipulated andconditioned towards the positive, will allow you to be a peak performer in all instances.

32. Read "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. It contains awealth of wisdom and powerful insights into further developing your character andenhancing your personal relationships.

33. Become a committed audio-tape user. Most personal-mastery programs and books arenow offered in this format. Listen to these inspirational materials on your way to work,whilst waiting in the line at a bank or while you wash dishes in the evening. Make yourcar a college on wheels and use the drive time to make knowledge your best friend. Alldown time can be very effectively used in this productive fashion. Use such opportunitiesto learn and continually expand your mind and its vast potential.

34. Try fasting one day every two weeks. During these fast days, drink fruit juice and eatfresh fruits only. You will feel more energetic, cleansed and alert. Fasting also has asalutary effect on your will-power as you are subverting the otherwise pressing impulsesin your mind calling on you to eat more.

35. Keep a radio-cassette player at your office and listen to soft, soothing music throughout the day. Place pleasant scents and inspirational pictures in your workplace. By the magic of association, your work will become something you enjoy even more and arouse a very pleasant feeling within you. Budget your time on trips such that you can spend half an hour in the airport bookstore. They always contain the latest and best self-mastery books and tapes given that those who travel by air are of a group that finds value in these materials.

36. Read "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen. And don't just read this little book once, read it over and over again. It contains an abundance of timeless wisdom on living a fuller and happier life.

37. Remember that forgiveness is a virtue that few develop, but one that is most important to maintaining peace of mind. Mark Twain wrote that forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Practice forgiveness especially in those situations where it is seemingly difficult. By using your emotional forgiveness muscles more regularly, petty wrongs, remarks and slights will not touch you and nothing will penetrate your concentrated, serene mindset.

38. Empty your cup. A full cup cannot accept anything more. Similarly, a person who believes that he cannot learn anything else will stagnate quickly and not move to higher levels. A true sign of a secure, mature individual is someone who sees every opportunity as a chance to learn. Even the teachers have teachers.

39. The Two Minute Mind is an excellent exercise for developing concentration. Simply stare at the second hand on your wristwatch for two minutes and think about nothing else for that time. At first your mind will wander but after 21 days of practice, your attention will not waver during the routine. One of the greatest qualities a person can develop to ensure his success is the ability to focus for extended periods of time. Learn to build up your concentration muscles and no task will be too difficult for you.

40. Drink a cup of warm water before a speech. Ronald Reagan employed this strategy to ensure that he maintained his honey-smooth voice. Mastery of the art of public speaking is a noble goal. So dedicate yourself to it. You will be judged by the calibre of your communication skills.

41. When you stand and meet someone, stand firm and steadfast. A telling sign of an unfocused, weak mind is constant fidgeting, shifting of the eyes and shallow breathing.

42. Act tough and you will be tough. Have courage and inspire others with your actions. But always be considerate.

43. Ask not what this world can do for you but, rather, what you can do for this world. Make service an important goal in your life. It is a most fulfilling investment of time.Remember, in the twilight of your life, when all is said and done, the quality of your life boils down to the quality of your contribution to others. Leave a rich legacy for thosearound you to savour.

44. Once a week, arise at dawn. It is a magical time of day. Be still, go for a walk or simplylisten to an old Ella Fitzgerald recording. Take a long, hot shower and do 100 pushups.Read one of the classics. You will feel alive and invigorated.

45. Remain slightly aloof. Do not let everyone know everything about you. Cultivate amystique.

46. Master the art of public speaking. There are few natural speakers. One great trial lawyerstammered dreadfully but through courage and strength of conviction, he developed intoa brilliant orator. Role model anyone you think is a highly effective, influentialcommunicator. Visualize a picture of this person. Stand like him, smile like him, and talklike him. The results will startle you.

47. Seek out motivational speakers committed to character training and lifelong success.Make it a point to attend inspirational lectures each month to consistently renew theimportance of personal growth in your mind. In a two hour seminar, you can learnpowerful techniques and strategies that others have spent many years learning andrefining. Never feel that you have no time for gathering new ideas, you are investing inyourself.

