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For those who struggle with negative thoughts, overthinking, and procrastination, the answer to a more organized and productive lifestyle is right in your hands! This audiobook is an informative guide designed to help people of all ages and lifestyles find the most effective steps needed in order to recognize what is most important in any situation.

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.

This is the book that guides you on your journey to becoming a successful self-help author. It gives you everything you need to write, publish, and promote a book that does justice to your ideas and expertise.

If you've ever experienced the blissful feeling of being fully immersed in a project, of ideas come to you naturally, or of getting lost in thought when cooking, playing music, or dancing, then you've accessed the flow state. Sometimes we stumble into it by accident, but what if you could access and unlock the healing properties of the flow state whenever you need it? Dr. Julia F. Christensen shows us how we can use the arts to alter our emotional state, tap into our ability to focus, release our creativity and improve our overall wellbeing.

Many of us misdirect our energy—doing too much and feeling like it is not enough. Clinical psychologist Dr. Diana Hill offers a method to reclaim your energy and revitalize your relationships, health, work, and community. Instead of more productivity tips, Dr. Hill invites us to use Wise Effort to connect with our “genius energy”: our unique and inherent strengths that show up in our talents and gifts. It propels you forward when used in the right amount and toward your values.

Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil's advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.

The belief in thought-transference prevailed from time immemorial. Passing over the legendary tales, and coming down to the time of recent history, we see many instances of the acceptance of this idea by the people of that old land of the strange and mysterious.

Feeling stifled by "shoulds" and yearning to find your authentic voice? Uncork your creativity with Brenda Ueland's timeless classic, "If You Want to Write." Originally published in 1938, this inspiring guide is more than just craft tips; it's a passionate manifesto for artistic independence. Ueland, a mentor to writers like Anaïs Nin and Flannery O'Connor, believes everyone has a unique story to tell and urges you to silence self-doubt and embrace the inherent joy of writing.

Do you want to write but can't seem to get started? Are you struggling to finish your novel or frustrated by your slow progress? Perhaps you are starting to worry that you aren't cut out for the writing life.... Let best-selling novelist and host of the Worried Writer podcast Sarah Painter show you how to skip past negativity, free-up writing time, cope with self-doubt, and beat procrastination. Packed with honest, supportive, and hard-won advice, this is your practical guide to getting the work done.

Every person on the planet wants their life to mean something. The problem is you’ve been told there’s only one way to do that: find a single passion and commit to it—for life. And that when you do, success, money and happiness will fill your days with an endless feed of Instagram-worthy bliss. Sound familiar? Except this isn’t how it happens, and the follow-your-passion advice often comes up short. In Unfollow Your Passion, Terri Trespicio skewers the platitudes, inverts conventional wisdom and calls into question everything you think you need to succeed.

In The New Physics of Love, you will put aside the traditional methods of couples and family counseling that focus on emotions, memories, and personal biography and begin to look at your relationships from an entirely different perspective. It is what you are thinking that silently guides all of your feelings and behaviors, he teaches, and by working intelligently with those thoughts, you can create deeper connections and intimacy with those you love.

Would you like to stop beating yourself up and start harnessing the power of self-compassion? Wish you could take the risks you need to take to succeed? Want to unleash your creativity, increase your productivity, and rediscover the joy of knowing that you are enough? Here are 30 powerful exercises to help you override the “I-must-not-make-mistakes” mind-set of perfectionism. As Shannon’s clinical work with her anxious clients has proven again and again, we can’t change our thinking without changing our behavior.

If you are ambitious and driven, but feel stuck in a rut, directionless or overwhelmed, imagine what it would be like to live a life that you love. You can make it happen. North Star Thinking will transform the way you approach work and life. It gives you the tools and techniques to think and act differently, master your mindset and productivity, and create your guiding North Star.

"Wrangling the Doubt Monster" by Amy L. Bernstein is an insightful exploration into the complex world of creative self-doubt, providing practical advice and emotional support for artists navigating the turbulent waters of creativity.

When we’re writing a book, we need inspiration, and we need the “how-to” pieces that we were never taught in school. Start Writing Your Book Today provides both. Over the last 10 years as a writing coach, Morgan has developed a blend of mindset and mechanics to help authors through feeling stuck and into power writing through their books. In this book, Morgan shares her methods with you, so that you can step up and become the writer you know you’re meant to be.

Leonardo da Vinci was searching for a way out of poverty when he started designing, tinkering, thinking, and training himself. He still sets the example hundreds of years later for how to be a genius. How to be the thinker that can excel in any environment. Leonardo da Vinci's Mental Models is a book about the various tools da Vinci used to help fuel the Italian Renaissance. He had a hand in everything, from weapons design, engineering, anatomy and physiology, art, and of course painting. Learn about this paragon of the brain and how to harness the techniques he used daily.

Most people think of creativity as something they either have or don’t. That’s Creativity Myth No. 1. One of the things this book will teach you is that there is no single path to creativity.

Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a larger community. Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explores what it means to choose to be solitary and celebrates the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling.

Therapist Chloe Brotheridge has used the latest scientific research and her own personal experience to create a programme that has already helped thousands of her clients to overcome anxiety. The Anxiety Solution will provide you with simple yet powerful practical tools to help you manage your symptoms and start feeling better every day. Chloe will help you to understand why we feel anxious in the first place and equips you with techniques to help manage the symptoms and start living a happier, more confident life.

What separates great novels from mediocre ones? Story. Authors that master this vital skill keep their readers and listeners up at night, and suffer the deluge of 'when is the next book coming out' emails. Whether you are a first-time novelist, or a seasoned author, Plot Gardening will teach you the fundamentals of storytelling, delivered in a practical way. Through exercises at the end of each chapter you will build your own outline, and you'll do it without sacrificing the creativity that is so vital to telling great stories.