by Havi Brooks | Nov 17, 2013 | mindful time management
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write a Very Personal Ad (aka Vision-Possibility-Anticipation) to practice wanting, and get clarity about my desires. Sometimes wanting feels conflicted or just plain hard, and that’s okay. At the...
by Havi Brooks | May 7, 2013 | calm techniques, mindful time management, stuff I think about
I shared a love story the other day about red lights. And about loving them. Red lights as a form of pause and pleasure. As a door into presence. Presence that comes from deliberate, intentional stopping, and an adoring commitment to sweet slowness. Slow and more...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 6, 2013 | mindful time management
Hello, new month! Time to passage between the months again and notice things. Passaging out of January. What worked in January? Knowing that two weeks of silent retreat at the Vicarage were waiting for me at the end. I never would have been able to do all the things...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 3, 2013 | mindful time management
Hmmm. Time to passage between months again. New month and new year. Anyone remember how we did this last year? I don’t! But I just looked it up. You guys, there is all kinds of craziness in the archives. I am constantly being surprised by things I trip over in...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 7, 2011 | mindful time management
There are several people I know who are extraordinarily wise about time. And about how there is always more of it. One of these people is my marvelous uncle Svevo. One is my dear friend Hiro. One is Douglas Buchanan. One is Janet Bailey. One is Waverly Fitzgerald. And...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 31, 2011 | mindful time management
We’ve said hello to several months this year (four so far, I think), but we haven’t yet said any goodbyes. At least not out loud. Today seems like the right moment to revisit Hello, October and then make my farewells. What I loved about October this...