48. Read the wonderful book "Discovering Happiness" by Dennis Wholey. It will certainlyopen up new horizons for you in your quest for an optimal state of health and happiness.

49. To enhance your concentration, read a passage in a book you have never explored. Thentry to recite it verbatim. Practice this for only 5 minutes a day and enjoy the results whichfollow after a few months of effort.

50. Try entering a 5 km running race and then a 10 km event. The adrenaline that flows fromthe experience of racing with several hundred other fitness-minded people is exhilarating.By constantly pushing the envelope of your capacity, your potential will quickly unfold.Remember, the body will give you only what you ask of it.

51. Aromas have been proven to be an effective means of entering a state of relaxation.Scents have a very noticeable effect on your mindset and moods. Purchase the essentialoils of orange and clove bud from your local health food shop. Put a few drops of eitheroil within a cup of boiling water and inhale the sweet smelling steam for a few minutes.Then let the mixture sit in the room where you are resting. You will gain a sense of peaceand serenity. A little apple spice in the air has recently been shown to induce a far morerestful sleep.

52. Cultivate the art of walking half an hour after you have finished eating your eveningmeal. Walks in natural settings are the very best. Walking is, perhaps, nature's idealexercise. And when you walk, do not think about work or about the bills or about thechallenges you might be facing - this will neutralize many of the benefits. Simply enjoythe walk. Notice the richness of your surroundings. Let your senses drink in the beauty ofnature and the crispness of the air for a change. So many people who have mastered theart of growing younger have also mastered the habit of a daily walk.

53. Start a program of weight lifting at the gym. Strong people are mentally tough people. Asyou age, you need not lose your physical nor your mental strength. 75 year-old men arerunning marathons, 80 year-old women have scaled mountains and 90 year-oldgrandparents are living rich, productive lives. Whether you are 19 or 93, stay fit, staymotivated and stay passionate about life.

54. Never argue with the person you work for - you will lose more than just the argument.

55. In terms of business attire, dark suits (navy blue and charcoal grey) reflect power,sophistication and authority. Have you ever seen a prime minister or president in a tansuit?

56. Regularly send handwritten notes to your business clients and your other relations tostrengthen the bond. Develop a system which reminds you to send something valuable tothis network at least once every four months. Send them postcards when you are away onvacation. If you have to buy a few hundred postcards and spend an hour writing, don'tworry. This is an exceptionally good investment of your time. Another idea is to send arecent article of interest to your contacts with a handwritten note saying that you thoughtthis would interest them and that you continue to value their friendship. Relationshipbuilding should always be a central focus whether you are a CEO, a student, asalesperson or a parent.

57. Two of the fundamentals for a happy, joyful life are balance and moderation. One mustmaintain a balance of all activities and do nothing to extremes.

58. Drink Jasmine tea which can be obtained from any Chinese herbal shop. It is excellent foryour general health and is very relaxing. Also try placing a few slices of fresh ginger in acup of hot water for a superb tea that will restore vitality and keep you in a peak physicalcondition.

59. Remember that effective time management makes you more rather than less flexible. Itallows you to do the things that you really want to do rather than the things you reallyhave to do.

60. Do not take personal development books as gospel. Read them and take whatever usefulideas you need. Some people feel they must do everything suggested and take thetechniques to extremes. Every book has at least one tool or strategy of benefit. Take whatyou need and what works for you and discard what doesn't suit you.

61. Become an adventurer. Revitalize your spirit and sense of playfulness. Become a kidagain. Once every few months, plan to enjoy a new, thrilling activity such as white waterrafting, scuba diving, windsurfing, rockclimbing, joining a martial arts club, sailing, deepsea fishing or camping. This will keep your life in perspective, bring you closer to thoseyou share the activity with and keep you feeling invigorated and young.

62. Spend time with Nature. Natural settings have a powerful effect on your senses which inturn will lead to a sense of renewal, refreshment and peacefulness. Peak performersthrough the ages have understood the importance of getting back to Nature. Start campingor simply taking quiet walks in the forest. Rest by a sparkling stream. Cultivate your ownlittle garden which will serve as your personal oasis in the middle of a crowded city. Bycultivating a friendship with Nature, you will quickly find more serenity, contentmentand richness in your life.

