Fascinating! I would very much like to learn more, but I can’t do two seminars simultaneously. Would it be possible to briefly meet you at the main registration hall at some point to learn more? I am a criminal defense attorney in Georgia stuck in a decade-long effort to write a book of a story I lived through (that has already been optioned by New Line Cinema). It seems that “Fluid Self Destuckification” might be right up my alley.

By the way, I tried to send comments through your other method (click “flower”, click “tree”) but it just froze the computer.

Please have your first mate let me know if I could “audit” a session today (Thursday) as my program does not start until this evening. Sounds like a more interesting seminar anyway!

Thanks,

McCracken Poston

Congratulations on doing something positive for yourself. (I mean, we can’t have you ALL the time, right?)

And as someone who is finding my mission (slowly but surely) I am inspired (as always) about how you are regrouping and getting back to the basics of your business/mission/lifegoals.

Good for you.

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The question is, will you answer DMs on Twitter? Because they usually come through email.

It’s not that I’m trying to find a way to break the rules. It’s more that I’m trying to find the annoying loopholes like those associated with Lent.

JT

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@Dick – That has to be the best comment in the history of comments. I giggled for five minutes and I still have no idea what you were trying to say.

@Kelly – Mercy granted, sweetie. Of course, I didn’t even know that you had one because I have a thousand auto-delete filters set up to destroy anything that even looks like an out-of-office reply or a “not checking email message”.

Which kind of defeats the point. I mean, it’s like spy vs spy or something.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t secretly check email way more often than the autoresponders say they do. And it also seems to me like it would be easier to tell clients to send an SMS to say Meeting Cancelled than to regularly send no-content messages to hundreds of people.

Anyway, thanks for the support, sweetie … and good luck training your clients to respect your time and not expect you to be at the beck and call of their every single emergency. I know it’s a huge pain — ESPECIALLY when you’re a copywriter or a designer and then your clients want you to be accessible at all hours.

One of the reasons I love the month in Europe that my gentleman friend and I do each year is that his design clients are all asleep when we’re working. And because they can’t reach him when they need him, they totally stop having emergencies. Or bugging him about them.

He’s way more relaxed and happy and gets more done. Then we come back and they start having emergencies again. Bastards.

Hmmm … maybe you need an autoresponder that says “I’ve moved to gay Paree! I am reading this while eating croissant!”

Except for this one way I used your material today. I was supposed to plan a shower with someone who never got back to me about a date. I suggested we schedule it on three different occasions. Today, she informed me that the shower would be over the weekend and asked me to go in on a gift.

Since she still owes me for another gift (to someone else)despite me reminding her twice about that PLUS I have Jen Louden’s Virtual Retreat this weekend, I simply stepped away from the shower saying that I wasn’t available as I have a teleconference this weekend.

That means I won’t be sharing the cost of the shower or gift. Since I’m being a good steward with my money, that meets my need for conscious spending. I usually can’t hold on to that thread when it comes to these types of things. I get all balled up in what other’s expect me to do and wanting to be seen as generous.

Well, I recently revised my policy on generosity and decided to only be generous where I really feel a connection to someone. I stopped being generous because that’s what I think other’s expect of me or what my ego says to do. I feel lighter and this too is because of working with your maerial.

Second, I could extricate myself from this shower and move on with my life. No dwelling on what she might think or others or things of that nature that I would have “had to” work through in the past.

Thank you for showing me how to set healthy boundaries more clearly and with less reactivity. I recently dropped a bunch of other activities that were draining my energy but I thought I should still engage in them to be supportive. One problem though – they all cost money and didn’t feel so supportive for me! Finally saw the light there too.

Thank you is a total understatement for how much I appreciate your vision and your clarity.

By the way, the kitchen table is everything and more that I’ve wanted in terms of structure and support of people that value similar things and have a sense of humor. You’ve done an awesome job with that and that is a huge contribution to the world!

Thanks again.

Amazingly, I don’t have another single thing to say.

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Downside of the internet? It’s boundless.

Deep bow… for honoring yourself (with room to breathe) and for honoring your readers (with room to grow).

All Love,
Erika

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