So here's the thing. I'm addicted to infomercials. I'm an insomniac, and I don't have cable. Which leads me to watching a lot of infomercials. And here's the thing about infomercials: it's salvation that they offer. If you only do X you can get X! And so easy! All for just $XXX.XX. Just make three easy payments of $XX.XX. And then they put in all those success stories of people like you and me, just to show that it works.

But, does it? And not for earnest people. And not for a 2-minute segment on the evening news bent on debunking infomercials. But for people like me, the insomniac. The sarcastic-cynical-been-there-done-that-not-worth-my-time-just-for-the-teeming-masses person. Could a product hawked at 3:00 am to thousands of people work for me?

Well...Proactiv worked for me. It was crazy. I had bad skin as a teen, and hated, hated, hated myself for it. One day I'm channel surfing during the day and catch Judith Light laughing through tears with a woman who said that Proactiv worked for them. The damn infomercial hit all the right cords with me, and I ordered it. What did I have to lose? And even though my skin was nowhere near as bad as it once was, I still needed some help. And...wonders of wonders, it did work for me. Five years later I'm still using it. But surely that's a one-shot deal. And that's simply a product. What about processes? What about...for instance...something like Tony Robbins' "Get the Edge" or Provida's Body Makeover?

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try it and see. And post on the results. The rules are this: I'll do what the process tells me to do, and then post on the results. I'm gonna start with Tony Robbin's series. I've listened through 6 CDs, but then had a bit of a medical episode, and haven't gotten back to it yet. I'll start tomorrow.