Creativity Joy

Reinventing Retirement: Create a Life You Love in Your Next ChapterRetirement isn’t the end—it’s your second beginning. You’ve spent years juggling responsibilities, working hard, and dreaming of the day you’d have the freedom to live on your own terms. Now that it’s here, you might feel both excited and unsure about what comes next. How do you make the most of this new phase? How do you craft a life that’s meaningful, engaging, and full of purpose? Reinventing Retirement is your guide to designing a vibrant, fulfilling life beyond the 9-to-5. Packed with inspiring stories and...

You might think that creativity is some mysterious, rare gift - one that only a few possess. But you’d be wrong. As John Cleese shows in this short, practical, and often amusing guide, it’s a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, Cleese shares his insights into the nature of the creative process and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing. What do you need to do to get yourself in the right frame of mind? When do you know that you’ve come up with an idea that might be worth pursuing?

Awareness Games teaches ways to play with your mind to point it toward the infinite well of happiness and joy that is within. Play with pure awareness, and discover the background of all experience, where happiness is hiding in plain sight. Create more joy. Uncover the secret of happiness. Play Awareness Games.

EMDR is designed to ease the distress you associate with traumatic memories, combining cognitive, somatic, and emotion-focused therapies with bilateral stimulation—usually guided eye movements.

Dr. Estevez guides artists at all levels and in all disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values, and to cultivate an artistic practice that is joyful and sustainable. She shares her discoveries and insightful coaching exercises that stem from the belief that when we are connected to what resonates deeply within us, the "tortured artist" trope simply doesn't hold. By looking at creative work through a new lens, she provides us a mean to begin—or to begin again—in sustaining ways.

Find joy and fulfillment in retirement, even if you’re unsure where to begin! Are you wondering how to make the most of your newfound freedom? Whether you’re looking for purpose, adventure, or ways to stay active, this guide offers endless ideas for crafting a life filled with excitement, engagement, and connection.

When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. "Fifty-five," her grandmother answered. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing and kept a list of all the accomplishments, large and small, that actually mattered to her. These observations became Jennifer's Joy Document, a radical act of reclaiming joy and an exercise in paying attention.

In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed writing inspiration. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words daily for two weeks straight. They opened this practice to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds then thousands of people started using the #1000WordsofSummer hashtag to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple challenge between two friends has become a literary movement—write 1,000 words per day without judgement, or bias, or concerns about writer’s block, and see what comes of it.

After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book The Speed of Trust by selling more than one million copies in 22 languages, Stephen M. R. Covey again illuminates the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in Smart Trust.

If you aren’t suffering, you aren’t creating. Right? Wrong! Writing can and should be joyful, fulfilling… even fun! Applicable to writers in all genres and disciplines—from screenwriters to novelists, journalists to picture book authors, aspiring to many-times published—The Happy Writer is a heartfelt and optimistic guide that will show you the way to a happier writing journey.

Do simple decisions leave you confused? Do you feel frustrated over simple things in life? Is impulsive shopping your concern? Is decluttering the home a problem for you? This collection brings to you the simple step-by-step solution to declutter the mind, it will give you the insights on the ways to reduce the stress and have a better quality of life. This collection will also give you an in-depth view on minimalism and the ways to incorporate it into your life and your home.

“You don’t have to turn into a corporate drone to kick ass in the working world,” says inspirational speaker Tania Katan. After more than ten years of smuggling creativity into the business sector, Katan is here to tell you that any task or pursuit can be a creative one. You just need to be willing to defy conformity and be ready to conjure imagination anywhere, at any time. That’s where Creative Trespassing comes in.

How to Be Happier is Vol. 1 of a series about personal transformation. It is part of a set of audiobooks that will help you to achieve long lasting change and success in your life in a wide variety of areas. It is meant to be a blueprint to help you recognize ways that you can find more joy and happiness in your day-to-day living...and then use that new sense of joy to go on to create an actionable plan for achieving various goals in your life.

Mary Magdalene's Love Notes For Your Soul Vol. 1. This is the first volume of this 5 volume Celebrate series, Featuring the spiritual poetry of Mary Magdalene, helping you create a life full of meaning, significance, joy, love, and success. Transcribed by jmmlove. Kind words from others: "I love Joseph's books of Mary Magdalene's spiritual poetry. I love how they emphasize the importance of listening to our hearts instead of our 'monkey minds.' These books are truly beautiful and cause me to stop what I am doing and reflect on my life." ---Jules Fiori, USA "Thank you, Joseph. You are a ...

Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost to the demands of his craft - not only on the high wire, but also as a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, and writer. A born rebel like many creative people, he was from an early age a voracious learner who taught himself, cultivating the attitudes, resources, and techniques to tackle even seemingly impossible feats.

We all want the same good things out of life: happiness, prosperity, love. But we often don't know how to get there from here. In the spirit of her best selling The Joy of Meditating, Salle Merrill Redfield offers seven meditations to teach you how to live in joy. Using sensory visualizations and special techniques to relax your body, these meditations take you gently down differing paths to the same end: inner peace.

We are always looking for ways to keep our heads straight, but our thoughts seem to fail us. It is for these reasons that we have come up with this interesting book to help you stay motivated while shutting out every form of negativity in your mind. This book, Positive Thinking, is your A-Z guide on how to achieve success in life with skills like mindfulness, visualization, and effective goal setting. Also learn how to build your self-esteem, confidence and emotional intelligence with this book.

Leadership expert and guru, Biana Kovic, calls Be Something Wonderful "A must read!" Be Something Wonderful is your aha moment. It's that flash of insight, spark of curiosity, jolt of energy, and overwhelming sensation that your life is about to take a momentous and amazing turn toward the completion of your dreams. In his powerful, concise and fun style, Tom Kearin invites you on an inspiring, delightful journey—introducing you to the message, mission and magic of Be Something Wonderful. You will experience the magnitude of having a life changing spiritual shift leading up to your ...

Those are certainly key components, but in Financial Planning Made Personal, Larry Sprung stresses the importance of focusing on joy first, money second. He explains the benefits of focusing first on whatever brings you joy in life, and then on using your money and other assets to manifest that joy.

Throughout her multifaceted career, Tina Wells has always found a way to transform her dreams into reality. She turned a business that she launched at sixteen into an award-winning marketing agency, led boardroom meetings as the youngest (and sometimes only) Black woman in the room, and pursued her childhood dream of traveling around the world. But all that success came with burnout, and Tina had to rethink how she thought about work and life. The result of her deep thinking and some trial and error, The Elevation Approach presents Tina’s four-phase plan.