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Would you love to be motivated and inspired when it counts most? Are you tired of living a mediocre and uninspired life? Do you wish you knew the secrets to finding your true path in life? 3 Books in 1: An unbeatable combination of the best ways to be creatively powerful, get truly inspired, and become the best that you can be! Whether you want to (1) easily tap into your inner creative genius, (2) learn how to live a truly inspired life, or (3) start designing the life of your dreams, this book will teach you everything you need to know. Rediscover your innate creative genius. Free up the root of your creativity - your imagination. Learn to tap easily into your inner creative genius. Bring back the creative glow you had as a child and apply it to see amazing accomplishments come to life. What Will You Discover About Creativity? How to get your creative juices flowing. Barriers to creativity and how to overcome them. Six traits that creative people have in common How to eliminate negative thoughts so you are free to focus on the present. Specific exercises designed to jump-start your creativity. How to turn your creative ideas into something real. Foods and supplements that help boost creativity. Specific strategies and habits to boost your creative thinking. How to use the power of your imagination to your advantage. Put the charge back in your life. Connect to your deep desires. Follow the things that make you feel the most alive. Feed your inspiration by identifying and shifting your underlying assumptions into alignment with your goals and dreams. What Will You Discover About Inspiration? The driving forces behind inspiration. The power of "why" and how you can use it to inspire yourself and others. How to detect and utilize your inspirational triggers. How to feed off the inspiration of others. Exercises that will inspire and move you to take action. 15 activities designed to boost your levels of inspiration. Five key habits that will help to keep you inspired. Mental techniques used by the best in the world to sustain inspiration. Some of the best inspirational quotes of all time. Develop into the best possible person you can be! Learn the best ways to promote your consistent personal growth. Learn to latch onto the things that make you feel the most alive and let them help you grow toward the realization of your true potential. What Will You Discover About Personal Growth? Why personal growth lets you live happier and longer. How you can further your personal growth with successful, practical strategies. How to use a personal growth journal to guide you toward your life goals. How to utilize mentors and role models to help you grow. How to flourish in the four key areas of your life. Strategies and exercises for increasing your personal growth. Resources to boost your productivity and motivation. Mental strategies used by the best in the world. Inspiring life lessons from world-famous individuals. See just how far your life will take you. Enter the flow: Buy It Now!

Inspired by artist Tamara Laporte’s popular online art classes (willowing.org), Create Your Life Book presents 18 step-by-step mixed-media drawing and painting projects that encourage self-fulfillment through the creative process. Tamara’s kind, non-judgmental voice guides your way. What is holding you back? Where do you want to go? Let go of the past! Use these expressive exercises to help you recognize your personal challenges and other obstacles, then work through them. Let go of limiting beliefs, find courage, feel gratitude, heal pain, and develop self-love as you playfully create. Each themed chapter presents four to five two-part projects. First, you will explore a common issue that hampers creativity and/or positive self-worth. The second portion is a step-by-step mixed-media art project designed to help you work through that issue. Just a few of the explorations: Let go of what no longer serves you by taking stock of what’s holding you back, then create a zentangle butterfly to symbolize you flying away from those limiting things. Embrace and love your inner quirky bird by taking an inventory of your quirky traits, then create a bird that celebrates them. Heal old wounds by writing a letter to yourself as a child, then create a house to keep your inner child safe. Adding rich variety to the messages and art inspiration, some of the project outlines have been contributed by Tamara's guest teachers: Roxanne Coble, Andrea Gomoll, Alena Hennessy, Mystele Kirkeeng, Ivy Newport, and Effy Wild, each of whom are noted mixed-media artists in their own right. The final chapter presents a simple binding method for creating a keepsake book of your Life Book projects. Steeped in inspirational images and uplifting affirmations, Create Your Life Book can help you achieve both personal and creative growth.

Every artist needs a little pep talk now and then. An inspiring tool and beautiful art book in one, Creative Pep Talk offers illustrated words of wisdom from 50 of today's leading creative professionals. With full-color, typographic prints and explanatory statements from a host of creative luminaries—including Aaron James Draplin, Oliver Jeffers, Lisa Congdon, Mike Perry, and many others—this volume encourages artists to stay excited, experiment boldly, and conquer fear. "Create curiosity," "Learn to say no," and "If you can't be good, be different" are just a few of the motivational maxims in this visually rich collection that's perfect for students, designers, artists, and creatives at any stage in their careers.

