"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

Anthony Robbins

I like what Robbins' has to say, especially the "have fun, be crazy, and be weird" part. Of course in my case that is not too hard as I have natural tendencies that way. I know we have talked about it before but it is important to understand that if the pursuit of perfection takes the fun out of life it just is not worth doing. My worst days become so much better when I can overwhelm my aches and pains by my foolishness. So come on, quit taking everything so seriously, put on your clown nose and come out and play with me.

I use to get daily e-mail from Marie-Pier Charron, a special lady in Canada that gave me great advice. Here is some of what she once told me:

• Choose and INTEND to enjoy yourself more, then give your resolution concrete anchors (for example, you could wear a colorful ring - symbolically - to remind yourself of your intention. Or another idea is to hang on your wall a picture of a playful dolphin).

• Be proactive! Realize that FUN is an unlimited resource, and you can create as much of it as you want. So make a list of at least 20 activities or experiences that delight you, and incorporate as many of them into your day as possible this week. If you've forgotten what brings you joy, ask yourself "If I was forced to find something I really really enjoy doing, what would it be?" Because in reality, you haven't forgotten anything; you simply haven't let yourself think about it long enough to find an answer. So brainstorm ideas for 15 minutes, and I promise you'll find some great ones (tip: remember what you enjoyed doing when you were a kid...)

• Open your senses! Feel the sun, the rain and the wind on your skin, taste the sweet juice of the apple you're eating, take in the beauty of what surrounds you... Having fun is not only about doing more, but also about living the present moment more intensely, sensuously. Simple things become extraordinary when we SAVOR them. That requires discipline... and that's why your anchors are important.

• The most pleasurable things often are the most accessible (like playing with your kids, for example). That being said, it's great to be creative and find new ways to have fun.

You can take the country road instead of the highway. You can organize thematic evenings with your kids (Hawaiian, Mexican, etc). You can get out of your home office and work outside, on your patio. You can try new activities (different sports, art classes, etc). There are so many possibilities... we just have to think about it (tip: look for tourist information in your area... that'll inspire you)

Imagine what your life will be like when it's filled with your FAVORITE THINGS.

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"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching."

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More that I learned from the movies:

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off -- even while scuba diving.

One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

Stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets.

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment.

The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

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If the shoe fits, get another one just like it!

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"I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

Richard Jennie

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A woman reported the disappearance of her husband to the police.

The officer looked at the guy's photograph, questioned her, and then asked if she wanted to give her husband any message if they found him.

'Yes, please' she replied. 'Tell him Mother didn't come after all.'

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Character is like a fence - it cannot be strengthened by whitewash.

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"The Aging Experience"

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. How old are you? "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half... going on five!

That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. How old are you? "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're 'gonna' be 16!

And then the greatest day of your life... you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony... YOU BECOME 21....YESSSSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Make you sound like bad milk. He TURNED, we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're just a sourpuss.

What's wrong? What's changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the breaks, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, your REACH 50... and your dreams are gone.

But wait, you MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60. You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by- day thing; you HIT Wednesday, you get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. My grandmother won't even buy green bananas! It's an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one!!

And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I was just 92." Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"

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If at first we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Worried that his son was spending too much money on dates, a Father asked the boy how much his last date had cost.

The son calculated a minute then replied, "Oh, about $15 or so I think."

"Well," said the Father, "I'm proud of you for finally coming up with an inexpensive evening."

"To be honest Dad," the son went on, "we'd have done more, but that was all the money she had."

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"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

Emma Goldman

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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