What's in the gallery?

We dissolve stuck and rewrite patterns. We apply radical playfulness to life (when we feel like it!), embarking on internal adventures (credo of Safety First). We have a fake band called Solved By Cake. We build invisible sanctuaries, invent words and worlds, breathe awe and wonder.

We are not impressed by monsters. Except when we are. We explore the connections between internal territories and surrounding environment to learn what marvelously supportive delicious space feels like, and how to take exquisite care of ourselves. We transform things.* We glow wild.**

* For example: Desire, fear, worry, pain-and-trauma, boundaries, that problematic word which rhymes with flaweductivity.

** Fair warning: Self-fluency has been known to lead to extremely subversive behavior, including treasuring yourself unconditionally, unapologetically taking up space, experiencing outrageously improbable levels of self-acceptance, and general rejoicing in aliveness.

What's in the gallery?

We dissolve stuck and rewrite patterns. We apply radical playfulness to life (when we feel like it!), embarking on internal adventures (credo of Safety First). We have a fake band called Solved By Cake. We build invisible sanctuaries, invent words and worlds, breathe awe and wonder.

We are not impressed by monsters. Except when we are. We explore the connections between internal territories and surrounding environment to learn what marvelously supportive delicious space feels like, and how to take exquisite care of ourselves. We transform things.* We glow wild.**

* For example: Desire, fear, worry, pain-and-trauma, boundaries, that problematic word which rhymes with flaweductivity.

** Fair warning: Self-fluency has been known to lead to extremely subversive behavior, including treasuring yourself unconditionally, unapologetically taking up space, experiencing outrageously improbable levels of self-acceptance, and general rejoicing in aliveness.

Tiny little answers.

A lot of people seem to shoot over questions to me in the form of Direct Messages (DMs) on Twitter.

This might be because they know I don’t do email. Sneaky!

But it could totally also be because they don’t know I don’t do email.

Either way, I’ve been giving a lot of tiny little answers recently.

And it seemed like some of them might be useful for you… or at least maybe they will spark some interesting conversations or useful Things To Think About.

Also, since my daily morning practice of “learning the art of being able to eventually write a short or even medium-length post just to say that I can” isn’t going anywhere, maybe this will get me in the mood. 🙂

Tiny little questions that deserve bigger answers.

Except they got asked on Twitter.

Ooh. One more thing. Maybe a couple more things.

If you’re not on Twitter, some things to keep in mind:

  1. At least some of the information in this post will be useful and relevant even if you’re not on Twitter and even if you never plan to be on Twitter. So no worries there.
  2. You might want to read my post about Twitter demystified (no pressure!)

Oh, and it should go without saying — but I’m saying it anyway — that giving anyone an answer to anything (as I’m about to do!) when you’re dealing with a 140-character limit is reckless and irresponsible at best.

And that you don’t have to take my advice. And that yes, these answers are simplistic (hello, 140 characters). And each one probably deserves its own post.

And that this sort of bizarre Twitter coaching probably has some embarrassing and stupid name like “twoaching” and we will never speak of that again.

Okay. On to the questions. All under 140-characters. Except the last one where I had to write two messages to squeeze in my answer.

Random person: “You talk a lot about ‘being yourself’ online. But how do you do that?”

Me: Don’t say stuff online that you wouldn’t say in real life. Like “but wait — there’s more!” Or “check out this amazing offer!”

 

Random person: “You seem so wise. Way too wise for someone who looks that young. How do you do that?!”

Me: Dance of Shiva. Well, that and having had a weirdly interesting life. No, mostly Dance of Shiva. Brain restructuring! Seeing connections!

 

Random person: “What do you mean by ‘goofball marketing’?”

Me: Not hiding your weird bits. Your mishigas (yiddish for crazy, wacky thing). Everyone has idiosyncrasies. Let yours be the star.

 

Random person: “I like ‘goofball marketing’ as a concept but I don’t have a business or anything”

Me: All totally applicable to real life. It’s about your secret mission (learning to like yourself). No need to use it for anything biz-related.

 

Random person: “How are you surviving not being able to work? I mean, how is your business not completely dying when you have no arms?”

Me: Twitter. People on Twitter buy my stuff and talk about my stuff and generally keep the whole thing afloat.

 

Random person: “You said in a post that you make over a third of your income from Twitter. WTF? HOW?”

