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1. The key to world peace is universal internal happiness.

2. Start with yourself. You can make the world 1/6,000,000,000th happier.

3. When you are happy, you instantly see more happiness around you.

4. Regret takes up more real estate in your brain than anything else. Eliminate regret by saying what you want to say and doing what you want to do.

5. Don't put off a difficult conversation for any reason. It doesn't matter if it happens over the phone or on her birthday or valentines day or right before her parents are coming to town. Just say what you have to say.

6. Difficult conversatons hurt. So does working out. Both will make you stronger, healthier tomorrow.

7. Ask what your now-self is doing for your future-self.

8. Thank your past-self for something that made your now-self happier.

9. Forgive your past-self for making mistakes.

10. Ask your future-self for help setting goals.

11. Make your own peanut butter by putting honey roasted peanuts into a blender. (Stop the blender every once in a while to push the peanuts down into the blades)

12. If there is a god, god doesn't hate the word "if." "If" means that you are thinking. And if you have a brain, that is what god wants you to do.

13. Do unto others as you would be pleasantly surprised to have done unto you.

14. Think about stuff.

15. Don't rush through this moment to get the the next moment. Enjoy this moment first.

16. Things do not bring you joy. You bring joy to things.

17. Remember this and, suddenly, you can enjoy folding laundry as much as watching football. It's weird but it kind of works.

18. Put peanut butter between two cinnamon graham crackers. Dunk it in milk for about four seconds. It is awesome.

19. Keep your cereal bowls in the freezer. It keeps the milk cold until the last bite.

20. Always be the last one to pick up your poker cards. Watch everyone as they pick up theirs.

21. Why don't politicians send out questionaires? How do they know what we want if they haven't asked?

22. Thinly sliced apples are good on sandwiches.

23. Spend 10 quite minutes every morning writing your "to do" list on an index card. You will be a thousand times more productive with your time every day. Index cards are perfect because they are conveniently small--but the heavy stock makes them durable--and easy to find in your pocket.

24. More tomorrow.

25. "Take 5" candy bars are the best candy bars in the history of the planet. The taste cannot be oversold. It is impossible to exaggerate the deliciousness. No flavor combination has ever achieved such perfection. If you don't love it more than anything you have ever eaten ever, you should get a new mouth.

26. Thinking is not limited to the brain. I believe that people actually, literally THINK with their hearts, their guts, their, um, loins. Perhaps most thinking is generated in the brain. But I do not believe that your head has a monopoly on thoughts. At least, that's what my elbow told me. The ancient Egyptians would scoop out the brain before mumification. But they would leave the heart because they believed that the heart was the thought-processing center of the body.

27. Pilot Razor Point pens are the best pens.

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