by Havi Brooks | Apr 7, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
A really useful concept or thoughtful question doesn’t just sit there. It lands. And it doesn’t just land. It touches down in your consciousness and ripples out. Circles echoing circles. Reverberating. It sets off a chain of spiraling cycles that move...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 30, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
I’m recovering from my first encounter with the insanely insane number that is what I’m paying in taxes this year. We knew it would be insane, of course, just not the sum of the insanity. After five years in a growing business, this was the first year as a...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 17, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
I’m not sure if you know Maryann. I mention her kind of a lot. She’s one of the most thoughtful and worth-listening-to people I know. Anyway, yesterday on Facebook she put out the question: When you feel discouraged about your art or your business, what...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 1, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Something I find both incredibly frustrating and empowering at the same time is how there is at least one exception to just about everything I think is true. So. No big surprise, but I’ve been using this thing of finding the exceptions as part of the...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 17, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Everything is connected. At least, theoretically. And even if it isn’t, we can pretend (or assume) that within the world of you and your you-ness: Connections are everywhere. This comes in handy whenever things get overwhelming. Or when your to-do list is...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 31, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Okay, just so you know. This is definitely one of those things that makes sense in my head, and possibly nowhere else. But it’s about play and destuckifying and the experimental approach, and so many other things we talk about here. Extrapolate and adjust, as...