Me: Oh boy. Long, complicated answer. Too much for 140. But @pistachio and I are teaching a class about that. Short version? Don’t be strategic!

Yes, you may have noticed that I wasn’t able to fit the link into the 140. So that person got a second DM.

 

Random person: “Can I steal your term ‘gentleman friend’? It’s so perfect I can’t stand it and it describes my gentleman friend (see?!) exactly”

Me: Go for it. There’s a really funny story behind that. I’ll have to tell it on the blog sometime.

 

Random person: “Amazing people are doing my course/reading my work. Now I’m convinced I suck. Is performance anxiety a byproduct of biggification? Help?!”

Me: Perfectly normal. This is just the next layer to the pattern. It probably didn’t occur to you that people would believe in you, so that CONT

CONT belief is being challenged. Your work is not about you, it’s about THEM. It’s coming THROUGH you. So if it helps them? YAY. LOVE

 

Random person: “Will your duck date my duck?”

Me: Probably not. She’s quite picky.

 

I did it!

Sure, it’s still a long post by most people’s standards but it’s a really, really short one for me. I win.

Back to the usual stuff tomorrow. Thanks for letting me play.

p.s. Should mention, if I haven’t already, that the early bird thing-ey for the Strategy of Not Being Strategic class that I’m teaching with Pistachio ends on May 13th. Which is soon-ish. That is all. xo

Structure, Sanity and the life of a Pirate Queen!

selma_pirateI mentioned on Friday that I’ve been playing with fire with metaphors and that now I am a pirate queen. With a monkey.

So I promised you some back-story. Because that was kind of a weird thing to say, even for me.

And the reason you should read this (other than confirming any suspicion you might have that I am completely mad) is that it’s a pretty good demonstration of the power of words.

And the power of changing them.

Also, I am a huge proponent of what I call goofball-marketing (where you make money through giving yourself permission to be your creative, nutty self while letting your freak flag fly).*

*Naomi refers to this as “letting the universe pay you for being awesome”, which I love.

And really, what better way to embody the principles of goofballery than to replace one’s business team with a pirate crew? Right? Exactly.

Transitions. (Sung to the tune of “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof)

So yeah. I hired the brilliant and kooky Cairene to force me to help me restructure some of the systems in my business.

It’s phenomenal. Especially given just how much resistance I have to so many different aspects of this process.

Life-changingly great, is all I’m saying. She really, really gets how hard it is for me to be a right-brained person with a left-brained team, and how hard it is for them to put up with me.

But then last week she pointed out that I despise the word “team” and yet keep using it.

She also pointed out (somewhat wryly, I might add) that I’d just taught an exceptionally fantastic class like, two days before on the topic of … wait for it … rewriting metaphors.

Fine. Fine.

From team to pirate crew …

I figured out what I don’t like about having a “team”.

It has all these little associated bits under the surface that just bug me. Sports analogies, for one.

Also it just kind of smacks of corporate horribleness. You know, those awful, embarrassing team-building exercises that you read about in business books.

Some of my ideal qualities for the new thing-which-is-not-a-team:

+ support
+ movement
+ direction
+ flow
+ cooperation
+ I get to be in charge but I don’t have to manage things.

It seemed like … maybe a boat of some sort. A vessel. With a crew.

I liked that. But it also seemed kind of boring. Plus, what about things like — tfu tfu tfu — storms and capsizing and mutiny? Scurvy?

Clearly, we also needed some other characteristics.

Like:

+ goofy
+ different (marching to beat of own drummer)
+ independent
+ adventure
+ success
+ where’s my monkey?!

Clearly this had to be a pirate crew.

And then I knew exactly what needed to happen.

The genius thing about metaphors is they fill in the blanks.

Because everything falls into place when you have the right metaphor.

For example, all of a sudden I knew the role of everybody in my business:

Havi: the crazy but mostly lovable captain … aka The Pirate Queen
Selma the duck: the parrot
Peggy (formerly Head VA): the Cook … because we can’t live without her.
Marissa (formerly my personal assistant): First Mate
Richard (formerly my designer): Chief Engineer and also the guy who shimmies up the mast and fixes things and yells “land ahoy!”
Cairene (formerly systems-coach): Navigation Expert and resident witch
Charlie (formerly Charlie): Some guy we kidnapped who knows a lot about maps

Looking at this it became obvious to me that what I really need is something like a second mate. Someone to do some of Marissa’s work.

