by Havi Brooks | Sep 30, 2008 | biggification, my personal practice
(Or: how not to name your business) I made the somewhat rash promise yesterday that I’d tell you all about how The Fluent Self came to be called The Fluent Self. This should really be an Ask Havi post but I can’t be bothered to dredge up a hundred emails...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 9, 2008 | my personal practice, not hating on yourself
I have to tell you a story. All true. It’s about the second-worst summer of my life. And to understand the second-worst summer of my life you really have to understand the week or so preceding it. Bad things come in threes? I was 19. Living in Tel Aviv. Studying...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 3, 2008 | my personal practice, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
And why you still don’t have to do it even if it is. Some people hate incredibly tacky Christmas decorations. Some people hate cherry Coke. Or, you know, things like racism and war. Me? I hate charades. Not “people pretending to be something they...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 2, 2008 | my personal practice
The thing with time and the way it flies the hell by is that I’m finally getting around to posting something now that’s about a month late. But life is cyclical. And stuff comes back around, so it’s actually weirdly relevant again. Let’s scooby...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 18, 2008 | my personal practice
My cold cleared. (yay!) You know how being sick kind of puts you in this heightened state — a weird place where you’re both more and less aware of everything? I mean, you can’t concentrate because of the stuffiness and the fogginess and the not being...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 12, 2008 | mindful time management, my personal practice
I have been avoiding my homework. And yeah, that’s not something you generally want to hear from a procrastination expert. I have a sort-of excuse. Two sort-of excuses. For one thing, I didn’t realize it was “homework”, and for another, I...
