by Havi Brooks | Mar 1, 2009 | my personal practice, working on patterns & habits
So it’s been exactly nine years since — on one especially excruciating afternoon — I quit sugar and caffeine. Or maybe it was a morning. I’m having trouble remembering the details, but it was definitely February. Actually, I do have this one...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 24, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
What if it’s not about giving up on things? There’s this thing that happens that drives me crazy. Well, it’s a thing that I do. I can put off making a decision — for what turns into way too long — because I don’t want to have to...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 19, 2009 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification, stuff I think about
We ended on something of a cliffhanger last time. So I should probably give you a tiny bit of background. The very short version is that I talk to walls. And myself. And a duck. Really, if you keep reading now, you’ve no one to blame but yourself. 🙂 The...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 12, 2009 | mindful time management, my personal practice
Email Sabbatical: is it all it’s cracked up to be? Man, I love pretending that this blog has anything at all to do with the world of hard-hitting journalism. I just read my own subtitle in Announcer Voice and totally cracked myself up. Moving on. So Mona and...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 10, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
Because it’s not enough that I talk to walls … I recently got sucked into an especially bizarre internal conversation. Between me and myself. Which I reported back to you, verbatim. Because having a blog means you can do stuff like that. Background,...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 2, 2009 | my personal practice, stuff I think about
So yeah, I’ve been doing my share of talking to walls lately. And conversing with blocks. And having long, complicated discussions with old, forgotten fears. To the point that part of me is starting to miss the good old days when my meditations pretty much...