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Are you experiencing creative burnout? Using the effective strategies for creative endurance developed by creative director of Fast Company and accomplished marathon runner Mike Schnaidt, you can remain imaginative and inventive through any tough situation, throughout your life and career. Featuring inspiring stories from designers, astronauts, illustrators, ultramarathoners, chefs, photographers, and an Olympic Gold medalist, Creative Endurance provides a unique combination of practical advice, alongside inspiring examples to help you overcome creative obstacles and thrive.

Consider Jason your spirit guide, offering strategies for honing in on what makes you weird, recognizing when feedback is just another form of procrastination, and how to stop with social media already. There's a specific set of strategies and exercises that can help you prioritize your life over your business, by identifying your MMM (Minimum Monthly Magic) number. He also offers examples from his own life (how he got out of $124K worth of debt, escaped the pressure to have a big wedding, and has thrived on social media by primarily ignoring it).

Are you tired of feeling stuck and unfulfilled in your life? Do you want to learn how to manifest your deepest desires and create the reality you want? Look no further! In this revolutionary new book, we reveal the secrets to harnessing the power of positive imaginal acts, a little-known technique for shaping reality and manifesting your desires. Drawing on the teachings of Neville Goddard and Abdullah the Ethiopian Rabbi, we explore the law of assumption and how it can help you bring your dreams to life. With our entertaining and easy-to-follow approach, you'll learn how to use ...

Adopt a hip-hop mindset to take control of your own narrative and become the best version of yourself with 50 must-listen lessons on creativity and self-help that will inspire a new generation.

This is a guide for anyone going into a mental asylum or institution for the first time, or if you have a delusional loved one, with a mental illness, this will help you relate to them better in understanding insanity. Now, join me, in the asylum, as together we go on a very odd journey of discovery in my first mental institution experience. Enter a strange world, before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, as I compete against other game show contestants in a battle to win genetic traits for my family tree.

In the mid-1990s, fresh out of high school, Nic Brown was living his childhood dream as a rock and roll drummer. Signing a major label record deal, playing big shows, hitting the charts, giving interviews in Rolling Stone, appearing on The Tonight Show—what could be better for a young artist? But contrary to expectations, getting a shot at his artistic dream early in life was a destabilizing shock. The more he achieved, the more accolades that came his way, the less sure Brown became about his path. Only a few years into a promising musical career, he discovered the crux of his discontent.

For more than 30 years, groundbreaking teachers at Naropa University such as Ginsberg and his colleagues Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs, and Diane di Prima have inspired emerging poets and prose writers to express themselves with unfettered honesty and immediacy. Now, with First Thought, Best Thought, the first landmark release from Naropa University's treasured audio archives, you are invited to meet and learn with these literary mentors face-to-face as they share the secrets of their craft.

Having trouble achieving your goals? The reason most people aren't successful is they fail to follow a day-by-day strategy. Instead they start each day, "hoping" they will have enough time to take action on their goals. If you closely examine the world's most successful people you'd see they start each day in an energized state, ready to accomplish any goal. What's their secret? Put simply, successful people have morning routines that help them feel energized and ready to focus on their most important goal.

Maybe you have thought about removing some things from your life to keep it simple, and you have heard about the concept of minimalism, and want to know a little bit more. Or, maybe you are just looking to broaden your knowledge, and learn about how other people find more joy in their lives! Negative habits don’t develop overnight...they have a way of sneaking up on us and taking hold before we know it. One minute we’re all set to take on the world, and the next it feels like we are trapped in an endless cycle of procrastination, and overwhelming disorganization.

So much passes us by unnoticed. We multitask, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift and our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce - whether it's a website, a handmade chair, or a business - but how and why.

Learn from some of the greatest thinkers in history. Study their patterns and stand on the shoulders of giants.

By purchasing this audiobook, you are electing to join a secret underground movement. Membership will require you to conduct research on your immediate environment and complete a variety of assignments designed to creatively disrupt everyday life. The Wander Society method is based on the concept of experiencing unplanned time. That is all you need to know for now. If you are interested, please proceed to the checkout. All else will be revealed in time.

Americans are spending more time at home than ever before, and many have come to realize that their living spaces aren’t serving them. We have too many things, resulting in physical and mental clutter. And the organizational strategies we try only go so far, leaving us feeling disconnected and disheartened.

Identify your creative mission and fulfill your purpose, guided by an inspiring road map of enthusiastic pep talks, artistic exercises, writing prompts, and a unique archetypal framework.

In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us with a visual brain can often be overlooked and underestimated. In this landmark book, international bestselling author and activist Temple Grandin transforms our understanding of how our brains are wired differently. Bringing together cutting-edge research and her own experience as a visual thinker, Grandin reveals a ground-breaking new approach to revolutionizing modern structures such as education, health and media so that they equally serve people with all kinds of minds.

Acting is living and behaving truthfully and fully under imaginary circumstances. But why are “truthfully” and “fully” so hard for us? Why is it so difficult to be in the moment with our art and in our lives?

Brad Olsen has four recommendations for today's college graduates: work abroad, study abroad, volunteer abroad, travel abroad. Olsen took his own three-year, self-financed, solo journey to 28 countries on 5 continents after his graduation from business school, and World Stompers, now in its fifth incarnation, is his travel manifesto for other intrepid young people willing to travel for extended periods on the cheap. His is a candid book: while he waxes prolific on the benefits of freestyle traveling, he also lays out the inevitable setbacks and hardships. And while Olsen clearly likes to ...

Many of us wear a mask that covers not our faces but our souls, hiding the authenticity we yearn to express. But how do we remove these masks and step into our full creative power? On Your Creative Soul, Caroline Myss and Sandra Joseph, the author and actress best known for her role as Christine in Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera, investigate the profound relationship between our spirituality and our creative lives - and why it's essential for each of us to honor the impulses of the soul.

Welcome Artists & Creators! Do you struggle to find ways to make a living from your work? Patreon is a platform that empowers you to attract patrons who help to fund you on an ongoing per/piece or per/month basis. What this means is that once you have enough patrons, you can stop worrying about how to make a living and just focus on creating things! This book, Patreon Guide: How to Get Started & Succeed on Patreon, will help you get started on Patreon and empower your journey toward creative and financial independence! Inside you’ll find chapters on: What Patreon is, how Patreon works, ...

Can a creative mind thrive in a corporate landscape? Can a business leader use creativity to guide teams more effectively? From one of today’s leading creative minds comes a book for modern rebels on building a rewarding life without losing your edge. Written for uncompromising creative thinkers and aspiring changemakers, The Art of Creative Rebellion encapsulates insights and wisdom collected over a life of creative and professional prosperity.