Comments on: Ask Havi #10: the “explain yourself” edition

By: Juliet

Juliet — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:42:23 +0000

Love it!
So inspiring and natural.
Thank you

By: Gary Fletcher

Gary Fletcher — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:39:05 +0000

“stuckification”, “stucknesses”, “biggification”… Ah… I get it. So what you’re really saying is that SEO for your niche’s main keywords is the way to go, right?

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:01:56 +0000

Havi, This post made me feel really hopeful about the possibilities in having your own business. For someone who's just getting started this year, it's exciting to see that you slowly but surely built your business to the point that is shouldn't even be called a business...it should be called a magnificent-lifestyle-that-pays-the-bills. Something for me to work toward! Zoes last blog post..How $10 Can Actually Make a Difference

By: JoVE

JoVE — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:55:02 +0000

Lots of things resonating there for me. And I love GirlPie's re-presentation of it, too. I think that bit about making mistakes and it still going forward is good. And also just paying attention to what you are enjoying, what you want to be doing, how that is already happening and how to make more of it happening. And dropping the stuff that seems like what you are "supposed to do". Like, I guess, going and working for yoga studios. At some point, probably necessary to put food on the table but sometimes when we re-evaluate we realize that we can not do that stuff we don't like so much and still put food on the table. Very cool. I think my process looks a bit like yours with just a very different set of skills. And GirlPie, I share some of that feeling you have. Recognizing my own "special" is hard. And also accepting that some people don't want to create all the art themselves but just want to buy art. (to go with your metaphor) JoVEs last blog post..Procrastination

By: GirlPie

GirlPie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:48:16 +0000

Great lesson in this post Havi, thank you! I’ve been so enamored of my (creative business) systems that I can’t see why on earth my clients can’t think like me (duh) and just do what I do!

After so many decades of having people tell you “you’re special” you just presume they tell that to everyone because, the kind people suggest, everyone IS special in his own way. So it’s hard to remember that people don’t always think like me, that my systems are not obvious no-brainers. YOUR interesting (about you) and helpful (for me) post reminds me that they’re not coming to me for my hammer. They’re coming to me because they want to look at art on their wall. Personally, I’m a DIYer so I buy hammers, not hammerers, but when I hear it from you, MAN! It all falls into place and makes sense. I can’t think about applying the lesson right now, but You. Are. Special.

By: chas

chas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:34:05 +0000

havi

nice forecast, broadcast, recap.

i love the way you shifted away from talking about *your* system (my friends, i know how to take care of everything) to talking about *my* subjective experience of life (you are not your patterns, and boy don’t they suck), ‘cos i am soooo much more interested in my future glorious existence than in your impossible to understand system! just help me get better already!

keep on dancing!

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:03:43 +0000

I love these “overnight success in just 15 years” stories. Long path, lots of paying attention, lots of getting really good at what you do, lots of helping people, lots of stumbling around with what works and what doesn’t, and voila, easy success.

I love the term “practicing business.” Hmm, must think about that some more.

Sonia Simones last blog post..How to Get Delightfully Rich (and Still Keep Your Soul)

By: Jennifer Louden

Jennifer Louden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:57:56 +0000

Yeah for pleasure! Yeah for doing what you love! Yeah for getting me to say yeah!

In all playfulness, great model and reminder.

Next blog post please: how to move from seriousness to playfulness. There is a vital but very subtle shift there.

By: Sundi D. Hayes

Sundi D. Hayes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story Havi. You have this “way” about you that I can’t even wrap words around. Somehow you tell the deepest stories with the simplest words yet the story can move other people right out of their seat! It rocks. I say it doesn’t matter what kind of weird-bad stuff happened to you before you got where you are, you just have to be HAPPY where you are and not forget all the other stuff that happened before which got you where you are and made you who you are today. If I had a studio I would totally court you into doing a session for me and my closest, then I’d send you roses. Some for you and some for Selma, of course.