63. Recall the wise saying "mens sana in corpore sano" which means in a sound body rests asound mind. Never neglect the body which is intimately connected to the mind. This isyour temple. Feed it the finest fuels, exercise daily and care for it as you would yourprized possession - because it is.

64. Be so strong that nothing interferes with your peace of mind. A well-known boxer wasonce unhappy. When asked why, he said that he had allowed himself to think a negativethought. Curb your desires and stay centered and focused - it gets easier with practice.You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.

65. Do not eat three hours before sleep. This allows for smoother digestion and a more restfulsleep. For deeper, more renewing sleep, remember that a daily dose of exercise promotesgood sleep as does a period of relaxation an hour before bed. Also do not bring work tobed with you or think about anything which might agitate you. Ease yourself into sleeplike a baby being sung a soft, soothing lullaby. And finally, as Leonardo da Vinci said: "awell-spent day brings happy sleep."

66. Be careful about your reputation. If it is good it will take you to the highest of heights.But once tarnished, it will be difficult to retrieve. Always reflect on your course of action.Never do anything you wouldn't be proud to tell your mother about. Have fun always buttemper it with common sense and prudence.

67. Find mentors to model who will guide you in your progress. The mistakes of the worldhave all been made once before - why shouldn't you have the benefit of the experience ofothers? Find someone who has both courage and consideration for others, someone whois therefore mature. Your mentor must have only your best interests in mind and shouldbe sufficiently senior to offer you good guidance on the subjects you seek assistancewith. Everyone needs to feel appreciated and even the busiest of executives will find timeto assist a person who respects them and values their advice.

68. Make a list of all your weaknesses. A truly confident and enlightened person will note aweakness and seek to methodically improve. Bear in mind that even the greatest and mostpowerful people have weaknesses. Some are better than others in hiding them. On theother hand, get to know your best qualities and cultivate them.

69. Never complain. Be known as a positive, strong, energetic and enthusiastic person.Someone who complains, is cynical and always looks for the negative in everything, willscare people away and rarely will succeed at anything. From a purely psychologicalviewpoint, things are always created twice: once in the mind and then in reality. Focus onthe positive. Be so mentally tough that nothing takes you off your planned course tosuccess. Visualize and firmly believe in what you want. It will most certainly come true.

70. Overlook the weaknesses of your friends. If you look for flaws you will most surely findthem. Be mature enough to ignore the petty failings of others and see the good that eachone inherently possesses. We can learn from everyone. Everyone has a story to tell, ajoke to share and a lesson to learn. Open your mind to this and you will learn atremendous amount. Friends are so very important to a happy existence - especially thosewho have shared many experiences and laughs with you. Work hard to make friendships,and all your relationships for that matter, stronger and richer. Call your friends, buy themsmall gifts of books or other items you believe they might enjoy. The "law of the farm"applies to relationships as well as to the rest of life - you reap what you sow and to havegreat friends you must first be one.

71. Be kind, considerate and courteous. But also be shrewd and know when to be tough andcourageous. This is the mark of a well-defined character and you will surely commandrespect. It is most useful to read books on friendliness and enhancing relationships bybeing a good listener, showing others sincere appreciation and refining other interpersonalskills. But, to truly succeed, one must also recognize that worldly wisdom andshrewdness are essential skills to foster. Become an expert in human psychology and beable to read the essence of people. Never be taken advantage of and be aware of thepolitics around you. Stay above petty gossiping and office politics but appreciate thatthey indeed exist and know what goes on behind your back. Every great leader does.

72. Create your image as a highly competent, strong, disciplined, calm and decent individual.Find that crucial balance between working on the image that you project to the rest of theworld and your inner character. Create a sense of mystery about yourself as the truly wisenever show their hand. Do not tell everyone everything about yourself, your strategiesand your aspirations. The successful citizens of this world think thrice before they speakbecause a word uttered can never be retrieved. Make things look easy and people will sayyou are naturally gifted. Speak only good things and people will flock to you. Neverspeak ill of others and all will know you will not malign them behind their backs. Buildyour character and live a highly principled life.

