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By: Becoming a better rester. « Freckled Brilliance

Becoming a better rester. « Freckled Brilliance — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:56:55 +0000

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Exit the middle | theredheadsaid — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:11:02 +0000

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Weekly Check In #1 < Imaginary Skies — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:00:46 +0000

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By: Josiane

Josiane — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:29:06 +0000

@Lori: Thank you so much for describing advanced practice as the *real* beginning – a lightbulb went on for me when I read that. Yes, I’m another one of those who fly past the beginning and often remain stuck in the middle, just like Sheridan has described so well, and that means I haven’t really learned how to be a beginner. The way you said the advanced is the real beginning gave me a new perspective on that, one that seems very helpful to me. Thank you!

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Frrrrriday Rrrrround-up! | communicatrix — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:59:16 +0000

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:16:09 +0000

Hallo Havi,

Good thoughts at good times… I have been going through the process of extricating myself from the middle (as I perceive it right now, anyway! Many middles to come, as consciousness lapses in… and out…) as a recent graduate from college. My first plan didn’t work so I was about to go BACK. Glad I took a few classes this summer to remind myself of how poor of an idea that would have been. I finished school, and I did it for what I wanted the *first* time. Capitulation to a ready-made career plan is not a conscious option! It’s time for me to claim my life and make it mine, mine, *mine*.

Rawr! Liberation! Woo!
.-= Michelle´s last post … So Have You Ever Gone To Start A Blog And Not Known What To Make The First Post So You Wander Through A Bunch Of Archives And End Up Totally Creeping On Some Blogs =-.

By: amy goetz

amy goetz — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:48:11 +0000

YES!!!

i nowanna be in the middle

thank you lovely for this!

hugs and kisses
.-= amy goetz´s last post … the key for the door =-.

By: JoVE

JoVE — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:38:11 +0000

Brilliant way to articulate this. Thank you.

I can see how this has happened with me and my business though I think that means I’m out of the middle even though I’m going slowly. I do notice I am much less worried about how I should do it and being a bit more open to trying things and being a beginner about some things.

However, this post also made me see that helping people out of the middle is exactly what I want to be doing in my business. That post-PhD folks think they are no longer beginners but they are often still looking for people to tell them what they need to do to be successful. And they often lose track of what they wanted to do this for in the first place.

So thank you for helping me see that helping them get out of the middle and be in sovereignty is exactly what I am trying to do. And that sovereignty is crucial to “advanced”.
.-= JoVE´s last post … Don’t make the committee do all the work =-.

By: Julie Daley

Julie Daley — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:18:20 +0000

Havi,
I’ve just been self-diagnosed with ‘middle-itis’. oy. thank you from the bottom of middledom for these words, right now at this moment. such a freaking fantastic post.
.-= Julie Daley´s last post … Seed =-.

By: Lori Paximadis

Lori Paximadis — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:05:57 +0000

@Sheridan @Stephni You are *so* not alone in your situation. The surface beginnings are ridiculously easy 99% of the time, and the middle is so comfortable and cushy, but then the advanced (the *real* beginning) is so very, very hard and frustrating and tearjerking, and it makes me doubt my ability in everything. I really think it’s because I never learned how to be a beginner, how to not only be okay with not-knowing but to actually actively embrace the not-knowing.

Havi, there is so very much to think about here. Thank you.
.-= Lori Paximadis´s last post … Tetris =-.