I looked it up (yay, Wikipedia!) and here’s what I learned:

A second mate is almost always a watchstander. In port and at sea, the second mate is responsible to the captain for keeping the ship, its crew, and its cargo safe for eight hours each day.

That’s exactly what I need. A watchstander. And then I found one. Which is really cool.

And I knew what could change and what didn’t need to.

I’d been thinking that we needed to make a bunch of huge structural changes.

But once we’d stumbled onto that one metaphorical change, the energy shifted.

And everything felt better and it also seemed as though a lot of things could just stay where they were, with slightly different names.

I wrote a letter to my pirate crew, giving them permission to wear a lot of black. And letting them know that our VA Checklist System is now Havi’s Pirate Crew Code of the Seas (Pirate Manual and Pirate Systems).

And all the things I never used to look at because they were labeled “VA Team”?

They’re now officially referred to as Pirate Crew! Arrr. Which makes going to work way more fun.

Also, the people on my team ship now say things like “Important note for Captain Havi” or “Don’t forget that the Pirate Queen hates making phone calls so make sure you do x, y and z before you make her call someone”.

Or:

New Rule: If you don’t check off your action items in Basecamp when you’re finished with them, you will be forced to walk the plank! Arrr!!

Fabulous.

I need to go work on my pirate dance now, if you don’t mind.

Yes, the Pirate Queen is very polite today.

Except for the part where I run around yelling “Where’s my monkey?!

Anyway, that’s it for now.

And here’s the Twitter version of this post:

Words = powerful. Metaphors = useful. Business can (and should be) fun as hell because otherwise, what’s the point? Also: where’s my monkey?

Friday Check-in #39: the pirate queen edition

Friday chickenBecause it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection.

And you get to join in if you feel like it.

Yep. It’s Friday.

Here’s the chicken.

From the Jew-ey vegetarian anti-frog pirate queen who talks to monsters and has a duck. A duck who pretends to be a monkey.

Just be glad you aren’t me, is all I’m saying.

The hard stuff

Our neighbors are moving. Sad face.

So we finally have neighbors that we love.

When I put out the word that magically united me with my dear, beloved Hoppy House, I was pretty much just hoping for neighbors who didn’t play the drums or have parole officers.

There was definitely at least a small part of me who was convinced that with my luck I’d end up next to a drum-playing parole officer, but mostly I figured it would be okay.

What I didn’t count on is that we’d fall madly in love with our neighbors and then those neighbors would move to Denver.

Not fair!!!!!

Okay. Yes, I realize that a perk of Denver is that we can also go visit Sonia. And now we do have an excuse to go to the Roller Derby Nationals if we’re not in Berlin then.

But I am not ready for the silver linings! I want my neighbors back! *throws tantrum*

Making stupid (and expensive) mistakes in my business.

I don’t know if I’m just tired. Or not paying attention.

But too many really ridiculous and costly errors this month. Inattentiveness and making assumptions and not explaining things well enough to the people on my team — except that as of this week I no longer call them a team (but that’s a good thing so we’ll talk about it in the “good stuff” part).

Not happy about that. But yeah, stuff to work on.

Over-committed

Hahahahahaha.

I spent half my week with various coaches and/or wacky energy healers working on getting better at the “boundaries” thing and the “respecting my time” thing and the “saying no” thing.

Yeah, progress.

But still at least twice a day I find myself turning to Selma and saying “WHY DID WE AGREE TO THIS?!”

So …. not there yet. My stuff.

Moving on to stuff which is good.

The good stuff

Svevo!

We (by which I mean me and my gentleman friend and my brother and my duck) went to visit my favorite uncle in the woods.

First of all, woods!

Man, I love those giant trees. And the quiet. And the air.

And my two favorite dogs in the entire world (Bobby and Gus!)

Though we will make another sad face for my two second-favorite cats in the world (Mattie and Little Bear) who are no more.

We went to the newt pond! We played Balderdash! We wandered!

It was so perfect and so relaxing. And there was much goofiness.

Also, my uncle will say things like “Let me go get some apples from my coffin” or “how many pine needles do you like in your tea?”

And I think, oh yes, you are related to me. LOVE!

No more frogs! (part 1)

After all my ranting about the stupid frog-eating metaphor, I taught a class this week for my At the Kitchen Table program on how to deconstruct sucky metaphors and build new ones that serve you.