73. Familiarity breeds contempt is a very good rule. The stars remain far above the Earth.You must keep a distance from all but your closest of relations. Once people seeeverything of a leader he loses his aura and with it the authority and mystique he mayhave created. For example, Ronald Reagan was known to many as an excellent leader. Hecarefully cultivated his image of a folksy, considerate politician who kept the interests ofthe United States first and foremost in his mind. At gatherings of world leaders, hecommanded attention and respect in his dark suits, surrounded by the trappings of powersuch as political aides, security officers and a convoy of limousines. As soon as heappeared, thoughts of authority and power came to our minds. Did you ever see thePresident with his shirt off swimming at his pool? How about in his dressing gown afterwaking up after one of his long sleeps, hair tousled and beard grown? Reagan's handlersnever allowed such glimpses because they detract from the perception of authority. TheAmerican nation was not exposed to these sights. In the Clinton Era things changed andyou saw the President eating Big Macs and wearing baseball caps with a full businesssuit. Whilst these scenes may be endearing to the public, there is little doubt thatPresident Clinton was more familiar to us, merely another one of us and, unlike the starsabove, much closer to the ground.

74. Learn to organize your time. It is incorrect to say that by becoming a meticulous timemanager and living by a carefully defined schedule you become rigid and nonspontaneous.Rather, proper organization allows one to accomplish those goals which aretruly important as well as enjoy leisure time. Good time management offers more timefor fun and relaxation - not less. These important periods are scheduled into the week justlike other commitments which may appear more pressing. Neither are sacrificed. Also,discipline yourself and stop wasting time on all those immediate and pressing butunimportant tasks (i.e., the ringing phones) and concentrate on the activities that are trulymeaningful to your life's mission. Such activities include time for self-renewal andreflection, time forging relationships built on trust and mutual respect, time for physicalfitness, time to read and think deeply and time serving others in your community.

75. Keep well-informed about current events, the latest books and popular trends. Many peakperformers read five or six papers a day. You don't have to read every story of everypaper. Know what to focus on, what to pass by and what to clip out and read at anothertime (many successful people scan scores of magazines and papers, clipping out articlesof interest; these articles go into a file folder which can be read in your down time).Knowledge is power. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a corporate leader or someoneleading a family, you can profoundly change your life and the lives of those around youwith a single idea. Just ask Gates, Edison and Bell.

76. When choosing your life partner, remember that this is the most important decision ofyour lifetime. The marriage relationship offers 90% of all your support, happiness andfulfillment so choose it wisely. Consider qualities such as affection, sense of humor,intelligence, integrity, maturity, temperament, compatibility and that indescribablecharacteristic of chemistry. If these are present, your relationship stands an excellentchance of great success. Move slowly and let no one press you into an uncomfortabledecision.

77. Never discuss your personal development activities with anyone. Your strategies forexpanding your mind and spirit are your own. Others might not understand the value ofpersonal-mastery and, further, will take away your credit when you meet with success bysaying that you relied on techniques. Keep these self-development activities to yourself.

78. Schedule relaxation time into your week and be ruthless in protecting it. You would notschedule another activity into the time planned for an important meeting with thepresident of your company or your best client so why would you put off a period to investin yourself? We must have time for ourselves to reflect, unwind and recharge ourbatteries. These are the renewal activities that allow us to maintain peak performance andare exceptionally valuable periods.

79. 83% of our sensory input comes from our eyes. To truly concentrate on something, shutyour eyes and you will remove much distraction.

80. Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.

81. Develop the wonderful habit of a daily swim. It will promote excellent health, keep yourelaxed and concentrated, lean and trim. Swimming is not stressful on the body, providesa great workout for the lungs and requires little time to do effectively. Remember that ina fit body resides a fit mind.

82. People who are doing good today are ensuring their happiness for tomorrow.

83. The key to successful time management is doing what you planned to do when youplanned to do it. Keep your mind fully on the task at hand. Only then will you achieve allyour goals and have time for the things that matter most. Although it is imperative to beflexible (a bow too tightly strung will soon break), following your planned schedulerequires no more than simple discipline.

