A somewhat goofy mini-collection of stuff I’ve been reading, stuff I’ve been thinking about and oh, some completely random crap.
Basically the stuff that never gets mentioned here because I’m not the kind of person who can just make some teeny little point. Not into the whole brevity thing, as the Dude would say.
Actually, I’m under the strict compulsion to write ten pages about anything on my mind. So this is me. Practicing brevity.
There’s only so much heavy stuff we can talk about here.
Wednesday is — apparently — the day we let it all hang out.
Or something.
Anyway, exclamation points! Many of them!
Item! My duck is an acronym!
Okay, she isn’t really but the delightful Jeff Moriarty was being goofy at the local bar (aka Twitter) and made one up.
And I quote:
The little yellow one perched on @Havi’s shoulder is her Social Enabling Little Market-based Attractor (SELMA).
This has been making me chuckle all week. I expected Selma to at least glare at me balefully when I teased her about it this morning but I swear, it’s like water off her back.
Item! The internet is cool!
My post about going around the pain inspired this terrific post from a blog you should all be reading.
The blog is called The Secret Life Of Wormhill, which is a terrific name for anything, and the post in question is called Dancing around/with pain.
She takes the concept I was talking about and moves it from the emotional level to the physical level, demonstrating perfectly how it applies equally there too.
This, my friends, is Fluent Self principles in action. This is that thing I’m always going on about in the group programs. If you want to make effective life changes it helps to combine techniques for each of five levels: physical, energy, emotional, mental and awareness.
If a certain principle or an idea works for one level, it can be used on all the other levels with great success.
I’ll stop boring you now with theory, constructs and yoga philosophy. The important point is that this woman intuitively recognized something in a concept, and then went and applied it successfully to a different level. Read the post.
Item! I made it out of clay! ♪ ♫
(sings)
“I had a little Vespa, I made it out of something something … and when it’s dry and ready, oh somewhat louder than a BMW it shall be thumping …”
Yes, I am a card. But back to the point. I don’t know what circumstances came about to produce the Vespa menorah but ohmygosh. That is bizarre.
No, I don’t want one, but I will still remind you that I am the proud owner of a discount code that Jennie gave me and is letting me share. It’s HAVIBFF and gets you 15% off whatever you order from their store of gorgeous stuff (until December 31).
Off topic (but aren’t we already off topic?): Shannon Wilkinson has a hysterical Hannukah song that she made up. I am incapable of seeing her without forcing her to sing it for me at least twice. Read her blog and maybe she’ll sing for you too.
Item! Revolutionrz is the most ??? word in the entire world.
Okay, so I’m a big huge slobbering Michael Port fan as everyone knows. And yay for him for launching this new online community thing.
I’ve been curious as to what this will look like ever since he mentioned it at that ridiculously awesome training weekend back in September. Which, by the way, is transforming my business like crazy.
Oh how my duck and I love that man and his genius concepts that allow us to grow this thing while staying somewhat sane.
But MyRevolution? And Revolutionrz? Argh. Why did no one consult me on this?!
Item! Someone gets it!
Here’s a woman who has been using the Procrastination Dissolve-o-Matic for a while, and now she’s using the principles behind it as a way to make peace with her not-yet-existent yoga practice.
She’s moving towards doing the yoga, in a way that’s beautiful and inspiring.
Instead of doing what most of us would do (“I said I’d do a thing but I haven’t done it yet and therefore I suck”), she turns it around completely.
In fact, she takes the not-doing-yet judgment-ey stuff and turns it into part of her practice. Brilliant.
So instead of not doing and beating herself up, she’s not doing it yet, and working on her stucknesses with love and patience. She’s bringing conscious awareness into her life, in a non-cheesy way. It’s super impressive.
Anyway, go cheer for her. And be happy for me too. Seeing people take what they’ve learned from me and apply it to everything else in their lives? I can’t think of anything better.
Item! Hang out with me this Saturday!
Five hours of making peace with the piles in your office and bringing some inspiration and order into your workplace. But in a non-scary way with the most gentle, compassionate person I know. And me. And my duck.
If you hang out here you’ve heard me mention Jen Hofmann and my gushing adoration for her.
She’s helped me work through all kinds of stucknesses in my business that were happening because the way I was processing incoming information was just not helpful. Which made me hate work. Which started a whole awful cycle.
We like Jen. She’s smart and funny and really, really kind. But not in an annoying way or anything.
Anyway, this class is going to be amazing. I’ll be teaching some Emergency Calming Techniques, and she’ll be teaching us how to totally reconfigure our relationship with how we work.
