On Sunday morning I went for a three hour walk through the Santa Clara hills. These are the people I found. The first person is telling a story. Persons of the first travel in packs. You can hear these pods of two, three, seven coming from a hundred feet away, their excited voices piercing through [...]
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a story of two pens
Can the right pen improve the quality of your life? I say yes. Here’s my story of two different pens. Now I ask you … what are you tolerating in your life? What’s just “good enough” but isn’t great? What little irritations are you putting up with … instead of getting what you actually want, [...]
The Undecideds
Laying in my sheets this morning, instead of surfing twitter and blogs and facebook and instagram for 45 minutes … I just rested, closing my eyes, considering the source of my current frustrations. Yes, as I wrote in my last blog post, I have many unfinshededs that need to be closed before I have the [...]
You Are Enough.
While sitting in the coffeehouse yesterday afternoon I wrote in my journal – if there was anything you could tell them today, what would it be? This was the answer. – You are enough. I know that voice inside your head disagrees. She pushes, yells, nags, her never-ending voice stern in your ear: If only [...]
Creating Content vs Creating Space (or What I Do When I'm Not Here)
It hit me today how I’m sharing much fewer blog posts / videos here than I would have thought by the end of March. But there’s good reason. I’ve found that there are two things I need to do before I have the time/energy/space to create lots of blog content. And yes, you too may [...]
Being Gentle With Myself and Related Unprecedents of Today.
Today, I’m giving myself a break. Today, I’m hormonal. Haven’t been sleeping well for a week. Stressed about a real estate financial problem that will probably take years to get out from under. Thinking about my upcoming event and my daughter’s 6th birthday party and does anyone like us and will anyone come and will [...]
Creating Space for Ecstasy via Morning & Evening Routines
I regularly forget to eat. Forget to sit. Forget to write. Forget to read. Forget to turn off the internet or get into bed or jump in the shower or take the vitamins in my extra-large pills-by-day organizer from Walgreens. And then it’s 11 PM or 11 AM or 5:35 in the morning and my [...]
Yes, You Want "Just" a Hobby
Yes, you’ve heard me talk about how this is not a freaking non-profit, how you need to run it like a business and not just as a hobby … but this video I’m asking you the other side of the question. What happens when you run *everything* in your life as a business? (And don’t [...]
Creating Space for Ecstasy Project #1: Hacking Sleep, week 1
My theme for 2011 is Creating Space for Ecstasy via Boundaries & Self Care. And the only way to create that for my people is to first create that for myself. So instead of New Year’s Resolutions I’m focusing on personal projects – such as getting better sleep, setting up & practicing a beauty self-care [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, an attorney, mom, writer, and explorer.