by Havi Brooks | Feb 16, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
Follow-up! To this bit I wrote about my relationship with making piles of things. It’s part of an ongoing process/investigation: Figuring out why I create these giant piles of iguanas and doom, what their purpose is, and what needs to happen next. So I’m...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 27, 2011 | my personal practice, working on patterns & habits
One of the things I’ve been messing around with lately is my relationship with piles of things. I pile. I pile a lot. This is a known thing. But it’s not just the usual Stacks of Useful Paper that I tend to think of inhabiting my pile-loving world. And...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 19, 2011 | working on patterns & habits
Just so you know, I am physically incapable of saying the word “pause” without making little doggy hands. Paws! This is going to make writing this pause-centric post extra-challenging, but possibly also entertaining. If you happen to be in the room with...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 23, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. I couldn’t think...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 28, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
Yesterday was about Day 4 Syndrome. How its day-4-ness isn’t limited to Day 4, because there are bigger patterns at work. These patterns have to do with process and completion, and how scary it is to not see the end. And then to see it. Even though it’s...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 27, 2010 | working on patterns & habits
One of the things I worked on at the last Rally (Rally!) was writing an ebook. Not as a product. It’s called the Navigational Charts, it’s twenty seven pages long, and I wrote it for the people coming to my Week of Biggification in Asheville next week to...