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This new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine making is updated to address zine making in today's digital- and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Make a Zine also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly.

The world is flooded with information, but starving for wisdom. Many feel a sense of overload, anxiety, and a general state of restlessness. Eastern cultures refer to the monkey mind and respond with yoga and meditation. Western civilization has identified a series of disorders and related prescription drugs. All of this can help, but what is the complete and balanced solution? How do we get grounded, despite all the confusion? How do we build a solid foundation that assures solid, authentic growth?

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.

Imagine unleashing your creativity by enjoying the benefits of the type of mental play that helped inspire the theory of relativity. Or evaluating your business climate with the keen observation and open mind that yielded the theory of evolution. The individuals behind these revolutions of thought live on in our collective memory as models for tackling the challenges that lie ahead.

Imagine living a creative life of order and focus, without being overwhelmed by clutter and chaos! Do you often find yourself stuck in a whirlwind of thoughts and tasks, struggling to find a clear path forward? Are you longing for a way to manage your creative energies more effectively without losing your unique spark? Are you exhausted from the constant cycle of starting projects with enthusiasm, only to abandon them due to disorganization and sensory overload? Trust that you're not alone, and this book was written specifically for you.

Every day we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected, from a broken toaster to losing (or gaining) a major client. Our natural ability to improvise gets us through. But we feel as if we’re winging it, rather than acting with courage and conviction. Robert Poynton teaches his acclaimed method to some of the world’s biggest brands and companies. Now, he shows us how these improvisational skills can be applied to the everyday business of work and life – helping us to navigate daily obstacles and reminding us how the unplanned and the unexpected can be a source of wonder and delight.

Life can be crazy with the demands of the world pressing against our every moment, but there's hope. Writing and authorship might not be for everyone, but how do you know if you never give it a try? From start to finish, Think, Write, Publish will help you along the way. From coming up with book ideas to finding pockets of time in the day to do the writing itself, everything is covered.

In 2012, fiction author Monica Leonelle made a life-changing decision to learn to write faster. Through months of trial-and-error, hundreds of hours of experimentation, and dozens of manuscripts, she tweaked and honed until she could easily write 10,000 words in a day, at speeds over 3500+ words per hour!

"At the heart of this simple book lies the key to many of the struggles we face these days, from being productive and achieving our goals, to getting healthy and fit in the face of fast food and inactivity, to finding simplicity and peace amidst chaos and confusion. That key itself is simple: focus. Our ability to focus will allow us to create in ways that perhaps we haven’t in years. It’ll allow us to slow down and find peace of mind. (Leo Babauta)

An Absorbing Errand uses stories of artists' lives, personal anecdotes, and insights from the author's work as a psychotherapist to examine the psychological obstacles that prevent people from staying with, and relishing, the process of art-making. Each chapter is devoted to a problem intrinsic to the creative process and illustrates how these very obstacles, once understood, can become prime sources of the energy that actually fuels the mastery of art-making.

Focus is your superpower—the path to clarity and achievement. Endless pings. Cluttered spaces. Constant interruptions. Staying focused feels impossible. The problem isn’t you. It’s your system. Author Thinker Mindset spent 15 years testing science‑based focus methods and turned complex research into simple techniques anyone can use.

For fans of The Artist’s Way and The Creative Act, comes a ground-breaking new look at creativity, introducing “play” as the key to building trust and confidence in ourselves and fostering a greater sense of creative expression. You are creative! Yes you! Despite what society, friends...

What if chasing your dream didn’t lead to fame or fortune—but to something far more honest? At 36, Pat Treuer had the life people post about: six-figure job, corporate status, an apartment with a skyline view—and a quiet voice in his head screaming, “Is this it?” So he did what any rational person would do: he walked away from it all to tell jokes in bars for drink tickets and half-interested crowds. Then came the pandemic. Pat launched a comedy business that brought in a million dollars—then reinvested every penny into a YouTube series that made exactly zero. Not a typo. Zero.

In Quiver, Don’t Quake, Nadim Sadek shows how to partner with Allied Intelligence to amplify—not replace—your imagination. With a maker’s voice and a psychologist’s clarity, he reframes AI as a creative collaborator (Panthropism) and gives you the tools to dance with it. From studios to classrooms and city halls, he shows how Panthropism—dialogue with the distilled wisdom of us all—unlocks new voices, workflows and industries. Clear-eyed about bias, ethics and jobs, Sadek offers tools, cases and mindsets to create with confidence.

A must-read guide for any creative, Creative Endurance offers practical advice and inspiration for staying motivated and achieving your big-picture goals. Are you experiencing creative burnout? Using the effective strategies for creative endurance developed by creative director of Fast Company...

Do you feel the weight of untapped potential within you, waiting to be set free? Do you yearn for a life that sings with purpose and radiates with vibrancy? In Turning the Caterpillar into the Butterfly embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and transformation. This comprehensive guide, accompanied by a powerful workbook, takes you through 10 vital dimensions of your life, from personal growth to environment, offering practical steps and deep reflections.

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.

For teachers, students, parents, and anyone interested in creativity, Learning and Teaching Creativity by Dan Hunter inspires and promotes individual imagination. He details steps to improve student creativity through imagination. Hunter explores metacognition, teacher attitudes, exercises, ideation, and problem-solving techniques.

Anyone can pick up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn. And everyone can be mindful. Mindfulness in Knitting casts fresh light on this renowned calming craft, and reveals how the act of “knit and purl” can be the epitome of conscious living. Ethical textile artist Rachael Matthews unpicks...

In his book 'Climbing Bubbles: How To Increase Your "Creative IQ" Dr. Patrick Sanaghan explores the universal aspect of creativity, emphasizing its learnable and improvable nature. While he once believed creativity was the domain of "creative types" such as dancers, poets, and artists, Dr. Sanaghan now asserts that most of us are "practical" creatives.