Creative Development

In Start More Than You Can Finish, writer, artist, and entrepreneur Becky Blades offers a powerful new mindset for our modern world: acting on more ideas makes us happier—and reveals our highest creativity. She empowers listeners to become "stARTists"—initiators with a bias for action and the courage to ignite ideas—and introduces the concept of "stARTistry. Start More Than You Can Finish challenges the tropes our dads, moms, and third-grade teachers told us about finishing. In today's world, we must, in fact, start more than we can finish.

Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues, and Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life is her answer. With humor and understanding, Dale breaks down each obstacle to a creative career and presents workable strategies for a long-range, manageable, and meaningful life in the arts.

¿Cómo surgen las mejores ideas? ¿Es posible que un buen baño de agua caliente, caminatas largas, reírnos, meditar, soñar despiertos en un café, dibujar lo que pensamos y hasta hacer malabares nos lleven a ser más creativos? Los más recientes avances científicos sugieren que sí, y este libro repasa, en forma entretenida y con un lenguaje sencillo, las últimas técnicas para lograr explosiones de creatividad. Ideas en la ducha tiene las respuestas a algunas preguntas como: ¿cuáles son los hábitos y las rutinas de las personas más innovadoras?

Most of the conventional productivity advice you'll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book or audiobook that addresses the unique organisational challenges that artists face. This audiobook sets out to change that, and it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines.

When was the last time you did something just for the joy of it? The Creative Soul Within invites you on a 52-week journey to embrace the creative soul within you to help you grow in your relationship with God, yourself, and those around you. With each entry, you're invited to unplug, rediscover your imagination, let go of stress, learn how to play again, and take the deep and meaningful journey to develop the creative gifts the Lord has given you. For creatives of all skill levels, this is perfect for people who want to know themselves and their God more deeply.

Everyone wants to be a writer, and they want to know what they can do to make that dream come true. However, most aspiring writers do not understand how to position themselves so they are ready when presented with an opportunity. They identify themselves as writers but have no writing samples, or their websites and social media talk all about their paintings or music but say nothing of who they are as writers.

Es una guía clásica de meditaciones y ejercicios que te ayudan a usar el poder de tu imaginación para crear todo aquello que quieres en tu vida: Cambiar hábitos negativos, Aumentar la autoestima, Experimentar relajaciones profundas, Alcanzar tu metas profesionales, Incrementar tu vitalidad, Mejorar tu salud y mucho más.

This audiobook is the result of years of working through the challenges that hampered my own creativity. The techniques and strategies I share here will enable you to revive the creative glow you had as a child and apply it to see amazing accomplishments in your life, starting today!

Tras inspirar a miles de lectores con "Money Mindfulness", la economista Cristina Benito nos enseña a gestionar la divisa más valiosa que poseemos: el tiempo. Todos sabemos que la mala gestión del tiempo nos genera un estado de estrés permanente, causante de muchas enfermedades y que nos impide disfrutar de la vida. Cuando la falta de tiempo se convierte en algo crónico, corremos de urgencia en urgencia renunciando a lo que de verdad es importante para nosotros, aplazando sin fin nuestras prioridades.

Most professionals cannot generate a solid idea. They either offer up tired or reused ones, or they generate lots of ideas but none that are worth pursuing. A great idea presents a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move the needle; they change the playing field altogether.

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.

Revealing the Obvious breaks new ground on everything you already knew. The only difference is...everything! This is a rich and multi-layered, snackable content tour de force. It can be appreciated and enjoyed on only the surface layer for a quick and entertaining listen. Or, you can use it as self-help workbook to help you find the creative genius in your everyday life. The depth to which you explore it is entirely up to you. It is interactive, entertaining, challenging, amusing, and often filled with laugh out loud ironies and observations.

Are you sick of barely scraping by as a creative? How long have you been trying to build your career? How many hours have you spent banging your head against a wall? How much money have you sunk into ads and marketing that just don't work? This audiobook can't guarantee you a successful career, but it can give you all the fundamental knowledge you need to set you up for success because it was written by a creative for a creative.

This is a story of resilience, strength of the human spirit, hope in the face of loss, and the connection, joy, and gifts that can inevitably be found through grief. Through Elizabeth’s story of traumatic loss, we are given insight into an authentic journey from tragedy to triumph. The path she follows is not neat and tidy and predictable as she walks into the unknown. It is beautifully messy. It is scary, uncertain, painful, joyful, surprising, and ecstatic.

Mining the sacred from the mundane, Karen Kinney offers a treasure trove of jeweled truths intended to bolster both your creativity and your larger life. Drawing from her experience as a professional artist and writer who has engaged in contemplative spiritual practice for over 20 years, she leads you on a liberating journey of greater self-awareness and expansion.

This is an audio summary of The Creative Habit, a book that offers insight, real-world advice, and plenty of inspiration for anyone seeking to find a new level of success and satisfaction in their creative endeavors.

We are about to enter a new age of creativity that will require a new set of superheroes to help the world thrive. This audiobook will make you one of those creative superheroes by unleashing new creative superpowers to help you solve your biggest business problems. This is the modern skillset for creative problem solving.

In questo meraviglioso quarto volume della sua fondamentale opera Le tue forze e come usarle (che Area51 Publishing sta pubblicando per la prima volta in lingua italiana in edizione integrale) Prentice Mulford ci svela i misteri del vero potere dello Spirito Infinito. Mulford ci insegna che la connessione diretta con l’Universo Intelligente è la chiave per manifestare i nostri desideri più profondi. Attraverso queste pagine, scoprirai come allineare la tua mente con il flusso dell’Infinito, imparando a portare i tuoi pensieri in connessione con le frequenze più elevate per attrarre successo, salute e benessere.

Creativity is a gift shared by all, yet most of us have been led to believe that if we are not starving artists, musicians, or writers, then creative thinking is not something we are capable of. This just isn't true and to prove it I've brought together some of the best methods to trigger and retain that creative spark within.

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.