2. Aim for being imperfect. You'll probably succeed. And success is good for you.
3. Make rules and then use your head, listen to your heart and if your rules don’t apply any more, toss them. When you’re making new ones, use your head, listen to your heart.
4. If you’re going to speculate on the future, make sure your speculations make you happy and optimistic about life and you and everything. If they don’t, find something else to do other than speculating. (Hint, see 7, 11, 12…)
5. Avoid smugly spiritual people. In fact, avoid smugly anything people.
6. People who believe they’re better than you usually have a tremendous skill you don’t have – bullshitting themselves.
7. Snuggle up as often as you can to a furry animal that loves you and wants to be snuggled up to.
8. The word anal sounds horrible because it is horrible. When you see it disguising itself as a human, run as fast and as far as you can.
9. Do something new for God’s sake. And yours.
10. Bored is angry.
11. Let yourself fall in love once in a while. And have sex. Sex is good for you. At least I think that’s what somebody said to me once.
12. Eat dark chocolate more than once in a while. Especially if the sex thing isn’t happening. Mind you, if that’s the case, there’s always the other option… Have the chocolate afterwards. Or before. Or during.
13. If you want a face lift, to hell with all the smugs who say you should learn to love yourself for who you are.
14. If you want something you can’t afford, find a way. Try to stop short of robbing a bank but if you must, then be Hollywood about it and don’t get caught. Hey, you can even write the book or the screenplay and sell it to George Clooney. If you don't know how to write, here's my number...
15. Get the heck out of whatever one horse town you inhabit in some part of you. Jump on that one horse before somebody else does and ride on out of town.
16. This whole business of worshipping at the altar of balance is getting out of hand. Go on, take a risk; get unbalanced now and then.
17. Which would you rather have on your tombstone: “she was always soooo nice to everybody” or “damn bitch drove me crazy sometimes”.
18. If there’s something you don’t like about yourself find a way to change it. If you don’t want to be bothered… Oh. I got nothing for you then.
19. If somebody bullies you, clock them.
20. Too much insurance = not enough living. It's a proven mathematical formula discovered in the tombful depths of some Egyptian queen or other. Or was it Euclid? Darwin? Well, whether they said it or not, I just did.
21. If you're feeling blue be kind to yourself. Whatever you do, lecturing yourself into a false state of blissful happiness is neither listening to your heart nor using your head. Blue is blue. Better to cry and have somebody hold you or snuggle up to a furry animal that likes it and loves you. Pretty soon you won't be feeling blue any more.
22. Take up the hula hoop.
23. It’s much more fun to be sassy than overly well-mannered. On the note of fun, have some. Have a lot. Throw balance right out of the window on this one.