Not to bully you, but you need to do this if you can. I’ll shut up now but really, I think you should sign up for the class this Saturday! I’m not getting any money for this or anything. I’m donating my time because this is something I really believe in.
That’s it.
No more exclamation points. I’m done exclaiming. And making points.
Selma and I will only write pointless (tee hee) things from now on. But as a wise man once said, “You don’t have to have a point to have a point!”
Yes, that was an exclamation, but it was a quote. Work with me on this.
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Okay I’m not Jewish, but I kinda want that Vespa menorah…
Is that weird?
Hey, Havi. Mention Shannon Wilkinson in your post and I will always read it. I’m also really looking forward to participating in the Spa Day with you and Jen this Saturday!
@Janine – I am so so excited you’re doing Office Spa Day with me and Jen. And Selma. Oh, hooray. That is exciting.
@Sarah Marie – Not weird at all. My gentleman friend has been kind of lusting after it too. It’s so wrong that it’s right. Or something.
S.E.L.M.A. reminds me of that “Friends” episode where Joey is in “Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.”
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I love the frenetic post! The SELMA thing is great, and very like Jeff.
The ‘around not through’ pain idea is amazing. Since you suggested it I’ve been trying it, and it really helps me to think clearly, and understand what I want.
Thanks for the Modern Tribe discount, they have some really fun stuff. It feels like we’re closing in on the 21st really fast.
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Great post, again, Havi. I always enjoy the little excursions you take us on around the web.
I cannot decide between getting The Procrastination Dissolvo-matic or the DeStuckification Station. I had thought I would get the one that looked most like The Four-Wheeled Family Grudunza (sp?!) of Dr. Seuss fame, but they both look equally Seussish. I shall see what the holiday season brings and make up my mind then.
Dancing around with the pain rocks! My whole sock drawer!
I’ve done a bit of yoga but I’m more into pilates. Somewhere in the making of me I got tangled up with some ironing board DNA and I’m about the least flexible person on earth. The dancing though, the dancing is totally *there*!
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This may be my procrastination talking, but I’m afraid to do the Office Spa day because I’m never even in my home office anymore, because my dog only has 3 usable legs at the moment and I live on the 3rd floor, and so I haven’t been able to go home, and so my problem is not too much stuff in my office, but lack of stuff. Like, all of my stuff. I’m an office refuge. A citizen of office purgatory. Or purge-atory.
I want to create this welcome space, but then I know I won’t be in it… and I might move. But I don’t know when. Argh!
On the plus side, I did 15 minutes of non-sucky yoga for the first time on Saturday! And a little bit of the Dance of Shiva! And later I noticed my stride was just a teensy bit longer, almost like a John Wayne stride.
Yoga still feels really boring, but I like feeling like John Wayne, so I’ll keep experimenting with longer times and see if I start to enjoy it eventually.
This post totally energized me — thanks Havi!
And I LOVE Selma’s new acronym (Jeff’s a riot!) and what you call ‘the local bar’ — ha! Perfect! It’s the water cooler, the girl’s bathroom, the break room, the green room and the back room all at once — LOVE catching you on twitter ~ (and the swell follows your intro to us.)
Okay, I finally got curious enough about what non-sucky Yoga was to click on the link.
Yeah, that’s right, JT does Yoga. Wanna fight about it?
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@Johnny “Unfortunately your last post is always apparently about pants even though it isn’t” Truant – we all know you’re an embarrassing hippie too.
@GirlPie – *blows kiss*
I am so so so happy you finally got on Twitter and then of course two days later you were dancing on the tables and knew every single person in the joint.
@Kelly – KELLY! I miss you. You should totally do Jen’s thing for your non-office. Just because it will make you feel better about every aspect of your life and give you lots of perspective.
I almost didn’t take her six week course because I didn’t have a real office and just worked in bed. Silly me. It changed everything.
Also, once I did her spa day and just worked on reorganizing the files on my computer, and that was also amazing. You should come!
John Wayne. *whistles*
@Joely – you should get the Dissolve-o-Matic. Unless fear and panic happen more often than just Not Doing And Getting Stuck Around That.
@Diane – Yay. I love dragging you guys around to all my favorite haunts and to poke fun at things just because I’m a horrible person.
🙂
You folks have only seen small glimpses of my overall awesomeness. I can also do an aerial and flip. Hell, I can count on ONE HAND the number of humor bloggers who use Robert Goulet as an avatar that are able to do that.
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