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The ‘wrongest’ question and what to do about it

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...

Resolutions that actually work

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...

6 tips for dealing with uncomfortable situations

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...

Reality only occasionally bites

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...

The step everyone skips on the way to calming the heck down

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...

A communication breakdown and an emergency calm technique

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...
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