Life Create Your Own Masterpiece

Prepare to be inspired and have your visual sense as well as your heart and mind enticed as Christina Thoen describes how to create the ultimate masterpiece – your life! From gathering your materials to the finishing touches, this book is your guide to creating the life of your dreams. And the best part is you don’t need to be an artist to “get it”. She explains how the elements of art and principles of composition used to create stunning artwork can be applied to explore and create a life of true happiness! Your world is a blank canvas and understanding how it all works gives you the freedom to create exactly what you want. This life is all yours to make the best that only YOU can!

When Michelangelo set out to paint the Sistine Chapel and sculpt his David, he had a compelling vision that drove him to pursue the final product until he achieved the fulfillment of each Masterpiece. When Leonardo da Vinci was painting his Mona Lisa, he summoned all of his talent, vision and creative power to produce his Masterpiece. When Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony, he heard every note in his mind before he compiled his timeless creation, even though he was deaf. You may or may not believe it now, but YOU have the same potential as these Masterful Artists to create Your Life as Your Masterpiece. By revealing to you in a straightforward and engaging manner the basic and advanced principles of how your mind works toward success in every area of your life, Dr. Cesar Vargas, Certified Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Master Hypnotist, and avid Student of Success shows you how YOU can sculpt Your Life as Your Masterpiece, step-by-step. Whether you are a Master in the Creative Arts or a paint-by-the-numbers kind of person, Your Life Is Your Masterpiece will guide you to discover, design and develop an amazing life you'll be proud, satisfied, and elated to create.

Writer Tami Lewis Brown and illustrator Keith Negley present a joyful picture book biography of modern art icon Keith Haring, celebrating the ways his life embodied the message: art is for everyone. Art is life... and life is art. Keith Haring believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone. When Keith first moved to New York City, he rode the subway and noticed how the crowds were bored and brusque, and that the subways were decayed and dreary. He thought the people of New York needed liberating, illuminating, and radiating art. So he bought a stick of white chalk and started drawing...

Bring the ink to life! Mucha's distinctive style evoked a beautiful, spiritual life, and these gorgeous Art Nouveau masterpieces will provide hours of pleasure. Calming and relaxing, almost every type of pen, ink and pencil can be used to bring joy to a fabulous journey of colouring. Each page is perforated, ready for you to frame.

What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism…and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.

Thank you for picking up this little book from the book shelf. Congratulations, you’ve made a wise choice. This book may not be the biggest or the thickest book on the shelf, but don’t underestimate what it will do for you. If you’re holding it in your hands, then be sure it has chosen you to work with, and not the other way around. Everything happens for a reason, even if not apparent at the time. As you will learn as we travel on your journey through this book, you will at some point have drawn this little book towards you, and that is why without doubt you’re reading these words now. ,

About the Book Navigating law enforcement, the courts, and his ex-wife, this solo father found himself struggling through a “mother’s world” in trying to raise his two sons to be successful, contributing, loving, good men. A Solo Father’s Life Journey chronicles a surprise beginning to fatherhood and then all that entails after the parents separate. This is a father’s perspective through the years of raising two children as he faces the challenges and obstacles presented by the societal mindset that where children are concerned, it is a mother’s world. How can a father achieve residential custody of his children and eventually change the paradigm of “Mom is the primary caretaker and the Pops is the weekend Disney Dad?” Achieving this while ensuring children are not badly affected by any negativity, hatred, and conflict is a powerful adult dilemma. What avenues and pathways are there to make sure the children in this situation grow up in a loving, caring atmosphere after a split that was no fault of their own? A child is a gift, never a hindrance. How can two work together as one for the greater being of their children? About the Author When becoming a father, David Solo recognizes his life changed dramatically. The greatest gift one can share is the raising of one’s children. Solo believes the responsibility as a father is to give any child you are in contact with an understanding of living life to the fullest. Throughout life, Solo has shared the opportunity to be a part of children’s lives in hopes of bringing structure and security to them to live joyous and productive lives. Never wanting to become a Solo Father, he nevertheless had the opportunity to grow within himself and expand his knowledge of who he was and what he was capable of. Through all life’s challenges, he became aware of the importance of family, friends, and those who supported him through the rough times. Solo says, “I am lucky to now have a forever wife who has brought into my life four children and eleven grandchildren and add together with three biological grandchildren. My desire is only to show them life’s greatest advantages and for them to live a life they may hold dear and successful.”

This is a book about making a life. The book is about creating and expressing your true self. The author uses the Artist as a metaphor and concludes: you and only you can decide what your life will be, as you are the Artist. Like a self-portrait, you create your life. Edward Medeiros is a life coach and owner of the Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery in Toronto, Canada.