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The Real Reason I’m Moving to San Francisco

Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Yes, I was planning to move to San Diego. Yes, I’ve been talking about it since August. Yes, now I’m moving to San Francisco.
And yes, you are not the only person to wonder, what the heck is up w/ that?
Here’s the video to explain why ….

So what do you need to do to restructure your [...]

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Sake & Ziplines, Couches & Swords: What I Learned on #austinadventures w/ @CouchSurfingOri

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I sat down to write this blog post about my adventures in Austin 4+ hours ago. But I did not even opened up a blank text document to get started until this moment.
Instead, I futzed around on twitter. Facebook. Skype. Checked my Google Analytics. Researched when Lilith Fair will be touring this summer.
And then randomly [...]

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Why I’m Not Setting Goals or Picking Words for 2010

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

(This post is the lame post that I didn’t publish a few days ago. But, now I’m thinking maybe it really wasn’t lame. Either way, following the assignments of my amazing commenters, here you go. If you like it, good. If not, I warned you.)
Here’s the process taught by Pax Programs to find your four [...]

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Sorry, I’m Not Feeling Epic Today

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I’ve been trying to write a blog post for the last 4 days.
This is not that post.
That post freaking sucked.
Okay, maybe it didn’t really *suck* … but it was definitely not epic. No matter how many times I rewrote it, how many stories I added and took away, whether or not I used the f [...]

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The Truth About Vegas, or What I Did in 2009

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I woke, sat straight up in bed, in tears, knowing in my bones that this was the moment.
And I thought: “oh, fuck it.”
The moment was at 5:30 AM in a hotel room in Caesar’s Palace on Saturday, June 6, 2009.
I came to Las Vegas for a big “find your life purpose” event to connect with [...]

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Skype, Starbucks & Skin Grafts: 11 Strategies to Find Friends in Fantasyland

Posted on 12. Dec, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I always wanted Friends.
Every Thursday night in my Junior year of college, a group of us girls would run back from night class to gather in Mindy’s dorm room, drink illicit margaritas, and revel in the details of a romanticized version of New York City life.
The scenario portrayed on the 1990s TV show “Friends” seemed [...]

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Ramifications of a Transparent Life

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Yesterday I tweeted: “transparency is a profound freedom”
… meaning that sharing all the good & bad of our lives, dropping the mythological veil of privacy, releases us from having to hide.
So we can become truly free.
And this tweet got a bunch of affirmatives and hell yeahs! and retweets.
Because transparency sounds romantic.
Uplifting. Interesting. Powerful. Like [...]

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Making the Commitment to Signposts & Sh*t Piles

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

So lately I’ve been thinking about spelunking.
Stay with me here.
You see, when I was younger, in an (seemly sane yet totally insane) effort to “grow up” and “do what I was supposed to do,” I opted into a normal life. And as we all know, I totally sucked at that.
Over the last few days, [...]

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Magic, Energy & Ecstasy Outside the Seminar Room: Post-#Shine Wrap Up pt 3

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

(this is part 3 of the Post-#Shine Wrap Up … check out part 1: Do It With Your Eyes Open & Be Awesome and part 2: Speaking, Bullsh*t, and Billionaires)
More of what I learned after 5 days in Las Vegas:
The Magic Happens Outside of the Seminar Room
Why is it that most of the time we [...]

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