It was seriously fantastic, and I almost never say that. But it rocked. And people were having the most astonishing results (even though I only ended up teaching half of my wacky metaphor technique).

Astounding. Seriously.

No more frogs! (part 2). Or: I am a pirate queen!

So after I rewrote the (ew ew ew) frog-eating metaphor on the call, I was pretty buzzed.

But then Cairene made me take it up a notch and got me to stop thinking of my team as a team.

It’s a long story and deserves its own post. But let’s just say that I no longer run a team.

I am a pirate queen! With a monkey!

Yes, I know this makes no sense. So just rejoice with me in the wacky.

And then I promise that next week (or soon-ish) I will explain the whole thing and it will make sense.

Maybe. Kind of.

Never mind. The pirate queen doesn’t need to apologize for not making sense!

I went to a party and didn’t hate it.

My neighbors? The ones I madly adore who are moving to Denver? They had a party for goodbyes.

I am not a party person. I am also not a goodbyes person.

And it was still really fun. Fun. At a party. Shocking, I know.

So … feeling hopeful that I can still be an introvert and a loner and just my usual HSP — highly sensitive person self … and still (you know, once in a blue moon) do something social and not suffer through it.

My gentleman friend made home-made pasta again.

KEEPER!

This doesn’t really have much to do with my week but VERY LAST REMINDER!

Last chance to sign up for Stuff Havi Thinks You Should Know About How to Get Really, Really Great Testimonials, Recommendations & Referrals class.

At this point all I want to say is: 4.5 hours of my time and recordings and notes and answers to your questions at $54* means it’s one fortieth of what the price would be if you were paying my consulting rates. I know.

* $54 = including the blog reader discount which you get if you can answer one question and yeah, I even pointed you towards the answer yesterday.

So if it’s speaking to you, read this and sign up while you still can. 🙂

That’s it for me …

And yes yes yes, of course you can join in my Friday ritual right here in the comments bit if you feel like it.

Yeah? Anything hard and/or good happen in your week?

And, as always, have a glorrrrrrrrrrrrious weekend. And a happy week to come.

The thing that stops you from doing the thing.

The thing. You know, the thing.

I don’t know what your thing is. But it’s the thing you desperately want to be working on.

It’s the thing you are just as desperately avoiding (at least some of the time), and with good reason.

But the point is: you have a thing.

Which is awesome.

And then … even though you have the thing, you’re not doing the thing. Or maybe you are doing the thing, but you keep getting stuckified.

Normal. Natural. To be expected.

Fear of success is the thing (that gets in the way of doing the thing)

And working on it — working on unraveling it and interacting with it and learning how it works so you can take it apart and come up with something better — is valuable.

And hard.

Valuable and hard.

Working on your stuff so you can help your Right People and maybe even heal yourself while you’re at it … totally worth it.

But did I mention hard? Because man, it’s hard.*

*First person to leave a comment saying “no, it’s easy, just use my simple three-step system” gets peed on by a certain duck who shall remain nameless. Okay, her name is Selma.

There are two ways to work on this.

Two doorways. Two gates.

One is turning inward and working on your stuff. The other is looking outward at what you’re trying to achieve and then tweaking your systems.

You need both.

Internal work and external work. Hard and soft. Stuckness-zapping and systems-revamping.

How about I give you an example.

Let’s say the issue you’re working on is dealing with criticism.

You’re human, so you probably kind of suck at it. I do. So do most of the people I know. Actually, there are three people I know who don’t.

Let’s assume you get hit with criticism and it messes with your head. Maybe every time. Maybe just once in a while. It doesn’t matter.

If you work on it “in the soft”, you spend time learning coping mechanisms. You train yourself to work on things like releasing the need for outside legitimacy and how to separate your stuff from their stuff.

If you work on it “in the hard”, you look for mechanisms that you can put into place to mediate how you interact with the criticism to begin with.

For example, one of my assistants moderates all the blog comments and reads my email. Sure there’s stuff that’s harsh, insulting and/or has at least a semi-decent chance of ruining my day, but I never see it.

Saves me some more time … which I can then use to practice dissolving more stucknesses. A little of this. A little of that. It adds up.

Back to the part about it being hard.

This is not easy.

Working on your stuff is not easy. Rebuilding your systems is not easy.

Working on them simultaneously — although it’s more effective … still not easy.

No kidding.