84. An excellent visualization technique: if you are worrying about something, picture thewords of your worry on a piece of paper. Now ignite a match to the paper and watch theworry dissipate into flames. Bruce Lee, the great martial arts master employed thismental control device regularly.

85. Compartmentalize your worry. Set aside a certain amount of time to ponder over aproblem and map out an effective plan of attack and your options. Once this is done, havethe mental fortitude not to come back to the problem and go over it again and again. Thehuman mind is a strange creature - things we want to forget keep coming back and thosethings we want to remember are not there when we want them. But the mind is similar toa muscle and the more you flex it the stronger it will become. Make it your servant. Feedit only the best nutrition and information. It will serve you well and perform magic if youbelieve in it.

86. Peak performers are physically relaxed and mentally engaged.

87. To be at your performance peak mentally, your body must be loose physically andrelaxed. It is now beyond dispute that there is a mind-body connection and when the bodyis supple, free from tension, the mind is clear, calm and focused as well. This is why yogais such a beneficial activity. It keeps the body relaxed so that the mind can follow. Basicstretching for 15 minutes a day is also an excellent way to release tension that builds upas a result of our life in this highly complex and fast moving, but wonderful world. Tryhaving a massage or power lounging in a Jacuzzi. Relax the body and you relax the mind.

88. Prepare a detailed financial plan for the next few years and follow it. Seek out financialadvice if you need it. A powerful strategy for financial mastery is also a simple one: save10% of all you make for long-term growth (take this off the pay cheque before you havea chance to spend it). If you can invest $200 a month for the next 30 years at an annualreturn rate of 15%, you will end up with $1.4 million dollars. Being wise with yourmoney is one of the very best investments to make. Financial security leads to personalfreedom.

89. Readers are leaders. U.S. President Bill Clinton read more than 300 books during hisshort time at Oxford University. Some top performers read a book a day. Seek outknowledge and information. We have truly entered the age of massive information andthose who are proactive can use this to their advantage. The more you know, the less youfear.

90. Get into the excellent habit of reading something positive and inspirational before you goto bed and as soon as you awake in the morning. You will soon note the benefits as thesethoughts will be supporting you throughout the day.

91. Make it one of your goals to develop a dynamic, charismatic personality. Such a qualityis something each one of us has the potential to develop but few do. President Kennedywas a sickly youth but rose above his physical problems to be the most charismatic andexciting political figure in the history of the United States. Start off small. Take a DaleCarnegie course on public speaking. Go to the library where you will find books on thefine art of conversation and personal grooming. Learn three clean and witty jokes and getin the habit of socializing. You will have fun and build a lasting network of friends andassociates.

92. On the subject of conversation, a Chinese proverb states as follows: "a singleconversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books." Seekout the wise and learn from them. They are just waiting for that small spark of interest totell you all that you need to know.

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11.Shake off the Grind Shake off the Grid and Begin to thrive was made by Joe Wilner with the mission of empowering people to take leaps of faith, build confidence, and discover their full potential

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42.Self Help Zone A large, well organized website, The Self Help Zone has a vast array of resources to help someone get their life back on track or simply on track for the first time.

43.Remodeling This Life Emily writes the Remodeling This Life blog. A blog about simplifying your life and living a life with more frugality and being more content with what you have. Simplify, Simplify.

44.Cynthia Occelli LIFE. That is the name of Cynthia Occellis blog, that tells us that life is not for the faint of heart. It is about living and following your own path to greatness.

45. Love Your Flawz Their only mission atLove Your Flawzis to help everyone learn to love & embrace their flaws Imperfect is the new perfect! Check out their inspirations, helpful stuff, videos and community pages!

46. Life Coach on the Go Emma-Louise advanced from successful corporate employee to successful business owner and from complaining about her situation to taking personal responsibility and doing something about it. She shines as a Certified Life Coach, and her blog is an expansive resource of wisdom and tips for anyone interested in self-development.

47. Ariannas Random Thoughts Arianna believes that the art of storytelling is a compelling way to pass along knowledge. She writes on how to overcome obstacles during our life journey and how important it is to support each other through the process.

