Creative Development

Discover how to live an exciting, enriching life post-retirement, even if you've been unsure where to start. Whether you're about to retire or helping someone navigate this transition, this guide offers a fresh perspective on making the most of your golden years.

Whether it's the great American novel or a groundbreaking new app, many people want to create a Big Thing, but finding the motivation to get started, let alone complete the work, can be daunting. In The Big Thing, New York Times business writer and editor Phyllis Korkki combines real-life stories, science, and insights from her own experience to illuminate the factors that drive people to complete big creative projects - and the obstacles that threaten to derail success.

Whether it's learning ragtime piano, losing 30 pounds, or starting an organic jellybean company, award-winning musician turned communications expert Peter Himmelman's unique techniques to harness fear and take the steps to make goals a reality will give you the tools and confidence you need to stop listening to the negative thoughts holding you back and achieve professional and personal success.

Vivimos en una época de preocupación capital por el desarrollo sustentable. Pero no sólo nuestro planeta tiene reservas limitadas que debemos saber gestionar con responsabilidad y visión estratégica: también nuestro cerebro. Cuando nos obsesionamos por las pérdidas, sufrimos ansiedad por el futuro, sobrevaloramos la opinión de los demás o nos exigimos demasiado, desperdicia

Failure can ruin lives and families. There’s no denying it. It can destroy your health and obliterate your self-esteem. But it also holds a lot of value on the road to success. Failure Rules! walks you through five essential rules to help you pull value from any failure—as proven by Andrew Thorp King’s personal stories of dramatic, cascading failures in business, relationships, art, and life. Journey through key failure lessons from a wildly diverse set of successful entrepreneurs, creatives, and authentics.

One's level of intelligence is not the primary determiner of who wins an argument. It is the ability to use nuances of language and simple models of logic and reframing to create and direct meaning. Real persuasive power comes from focusing on creating context to fit the argument and audience.

In this audiobook, you will be inspired to integrate the trying and traumatic experiences of your life’s journey into the embodied wisdom and creative expression that are possible for you. Destiny Marie Love, the founder of Embodied Voice Healing, provides an intimate peek into her life's stories, as an example of how to integrate traumatic and challenging experiences into the embodiment of creative expression. This book is packed with helpful and simple practices for your own integration and embodiment.

Sì, anche i bambini sono sotto stress! E spesso lo traducono diventando essi stessi fonte di stress per gli adulti che se ne occupano. I bambini di oggi appaiono agitati, dispersivi, con problemi di attenzione e di concentrazione, ansiosi o insicuri, difficilmente rilassati. La meditazione però può aiutarci a crescerli più sereni e presenti e a far sbocciare le loro potenzialità. Con semplicità, questo libro illustra le diverse tecniche meditative, i processi fisiologici e neurologici implicati e i vantaggi che ne derivano.

Simply put, creativity is what makes us human. What if creativity isn’t voodoo but a definable process to learn and follow? The author pulls from researchers, creatives, and experience. The premise is this: Everyone is wired to create. And as we uncover and apply the process, we might actually become better people along the way!

Ideas on a Deadline is the definitive book for creative people who have to deliver breakthrough ideas on demand. One of the most destructive myths about creativity is the idea that we need to wait for inspiration. But as artist Chuck Close said, "Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work." Whether you're a designer, writer, musician, or filmmaker, or an executive, engineer, teacher or salesperson, this book will show you how to "prime the pump" of your creativity, overcome the blocks, and deliver great ideas when you need them the most.

You can have exactly the life and business you want if you trade in your limiting beliefs for an abundance mindset. An abundance in resources and endless business ideas. Working for yourself, generating profitable ideas and running your own business requires massive confident in yourself. This program is designed to tap into the confidence required in order to find your vision and voice as a female entrepreneur. It incorporates techniques to unleash a more confident and resilient version of you.

From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter - the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today.

Find your creative purpose. Overcoming the barriers to innovation is easier than you think. Marc Silber, best-selling author and award-wining creative and educator shows you how to avoid the traps of procrastination, overthinking, and self-doubt. The exercises in Create are specifically designed to help you find certainty and confidence in self-expression.

Trasforma i tuoi sogni in realtà, un giorno alla volta, una visualizzazione al giorno. Scopri come trasformare i tuoi desideri più profondi in realtà tangibili con questo programma pratico di 30 giorni, ispirato agli insegnamenti del classico di Genevieve Behrend Il potere della visualizzazione. Basato sulla filosofia della maestra della Scienza della Mente, questo workbook ti guiderà attraverso un percorso quotidiano, aiutandoti a sviluppare e rafforzare il tuo potere di visualizzazione.

L'estime de soi est essentiel pour vivre dans un réel climat de confiance, et ce, dans toutes vos relations avec les autres que ce soit dans votre vie personnelle ou professionnelle. En pratiquant régulièrement cette médiation, vous serez en mesure d'avancer de manière plus autonome et d'agir avec une liberté absolue. Cette énergie est si puissante, qu'elle vous aidera à gérer vos émotions et vous propulsera vers l'avant dans l'accomplissement de vos tâches, vos projets ou vos objectifs futurs. De jour en jour, vous gagnerez en confiance et vous serez plus optimiste dans la réalisation de vos rêves, car vous pourrez vaincre tous les obstacles qui surgissent brusquement dans votre vie. Allez-y sans crainte et sans peur avec courage et force pour ainsi sortir de votre zone de confort, d'oser et d'aller de l'avant en toute confiance.

Gaze into the wounded soul of an innocent child and experience a different perspective of soul damage and the destruction left by sexual abuse. Through the eyes of author Shari Rickenbach, go on a healing journey of overcoming the shame, rage, guilt, fear, and pain of sexual abuse. Choice is the beginning to your life lived free - free from the shackles and pain of abuse - free to be who God created you to be - free to live life to your fullest potential to co-create with God. Choose your beginning to restoring your voice and value.

On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of Time and The New Yorker, and it ultimately came to symbolize resistance culture. Creator of the Pussyhat Project, Krista Suh, took an idea and built a worldwide movement and symbol in just two months. But like so many women, Krista spent years letting her fears stop her from learning to live by her own rules.

Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career, and social life? How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It tells you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative.

In this inspiring audiobook, the beloved artist behind Spoonful of Faith shows you how to overcome your fears and harness your own creative gifts as an act of worship. With thoughtful stories and powerful reflections, Jena Holliday invites you to discover how you uniquely reflect the heart of a creative God.

Credete che tutto è possibile e che voi siete ciò che volete essere. Perseverate in questa convinzione e si trasformerà in realtà. Sapendo che tutto è possibile a chi crede, potete persuadervi che, sebbene la vostra ragione e i vostri sensi lo neghino, la vostra supposizione-assunzione lo renderà reale?