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All That Seems Random # 9 | Mental Contortionist | THRiViNG! Life Maps — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:45:31 +0000

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By: All That Seems Random # 9 | Mental Contortionist | Ity Bytes

All That Seems Random # 9 | Mental Contortionist | Ity Bytes — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000

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By: Jude

Jude — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:36:51 +0000

It's my first time here on your blog and I love what you are doing. Great post and a great reminder. I'm 3 months into setting up my coaching business... seems like I only have 3 years and 9 months until I become an overnight success :) Thanks for the reminder. Judes last blog post..Break from your routine and do something surprising

By: Brooke Thomas

Brooke Thomas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:41 +0000

I’m taking a deeeep glorious breath right now. Thanks for this post- the ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ stuff is definitely everywhere, yet I still need to keep hearing it. Over, and over, and over, and… you get the idea. It helps me sleep at night. It quiets the worrier in my head. It makes me take deep glorious breaths.

Especially hearing you story- someone whose work I love and admire to a giddy degree- is so heartening. Thank you!!

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:27:00 +0000

@Steve – YES! I keep hearing people talking about how they have to stop wasting time reading about business online.

I mean, obviously implementation is important too … but so many people forget about the necessity of “putting yourself through business school”. And there is such great information so easily available. It’s only the guilt that clogs up the works.

Consider Selma squeezed! (Squoze?)

By: steve weaver

steve weaver — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:06:41 +0000

Once again Havi, you've posted about one of the things I've needed most...HOPE. OK, maybe that wasn't exactly the topic but it gave ME hope. I was appalled to discover I've been wasting perfectly good coffee grounds which probably work better than dollar store shampoo! Up until March of this year, I thought computers were only for email and playing World of Warcraft. (Maybe watching your bank account dwindle, but that ain't exactly "good") I was beginning to think the hundreds of hours I've spent reading on the internet was just spinning my wheels, but if it put you, Seth, Chris and countless others into my head and heart; that is time invested, not wasted. Thank you for reminding me. Continue to ROCK!!! P.S. Give Selma a squeeze for me. steve weavers last blog post..Planting seeds

By: Riin

Riin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:25:50 +0000

Havi, thanks for all of this. This is my fourth year in business, and at the beginning of this year I was depressed and wondering if I would ever show a profit. I decided if the business was going to survive, I needed a partner to do the things that I just really didn't enjoy and procrastinated and just really annoyed me. I proposed the idea to a friend, and our new store will be going live this week, and she gave me a contact who loves my yarn and for the first time, I'm profiting. I'm so glad I was finally honest with myself about not being able to do it all by myself and figuring out that if my thing was going to work, I needed to just stop doing the parts I didn't enjoy. I don't use shampoo either. No coffee grounds though. I just use conditioner (no silicones. If you use conditioner with silicones you need to shampoo them out) and my hair is so much nicer than it was when I used shampoo. Riins last blog post..A Finished Object

By: Kathleen, The Savvy VA

Kathleen, The Savvy VA — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:11:44 +0000

Thank you Havi. You couldn’t know how much I needed to hear this

Even this part was important for me to read today:

Comment Zen.
We’ve all got our stuff. We’re all working on our stuff. And of course we don’t judge each other for having stuff.

Kathleen
@thesavvyva

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:41:44 +0000

@JoVE – whoops! Forgot about the coffee grounds.

So what you do is just scrub them into damp hair and then give your scalp a good rub. Then rinse it all out.

I’m super sensitive so I have to do it in the morning or I get all weird, but that’s just me.

For conditioner I beat an egg with a tablespoon of lemon juice and a tablespoon of olive oil. And add a little rosemary oil (just a few drops).

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:29:52 +0000

@Amy Crook – Nice. That is so absolutely right on the money. In fact, if I could only give people one piece of advice, it would be to ignore the experts and drop all the recommended techniques that just don’t work with your personality.

@rachel – Oh hooray. Thank you!

@Jonathan – what, an apartment? What’s that? Oh, no. Couch surfing all the way. Also, some trading of yoga for places to stay. :)

@Melissa – that is the coolest thing I’ve heard all day. WOW. Awesome.