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From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and...

The essential guide for gift-giving that makes our dearest feel loved and offers deep and lasting connection—from the author of the bestselling Letters to My Grandchild and creator of the “Letters to . . .” series Riddled with obligation, expense, and waste, gifts are often reduced in our...

This book is a quiet revolution, a guide filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessions and build boundaries between your work, your job, and your life. From business anecdotes about fulfilling orders to more personal stories about Marlee Grace’s recovery from divorce and...

Success means something different for everyone. For Bill Rancic, it meant taking the things he loved -- like coming up with exciting ideas and never working a 9-to-5 job -- and translating that into a profitable business. By the time he was thirty, he'd achieved every goal he set for himself by...

FORMERLY PUBLISHED AS INSIGHT OUT International bestselling author and Stanford University professor Tina Seelig adapts her wildly popular creativity course to a practical guide on how to put your best ideas into action. For the past fifteen years, Professor Tina Seelig has taught her Stanford...

Sam Bennett presents a radically simple idea: small actions, the kind you can do in 15 minutes, are enough to move the needle on your levels of joy and satisfaction—and ultimately change your life.

Dr. Estevez guides artists at all levels and in all disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values, and to cultivate an artistic practice that is joyful and sustainable. She shares her discoveries and insightful coaching exercises that stem from the belief that when we are connected to what resonates deeply within us, the "tortured artist" trope simply doesn't hold. By looking at creative work through a new lens, she provides us a mean to begin—or to begin again—in sustaining ways.

Como un hombre piensa, así es su vida (As a Man Thinketh) es una obra fundamental en la literatura de desarrollo personal, publicada por primera vez en 1903. Este libro, aunque breve, ha tenido un impacto perdurable en generaciones de lectores, siendo un pilar en el campo de la automejora.

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients from reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development. Accessible and personable, Rahti Gorfien interweaves stories from her personal life and private practice to alleviate the burden of blockages creatives generated by their own divergent thinking, unconscious conditioning, and memory.

Have you ever sat in front of a blank page after you've resolved to finally draw something again and you simply have no idea what to draw? Your head is suddenly empty, even though you've just been thinking about all the things you absolutely mustn't forget and wondering why your neighbor is vacuuming so early again. You've probably wondered why other people around you have so many original ideas and always have a solution for everything. These people don't let problems get them down and it seems as if they perceive the world differently; more positively and imaginatively.

Творчество — это уникальная возможность развить собственную индивидуальность, обрести свободу и стать личностью. Но… не каждый из нас такой возможностью пользуется. В этой книге Ошо говорит, что творческое мышление очень важно для того, чтобы стать осознаннее и почувствовать силу своего "Я". Великий мистик утверждает, что если мы хотим быть творческими, то нам придется избавиться от всей обусловленности; иначе творчество будет просто копированием — копией под копирку. "Творец не может следовать по проторенному пути. Он должен найти свой собственный путь, прорубаясь сквозь джунгли жизни", — говорит Ошо.

Quando pesquisamos a palavra "negócios" associada ao Mauricio de Sousa, não há muito conteúdo disponível. Este Mauricio (empreendedor) por trás do Mauricio (criativo) certamente é uma das facetas menos conhecidas de um homem que se tornou parte do imaginário do brasileiro por quatro gerações. É difícil visualizá-lo na sala de espera de um banco aguardando um gerente liberar um empréstimo para salvar sua empresa. Se você é brasileiro, acredita em um sonho e decidiu empreender, sabe que essa cena faz parte da realidade.

As artificial intelligence gains an increasing foothold in our work and our lives, the need to find and maintain our uniquely human creativity is growing more urgent. This guide will ensure that you stay on course as you navigate through the complexity of modern times. It will help you open new pathways to creativity and equip you with tools for your personal and professional journey to becoming a conscious participant in creation.

Within this poetry book, I invite you to embark on a journey through the highs and lows of my life, exposing all the raw emotions of human nature, the nooks and crannies of humanity. These verses are the stories and experiences that have shaped me, a chronicle of finding strength in both the shadows and the light–in the vile underbelly and the milky clouds alike.

Looking at myth foundations as well as archetypal themes, this illuminating book probes universal questions like: Who am I? What is my journey? Where is home? With excerpts from beloved memoirs, practical advice, and writing prompts, listeners will gain a deeper understanding of the rich scope of the memoir genre. And in turn, they’ll come out with a better grasp on their own life trajectory and their place within the rich tapestry of the human experience.

Anyone can pick up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn. And everyone can be mindful. Mindfulness in Knitting casts fresh light on this renowned calming craft, and reveals how the act of “knit and purl” can be the epitome of conscious living. Ethical textile artist Rachael Matthews unpicks...

Everyone can draw, and everyone can be mindful. Mindfulness in Drawing is an engaging and enlightening insight into how setting pencil to paper is a meditative act by its innate nature, and how this creates a deeper connection between ourselves and the world around us. Through mindful creative...

Feeling stifled by "shoulds" and yearning to find your authentic voice? Uncork your creativity with Brenda Ueland's timeless classic, "If You Want to Write." Originally published in 1938, this inspiring guide is more than just craft tips; it's a passionate manifesto for artistic independence. Ueland, a mentor to writers like Anaïs Nin and Flannery O'Connor, believes everyone has a unique story to tell and urges you to silence self-doubt and embrace the inherent joy of writing.

A menudo tendemos a creer que el trabajo y el placer son dos cosas opuestas e incompatibles. Sin embargo, es posible descubrir lo que nos hace vibrar y convertirlo en nuestra principal ocupación. Si escuchamos nuestros intereses y pasiones, podemos transformar, literalmente, nuestras vidas. Gracias a su inusual carrera autodidacta, Gavin Strange, diseñador gráfico de Aardman Animations y creativo freelance bajo el seudónimo de JamFactory, nos invita a descubrirnos a nosotros mismos.

Troward carefully explores how creation takes place in the individual. How we as the individualization of universal consciousness are the means by which that consciousness come to know itself which he calls Self-Contemplation. The Creative Process is his most thorough and complete work.