Creative Development

Most people confuse procrastination with laziness, but they are quite different. Laziness is an inactive process while procrastination is an active process. Procrastination involves choosing to do something less important instead of the crucial project while laziness is inactivity, inability to act or unwillingness to take action. Most procrastinators lead a busy life. They are always engaged in easy and enjoyable tasks as opposed to seemingly tough jobs that are more important or rewarding.

This book aims to guide parents through the challenges of youth hockey, providing insights and strategies to foster a positive environment that promotes skill development, sportsmanship, and personal growth. By focusing on the desires of buyers seeking guidance on youth hockey parenting, the book equips parents with knowledge, empathy, and practical approaches to support their young athletes.

Written by trailblazing global product innovator Leslie Grandy, Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI provides everything listeners need to develop the mindset, skills, and confidence that allow creativity to flourish, enabling them to challenge conventional thinking to improve customer, business, and personal results and collaborate effectively with generative AI to cultivate and explore novel ideas.

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.

Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. The work proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the “élan vital”, a vital impetus that may also be understood as a natural creative impulse. The book also developed concepts of time which influenced writers like Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. Bergson's term "duration", for example, refers to an individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to the mathematical, objectively measurable clock time.

In clear language, The Innovation Mandate shows leaders a step-by-step process to continually generate great ideas, implement them, and maximize their value to benefit both customers and investors. In today’s ultracompetitive marketplace, the difference between success and failure is...

El nuevo libro de una de las creadoras de contenido de salud mental e inteligencia emocional más importantes de Colombia. La creatividad no es un don exclusivo de unos pocos afortunados, inaccesible al resto de los mortales. Por el contrario, es una habilidad que reside en todos los seres humanos y que puede activarse y enriquecerse con un trabajo consciente y constante. Este nuevo libro de la neurocoach Blanca Mery Sánchez es una guía que te acompañará en la aventura de desafiar tus propios límites.

Rooted in the science of the brain, and integrating cognitive neuroscience and child development, Mindful Parenting is a unique program that speaks directly to today's busy families who make up what Dr. Race calls "Generation Stress." Research has shown that mindfulness practices stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Regular stimulation of this part of the brain helps us feel happier, healthier, calmer, less anxious, less stressed, and makes it easier for us to concentrate and think clearly - the very behavior we are hoping our children will display.

Written for novices and seasoned listeners alike, The Creative Tarot is a unique guidebook that reimagines tarot cards and the ways they can boost the creative process. Jessa Crispin guides you through the intuitive world of the tarot to get those creative juices flowing again. Thought to be esoteric and mystical, tarot cards are approachable and endlessly helpful to overcoming creative blocks.

Welcome to the world of visualization where children learn to learn better, achieve more, and build confidence. What happens when the formal school years hit? Why do so many struggle in school, a place where their curiosity should be encouraged to grow? Too many children are frustrated with the basic academic subjects: reading, writing, spelling, and math. Your child may become a master of avoiding tasks, stressed or anxious or have a behavioral problem. No more.

"The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative and Joyous People" offers an in-depth look at the qualities that make a few high achievers also good people. Using lively stories drawn from his more than 25 years interviewing prominent leaders for CNN, CNBC, and other television news programs, author Donald Van de Mark illustrates the 19 personality traits of self-actualized people, as originally identified by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

The Princeton Language Institute presents the fastest, easiest way to boost your memory power. Remember names, details, and facts with the most effective step-by-step guide ever - and learn it all in just 10 days.

At the age of just 19, JW Murphey didn't have access to large amounts of private security industry experience, a bunch of cash, an audiobook, or the Internet to help him start his security guard company. But, he didn't want to spend years as another cog inside of a large security corporation. Instead of staying employed with a big corporation, he struck out on his own and started his own security agency. How to Start a Security Guard Company book includes Murphey's creative strategies for building a private security agency with a minimal up-front investment.

Para muchas personas, escribir un diario es una herramienta esencial para transitar los altibajos personales y los desafíos colectivos del mundo actual. Desde joven, Suleika Jaouad ha registrado en el suyo los momentos más importantes de su vida, lo que la ha ayudado a sobrellevar las tormentas más intensas, como su lucha contra la leucemia, rupturas amorosas y profundas incertidumbres. Y no es la única: para muchos, un diario es un espacio necesario para reflexionar.

Can you have a fulfilling creative life and make money? Not only that. Those two are inseparable. Creativity and business are two ends of the same stick. Only if a business is creative and if art is profitable, can you live a truly fulfilled artistic life. To walk this balance, you must face misconceptions and establish creative daily practices that together will get you where you want to be: Serve your tribe, express your unique creativity, and make a good income. In this book, I'll guide you through solutions that work and will take your artistic life to the next level.

Contrary to popular belief, creativity isn't just about muses and mentors. It's a process that requires focus, determination, and practice. Creative blocks are just a part of that process. In Stoking the Creative Fires, Phil Cousineau offers creative people of all disciplines the tools for getting past creative blocks and rekindling passion.

Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a larger community. Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling.

Restore your energy and motivation in just weeks, even if you’re burned out and can’t leave your job. Feel like you’re running on fumes but quitting isn’t an option? Tired of surface-level self-care tips that never stick? This book gives you real, practical tools to recover from burnout while keeping your career and income intact.

Read by the author. Destress your parenting and your life with play-space organizing tips that promote independent play for your kids and give you some room to breathe. Every parent has been there: desperately fed-up with the mountains of toys cluttering every corner of your home and frustrated...

Every novelist dreams of it--writing the book that rockets to the top of the bestseller lists. Now, they can see how it's done, up close, in an audiobook by an agent who has sold manuscripts that turned into hits. Here Albert Zuckerman covers the essential elements of the blockbuster novel and...