48. Marias Kokoro Marina grew up a Russian-Ukrainian immigrant in Boston and later travelled the world. Currently located in Japan, she coaches around rebuilding confidence muscles around food and learning to trust your instincts though a small non-profit and private wellness center running out of the heart of Tokyo.

49. Superhero Journal with Andrea Scher Andrea Schers tagline at the Superhero Journal is No Capes, Just Courage. Her beautiful work is all about helping you finding power in your vulnerability, the place where uncertainty and hopeful hearts collide. She offers workshops and classes, books and daily inspirations. Try downloading the free Superhero Manifesto to brighten your day.

50. Medical Marzipan with Mara Glatzel Mara Glatzel, a self-love coach, is out to share an amazing and powerful message: Deep down, we are much more powerful than we are able to believe. Her work focuses on supporting others in enhancing their creativity, body loving awareness, and authentic living as they begin to re-author the rules of their lives, and create something beautiful and unique in life.

51. Roots of She Roots of She is a collection of true stories & tender wisdom for women, by women. Its also a digital portal for divine self-discovery with free tools, seasonal e-courses, meditation kits & private coaching for women who want to live simply, and simply live. Creator Jenn Gibson writes, teaches & coaches by a simple credo: no matter what youre facing, you are not alone. 52. Blog of Tim Ferris Tim Ferris is well known for his insanely productive experiments in lifestyle design, as well as his bestselling books The 4-Hour Work Week and The 4-Hour Body. His blog covers a range of topics for folks looking to improve their business and health.

53. Paid to Exist Jonathan Mead writes Paid to Exist, a very stylish blog offering insights and advice on how to get paid to be you. This is useful for anyone ready to live and work on their own terms by removing the separation between what they get paid to do and what they love to do.

54. Exile Lifestyle Colin Wright is as a full-time traveler on the Exile Lifestyle. He writes about all-things human as he learns while he travels. Hes dedicated to concepts of design, creativity, and minimalism.

55. Karen Salmansohn Karen Salmansohn writes self-help for people who wouldnt be caught dead doing self-help. Her blog is full of vibrant images that offer inspirational quotes and ideas leading to the ultimate, powerful personal mantra: Be Happy, Dammit! (Just so happens to be the title of one of her books too)

56. Christine Kane Christine Kane, a former singer-songwriter specializes in mentoring women and is the president and founder of a company committed to the empowerment of entrepreneurs. She writes about conscious living.

57. Unclutterer This blog is about getting and staying organized. It helps readers clear the clutter from their lives: A place for everything, and everything in its place is our gospel.

58. The Bridge Maker The BridgeMaker connects those looking to celebrate personal change, be it in their faith, work or daily lives. Written by Alex Blackwell, it keeps focused on inspirations, forgiveness and appreciating every moment.

59. Good Clean Love Written by Good-Clean-Loves founder, Wendy Strgar, this blog is all about making our intimate relationships sustainable, learning how to communicate, negotiate and master shared difficulties and challenges and learning the art of love.

60. Project Happily Every After Alisa Bowman writes about happiness, balance, spirituality, and parenthood in an effort to create a community and soul sounding board. She began with the intention that she didnt want others to feel alone and despairing when it comes to navigating difficult relationships.

61. The Daily Good The Daily Good gathers positive and uplifting news from around the world. Their philosophy is quite simple: Be the change that you wish to see in the world. The entire project is fully run by dedicated volunteers who contribute hundreds of hours finding the right stories and quotes to brighten your day.

62.Play With the World Shannon Kaiser invites you to go on a Therapeutic Adventure for the Soul. She is the author ofFind Your Happy, an Inspirational Guide to Loving Life to Its Fullest.Shes on a mission to help others find peace and fulfillment by being themselves.

63. Gala Darling This place gets a lot of traffic and no wonder, its underlying mission is The Radical Self Love Project. Believe it or not, Gala Darling started as a fashion blog and over-time has evolved into an encouraging space for women to fall in love with themselves.

64. On Being On Being is an inspirational in-depth conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas related to the public radio project delving into the human side of the news. The blog is full of photos, quotes, stories, and the occasional video to put life into perspective.

