Comments on: Greatest Hits? The revisited revisited album.

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:24:02 +0000

Only four months later!

I finally got the sidebar thing sorted and updated. Under the category Useful Stuff (thanks again, Corrina).

Yay. Whew.

You are wonderful.

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:26:54 +0000

Thanks, guys! These are all great.

@Corrina – ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh! Useful Stuff. That is PERFECT. I’m doing it. Thank you! Yay.

@Anna – a Selma Recommends column would be brilliant. Though she’d probably only recommend the ones about her running for president and stuff. She’s kind of vain. For a duck.

@Dree – will try! It kind of sounds like Attic Greek to me too … :)

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:38:57 +0000

Oh I meant to say… if you are doing categories, can you ask Selma for her favorites and have a category called Selma Recommends? I really want to know what Selma recommends.

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:37:31 +0000

@emilylime yes! The one about Feeling Like Dirt is the very first one I thought of.

And the Doing Just One Thing post. I think those are the top two for seriously saving my ass. Could you have an “If you’re kind of freaking out right now, read this” category?

Of the current Greatest Hits, You Don’t Have to Face Your Fear was huge for me. Huge. And I quote the image of the dragon vs. kitten when I’m trying to explain your stuff. The Twitter one converted me, too.

I was out with my mom the other day and we were laughing because she was demanding (in mock-5-year-old-voice) “tell me the one about the shoe again”. So… that would be a family favorite.

And of course I adore each and every dialogue with wall or monster.

Now let’s see which I have emailed to loved ones…
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/newsletter/give-me-back-my-comfort-zone/
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/stuckification/difficult-question-answer/
And You Don’t Have to Face Your Fear.
And the Dirt one. Twice.

By: Darcy

Darcy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:23:44 +0000

Wow, did I miss it or did no one mention the one to your Twitter stalker burglar?

http://www.fluentself.com/blog/stuff/my-twitter-stalker-burglar/

Because that one’s my favorite. I’m still waiting for the sequel, too :)

I also can’t remember which one it was, but the one where you said “I don’t go out. It’s not part of my life.” That one blew a big giant hole in a bunch of stuckness for me, and it was great. It was like, permission to say I don’t go out?! What!? It might not be greatest hits level for most people, but it meant a lot to me.
.-= Darcy´s last post … Day 49: Have I mentioned I’m getting sick of the numbers? =-.

By: Corrina

Corrina — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:22:11 +0000

Hello :)

I just found your blog tonight and have been looking around and reading and such for longer than I should since I should most definitely be sleeping right now. I will definitely be coming back and doing some delving into the archives.

Which means that right now I can’t provide any definite suggestions about my favourite posts since I haven’t read enough yet! I really like the one where you talk to you wall and the wall cries because it loves you. That really resonated.

But I’m really commenting because I thought you answered your own question re ‘greatest hits’ – I think Useful Stuff would be a great name for a list of, well, useful stuff :)

Reading the comments I find myself agreeing with Dree too that a ramp for people discovering their own fluency would be great – if only perhaps in the order you link the posts that make the list.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:36:44 +0000

My mostest favoritest is “This is your brain on patterns.” I know, it’s very two years ago, but it is awesome.

I also have a lot of affection for “5 ways to fix non-physical pain.”

Clearly I am into detailed outlines of processes! But I like them because they help me figure out what to do when I’m stuck (which is not my best figuring-out time, but is the time that I really need to figure stuff out).

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:55:47 +0000

Well, one thing I’ve noticed is that you do a lot of internal linking. A lot of these recur quite often (eg throw shoes, just one guy, chickens, Dance of Shiva), and together they comprise your core concepts and also explain the in-jokes so that your readers can feel like part of a community. So one approach would be to have somebody tally up your most-used in-links and make that your new “Greatest Hits” list, the theory being that the things you return to most often are the things of greatest significance.
.-= Shannon´s last post … On Tigers =-.

By: Lean Ni Chuilleanain (@leannich)

Lean Ni Chuilleanain (@leannich) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:42:32 +0000

Oh, yes, definitely the talking-to-a-wall post – it blew my head open (in a good way). The other talking-to-monsters posts were great, too. I also love the blogging therapy series, and the posts about not needing to get out of your comfort zone / jump off a cliff, and Scissors Part 2.

All of them, really :-) But then it wouldn’t exactly be Greatest Hits, would it?
.-= Lean Ni Chuilleanain (@leannich)´s last post … Sparkly Glittery Things and Me =-.

By: Andrew Lightheart @alightheart

Andrew Lightheart @alightheart — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:27:10 +0000

‘I Smell Sovereignty’.

Love it!
.-= Andrew Lightheart @alightheart´s last post … How to be less grumpy =-.