Your Book for Infinite Inspiration and Personal Growth. Full of Creativity Exercises. Read. Do. And... Discover your Life Purposes! Whether you ́re looking for a new career - want to reinvent yourself - revitalize a project or relationship with fresh energy and creativity - this book is for you. It reveals the hidden key to all of these wishes, an empowered Imagination. The Imagination, secret of the great, also helps you to discover new passions, dreams and life purposes. Or deepen existing ones. And make them a reality. "Imagination rules the world." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Did you know that, according to a study (Global Creativity Gap by Adobe), 75% of people worldwide feel that they are not living up to their creative (imaginative) potential? One might ask: "What is so bad about it?" Well, too many humans today feel like they're only going through the motions in life. Not particularly unhappy, but definitely not excited. Lacking a deep sense of inspiration and ongoing personal growth. And this translates into unfulfilling careers and lives, but also relationships that disintegrate instead of taking off into new heights. The solution is simple yet profound. We need to understand the role that the creative Imagination plays in our life (if we want it to or not) and actively strengthen it like a muscle. Time for some fun and fresh creativity exercises. And this is why this book is important. It gives you loads of inspiration for personal growth. In it you will discover: ★simple creativity exercises and examples that strengthen your Imagination and bring it to the next level, even if you think you don ́t have any Imagination to begin with (chapters 8+9+11) ★how the Philosophy of Imagination [chapter 4] influenced Steve Jobs and brought art into the computer industry [chapter 10] ★what kills your Imagination. You will thus save years by not getting caught up in this almost universal malady [chapter 6] ★why Buddhism could be dangerous for you [chapter 5] ★common mistakes and myths when it comes to discovering your passions, dreams and life purposes and how to prevent them - so you save time and energy [chapter 3] ★how Harry Potter would deal with a Lockdown [chapter 9] ★a groundbreaking concept that helps you to stop giving a fuck what other people think of you and thus express yourself more freely, to finally follow your dreams and live your life purposes. ★a bonus chapter on sex+energy, which reveals the one fundamental element that makes relationships work and how that ties in with you as a creative being If you are still undecided whether this might be for you, take these words from Albert Einstein to heart: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." See you on the inside! ♥

"If you come to terms with The Creative’s Curse. What is The Creative’s Curse? It's a voice inside you. It's a low whispering... It's an undeniable fire to CREATE. Many people think The Creative's Curse is a thing to be beaten. They try and snuff the fire out. But what if you stopped denying your true nature? What if you let it burn? The Creative's Curse is not something you will ever outgrow. That voice in your head will never be silent. Don't feel like you have to listen when society says your work isn't worth doing. Inside this book you'll learn: how creative people lose their magic... and how to get it back; when to access your "creativity triggers" to increase motivation; [and] how to make money with art (if that is something you want.)" -- From Amazon.com.

The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens. If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens offers practical advice for developing a lasting and meaningful artistic practice in the face of life's inevitable obstacles and distractions. This thoughtful volume suggests creative ways to address the challenges all artists must overcome—from making decisions about time, money, and education, to grappling with isolation, fear, and anxiety. No matter where you are in your art-making journey, this book will motivate and inspire you. Because not only do you need your art—the world needs it, too. • EXPERT ADVICE: Beth Pickens is an experienced and passionate arts advocate with extensive insight into working through creative obstacles. She has spent the last decade advising artists on everything from financial strategy to coping with grief. • PRACTICAL AND POSITIVE: This book is both a love letter to art and artists and a hands-on guide to approaching the thorniest problems those artists might face. Pickens offers a warm reminder that you are not alone, that what you do matters, and that someone out there wants you to succeed. • TIMELESS TOPIC: Like a trusted advisor, this book is an invaluable resource jam-packed with strategies for building a successful creative practice. From mixing business and friendship to marketing yourself on social media, this book can help. And it will—again and again. Perfect for: • Visual artists and makers • Writers, musicians, filmmakers, and other creatives • Art and design school graduates and grad-gift givers

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

Are you ready to add more passion, peace, power, prosperity, and panache to your life? Are you a million times more magnificent than your social media feed? Yes, you are, because: You are a lotus.The lotus flower represents strength, perseverance, inner beauty, and possibility through adverse conditions. Even when its roots are submerged in the dirtiest waters, the lotus produces a beautiful flower. It's your time to bloom into your biggest, fullest, most expressive self. InstaGrateful is a refreshing perspective on how you can turn within to connect with authenticity, stay focused on what really matters, strengthen your inner self to know what you want, stand in your power to get it, and be a beacon of light and love that inspires others to transform their lives in today's hyper-busy, highly distracted social media world. The discoveries you make while reading this book will enable you to find your bliss and design an irresistible life filled with:?* ?Passion: Amplify the magic, fun, and aliveness in everything you do* ?Peace: Cultivate serenity in your inner world and external environments* ?Power: Develop the courage to overcome fear and get what you want* ?Prosperity: Attract abundance balanced with generosity* ?Panache: Grow your self-confidence to embrace your personal styleInspirational thought leader Sheri Fink grew up as a small-town girl with big dreams and overcame countless obstacles to become a best-selling author, motivational speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. Her story will elevate and empower you to create the reality that you most deeply desire, because if she can do it, anyone can. Sheri's heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) stories and loving guidance will help you create a life you love that's aligned with your values. You will soon be on your way to blossoming into the magnificent person you're meant to become. Your bliss awaits!