65. Life By Me This is a collaborative space intent on asking the question What is most meaningful to you? The answers change every day. They connect with world leaders, moms, Nobel Peace Prize recipients, fishermen, teenagers, designers, prison inmates, media moguls and you.

66. 365 til 30 Kate McClafferty started this site as a place to document the goals she wanted to accomplish in the year leading up to her 30th birthday. Going from Cant to Can in every aspect. In creating the site, she created a space for encouraging others to turn their dreams into plans.

67. Manifest Station Yoga The Manifest Station asks you to consider what youre manifesting. The creator, Jennifer Pastiloff, takes a yogic bent in encouraging others to seriously grow in life, but also remembering not to take life too seriously.

68. Tiffany Han Coaching Tiffany Han is a life and business coach for people seeking to live more creatively. Her blog helps readers explore their creativity, and provides inspiration for anyone looking to enjoy their best life.

69. Matthew Ferry The work of Matthew Ferry focuses on helping people shift their mindset in order to obtain their goals. His posts, which include both written video posts, aim to inspire action and encourage happiness and success.

70. A Daring Adventure Tim Brownson is a life coach, specializing in helping people get unstuck. His blog is frequently updated with useful and realistic hints for enjoying life to support the discovery of your personal calling.

71. Kinfolk Magazine If you havent heard about this new movement about gatherings, and sharing food and life, please consider this your invitation. A growing community of artists produces this great, this quarterly print and tablet entertaining publication, with a shared interest in small gatherings. A true source of inspiration! Start your own gathering.

72. Personal Development with Fred Tracy Fred Tracy writes to help people live better lives and also to create opportunities to learn from others. His blog is full of self-help tips that cover everything from how to meditate to how to obtain financial freedom.73. A Flourishing Life: Practical Wisdom for Clarity, Freedom & Happiness Psychotherapist Gail Brenner, shares her ideas for creating a life of inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment. There are many resources here for your inspiration, including the blog, guided audio meditations, and a Q+A section. 74. The Daily Awe Lindsay Curtis, a spiritual intuitive, empath, and Reiki practitioner living in Toronto, is the author on the Daily Awe. Her posts are rich with content and often end with questions to encourage reflection and further personal exploration, in the art of intuitive guidance for everyday life. 75. Reflecting a Life Reflecting on Life shares important life lessons through motivation and encouragement to help you create the life you want. Where to begin? Elle says its as simple as answering a single question.

76. Penelope Trunk Penelope Trunk has co-founded three start-ups, one of which is the very popular Brazen Careerist. She writes on this blog about finding your dream career, being productive, relationships, homeschooling, and living on a farm in Wisconsin.

77. Advanced Riskology: Better Living Through Uncertainty This blog is the mind-child of Tyler Vooren, and encourages its readers to embrace the unknown. Advanced Riskology supports you to do things outside of your comfort zones in order to discover the opportunity to learn, grow, and enjoy life success.

78. Expert Enough: Just Enough to Be Dangerous Expert Enough is for readers who want to collect endeavors and life skills. They believe that we are all capable of so much more than we think and they want to support you in digging in deep and manifesting your expertise. The work here covers how-to tips on a variety of topics including, technology, media, psychology, fitness, and food.

79. Dragos Roua Dragos Roua writes about his past, present and future, which includes a lot of living through crossroads and a few mistakes. His posts encourage self-reflection and he conveys this by weaving in stories about being a father, runner, entrepreneur, and a self-proclaimed personal development fanatic. 80. Simple Mindfulness The premise of this blog explains that by making simple changes and taking mindful steps, we can all live happier and more fulfilling lives. Paige Burkes created this space to support others working towards healthy relationships, self-love, and full acceptance.

81. Make it Happen Arvind Devalia is commited to helping his blog readers discover their deepest purpose. His writings urge people to go deep to improve their own lives, as well as to make the world a better place.

82. Anne-Sophie Anne-Sophie writes to help others experience true self-love and body-love. She has an amazing and compelling story. The posts on her blog promote realizing your own self-worth, building self-confidence, and believing in your own unique path. 83. 30 Year Old Ninja This blog is written by Izzy: a man who quit his job, moved to Japan, and started following his own dream to become a real, live, modern-day ninja. Izzys posts are all dedicated to encouraging and inspiring others to live their own dreams. Make sure to check out his TEDx Talk.

