Not your average self-help book. In this guide the author creates a framework for the experiences of life, be they bad or good, which will allow you to boost your productivity, passion and fulfillment. The author discusses topics such as: what it means to live with courage and overcome fear, how to develop love and intimacy in relationships, the source of creativity in our lives, and more. This new understanding will help you to work towards prosperity and be free at last from what is hold...

This 'passport to creativity' is a short illustrated guide to creating entirely new things, making creative improvements to anything, and solving all kinds of problems. It uses the 'IdeaTree', a five-part colour-coded diagram of process which enables all stages to be clearly visualised - and applied.The IdeaTree diagram is based on the process philosophy developed by Peter Harris in his MA thesis in Philosophy, 'Process and Inquiry', finished in 1995. Since then he has gone on to b...

Most writing books tell you how it's done. Fiction Unboxed shows you.Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant wrote a novel from scratch in thirty days, in public, with every email, every story meeting, every draft captured along the way. They started without knowing their story, their characters, or even their genre. They committed to publishing the final draft before the month was over. And they invited their readers to watch the whole thing happen.Fiction Unb...

Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of two subsequently published novels in that tight time frame. In Fast Fiction, she shows other writers how to do what she did, step-by-step, writer to writer. To ensure success, her program begins a month before the month of drafting. Dur...

Author Brian Miller helps you explore the most effective brainstorming method for your team and generate the best results using straightforward, focused activities that each take less than fifteen minutes to complete.Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstormi...

Discover it for yourself.Inside Art Saves, experience the stories of 20 artists who found that artistic expression and the artistic process is worth living for. Whether you are a calligraphy/graffiti artist like Lisa Engelbrecht, a metal artist like Michael DeMeng, or digital collage artist like Susan Tuttle, art has a way of giving you beauty, meaning, spiritual richness, community... even salvation....

Eric Maisel’s prolific, multifaceted career is a testament to his profound understanding of what it takes to live out one’s creative ambitions. A therapist who is also a bestselling author, coach (and coach trainer), columnist for Professional Artist magazine, and featured blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, Maisel is an expert on all that blocks the creative. In Making Your Creative Mark, Maisel distills his decades of coaching, teaching, listening, and creating into nin...

Helping artists catapult into further action, this guide is a treasury of insight and inspiration. Rather than focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful activities or writing, this guide walks the artist through exercises designed to develop the personal qualities critical to being an artist in the world, such as courage, the ability to look and see, and connection to the true creative self. This is a hands-on, experiential action book designed t...

It's time to give your brain a healthy workout, and logic problems are an enjoyable way to do it!Challenging Logic Problems is filled with puzzles that will satisfy logic lovers of all ages and keep inquisitive minds occupied for hours. At least one solution is provided for each exercise.This book can help you improve your thinking skills, your reasoning skills for work or school, and hone the readers mind.

Steal Wisdom From Ancient Greeks!Yes, Socrates' friends used the same popular method that many people are discovering in our modern age.About 60 percent of us human "beans" are visual learners. Not to leave out the additional 40 per cent whose primary learning uses a different modality.The fact is that the more senses we can involve in the learning process, the higher the rate of retention.Using this modern method to achieve...

“Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—EconomistIn a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a “luminous” (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativ...

USE YOUR WORDS introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Each chapter of USE YOUR WORDS focuses on an element of craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing exercises that will...