Your Life Is Your Masterpiece

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.

Life happens. Every event that takes place in your life, every person you have ever met, every circumstance you have lived through has a place in your puzzle of life. Before you were born, God had created a beautiful masterpiece. It is filled with color, happiness, laughter and tears. It is filled with struggles as well as sweet triumphs. It is filled with every experience in your life, both good and bad. As you move through your life, the pieces of your puzzle are set one at a time. Each one is essential and relevant. When completed, your puzzle will finally make sense. You will be able to recognize how each piece has brought you to where you are today. Each piece fits, in some way, to help bring you to a place where God wants you to be. When something happens that is unbearable and you cannot find a reason for it, sometimes it is Gods own steadying hand that helps set the piece into place. Build your puzzle with confidence, one piece at a time, and know your masterpiece was created by the Master Himself, piece by important piece.

Make Each Day Your Masterpiece is an extraordinary statement on what it means to live a rich and successful life. Michael Lynberg has assembled a wealth of uplifting stories and powerful ideas, coaching and inspiring readers to embrace the life they have imagined and achieve dreams they once thought were impossible. Featuring the hard-won wisdom of some of the most remarkable people who have ever lived, and formatted in the popular style of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, Make Each Day Your Masterpiece is a treasure chest of unforgettable life-lessons that readers can use immediately to tap their extraordinary, sometimes hidden potential.

Sometimes life can seem unfulfilling, boring, or uncertain, especially for today's busy women. As we rush from one destination to the next, women may be internally struggling with several issues that include physical changes, dead-end careers, or unhealthy relationships. The good news is that women have the power within to incorporate positive changes that transform their lives. Lucretia D. Coleman relies on her experiences as a visual artist and certified integrative wellness coach to help women easily discover, embrace, and express the positive vibrancy of their daily mess. Along with candid anecdotes that reveal her own personal struggles and triumphs, Coleman utilizes tips, affirmations, and reflections to guide women on an introspective journey through spirit, mind, body, relationships, and career. On the journey, women learn how to create reality through faith, replace self-doubt with self-confidence, improve interactions with others, and create viable professional and personal options.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” —Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want—money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship—and both their lives—forever. “Rivers deftly threads Roman’s and Grace’s lives together as they tiptoe around their emotional scars, eventually shifting into a dance of tentative steps toward a love neither can resist. Fans of Christian romance will delight in this tale of salvation through love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly detailed characters with traumatic pasts are woven together with biblical truths and redemptive themes. . . . This is an amazing, beautifully written tale to be savored and pondered and shared with others.” —Romantic Times “Readers will marvel at Rivers’s storytelling arc encompassing the reconciliation of gritty past misdeeds and the work in progress of a life of forgiveness.” —Booklist “Fans of Francine Rivers will eagerly devour The Masterpiece and find exactly what they are looking for: a beautifully written story of faith, romance, and the power that true freedom can bring.” —Bookreporter

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!

In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her quest to achieve every creative success—even while juggling the affections of two very different men. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression...and that even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come. By 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Dilapidated and dangerous, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece—an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.

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.