Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward. Alena Hennessy’s illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes ofinspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself—a beautiful, collectible volume—to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life.
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The Slight Edge (Revised Edition): Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success
Why is it that some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else?
One simple reason: those that are “successful” have found their SLIGHT EDGE!
The Slight Edge is not just another self-help, motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to make it up the path of success. It simply shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.
What do you need to make that happen? Discover that one thing that will help you achieve that goal, realize a life-long dream or propel you up the ladder to success.
Once you’ve got it, then you will discover how your philosophy… creates your attitude… creates your actions… creates your results… creates YOUR LIFE!
The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success you desire. The Slight Edge is the key that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work.
Our favorite endorsements are from our readers:
I have read personal-development books for over 20 years and I can say this is the one that tied them all together. It is so easy to read and understand, and so powerful in the simplicity.
–Mike Bishop, Wilsonville, OR
I use this philosophy throughout my day. I ve become a better person all around. I was able to correct my negative outlooks. I m a better role model for my children, my health is getting better, I m more connected spiritually, my relationships are improving, and my business is thriving. It is a must-have and a must-read.
–Pedro Garcia, Middletown, NY
How To Stick To A Diet: The Ultimate Guide To “Hacking” Your Brain For Unstoppable Motivation And Lifelong Diet Success
Has modern psychology uncovered powerful but simple mind “hacks” that allow you to literally rewire your brain for unstoppable motivation?
In “How To Stick To A Diet”, you’ll discover what the most recent psychological research has uncovered can be done to unlock the motivation you need to reach your health, fitness and weight loss goals, regardless of willpower.
You’ll discover:
* Why losing weight through dieting can backfire causing a person to end up more overweight down the road, and what is essential if you want to keep fat off FOREVER.
* The truth about why “diets don’t work” is both true AND false! (The truth may surprise you!)
* How 4 core emotional wants (that dictate your behavior) can make it impossible to stick to a diet unless you start to use them the right way.
* How changing one word you say can flip a switch in your brain to generate willpower on demand.
* 3 powerful “mind hacks” that instantly changing your feelings towards any foods! With these “hacks” in your tool belt, you’ll be able to overcome emotional eating and food addiction for good!
* Why it’s almost impossible for you to fail when you take the one simple approach most people don’t even try!
* Why diet tips for enhancing weight loss motivation without first explaining this *one* thing are almost useless.
* How you can still eat all of your favorite treats without them screwing up your diet, weight loss efforts, or health.
* Hands down the best, quickest, and safest way to lose weight while preventing metabolic shutdown ever invented!
* How to instantly shut down the body’s stress response so you’ll never have to worry about being too stressed out (be one of the few that knows the trick!).
* The real reason you crave sugar and snacks, and how a couple inexpensive items from your local grocery store will stop addicting sugar and salt food cravings dead in their tracks. (Never give into binge eating again when you know this!)
* What recent research has shown you must do when setting goals for long-term success.
* What modern research has shown can actually alter your genetics, and what you must do to make sure your genes aren’t keeping you unhealthy and out of shape.
* Why people often feel so stressed out about dieting, and how you can free yourself of feeling overwhelmed when approaching diet. TIP: Apply it to other things and your happiness will skyrocket in all areas of your life!
* A little known way to get organic quality food at wholesale prices so you can eat the healthiest foods without breaking your budget.
* How you can make days worth of healthy food in only 5 minutes of prep time. When you know this strategy, “not having time” will never stop your diet success.
* Where to find the best deals on supplements, protein shakes, and health foods online so you can avoid wasting hundreds to thousands of dollars.
* And much more!
Dieting can mean giving up your favorite foods, spending hours in the kitchen preparing meals, not enjoying meals with friends, and paying a fortune on costly health foods. It’s no wonder having to muster up the motivation to stay on a diet can feel downright impossible.
But if sticking to a diet was impossible, then how can a person that ate fast food every single night, and hated healthy foods transform into someone that has eaten a healthy diet everyday for 9 years straight?
The answer may have something to do with a few little known secrets about human psychology that allow you to completely transform the wiring in your brain.
Strip Yourself Naked: Your Journey toward Self-Empowerment: Inspiring Success Stories on Overcoming Adversity, Hardship, and Challenges
If you are facing adversity, no matter what your situation may be, there is hope! Valentina Rise, a certified life coach, intuitive healer, teacher, and the founder of the Bio Matrix Energy Healing Technique, has dedicated her life to the crucial work of inspiring others. Now she shares her best tips, lessons, and tools to help you learn how to overcome adversity in your life. You can create the change you crave to lead a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Strip Yourself Naked: Your Journey toward Self-Empowerment shares a wide range of inspiring success stories to help motivate you. It seeks to open your mind to new possibilities and give you the powerful inspiration you need to take that first step to an exciting new reality. So get ready to strip away all that you know, all that you thought you knew, and everything that you’ve been told by family, friends, society, partners, coworkers, and others – a new you awaits! You can experience a powerful rebirth into newfound power that can encourage you to step boldly ahead to a brighter future. Your journey of inspired change is about to begin.
Motion Before Motivation: The Success Secret That Never Fails
Motion Before Motivation, The Success Secret That Never Fails is a Self-Help book grounded in reality. It’ll show you how to succeed in the world, as the world really is, not the way we all wish it was. You’ll get practical advice to achieve business and personal success.
Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success: A Focus on Self-Regulated Learning
This popular text combines theory, research, and applications to teach college students how to become more self-regulated learners. Study skills are treated as a serious academic course of study. Students learn about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills. The focus is on relevant information and features designed to help students to identify the components of academic learning that contribute to high achievement, to master and practice effective learning and study strategies, and then to complete self-regulation studies whereby they are taught a process for improving their academic behavior. A framework organized around six components related to academic success (motivation, methods of learning, time management, control of the physical and social environment, and monitoring performance) makes it easy for students to understand what they need to do to become more successful in the classroom. Pedagogical Features include Exercises; Follow-Up Activities; Student Reflections; Chapter-end Reviews ; Key Point; and a Glossary.
New in the Fourth Edition: More emphasis on research findings; expanded discussion of motivation ; more emphasis on the impact of students’ use of social networking and technology; research about neuroscience in relationship to motivation and learning; new exercises, including web-based activities; Companion Website, including an Instructor’s Manual
Create Your Art Career: Practical Tools, Visualizations, and Self-Assessment Exercises for Empowerment and Success
The ultimate self-help book for visual artists who want to create and sustain a successful career.
Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success.  This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.
Angel First Aid: Rx for Success
Angel First Aid, Rx for Success, is a prescription for personal and professional prosperity. It is a guide to discovering and achieving one’s life purpose through simple techniques, affirmations, and remedies. Also included are case studies, miracle stories, and contributions from already successful individuals.
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- Self-Help
- Business Life
- Angel First Aid RX for Success
- Sue Storm
- The Angel Lady
Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers
A rich compendium of wisdom from such distinguished and celebrated African Americans as Malcolm X, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Alice Walker and others, designed to help you focus on the thoughts, attitudes, and deeds that will lead to the achievement of your true goals. Each lesson will last a lifetime!