And now I must quote a movie about baseball. It holds true for things that are not baseball.

“Of course it’s hard! If it weren’t, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”

Uh huh.

Transformational work is hard.

Working on your stuff is hard.

It’s not a thing you do for fun or anything. At least not at first.

That’s because it requires a certain … oh, ballsiness. And willingness. And the sincere intention that yeah, you know what? You’re ready to shift something.

And the thing that makes it all a bit easier — not easy, no, just less paralyzing — is combining the internal destuckifying with the external systems stuff. It gets more do-able. And occasionally you even get these little moments of pure exhilaration.

Remembering that it’s allowed to be hard makes it all that much easier.

 

Don’t read this part unless you’re interested in me talking about something that has to do with my thing.

My thing: we destuckify and we make practical changes.

The part that interests me in all this is figuring out how to dissolve the fear behind the thing that isn’t working … and then finding ways to make it work better when it is working.

So in this class I’m teaching on Stuff Havi Thinks You Should Know About How to Get Really Really Great Testimonials, Recommendations & Referrals Without Having To Feel Gross and Horrible … my whole goal is to help people do both.

The destuckifying part is dissolving the ew and the this is uncomfortable and the people will hate me so you can share your thing with the people who need it.

The systems part is where I tell you exactly what you need to say and do so that no one will ever have to feel uncomfortable.

It’s where I tell you how you get people to trip over themselves trying to help you promote your thing (see? there’s your thing again) without even necessarily knowing that this is what they’re doing.

But not in a manipulative way. In a helping-your-Right-People-feel-safe-and-comfortable way.

How you know if my thing is your thing.

If you’re looking for traditional, sensible, common sense stuff of the blah blah blippity blah variety, you will hate this class. You’re not this class’s Right People. It’s not for you. That’s fine. We can still hang out here.

And if you don’t mind having the kind of testimonials that nobody ever reads, and/or making the people you’ve helped feel awkward when you ask for them, also probably not a good fit.

But if you’re serious about releasing some of your stuck stuff around biggification (helping your Right People find you so you can help them) and then rewrite your patterns and your systems so the thing you do can grow and thrive … then I want to see you there.

Selma and I will love you just the same if you don’t sign up, of course. But come on. Your thing needs you.

If it’s for you (yay!), you can sign up here. The $100-off -for-my-readers thing still holds. You just have to know who Selma is. Or who Stu is.

I know. I warned you about things being hard.


p.s. Actually, despite all of my silliness, a couple of people did write in complaining that having to have Stu or Selma knowledge is unfair. I didn’t see it because of my email sabbatical. But I heard a rumor.

Anyway, a quick use of the search button in my sidebar came up with the story of Selma. And I have it on good account that Stu (who is not a chicken) is the star of my weekly Friday Chicken. So don’t let that be the barrier to me using my thing to help you with your thing. 🙂

Item! Stuff! It is happening! You should do it!

Fluent Self Item!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.

Okay. Usually what I do in the Item! posts is link to writing I’ve found interesting. Oh, and I rant some and wander off on tangents. Also I get excited about weird little things.

This week though there are all these things that are happening or about to happen.

So today’s (Item! Special Edition!) edition is more “stuff I think you should be doing” instead of “stuff I think you should be reading and thinking about”. Well, after I go on and on about the Blazers game last night.

Shall we?

I include links to Twitter handles too, when I can. If you’re not a fellow Twitterite, here’s my post about why it’s so great.

Item! Post No. 18 in a semi-ongoing series that lets me share things I’m excited about in ridiculous run-on sentences.

Item! I have a thing! It’s a “the Blazers are still kicking ass (as of last night)” thing!

Blazers. BLAZERS!

I love basketball. I’m not allowed to watch it because I get way too involved and also we don’t have a television. But I was able to sneakily get in the vicinity of someone else’s television twice this week.

Truth is, it’s not like I am a hardcore Blazers fan so much as I get obsessive over basketball and yeah, now I live in Portland. So how can I not? Tell me that! Okay, don’t tell me.

And also I need something to replace my irrational dislike of Indiana … and Texas is top in the running since the great taxicab debacle.

Normally I’d put this in the Friday Chicken Check-in (Item! On Friday there will be a chicken check-in!) but the boys might lose tomorrow and then I’d have to put it in the “hard” section instead of the “good”.

Tfu tfu tfu. Spit three times to avert the evil eye.

