Creative Motivation

In his instant self-help classic, the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Gelb identified seven aspects of da Vinci's genius that contemporary readers can emulate and apply in their own lives.

Drawing on the personal experiences and uplifting stories of ordinary men and women. Campbell shows us how to put the healing power of music into action. And he recommends specific, easy-to-follow exercises to help you raise your spatial IQ, sound away pain, boost creativity, and make the spirit sing.

In It's a Jungle in There, Steven shares his strategies to make you a winner in business and in life. By walking through the "Five Ps" of entrepreneurial success, you'll learn exactly how to apply your inner creativity to your dreams and reap the rewards when your business takes on a lucrative life of its own. Steven provides critical self-examination questions to assess chances for achieving entrepreneurial accomplishment. He reveals, through personal stories and business lessons, what to do if you wish to realize your full business potential.

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....

The Affinity Principle™ presents a formula for business success through a people-centric, mindful leadership approach. Its basis, the AFFINITY Formula, is simple: mindful leadership creates an incredible team performance, which leads to an exceptional customer experience, which yields great financial results. The Affinity Principle explores 12 Pillars and Levers of Leadership and Engagement designed to help leaders attract, retain, and optimize talent, and achieve AFFINITY within their organization.

Join speaker and coach Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same. Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode.

In today's culture of stress, competition, and perfect images, it's all too easy to hit rock bottom. Confronted by anxiety about our appearance, our performance, and ourselves, we can feel trapped, imprisoned by the person society expects us to be. The only way to escape that prison is to learn to love who we are - who we really are. With humor, empathy, and honesty, Achea Redd takes you through the ups and downs of her own life and uses her story to show you the path to self-love and authenticity.

This book can change your life. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, and our creative sparks are smoldering beneath layers of fear and lack of confidence. Gail McMeekin's book blasts through that and gets you excited again about your potential. McMeekin interviews 31 of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success.

Anna Sabino wasn’t born into a wealthy family, didn’t inherit money from a distant relative, and doesn’t have a rich husband. But she made it as an entrepreneur, as a single woman, and most important, as an artist. In Your Creative Career, she shows her fellow artists and creatives how to build a business that reflects their talent and true calling while generating serious cash. Whether the goal is to build an empire and be financially free, create a lifestyle business, or just to have more time, Your Creative Career guides you through every aspect of creative entrepreneurship.

Have you ever wanted to be more creative? Given that you’re reading this paragraph right now, the answer to this question is very likely "yes", but what does creativity even look like? In this audiobook, you will discover what it means to have a creative mind. You’ll find out why creativity is so important, and the common roadblocks to creativity. More importantly, you’re going to learn how to boost your own creativity so you can accomplish the things you not only need to do, but also those things you never thought you could do, and hardly dared dream were possible.

Discover how to use visual goal setting to turn your dreams into reality. Filled with stories of personal and client experiences, this book will convince you that you don't have to be an artist or know how to draw to use these tools. You just have to be willing to honestly explore where you are, dream where you want to be, and choose the three bold steps you will take to make it happen. Using the latest neuroscience findings, test out how to trick your brain into helping you get what you want.

This book is about why the words in the title are true for every person and are a fundamental principle and law of nature, as precise as gravity or the turning of the tides. They are words we easily invoke when describing some other person’s predicament, but rare is the person who paints themselves with that same brush.

>Includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. Preview: Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic is her ode to creativity and inspiration. Gilbert, who's garnered acclaim most famously for her book Eat Pray Love, seeks to impart to listeners that the act of artistic creation does not have be a tortured, complicated process: it's better to just do, and worry about questions of merit or quality only once a work is actually finished. Gilbert opens the audiobook with an anecdote on Jack Gilbert.

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.

Your Greatest Asset contains some of Nightingale’s most inspiring broadcasts on the subjects of brainstorming, problem-solving, decision-making, goal achievement, and interpersonal communication. Its simple yet incisive messages will teach you techniques and attitudes, which, if practiced regularly, will result in your living an even more creative, rewarding life.

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.

When Marcus Whitney moved to Nashville in 2000, he was a college dropout with a one-year-old and a baby on the way. He waited tables and lived in a week-to-week efficiency hotel. From the outside, Marcus looked like the furthest thing from a budding entrepreneur. But inside, he knew entrepreneurship was his path to a better life. Two decades later, Marcus has founded two innovative companies in the healthcare space, exited a tech marketing company, and co-owns Nashville’s new Major League Soccer team. Marcus walks you through his unlikely journey from waiting tables to building companies.

How to face the future with resilience, optimism, and strength - and why setting goals might not be the smartest thing you might do!? How do we grab the wheel of our lives and steer into calmer waters? The world into which we are moving seems to be one on which the old rules do not apply or do not work. So, what are we going to do for ourselves if we are to flourish as individuals and leaders?

Being consistently happy now can begin very simply without any reason at all. It is not a complex formula that one needs to sit for hours meditating to arrive upon either. One does not necessarily need to see a psychoanalyst to explore the source of one's pain to arrive at a happy state either. It's so easy a child can do it.

The limiting beliefs and mental barriers holding you back in the face of trial don’t have to define you; rather, choose to let them refine your mental fortitude and strengthen your resilience and faith muscles. When you are willing to step into the fire of refinement, you can use life’s trials and turn them into something beautiful.