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Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:33:31 +0000

[...] and brilliant site redesign (by Amanda Farough) are capturing more traffic, my intuitive sense is that my blog has – to borrow inimitably weird language from the loopy Havi Brooks whom I absolutely need as my business mentor – biggified. [...]

By: Jessica Reagan Salzman

Jessica Reagan Salzman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:05:45 +0000

Ooooh, I loved this post! :) xo .-= Jessica Reagan Salzman´s last post ... Routine, Interrupted =-.

By: Pirate

Pirate — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:19:32 +0000

What do you do when the thing you’re really good at doing… isn’t a thing you like to do for very long? An hour here or there is fine and easy, but making a job out of it? No way. And everyone who knows you keeps telling you how good you are at this thing and how you should make a career out of it!
.-= Pirate´s last post … In Which the Pirate Struggles. =-.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:57:05 +0000

“I knew what every single person needed to be doing in her business.”

Wow. I want to keep you in a cage and have you tell me what to do.

What – that doesn’t sound like fun for you?

Bring on the counter-intuitive intuitive business stuff! I can’t wait to hear it.

By: Kate T.W.

Kate T.W. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:55:20 +0000

I adore this post. Lots of greatness in it, but my favorite part is the title & complete ownership of your genius from your heart, clearly not coming from ego. It is freedom. Makes me feel free. .-= Kate T.W.´s last post ... Dead Days =-.

By: Leocadia

Leocadia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:14 +0000

What I keep realizing when reading your blog and everyone’s comments is something that brings tremendous relief over and over again: I often have the impression that EVERYONE I know who is roughly my age (late 30s) seems to have “sorted out” his or her life (I know they probably haven’t but you know what I mean). And I keep thinking, damn, I still haven’t found what I REALLY want to do in life and I am still working on so much stuff and I am still so reluctant to take risks. So it is so so good to read how many of us are still searching in a way, are trying to summon up courage for an important step, are willing to work on themselves. So thanks to Havi and everyone for being so open and inspiring:-)

Maybe risk taking is easier when one doesn’t know what a financial cushion is. I was brought up in a family with constant talk about the need of financial cushions, pension funds, saving plans… This has actually created a lot of fear about spending money and investing “in myself”, this is always somehow connected with guilt. I keep bullying my husband because he spends a lot on a hobby that truly nourishes his soul – and I would rather see that money in a savings account (and I can clearly hear my father talking, arrgghh). Another pattern that needs to be de-stuck.

@ Elizabeth, I am like you, there is no amount that would feel cushion-ey enough anyway!

@ Havi: “Since I thought making money was gross…”. I have come across quite a few people in artistic or healing professions who have said the same.
A yoga teacher I very much appeciate said once “There is nothing wrong with money, it is all about the attitude that goes with it.”

By: Prime

Prime — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:30:28 +0000

I'm looking forward to these counterintuitive tips. it def takes the BORING out from biz talk .-= Prime´s last post ... Bulusan Lake: I should really go for some swimming lessons =-.

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:14:45 +0000

I think one of the reasons why I enjoy reading your blog so much Havi is that you’re totally right there tapping me in the shoulder (in a loving way of course) urging/prompting me to suck it up and just do it already. I’ll admit it, I haven’t done it just yet, but I can FEEL the desire on my end getting too strong for me to continue to ignore the biggification.

And for that I thank you (and Selma!)

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:41:07 +0000

I just want to say thank you, today, for mentioning that my thing doesn’t have to be a business. Because I’m not sure it is. Or at least, not yet. But it’s my thing, and it matters to me, and so I can get de-stuck and sit with my stuff and it doesn’t have to be any more than that.

Ah. I’m feeling more zen already. :)
.-= Amber´s last post … Making Space for New Things =-.

By: spiralsongkat

spiralsongkat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:39:49 +0000

Bouncing with excitement, happiness, and hope, and eager to discover what happens next. I am so glad I found this website! .-= spiralsongkat´s last post ... We can’t do it all…or can we? =-.