Share “Mommy, I miss you. Please let me stay home with you today.” She had been pleading ever since I picked her up at her Dad’s house, and here we were, sitting in the parking lot at school, cuddling in the front seat, as she asked one last time. But instead of quickly answering that [...]
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EveryDay 2: Is Bigness a Side Effect?
Share This was a big week for me. Personally, businessy, blog trafficy. But I can’t decide – did the bigness come out of the bold acts that I did, or did the bigness come as a side effect? Related PostsEveryDay21 (5/20/12): Expectation Management and my Next Big Thing. EveryDay20: Billable Hours to Myself and me [...]
Live Your Truth Tip: Accepting Reality
Share So, what’s the crap that keeps you from living your truth? Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing about the different genres of crap that get in front of us seeing or living our truth – today’s video is about accepting reality. This video is for you who have resentment, tons of stress, [...]
I don't deserve this english muffin.
Share I don’t deserve this english muffin. Not just because it’s all carby and toasted and smothered in real butter. But because this morning I haven’t earned my food yet. There are tasks yet unfinished. The unanswered emails, the unbought gifts, the unwashed dishes, the unlaunched sites, the uncollected receivables, the uninterviewed experts, the unresponded [...]
Yes, You Want "Just" a Hobby
Share 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 [...]
Creating Space for Ecstasy Project #1: Hacking Sleep, week 1
Share 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 [...]
A Love Letter.
Share I love your everything. I love all of your light parts. Your creativity, your caring, your courage. Your smarts and intelligence and strength. Your love of learning and life and beauty. You sleeping at the foot of your daughter’s hospital bed every night, you willing to be naked in every blog post, the way [...]
Hermiting Up for the Holidays
Share I have not left my apartment for almost four days. Haven’t left since I went and saw Harry Potter at the 9:45 am showing on Thanksgiving Day. Not even to check my mail. Not to Peet’s for coffee. Not to run to the corner store for more Diet Dr. Pepper. I’ve been playing marathon [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday.
Share I don’t want to create today. I Want Today Off. Off from The To Do List. Off from Productivity. Off from Results. Off from Flow. I just want to sit. Be still. No moving, no progress, no growing, no intention, no thinking, no analysis. Just. This. Eat. Drink. Laze. Internet. Dance. Play. Movie. Read. [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.