by Havi Brooks | Nov 27, 2011 | my personal practice
Personal ads. They’re … personal! Very. Each week I write these VPAs to practice asking for what I want. And to get clarity on what that really is, even when asking feels conflicted. I always get useful information about my relationship with various...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 16, 2010 | mindful time management
A few years ago, one of my mentors got a bee in his bonnet about how Selma and I needed a day off. And not once in a while. Not right before I was about to fall apart. A regular thing. A weekly thing. I knew he was right. And everything in me said this was a Wise and...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 29, 2010 | my personal practice
Background: I signed up for Cairene’s fantastic Bite The Candy class (it’s today but you can do it next month) because I was tired of being intimidated by the Gigantic Scary Pile of Doom that was taking over my office/life. But then in a fit of something...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 9, 2009 | biggification, stucknesses & stuckification
This is something that’s been coming up lately in my Kitchen Table forum, and I’ve been seeing it in various other online places as well. Someone launches a thing. You know, a mailing list or a class or a program or a product. And nothing happens. No one...
by Havi Brooks | Feb 23, 2009 | biggification, stuff I think about
So the other day I saw an enormous “going out of business” sign on the window of a neighborhood store. Oh. Sad face. “Due to the current state of the economy, we are unable to continue ….” I didn’t even need to read the rest. But...