Creative Life

This essential teen survival guide will show you exactly how to do this—and along the way, you'll pick up a ton of handy skills that will serve you for the rest of your life. If you're used to feeling anxious or awkward, you might have assumed this is just the way you're built. But you have the power to shape your own story, and if you don't want to feel anxious or awkward, you don't have to! All you need are a few key tools and strategies, and you can take control of everything life throws your way.

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.

Finding a Way is about living a creative life. It’s about love and longing, doubt and insecurity, resilience and patience, and it’s about the transformative power of creating something new. Bar Scott’s stories describe the events that inspired her songs, but Finding a Way will speak to anyone who wants to do more of what they love to do - whatever that might be. The audiobook includes 21 original songs and their stories, and is narrated by Bar.

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.

Using examples from literature, poetry, and spiritual texts, Michael Lipson, Ph.D, articulately describes how to turn one's life into an art form. By following Emerson's description of harmonious living, Lipson shows us through simple and thoughtful exercises how to achieve peace and realization of one's life's purpose.

Discover How to Flourish as an Artist in the Church. Over 150,000 Copies Sold. God is interested in your art and your heart. The Heart of the Artist, now in an updated second edition, deals head-on with issues every person in an arts ministry faces, including: Servanthood versus stardom...

This audiobook contains many unreleased and internationally published pieces of Joseph A. Santiago (Mr. Joe). This books represents a decade's worth of works from Mr. Joe's life. The work utilizes creative nonfiction, fiction writing, poetry, essays, and showcases collaboration from the World Voice Project. Mr. Joe utilizes the digital media environment to connect the audience to him and continue conversations beyond what's possible in traditional publishing.

When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the front lines of life as a professional creative. Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments - the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world - and gives you the pep talk you need....

This book will teach you how to take control of your destiny through your thoughts and actions. When you align your thoughts with the word of God, you will become unstoppable and undeniable. No circumstance will be able to hinder the person that God created you to be. You will start to create the things that you truly desire from the inside out. You will learn the inner workings of the mind and why you do what you do.

From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts of the top-ranked...

Discover practical advice for creating a fun, fulfilling, and forever love story. What kind of love story do you want? Keeping a romantic relationship fresh takes effort—whether you've been together for two months or two decades. In Creative Love, Jeremy and Audrey Roloff pose questions...

Mira Tasich, a loyal, hardworking, and devoted employee of several large corporations, finds herself unemployed, a victim of the recession. As a young teenager, she moved to America, learned a new language, and gained prestige and career success only to get laid off in a corporate downsizing. Frustrated, angry, and confused, she struggles to justify the familial and personal sacrifices made over the years for her employers, including a 2,141-mile move away from family and friends to the Southwest.

At age twenty-five, retail manager Jonny Goode did what so many of us dream about and quit his job; walking away from his security and failing marriage with guitar in hand to pursue a life less ordinary. Starting out as a London busker, Jonny rebuilt his life, his way, from the floorboards up. Now the successful owner of an online tuition business and a professional musician, Jonny shares the secrets and strategies of how he created the life he wanted to live in this revealing and motivational book.

Reignite your lost creativity; it still lives inside of you. You don’t have to trade a world of exciting possibilities for an unfulfilling life of responsibilities. Joy and a fulfilling personal and professional life await. In Do What You Love, you’ll discover simple steps for overcoming the fears and doubts holding you back from pursuing your dreams. Get ready to explore your creative ideas, rediscover your passion projects, and give yourself permission to start creating—simply for the joy of it.

An inventor, adventurer, entrepreneur, collector, and entertainer, and son of legendary scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott, Richard Garriott de Cayeux has been behind some of the most exciting undertakings of our time. A legendary pioneer of the online gaming industry—and a member of every...

Every time you think, your mind emits energy. That energy, in turn, can be transformed into something tangible something real. And this is what creative visualization is all about. This audiobook will allow you to change your life using the power of creative visualization! By listening to this audiobook, you will learn how to transform your thoughts, ideas, and imaginations into their physical reality. It is more than a manual - it is the key to your success!

This audiobook will guide you and unlock your critical creative mind, unraveling innovation and inspiring your productivity through simple, proven exercises and concepts. On your way to success, you will complete the interactive steps needed to unleash your creative thinking that nobody has been able to press upon you before. Writing tricks, visualization hacks, and practical mental puzzles will improve your being by boosting the artist inside.

Writers are different. We don't always think in straight lines. We take leaps of logic, we think metaphorically, and we know in order to make something beautiful, you might also have to make a mess. You've probably tried to adopt at least one organizing system already. Maybe it was in a bestselling book written by someone in a suit. Or maybe it was the system that works for your brother the accountant or your naturally-neat coworker. Whatever system you tried, it was probably very logical and made total sense, until you tried to force yourself to fit into it.

When I bounced the idea of An Accidental Life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps a tad off the norm. Surely he's correct in that we all benefit from fortuitous events, but I think he's incorrect in saying that such events in my life are typical or normal.

A small-town teacher's kid, little sister of a genius, Amy Hallberg dreamed of escape by way of a West German exchange in 1987. The resulting friendship with her exchange sister Eva awakened a lifelong quest to understand all things German. Back home in Minnesota, Hallberg embarked on a German literature major just as the Berlin Wall fell. As Frau Hallberg, high school teacher, she hoped to impart vital knowledge (in a language she'd never mastered, in a country where she'd never truly lived).