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[pedanther]

The Fluent Self is a blog about self-fluency and destuckificaton (the sort of thing that a less playful person might call "time management" or "personal development"), written by Havi Brooks, who, as she says, doesn't consider herself an authority saying "Here's what you should do" but rather an example saying "Here's what has worked for me".

It's one of my favourite blogs on the web, but I don't read it often, because when I do I get the feeling that I would really get something out of it if I stuck with it, and then I get frightened and go hide somewhere else and don't come back for months.

Which is why I've only just learned, mere days before it happens, that the online store attached to the blog is about to close. The store carries professionally-done-up versions of things that have worked for Havi: there's a book of techniques for dealing with procrastination, for example, and another of techniques for dealing with PTSD and panic attacks. (I own a copy of the book on procrastination, and have found it useful.)

I've read the blog post explaining why the online store is going away, and the reasons make good sense. I just wish I'd known about it sooner, so I had more time to go around telling people, "Here's a cool thing that's not going to be here much longer."

...on the other hand, knowing me and deadlines, there's a good chance I wouldn't have got around to it until now anyway. :/

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[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

I went and had a look, ow $108 for an ebook, yow.

[pedanther]

If it helps, the $108 package is actually two ebooks, a couple of extra pdfs, and a collection of audio files. (And, of course, the fee for knowing where to put the chalk mark.)

But I won't say it didn't occur to me that, if the online store isn't paying its way any more, the prices might have something to do with why.

Putting a price on advice is one of those tricky things. There are actual studies showing that if you give away your advice for free, people will assume it's not worth anything; on the other hand people will balk at paying too much to be given advice, and every person has a different idea of what counts as too much. I found that $108 was a price I was willing to pay, but I wouldn't want to say that anyone else should necessarily find the same.

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

:-) I would say that while all that hard work shouldn't be trivialised with a low price, for that level of pay, I'm expecting a hardcover. Possibly leatherbound.

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to read her! Yonks and yonks ago though, I'd forgotten that she existed. I do prefer Steve Pavlina over all others in the field - genuinely original, a bit unnervingly honest, and sometimes just annoying. But great. (But annoying.) But great. Even given all the stuff about his ex-wife and sex-life, which I could do without.

Thanks for the tip, though.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

"I get the feeling that I would really get something out of it if I stuck with it, and then I get frightened and go hide somewhere else and don't come back for months."

Yuppppppp. ;P

*hugs*

[pedanther]

*hugs*