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It's the New Year and this will be the year I will make life interesting. I will also need to make money because an interesting life don't come cheap. Gotta make a lot of cake.

So I was on this mountain a couple of weeks ago. And on this mountain I met a man who is trying to save the world - like literally. Left a great job to do something that will make a difference and clean up the environment and all that jazz. Before that, he use to work for CNN going on secret missions behind enemy lines and so forth. Anyways, this one time he got caught behind said enemy lines and and spent two weeks living off frogs and puddles and I don't know if any of you ever tried doing that, but it's not so much fun, especially when the border is five miles away through minefields. At CNN, they give you a grenade and teach you how to commit suicide should you ever be in danger of being caught since being tortured is something one should try to avoid at any cost. You pull the pin and hold the grenade to your throat and grab the back of your belt with the other and concentrate on the hand grabbing your belt as the natural reaction is to get that grenade as far from your throat as possible. As he was doing that, a breeze of mountain air blew on his face and he thought to himself, "I don't want to die. I'm not a bad guy. Sure, I maybe lied to a few times, but other than that, I'm a pretty nice guy." So he he pointed to a barrier-like form in the land and brought that arm back as his other arm launched the grenade away. He meditated for a few minutes then got up and proceeded to run through the minefield in a zigzag pattern. Keep in mind that these are the kind of mines that shoot up and cut you in half, so step on one and you get very dead. But he ran through it and survived. After months of therapy, he came away with it with this single thought, "Once you have reached your limits, you will discover that you are capable of ten times what you thought you could do."

So no more stressing about making rent or funding projects or even about maintaining a healthy level of cardioascular fitness. That's some easy shit compared to being stuck between eating frogs until capture and subsequent torture, a grenade to the throat, or five miles of land mines.

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