by Havi Brooks | Mar 22, 2011 | mindful time management
There was a time (fine, whatever, most of my life) when I didn’t prepare for things. At all. I didn’t see the point. Thinking about whatever was approaching was stressful, and the dreaded doom of doom was going to happen anyway. Why bother. Avoidance...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 20, 2011 | mindful time management, my personal practice
Over the past five and a half years of running this business, I’ve read all sorts of books that deal with what I think of as the general theme of space: That is to say, organizing, decluttering, systems, and the fascinating but depressingly-named field of...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 10, 2011 | mindful time management
Follow the rabbit holes. As many as you like. They are like the fractal flowers: everything is connected underground. Following something that appears to be a distraction is not a waste of time, if — and it’s a big all-caps IF — you can do it...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 16, 2010 | mindful time management
A few years ago, one of my mentors got a bee in his bonnet about how Selma and I needed a day off. And not once in a while. Not right before I was about to fall apart. A regular thing. A weekly thing. I knew he was right. And everything in me said this was a Wise and...
by Havi Brooks | Oct 4, 2010 | mindful time management
I wrote a post about closing doors. And then lost it. The post, yes? Which is kind of interesting, given that a lot of what I had to say about closing doors had to do with order. Anyway. I am in the process of ordering things. Not around. Just figuring out some new...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 10, 2010 | mindful time management
Iguanas = the things you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes you have a mess of them. And sometimes a giant pile of iguanas and doom. Calling them iguanas makes it easier. Kiss to Karen for the awesome Inowanna Iguana. Also: wanting to avoid things is normal. The...
