by Havi Brooks | Jan 9, 2008 | mindful time management, noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
Ask a stupid question, get a wrong answer I know, I know. “There are no stupid questions”. And yet, it turns out you and I are probably asking questions every day that are getting us into trouble. I’d hate to write one of those boring articles about...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 26, 2007 | noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
New Year’s resolutions that don’t involve beating yourself up I love New Year’s. Not the whole party thing of course, which is not at all my cup of tea. My cup of tea is a hot, steaming … well, cup of tea. Preferably with yerba buena leaves...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 28, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification
Dealing successfully with uncomfortable, high-stress (holiday) situations There is no stress like the stress of having to be nice to people you don’t actually feel like being nice to. Welcome to the holiday season. Here in America we are bombarded with Christmas...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 1, 2007 | noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification
Exactly just how nutty would you have to be to try and define reality in a few paragraphs of a newsletter? Would the most full-blown smart-aleck know-it-all alive dare to even attempt it? Ordinarily I’d label it a futile endeavor — doomed by necessity to...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 24, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
Step 1 on the way to calming the heck down (the one everyone skips) Whenever you’re flipping out or just having a bit of a “moment”, the tendency is to jump in right away and search for the way out. And when you don’t find it, you feel more...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 21, 2007 | calm techniques, noozletter, stucknesses & stuckification
I know you don’t speak Yiddish but Gaaaaaaah! You’re barely two minutes into the conversation and all of a sudden you’re in a fight. Or not in a fight, but irritable enough to get in one. The words have somehow gotten twisted together. Everything is...