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 18, 2008 | ask Havi, stuff I think about
Whoah. We’re getting all theoretical today …. Right. Usually the Ask Havi questions are oriented around some sort of how. As in “How do I do this thing?” or “How do I stop doing this thing?”. Occasionally it’s more of a...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 15, 2008 | biggification, working on patterns & habits
I’m in Vancouver at the moment, attending Michael Port’s seminar on “Beyond Booked Solid”. It’s about the whole “okay, your business is thriving madly, now you need better systems to keep you sane” thing. If you’re...
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 | Aug 21, 2008 | not hating on yourself, stucknesses & stuckification, working on patterns & habits
There’s this thing — yes, a thing, don’t make me get all specific — that invariably comes up when you talk to people about habits and how their habits work. And this thing annoys the pants off of pretty much everybody. Here’s what...