Share Crumbled up on my gross-dirty-because-not-yet-vacuumed carpet, with the disassembled-refurbished-but-new-to-me Dyson vacuum cleaner spread out before me, it happened. I wept. I curled up in a ball on the floor and sobbed about a freaking vacuum cleaner. Yesterday at 1:32 PM a machine that refused to reassemble was the one-more-thing that broke me. Yes, I’ve [...]
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Do You Write or Speak Your Truth?
Share I consider myself a writer. Because writing brings something particular out of me, something deep and vulnerable. But … writing is *hard* for me. If I feel blocked, if I want to create tons of content really fast, if I’m teaching something complicated – it’s easiest, a natural expression, fastest for me to speak. [...]
Resisting Resistance
Share I am just not feeling it today. The blog post, the errands, the podcast, the emails, the dishes – everything on the to do list just looming over me. Today, I am plagued by resistance. None of the my usual strategies worked – couldn’t get myself to Panera Bread to write, cleaning out my [...]
My Life is Impossible.
Share I think I have an answer. An answer to the questions that have been keeping me sleepless for months. Why am I so stressed? Why can’t I sleep? Why do I forget to eat? Why can’t I get rid of this cough? How come I am always behind? Why do I run out of [...]
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies & What Happens Next
Share It would be so easy to just slip back into stress mode. To start working 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. To stop writing each morning. To cut down on the walks. To get on my masculine, boss lady. To start forcing, making, producing things again. But we know where that got [...]
How to Make Money By Getting Nothing Done
Share I’m coming up on the end of the 60 day sabbatical, my moratorium on promotion and launches and producing and completing, so I could have space for the energies of thinking and creating and writing and who knows what else needed to be allowed to happen. Here are a few things I learned. Writing [...]
Setting Ridiculous Goals That Might Already Be Done
Share As many of you know, I think goals suck. Goals don’t suck for everyone, but they do for me. Because when I set goals (earn $x or have x# of clients or get x# of visitors to my website by x month) I just sit around feeling lame and frustrated that I did not [...]
How to Write Every Day
Share I write every day. First thing in the morning – sometimes 4:30 AM, sometimes 7:15 AM – before any other work, before errands, sometimes even before coffee. It may take 20 minutes. It may take 3 hours. I may write 200 words. I may write 1500. Now … I’m fascinated that I can actually [...]
Stop Reading This and Go Get Shit Done.
Share There’s a big danger with this Living Your Truth stuff that we’ve been talking about. We sit around discussing our feelings and getting all incestuous about the shoulds and the bitches in the corner and our moments and the shitpiles we’re climbing and all agreeing with each other about how it’s hard and easy [...]
3 Tips for Fun & Sexy Daily To Do Lists
Share I’ve tried every freaking time management system out there. Every binder, every CD set, every organizer, every computer program. But my current focus & productivity is coming down to a little super sticky florescent post it note and a powerful tip from one of my friends … How do you manage your daily to [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.