Moral of this piece: don’t let me watch basketball. It makes me hyper and crazy.

Alright! On to the “stuff I think you should be doing when you’re not watching basketball” bits.

Item! Sarah has a thing! It’s an art thing!

Sarah Marie Lacy (yes, I’ve talked about her before) is doing a neat Mother’s day thing.

She’s giving away — to one person who is on her mailing list — an 8×10 print of any of her paintings (whichever one you like, and they’re all gorgeous).

You can enter the drawing through this Sunday, May 3rd (or until very early Monday morning) and Sarah’s mum will pick the winner.

Sarah’s a classy chick and she’s not going to be all spamtastically horrible if you sign up for her list. Plus her stuff is amazing and she’s a sweet, generous, wonderful person.

Art! Free print of something beautiful! Sarah! I approve. Go sign up.

And then come back here because there’s more good stuff.

She’s @smlacy on Twitter.

Item! Cairene has a thing! It’s a getting stuff done thing!

Actually, you might be too late for her thing. Because it’s tomorrow and for all I know registration is closed.

But she does it on the last Thursday of every month and it’s freaking amazing. Sign up for next month if you can’t make it to this one.

You spend three and a half hours getting stuff done. And not just any stuff. The stuff that is hiding out at the very bottom of your to-do list.

It’s a really supportive environment, Cairene is fantastic (I’ve hired her to coach me and am so completely impressed with the results) and I’m always there and afterwards your “crap, how have I not done these things yet” list is way shorter and way less scary.

Also, it’s only $25 which is insane and I keep telling her she has to triple that price and she might listen to me at some point. So you should really sign up as soon as you can.

EDIT: I just talked to Cairene and she’s already updated the sign-up page for next month. But … she agreed to let three more people in. So if you email her or reply/DM her on Twitter, maybe you’ll be one of the three! Yay!

And she’s @thirdhandworks on Twitter.

Item! Steve has a thing! An internet-related thing that isn’t gross or stupid!

My friend Steve Spalding is a gem. Seriously.

He’s one of the most genuinely mensch-like good-guy trust-him-completely people I know. Meeting him in person at SXSW and getting to spend a few days hanging out with him confirmed that he really is that guy.

I cannot say enough good things about Steve. So I’ll stop trying.

His new book — All The Little Things (Get the advice you need to get your great idea out of the garage and onto the web) — is full of usefulness.

Also, right now you can read it for free because (for now) the whole thing is up on the website.

And you can do what I did and buy the PDF version with free updates forever for practically nothing ($7!? See, Steve is an amazingly generous soul) which you can do until May 15th.

Go take a look.

And he’s @sbspalding on Twitter.

Item! Jen is doing a thing!

I have raved about this before. Jen Hofmann does her amazing Office Spa Day twice a month.

You spend quality time with your office and figuring out how to make it work for you. And you clear out some piles and generally feel good about yourself.

Because being around Jen makes everything better.

This Saturday morning. May 2nd. $35. Totally worth it. You can sign up here.

I will be there. With bells on.

And she’s @inspiredjen on Twitter.

Item! I am doing a thing too!

Yep. My class on “Stuff Havi Thinks You Should Know About How To Get Really, Really Great Testimonials and Referrals Without Having To Feel Gross or Weird About it” starts this weekend.

This is not common-sense boring “oh, just get over yourself and ask” sort of stuff. It is genius techniques. It is very specific. It will change your business if you have one and it will save you years of doing stuff the stupid way if you are going to have one.

Also, there’s lots of me-answering-all-your-questions bits so that we can help you apply my techniques to whatever weird situation you’re in at the moment.

And you can sign up and get the digital homestudy version of this even if you’re not planning on coming to the classes.

Most important point here: It will cost more once the class starts.

And then you’ll start reading about people’s results and how they’re connecting with more of their Right People in a natural, organic, non-sleazy way and not having to constantly stress-out over the where is everybody thing.

And then you’ll kick yourself for not having done it now.

And then I’ll feel awful. So just sign up.

(Also: you save $100 by being able to answer one of two questions and since I am an incredibly nice person, you can get the answers to those two questions by reading Naomi’s post where beans are spilled).

That is all.

Enough with all the things that are happening.

I need to go figure out how my duck and I can accidentally get near a television tomorrow for the game.

So I’ll just wish you a happy Blustery Windsday. See you tomorrow.