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	Three New Age Authors converge on the science of getting rich We try out Rebecca Fine's Science of Getting Rich for Practical Geniuses, as well as a few other early 1900s New Thinkers who wrote prosperity books for the masses.
	The fundamentals of organizing anything in three steps Too disorganized to start to organize your organizing effort? Hey, Rome wasn't organized in a day. You just need to get started with a really simple non-method starring our friend the Big Stupid Box.
	REEELAAAAAX... Bradley Thompson's instant hypnosis audios reviewed Can store-bought hypnosis bring enlightenment, change my eye color and enlarge my favorite body parts? I put my faith and $13 on the line to find my Life's Purpose through Instant Hypnosis. Here are the results of my experiment, with some surprising by-catch involving tinkertoys, hubs and sticks, and a freak show in Myrtle beach.
	basics to Learning watercolor for free - Be Arthouse Cool for Pennies A small watercolor paintbox and some paper are easy to carry anywhere, and painting feeds the mind and soul like nothing else. Here's how to gear up for a few bucks and learn this beautiful and impressive skill for free.
	Finding the good bits in Julia Cameron's Artist's Way products Popular self-help author Julia Cameron is a little underappreciated around here in the Land of Let's Get On With It Already. Here's how I got past my exasperation and found value in her "The Artist's Way" teachings, and not through her books.
	10,000 hours or 100 set-ups - how to get really good at anything as taught by Ansel Adams Malcolm Gladwell beautifully illustrated the profound effect of 10,000 hours of practise on perfection of a skill in his fascinating book Outliers, which is a lot of time if you're in a hurry. Here is a jump-start version of How to Get Good in One Hundred Set-ups.
	a remedy for nettle stings is right under that bush Not every cloud has a silver lining but the antidote is often found near the poison.

Cliff's Notes on Prosperity - Make space, Circulate.

The past couple months I've done some things that have been a long time coming. I gave away, literally, my last dollar, most of my clothes, and I fired my only good client. Fast on the heels of these seemingly stupid moves came new work and compensatory chunks of money that came from sources I never expected.Perfect items of clothing sat waiting for me on a department store sale rack. They never would have had the room to enter my life if I hadn't made space for them, of this I am sure.

Call it Karma, Law of Attraction, whatever you want. Ignore the buzzwords and spiritual fads of the day; it still works, just like gravity still works even if you don't believe in it. Many people learn about titheing in church, but it works at a really universal level - giving away something you want more of (love, money, opportunity) will bring you more of the same. Sometimes it's really quick.

Tougher yet, and more rewarding, is to apply a basic feng shui technique of clearing. Hanging on to people, relationships and objects that no longer fit? Clear them. Create space for the good relationship, the nice clothes that fit, the ideal job you never imagined was out there. This issue we bring you an article on how to start clearing the physical clutter of your world, fast. It will get you closer to what you want, even if you don't know what that is.

Previous editorials

• 7/2009 - Done Dreaming? Good. Get Moving!
• 4/2009 - School's out in the Crumbling Empire