84. Jamie | Living Jamie Greenwood, CHHC, AADP is the Founder of JamieLiving, Food, Body & Lifestyle Coaching that offers private and corporate nutrition coaching nationwide. She is the author two e-cookbooks including How to Savor the Holidays While Saving Your Waistline and You Sanity and is a frequent food & body expert on MindBodyGreen. Unravel. Unearth. Unveil the piece of you that has been asking for light. For only in the excavation is their freedom and peace.

85.Deliberate Receiving Learn the Power of Love and search for the answers to true happiness in your life the blog of Melody Fletcher: Deliberate Receiving can provide you with the answers you seek.

86. KateNorthrup.comKate Northrup found that the secret to happy living is freeing yourself financially. She shares what shes learned through the years in her blog and brings great advice to the table.

87. Jon Paul Crimi Jon is a health and fitness coach with 20 years in the field. He says, proper form and taking it slow are two principles that just cant be ignored, and this is from a guy whos learned how to bounce back from injury the hard way. Hes got some great instructional videos as well.

88. Jenn Winiarski Jenn makes her home in British Columbia where she offers a coaching program based on a Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind and Inspired Living concept. Shes trained in mediation and conflict resolution and spent years as an endurance athlete, competing in and finishing some of the toughest adventure races on the planet.

91. Do Something This is a community where young people learn, listen, speak, vote, volunteer, ask, and leverage communications technologies to convert their ideas and energy into positive action. The goal is to inspire, empower and celebrate a generation of doers: teenagers who recognize the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action.

92. Kind Over Matter Amanda runs the show here, a self-professed Kindness Advocate, inspiring others to lead authentic lives doing what they love & by sharing and by giving it a voice. Kind Over Matter is a community of loving souls changing the world & they would love to have you join in on their efforts.

93. The World Needs More Love Letters No matter how tough we act, we all still need a love letter from time to time. Need a profound boost of positive good-feelings? This is a must-visit space, where strangers write love letters to one another and we all get a letter when we need it most.

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Im in a strange place, moving slowly forward with nothing that can be measured an internal advancement, a shedding away of old selves. I am pared down. The story of my leaving still feels like something written in code a code no one could understand on the rational mind level.... [tags: Personal Narrative Writing] 2651 words (7.6 pages) FREE Essays [view] W. Somerset Maugham Explores the Different Meanings of Success in The Razors Edge - In The Razors Edge, W. Somerset Maugham explores the different meanings of success, through the conflicting ideals of his characters. The different interpretations of success are shown prominently through the views of Elliott Templeton and Laurence Darrell. Elliot for most of his life views success as becoming socially eminent and Larry believes success is happiness and the reaching of a state of enlightenment. The epigraph of The Razors Edge, The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard (Katha-Upanishad as cited by Maugham) applies to both Larry and Elliott because both of them had to get over significant hurdles in their views in... [tags: Literary Analysis, Analytical Essay] 1107 words (3.2 pages) Strong Essays [preview] Academic Success and Sports - Vince Lombardi, one of the most successful football coaches of all time, said, The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will. Although Lombardi was primarily speaking about success on the turf, he was also speaking about success in life. Aside from being a phenomenal leader on the field, Lombardi was a leader in all aspects of life and stands as a role model for many young student athletes. 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The law and psychology need to work together to make stricter guidelines to prevent mentally stable people from manipulating the rights we are giving to mentally ill people, also they need to treat mentally ill before crime happens, and lastly, the mentally ill should not be placed into pr... [tags: Health, Mental Illness] 1185 words (3.4 pages) Unrated Essays [preview] The Success of The Simpsons - The Success of The Simpsons In recent years, a certain animated sitcom has caught the publics attention, evoking reactions that are both favourable and unfavourable, but hardly ever apathetic. As a brilliant, socially aware satire, Matt Groenings The Simpsons has effectively stirred different emotions from different factions of the culturally deadened American populace and for this alone, it should be recognised as quality programming. 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